StallWeezy

I’ve never NOT been given a two hour call out. CA here.

Fgrosoli

So for you was only 2 hrs everytime? Can I ask you were you live ?
Thanks

Poser765

you WILL get 2 hour call outs. Hell I've, more than once, gotten the two hour call out "but really the flight leaves in an hour twenty. Get there when you can." I've also gotten plenty of more than two hour call outs.

If your drive to lax is three hours or something do not count on getting that much time to report. If you refuse to get a place to stay near lax you need to just stage yourself. Drive half way then park it in a Starbucks or something. If you are counting on the good fortune of scheduling you will get butt banged.

Tailfloatski

That'll work. I know someone who once made his 2 hour VX call-out in SFO in his Cirrus from Hawthorne. Just have the plane preflighted and fueled. And as others have said, it's unlikely you'll have to sit reserve more than 4-6 months. Welcome aboard!

maximus101100

And be sure to tell Jet Center you are crew. They gave me $15 a night parking vs the $30 public price.

Lytechop

You begin being paid CA after you pass your LOE, so this scenario won't apply.


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newto121

I have a few questions about being a junior FO at Compass (QOL, pay, domicile, etc). If anybody can give me some information I would greatly appreciate:

The Compass website says Phoenix is opening in 2017. Will it be feasible for a junior FO to get domiciled in PHX?

How long does it currently take to get off reserve?

What is the commuter policy like?

What is the realistic upgrade to captain in the E170/E190?

Thank you for any replies in advance, much obliged.

newto121

My apologies, I forgot to ask if it is feasible to work extra and do about 80 to 90 hours a month, picking up drop trips, etc?

Thanks again.

TillerTemptress

Reserve time right now is not a good estimation of what it will be, due to the massive attrition and huge attempt at a hiring wave to replace for the attrition. Somebody hired right now might do no reserve or up to maybe 6 months if you're on the back end of the hiring wave, it also depends on the base I'd say.
PHX is only going to be about 30 crews. As for a new hiring getting it, you might get it out of training or it could go senior and take some time. It's really anybody's guess, I think we probably have 30 ca/fo that commute to LA from PHX I would imagine, worst case scenario you could expect some time commuting to LA and would get PHX eventually, even if it goes "Senior" keep in mind "senior" at Compass is very relative with our high attrition, you can get senior pretty quick. That said PHX will probably be the cheapest base, those do tend to go a bit more senior because SEA/LAX are expensive to live in. Commuter policy requires you to have 2 flight options that will get you in time. In reality not really an issue unless you're continually missing commutes, but as long as you're commuting responsibly they'll work with you. Realistic upgrade to captain in any base, it's at ~24 months right now but that's because of the 6 month pause we took. But it's anybody's guess what it'll do. Again, front of the wave might hit it in 18 months (prob in LAX base), someone hired later on might take longer.

As for wanting to work 85-90 hrs a month instead of 75, this should be no problem for you, people are always wanting to drop/trade trips and then there is a pool of opentime as well. If you're in PHX you conceivably would have both PHX opentime and then LAX opentime w/in 5 days to pick from. If you pick up at the end of the SCP for 48 hrs it pays at 125% and they send out critical pay trips at 150% from time to time, so a small increase in workload can greatly increase your credit from time to time.

CaptainDooley

I would not plan to drive while on short call. Sure, not all the calls will be "get here in 2hrs", but I would say easily 75% of the time they are.
Remember the report time is the time you need to be at the plane, not the parking lot. The bus from the employee lot can be 10 minutes if you catch it perfectly or 1/2hr. Then if it is an Eagle flight you have to take the bus to the Eagles Nest. again, anywhere from 10 minutes to 1/2hr.
With 1 1/2 drive from SAN area (with no traffic) you would only make it if everything went right.
Trust me, every time you are running a little late, you hit traffic or the bus does not come or there is grid lot in the LAX loop and the bus takes forever to get to the terminal.
Still think you can do it, try a test run and see how long it takes you to get to the crew room at the Eagles Nest.
Also prepare your speech to the CP when he calls about your Missed flight assignment and you say , we I thought I could drive from SAN.