Originally Posted by GearUpHeadDown

Giving a bonus is a sign of desperation. You guys have lost planes, closed your most senior base and are owned by TSH (one notch above Mesa). You lose even one contract and it's furlough time.

The place to go is SkyWest. They are stable, no union drama, getting new planes and the best route structure of all regionals (and maybe even better than domestic mainline).

Originally Posted by GrassLandings

And Iv been LAX- DFW-MSP-EWR and back on a trip. Coast to coast. So what? Id prefer doing turns in and out of base though, anyway, which we also do. I dont see what your point is, other than you got more bases to offer.

Originally Posted by jungle driver

Yes from what I understand the Delta birds are just one for one replacements for 200's and are not growth. This is why they are 70 seaters because Delta is scoped out for 76 seaters so they need to be 70 or less to fit within scope.

Originally Posted by week

Reserve time:
Reserve time is high right now, but that's only because we completely stopped hiring for 7 months. Anyone starting now should know the company has a goal to hire a LOT of pilots in the next 4-6 months. If they're able to fill classes, the guys who join the company now will see pretty short reserve. I'd put my money on 4 months tops for those hired in September and later

On reserve they give you 11/12 days off. Spread out in 3 day up to 6 day blocks. I'm one of the most junior guys here and I get maybe 30% success when bidding days off, not too bad.

I was MSP now LAX and I've been getting 35 hours a month on reserve. If you get based in LAX you can drastically increase your hours (and pay) picking up open time on your days off. Our staffing is decreasing so I wouldn't be surprised if reserves started seeing slightly more per month.

Right now you can hold any base you want out of training, PHX might take a while but no one is sure yet.

The 175 is awesome, the routes are often long, and the pilots are super nice guys and gals (despite what vibe the forum may give you)

Your training is a paid single occupancy hotel room in MSP and you're paid in full during training except the first couple weeks of home study. You get like $700 for the home study stuff if I recall correctly

Originally Posted by week

Why is it that OO comes to OUR forum to try to measure their fuselages with ours like twice a week?

If you are really so happy and secure about your own regional then you wouldn't be trying to fluff your feathers here, you're just embarrassing yourself and the other guys at your airline who aren't as immature.

I mean we're all basically the same age but from the few OO pilots I've met online you guys sure show the maturity level of ERAU CFI's. Still have no idea why you lurk and post in CPZ threads when your massive mainline OO forum has plenty of room for you.

Originally Posted by mpet

skywest pilots are ****in nerds, you need to offer no other explanation

Originally Posted by jungle driver

Yes from what I understand the Delta birds are just one for one replacements for 200's and are not growth. This is why they are 70 seaters because Delta is scoped out for 76 seaters so they need to be 70 or less to fit within scope.

Originally Posted by word302

Yes. All 4500 of us.

Originally Posted by week

maturity level of ERAU CFI's.