Endeavor Air
02-25-2015, 09:02 AM
#342
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Well I would suggest to those that don't want Delta, interview anyway. In a couple years if you haven't made it to where you really want then you can go to Delta. This will likely be a better long term situation than Endeavor or any other regional. In the next 5 years the regional sector of the airline industry will find itself in an unsustainable situation unless the government intervenes and gets more realistic with the requirements for becoming a regional first officer.
02-25-2015, 10:59 AM
#343
Line Holder
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Yeah, lets hope they intervene by lowering the bar on experience and thus safety so that dirtbag regionals can continue to pay dirt wages. Who knows, maybe we in the US can aspire to have an accident rate similar to place such as Asia/Africa with our new freshly minted aviators!!!! "...government intervenes and gets more realistic with the requirements for becoming a regional first officer." you say, maybe airline management needs to get more realistic with the salary requirements of professional,trained, and, competent regional first officers.
02-25-2015, 04:19 PM
#344
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unless the government intervenes and gets more realistic with the requirements for becoming a regional first officer.
A HUGE problem is that flight training is very, very expensive relative to the money an average family has.
20 years ago you could be poor, want to fly, and get a bank loan. Today, the banks basically won't loan money to finance your flight training. Unless you are rich, you can get your licenses because you can't get a bank loan.
The majors could fix this by:
Guaranteeing loans for flight trianing
Hiring guys in high school as employees and then training them.
02-25-2015, 05:28 PM
#345
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That would help only marginally.
A HUGE problem is that flight training is very, very expensive relative to the money an average family has.
20 years ago you could be poor, want to fly, and get a bank loan. Today, the banks basically won't loan money to finance your flight training. Unless you are rich, you can get your licenses because you can't get a bank loan.
The majors could fix this by:
Guaranteeing loans for flight trianing
Hiring guys in high school as employees and then training them.
A HUGE problem is that flight training is very, very expensive relative to the money an average family has.
20 years ago you could be poor, want to fly, and get a bank loan. Today, the banks basically won't loan money to finance your flight training. Unless you are rich, you can get your licenses because you can't get a bank loan.
The majors could fix this by:
Guaranteeing loans for flight trianing
Hiring guys in high school as employees and then training them.
02-25-2015, 07:24 PM
#347
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Lots of ways to reduce pilot demand.
Already at my airport, 14 flights a day between AA and US on 50 sweaters became 7 flights a day on E175's.
02-25-2015, 07:24 PM
#348
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02-25-2015, 07:28 PM
#349
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Remember the bigger issue was stalls, at all commuters, were taught just the way 3407's CA was supposed to perform them, power out of it.
I think intelligence trumps experience almost 100% of the time.
The FO interviewed at my former commuter and was not hired due to lack of basic instrument skills when flying the sim, FWIW.
Cogan was a dirt bag operator whom employed a lot of the bottom of the barrel people.
02-25-2015, 08:12 PM
#350
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No one can admit it. It was seniority that put him there. Period. In a merit based system, 3407 would not have happened. Seniority takes out any drive, motivation, and skills except what is needed to pass the new position held. It doesn't matter if you couldn't find your way out of a paper bag. As long as your number comes and you pass the training/checkride, you own the seat. Even if you fail you can still come back and try again. And at some places, yet again.
