flyfast15

Welcome aboard Suihkari, you gonna love it the 1st year will go by fast. Talked to a recruiter today and he said around 40 a month for the whole year.

Good luck!!!

cactusmike

Good luck to you. I am sure you will enjoy it. Lots of things happening in the next year, I believe.

R57 relay

Just a heads up for those recently hired or possibly about to be.

I was talking to a check airman that recently trained two new hires. He said they were good pilots, with good attitudes and he enjoyed the sessions. He said the only issue he had was getting them to be consistent in their call outs. Our training department wants the call outs verbatim, and no "comfort calls". They want what is required to be called out called and not a lot added. So if it has quotation marks around it in the manual, say it exactly that way. Also, know your flows down cold as soon as possible. Those two things will help the training go smoothly. Probably seems a little anal, but there is some history behind it.

Oh, one more thing. When you get on the line don't be afraid to ask questions. We are used to flying with guys that have been around for decades and take for granted that everyone knows the little things.

Good luck and welcome aboard.

KiloAlpha

What is reserve like at US Airways?

Consecutive days on
Short call vs. Long call
Min days off per month


Thank you.

UNDPilot

Consecutive days on 2-6
Short call vs. Long call 1.5 vs 9 hour call out. Long call flies twice as much
Min days off per month 11

flybywire44

I know a guy on long call day 5 of 6 and they have not flown him yet. Short call logs 26-30 hours a month with 2 hour notice. Long call is generally twice the amount of flying with a 9 hour call out and no rest period. Both long call and short call assignments are usually given ~12 hours notice. Expect 11 days off per month it is common for reserves to be awarded >7 on in a row for an extra illegal day off. A week of vacation can be turned into 2 weeks off if bid properly. Deadhead pay is paid above guarantee.

Short call pairings vary in quality. Long call pairings are generally the left overs of open time, aka "the bid sheet."

Short call reserve is cherry if you live in base.

jimistrat

For me, reserve was not bad at all, but I live in base (PHL area).

Short call is 76 hour guarantee. For short call I think the wording is you have to be "geographically within a 90 minutes from base". Not necessarily at the airport in 90 mins. My experience was they didnt give me a hard time me as long as I said I could get to the employee lot in about 2.5-3 hours In my 2 years of reserve I maybe received 4-5 calls where they wanted me to the airport ASAP. If you live in base, short call is the best game in town-in my opinion. I think on short call the most I ever flew was 40-50 hours in a month, and there were a months where I almost never got called. Of course that all depends on if they are fat on reserves. Oh, and deadheading goes on top of the 76 hours so it may be possible to break that 76 hrs.

Long call, never did it but ....it is a 9 hour call out. Most of the time you will get assigned available open time the day prior around 1300. Long call flys alot more than short call but I dont think you will break guarentee too often if at all. Long call can be done from out of base most of the time depending on how easily you can commute to base. It is possible to get called at 11pm for an 8:45 am flight the next day, may be impossible to commute at that point. Luckily, most guys who call in sick will do it less than 9 hrs from their flight, ensuring it will go to a short call guy (who SHOULD be in base)

You can bid, via seniority, on short or long call reserve blocks. 11 days off on reserve if memory serves and days off are usually in groups of 4, 3, 2, 2. Some of those are protected days off ("INV"days-forget what "INV" stands for). I never flew on a scheduled day off.

The whole system is based on a "bucket" system, which isnt the best. Mostly because when on reserve, seniority doesnt mean much (can't "pass" a trip assignment). It all depends on which "bucket" you are in.

Again, in MY opinion reserve wasnt that bad.

erjpilot

Could someone please tell me how many have been hired at LCC since 2007 and how many are expected to be hired in 2013? Additionally; how would an AA merger effect LCC hiring? Thanks in advance!

snp1973

Just got my SECOND "no thanks" email from these guys. Been trying to get an interview for a year now. Three LOR's, resumé walked in to a CP's office, 7000 + hours, Check Airman, six type ratings, no major dings that anyone can see. Pretty discouraged.

VenetianFryCook

Some folks were hired in 2008, and were subsequently furloughed and later recalled. Hiring has occurred throughout '11-'12, maybe 150 or so ... I haven't taken time to count exactly how many. Training department numbers for 2013 are anywhere from 25-40 a month indefinitely, depending upon who you talk to, just to cover attrition and forthcoming rest rule changes.

The AA merger is a wild card. One would suspect that furloughed AA-ers might be offered recall to US if the merger happens and there are still furloughed AA who want to come back, but AA can't absorb them yet. AA has quite a few Age 65 retirements coming, as do we. The exact nature of whatever joint work rules come to pass (PBS, vacation accrual, vacation buyback, rest rule changes, etc.) could ebb and flow the numbers needed, as could various decisions about the combined fleet ... but my feeling is that the merger would be a "bump in the road" rather than a major disruption to hiring. The idea is to compete on scale with UA and DL and large-scale shrinkage doesn't jive with that goal, plus 65 and the new rest rules push a lot of need for bodies in seats that can't be covered just by going to PBS.

Again, anything related to AA is speculation, and anyone who tells you differently is full of "bovine scatology" ...