American Eagle Desparate for Pilots
10-21-2006, 07:56 AM
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I remember going down to the Comair Acadamy for a tour back when I was in high school. They gave me their whole shpiel about how great it is to work for the regionals! How after I flight instructed for them for a year, I'd get the privlage of an interview with Comair. Then if I got hired they'd let me pay $10,000 for my training at Comair, this is ontop of the $45 I would have already spent at the acadamy. I would then earn an increadible salery of $16,000 a year! That was the last time I ever went there, or though about going to a regional. Even as only a junior in high school I had enough brains to realize that was a bad deal. Heck I was making more than that pumping gas at the airport after school!
But there's enough people out there that have rich momies and dadies to help support them while they make these poverty wages. They see a JET and that must be the best job in the world that they'll continue to pay below the poverty line.
These people need to realize that your a trained profesional, you should get paid more than the high school drop out flipping burgers at Burger King!
10-21-2006, 04:58 PM
#23
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This whole thread is about how Eagle, not the regional industry, is desperate. Dude's comments speculated that our hiring minimums dropped due to low pay, but in fact our pay is average. There certainly isn't a shortage of pilots applying to regionals, so that leads me to believe the item that seperates Eagle, upgrade time, is our main drawback.
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10-21-2006, 06:48 PM
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WHAT! And what REAL airplanes do you fly? I hate to break it to you but the flying I do is more real than anything you'll ever see in an RJ! Not to mention I make more flying 310's and 402's than some Captains at the regionals. Personally I don't care what plane I fly as long as it pays. I'd fly a kite for the rest of my life if it paid $200,000 a year!
Dude, it does have to do with pay. Why do you think everybody and their brothers trying to get into UPS and FedEx. I'd never work for ANY regional because they all pay horribly.
Dude, it does have to do with pay. Why do you think everybody and their brothers trying to get into UPS and FedEx. I'd never work for ANY regional because they all pay horribly.
10-21-2006, 06:52 PM
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FINALLY someone else that understands! That's exactly what I've been trying to tell guys for years.
I remember going down to the Comair Acadamy for a tour back when I was in high school. They gave me their whole shpiel about how great it is to work for the regionals! How after I flight instructed for them for a year, I'd get the privlage of an interview with Comair. Then if I got hired they'd let me pay $10,000 for my training at Comair, this is ontop of the $45 I would have already spent at the acadamy. I would then earn an increadible salery of $16,000 a year! That was the last time I ever went there, or though about going to a regional. Even as only a junior in high school I had enough brains to realize that was a bad deal. Heck I was making more than that pumping gas at the airport after school!
But there's enough people out there that have rich momies and dadies to help support them while they make these poverty wages. They see a JET and that must be the best job in the world that they'll continue to pay below the poverty line.
These people need to realize that your a trained profesional, you should get paid more than the high school drop out flipping burgers at Burger King!
I remember going down to the Comair Acadamy for a tour back when I was in high school. They gave me their whole shpiel about how great it is to work for the regionals! How after I flight instructed for them for a year, I'd get the privlage of an interview with Comair. Then if I got hired they'd let me pay $10,000 for my training at Comair, this is ontop of the $45 I would have already spent at the acadamy. I would then earn an increadible salery of $16,000 a year! That was the last time I ever went there, or though about going to a regional. Even as only a junior in high school I had enough brains to realize that was a bad deal. Heck I was making more than that pumping gas at the airport after school!
But there's enough people out there that have rich momies and dadies to help support them while they make these poverty wages. They see a JET and that must be the best job in the world that they'll continue to pay below the poverty line.
These people need to realize that your a trained profesional, you should get paid more than the high school drop out flipping burgers at Burger King!
10-22-2006, 09:59 AM
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Redguy hit the nail on the head.
As long as American has their flow back to Eagle upgrade time at Eagle will always be longer than others. the other problem with Eagle is Americans aquasition of TWA. There are alot of TWA pilots out on the streets. It surprises me that Eagle is screaming for pilots when these TWA guys are on furlough. That says a lot about the relationship between APA and the TWA pilots.
As far as pay goes, the family member I quoted as to only getting paid around 32K a year has a life outside of flying. So maybe this is the reason he didn't earn so much.
As far as pay goes, the family member I quoted as to only getting paid around 32K a year has a life outside of flying. So maybe this is the reason he didn't earn so much.
10-22-2006, 11:41 AM
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Just because he flies pistons now doesn't mean he will never fly for Fed Ex or UPS, there are other jet / turbine jobs out there besides the regionals.
10-22-2006, 03:05 PM
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beacause that's what I'm going to fly for the rest of my life. You have no idea what your talking about do you. I'll be you're on of those guys that went right from instructing to the right seat of an RJ. So you never really flown in any weather, or had to make any dificult decisions for your self. No I don't make $200K flying 310's. That was a referance as to what they make at FedEx and UPS. BTW how many decades does it take to get to $100K at the regionals? If your content with flying at the regionals for the rest of your life making $100K that's fine with me, but I expect to far surpass that during my career. BTW I flew some AOG parts for your REAL airplane so it can even get off the ground last night.
Ya, caught me! I's ain't no high skrool gadiate!
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