Originally Posted by poorflyer

My advice, interview with everyone. Come armed with plenty of questions, they need you more than you need them so give them the investigative reporter treatment to weed through their BS. Schedule the interviews as close to possible together so that all information from each one is current. Go in each interview assuming that major hiring will shut down once you get hired and you may get stuck there for a decade. That way you'll make a more educated decision and not just follow the jet or temporary selling points, pick a place that will give you the best QOL long term not short. What's a good quality of life is up to you and don't let people persuade you either way, that's your decision. Once you've interviewed as many places as you can, try to speak to actual line pilots not recruiters. After that try and make a decision. Either way it will probably be wrong because we're all regionals and are a cheap labor force for mainline and they will cut any of us loose if we threaten their profits.

Originally Posted by N914FJ

Nobody wants to step up and be a chief pilot?? It's been posted for a minute and I see Paulette sent out an email reminding people it's open this afternoon..

Originally Posted by sMFer

Jeremy's out? SW?

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Originally Posted by Baradium

You guys understand that you don't actually work for them and that it's a union negotiated benefit, right?

And since you both most likely went to Compass after they were already not a wholly owned, I don't even know what you expected. If you want to work on negotiating profit sharing from your holding company, then work on that.

I guess you expect profit sharing from the other carrier you contract with as well? I didn't realize Compass was such a regional powerhouse.

Originally Posted by veewan

Food for thought, Mesa had the highest percentage of their pilots contribute to the ALPA PAC. Why would they feel so strongly unless it is actually as bad as you've been warned?

The MX program over there is deferred is preferred. No preventative measures. Using CRJ engines on the 175. I'm sure there's other sketchy stuff that goes on which we don't hear about. If they're willing to put an engine from another fleet on just to use the plane, what else are they willing to do.

When I was flying Cessnas there were shady operations that would use car alternators instead of FAA TSO parts to save $$$.

Think about how you'll explain any incidents you might have in your mainline interview. It's one thing if you can say "I followed the procedure and the aircraft was properly maintained to the best of my knowledge." Compared to, "I flew for an operation that continually asked me to compromise my integrity flying aircraft with questionable maintenance."

Then there's how the company is managed, how scheduling operates etc etc.

Originally Posted by WesternSkies

Hey guys,
I got this in my inbox this morning and thinking of applying!
Few quick questions, what kind of shoes do you think would be best? How long is assistant chief training? I only have brown shoes.
Thanks!
ps, looking forward to being your superior while mentoring you.

Originally Posted by Baradium

Sorry, I don't mean to be condescending to compass pilots. (.....) But the entitlement attitude from those two did irk me.

Originally Posted by Fr8Thrust

It’s not that people expect the legacies to write checks to their contract employees, it’s the fact that they outsource thousands of their positions and celebrate the returns they make on suppressing over half of their workforce.

So until they hire at 1500hrs, or pay their contractors a fair wage (and stop trying to streamline products), the majority of us will still continue to despise the hand that feeds.