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And 0 for the 200. Sorry I didn’t specify.

Fourpaw

Anyone know if the commuter expense account on our benefits plan be used for uber and lyft?

Cannonball

Uber Pool and Lyft Line only


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MongoLikeCandy

Good morning everyone. I’m currently in training and getting ready to start sims. Over the past week there has been a lot of doom and gloom about the future. Can anyone shed some light in a rational manner as to the timeline that I’ll be looking at for OE if I’m on the 200 and a realistic expectation to flying hours while on reserve and the amount of time before getting off of reserve in NYC. Thanks.

wiggy15

Most of the 200 IOE backlog is already cleared. I'd guess you'll experience about 6 weeks of Sims (instead of 3 to 4) since the dynamic training is a firestorm at the moment. Then maybe 2 weeks to OE. So once you start Sims, 2 months to OE is probably accurate. 200 Reserve is about 4 months at the moment. Most junior line holders is an April hire. It won't come down. In fact, it'll probably creep up to 5 or 6 months until the 2019 growth happens. Most guys are flying 15 to 30 hours on 200 reserve first out.

Ignore the two or three doom and gloomers on this forum. Endeavor is a good place to work, and youre on the front end of some planned 2019 growth. You'll find the line culture doesn't reflect the APC forums.

flydiamond

Best attitude to have is just go with the flow and get a nice crashpad. Looking in Flica, the most junior 200 fo who has completed training and IOE and is sitting reserve today is a June 4, 2018 hire. So that was 5 months start to finish for him, which is about a 2 month total delay. I know they have a lot of new 200 check airmen so the backlog may get worked through very quickly. Also a look at the seniority lists shows only 15 new hires from July and August were assigned the 200... this is when we slowed down hiring. They may be able to catch up very quickly with more check airmen and fewer trainees, so his experience may not represent yours.

As far as hours flown, it’s very low. Maybe 20 tops a month if you’re lucky. Best approach is to drop reserve if the grid is green and pickup open time. Or just pickup open time if you live in base... I hope you do. Crew scheduling has been very reasonable in releasing reserves early. So you might be commute home at 3 pm on your last day instead of 7 pm. My biggest concern for you is that you’ll probably be sitting 10 ready reserve days a month since not many people are coming in below you... it’s basically the most junior 10-15 or so people that sit all the ready reserve in NYC within each fleet. When we were hiring tons it was no issue.

Also another big concern is that all the 200 lineholders in nyc are somewhat junior late 2017/ early 2018 hires. They’re seat locked to the 200 for 18 months, not upgrading anytime soon, and because of this there will be no attrition from the lineholding side like there is on the 900 (more late 2016/early 2017 hires on that). Other bases are like this too due to the exodus from the 200 in late 2017 before the seat lock came into existence. I think you will be sitting reserve for about 12 months... best base for movement on the 200 will be Atl I suppose.

flydiamond

Part of the reason Endeavor has been a good place to work was the good movement we have enjoyed since 2015. It will be very telling to see what happens to morale now that the music has stopped for awhile. The juniority of 200 fo lineholders is particularly troubling since they’re seat locked. I don’t see some of the 200 hires in training right now having lines until at least December of next year unless 200s get pulled out of the desert... things are probably much better for someone at bottom of 900 list.

MongoLikeCandy

Thanks guys, for the taking the time to reply. Although the information is helpful, it doesn’t give me a good feeling about my QOL in the foreseeable future. I will be commuting to NYC from North Florida. I came over to the 121 world to build time quickly in hopes to upgrade and build turbine PIC as quick as possible. I chose Endeavor and the 200 in hopes of flying more and getting to ATL as quick as possible, now it seems like that isn’t even on the horizon at this point. I have been happy with Endeavor so far, for the most part everything has been professional and squared away. However, the idea of commuting to NYC to sit reserve for the foreseeable future just to maybe eke out 20 hours a month, makes me think that I should look elsewhere, even if the pay and commuting policy isn’t as awesome as Endeavor.

flydiamond

I hope you’re commuting from Jax...

MongoLikeCandy

I live about a 1 hour 45 minute drive from JAX and 2 hours from MCO. I’ve read that JAX is the better one to commute from since parking at MCO can be an issue, so I thought that I would start with JAX and see how it goes.