American interviews and class dates
08-11-2015, 09:21 AM
#3423
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: A-320
Posts: 1,122
On the LUS side you'll make more money on the E-190 than the 320. You'll hold a line after a few months vs. over a year on the AB. After a year you can bid the AB and collect the higher second year pay while still holding a line on the 190 waiting for class.
08-11-2015, 09:32 AM
#3424
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Joined APC: Jul 2013
Position: E190 FO
Posts: 324
Are new hires that are going LUS getting a choice? From past post it looked like 100% of new hires were getting E190. I would assume in the near future they would fill those 190 slots and start having openings for the AB. Just a guess.
08-11-2015, 10:06 AM
#3425
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: A-320
Posts: 1,122
Last year new hires were getting the 190, 320 and 757. Some of them were displaced into the 190. I heard one guy got displaced twice. I have no intel on what future classes will get but I'd guess 190 if the class sizes stay small.
08-20-2015, 08:05 AM
#3428
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Joined APC: Jul 2013
Position: E190 FO
Posts: 324
08-21-2015, 04:28 PM
#3430
Rollin'
Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: AA Airbus
Posts: 829
I was a pretty damn unlucky 190 FO. lol I was awarded CLT AB FO on the August 1st Perm bid and placed in class on July 13th, almost 3 weeks prior to my award date. So instead of holding weekends off on the 190 I'm now commuting to SCR in CLT with a 4am RAP and no weekends off. About half of those awarded the bus on the 8/1 Perm Bid were assigned a class within 2-4 weeks after the bids were published and there was no rhyme or reason to who was selected. There were pilots junior and senior to me who were assigned classes and pilots junior and senior to me who were not. I consider this a violation of seniority. Oh well, I gambled and lost. If I had known they'd stick me in class so quickly I would have held out until later in the year or the beginning of next year.
Either way according to the training center and our fleet managers we should start to see a nice uptick in new hires on the LUS side soon. We've parked our last aircraft on the LUS this month (August) and all remaining scheduled aircraft retirements are on the LAA side. Starting in the first quarter we'll also start receiving our first sharklet 319/321 on the LUS side. What this means is we won't be able to offset our pilot retirements with recalls and aircraft retirements. This means a lot more new hires on the LUS side for 2016 than 2015.
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