Mesa
10-30-2013, 09:55 PM
#461
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,938
Right on. I was hired in 2003, left in 2007. Different regional, same result. Only 2 guys from my original new hire class at Mesa are still there. A couple bailed to Skywest for a 'better QOL'. They're all still there. The other 20 or so are at Southwest, Delta, United, JetBlue, Atlas, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Spirit, Virgin America etc.
My advice, as someone who's made the move: get hired, take the first available upgrade, and get out as soon as you can. If that opportunity is likely to happen fastest at Mesa or Compass right now, then that's where I'd want to get hired today.
Good luck.
My advice, as someone who's made the move: get hired, take the first available upgrade, and get out as soon as you can. If that opportunity is likely to happen fastest at Mesa or Compass right now, then that's where I'd want to get hired today.
Good luck.
10-31-2013, 03:51 AM
#462
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Joined APC: Jul 2006
Posts: 737
Mesa is back on....classes start again 2nd week of November!
10-31-2013, 05:35 AM
#463
Holds Weds & Thurs Off
Joined APC: Jan 2011
Position: 88B
Posts: 177
Are your november lines showing any increase in long overnights?
CLT showing a lot of +30 hour overnights... making your 4 day worth 16-18 hours, or your 3 day much much less. Some of us figure they were eliminating the RR nights to gear up for 117, but we still have a handful of standups (my personal favorite).
IAD, ORD, PHX crews, thoughts?
CLT showing a lot of +30 hour overnights... making your 4 day worth 16-18 hours, or your 3 day much much less. Some of us figure they were eliminating the RR nights to gear up for 117, but we still have a handful of standups (my personal favorite).
IAD, ORD, PHX crews, thoughts?
10-31-2013, 06:02 AM
#464
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: Reclined
Posts: 2,168
80kts in every thread you pop in spouting your success story. I don't know how useful it is for the guy who won the lottery to tell everyone else to buy lottery tickets. Just because you hit the jackpot doesn't mean the majority of us will. I'm happy for your success, I really am. I just wish I didn't have to hear about it every day.
I do agree though, Eagle is not a great place to work. When I was applying to regionals only 2 had a LAX base and I applied to both. I was hired at Eagle first and Skywest called during ground school. I made a decision to stay at Eagle, was it a bad decision? In retrospect absolutely. If only we could change the past, of course then I wouldn't be a pilot at all.
IF
The rumors I'm hearing from our union guys and from management friends are proven correct. You'll have career progression at Eagle that you'll never get elsewhere until other legacies copy AA.
10-31-2013, 06:03 AM
#465
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Joined APC: Mar 2013
Position: 175 Left
Posts: 1,539
Are your november lines showing any increase in long overnights?
CLT showing a lot of +30 hour overnights... making your 4 day worth 16-18 hours, or your 3 day much much less. Some of us figure they were eliminating the RR nights to gear up for 117, but we still have a handful of standups (my personal favorite).
IAD, ORD, PHX crews, thoughts?
CLT showing a lot of +30 hour overnights... making your 4 day worth 16-18 hours, or your 3 day much much less. Some of us figure they were eliminating the RR nights to gear up for 117, but we still have a handful of standups (my personal favorite).
IAD, ORD, PHX crews, thoughts?
10-31-2013, 06:15 AM
#466
Underpaid...
Joined APC: Nov 2010
Position: French-Canadian
Posts: 2,101
You will likely rethink that position within the next few months and realize you made the best blind decision of your life and didn't even know it....
IF
The rumors I'm hearing from our union guys and from management friends are proven correct. You'll have career progression at Eagle that you'll never get elsewhere until other legacies copy AA.
IF
The rumors I'm hearing from our union guys and from management friends are proven correct. You'll have career progression at Eagle that you'll never get elsewhere until other legacies copy AA.
10-31-2013, 08:08 AM
#467
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,459
Are your november lines showing any increase in long overnights?
CLT showing a lot of +30 hour overnights... making your 4 day worth 16-18 hours, or your 3 day much much less. Some of us figure they were eliminating the RR nights to gear up for 117, but we still have a handful of standups (my personal favorite).
IAD, ORD, PHX crews, thoughts?
CLT showing a lot of +30 hour overnights... making your 4 day worth 16-18 hours, or your 3 day much much less. Some of us figure they were eliminating the RR nights to gear up for 117, but we still have a handful of standups (my personal favorite).
IAD, ORD, PHX crews, thoughts?
Not a single reduced rest overnight the whole month. A few just over 9 hours though.
I thought the same thing, a 117 sort of trial run, but union says it is because we got the schedules from mainline late.
I hope this isn't what 117 looks like. I can't stand wasting my life in a hotel that long.
10-31-2013, 09:32 AM
#468
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Joined APC: Jan 2013
Posts: 1,648
You will likely rethink that position within the next few months and realize you made the best blind decision of your life and didn't even know it....
IF
The rumors I'm hearing from our union guys and from management friends are proven correct. You'll have career progression at Eagle that you'll never get elsewhere until other legacies copy AA.
IF
The rumors I'm hearing from our union guys and from management friends are proven correct. You'll have career progression at Eagle that you'll never get elsewhere until other legacies copy AA.
10-31-2013, 09:41 AM
#469
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 341
Exact same thing in Phoenix. Out of 93 four day trips, 60 of them have 30+ hour layovers. And many of the three day trips have them too.
Not a single reduced rest overnight the whole month. A few just over 9 hours though.
I thought the same thing, a 117 sort of trial run, but union says it is because we got the schedules from mainline late.
I hope this isn't what 117 looks like. I can't stand wasting my life in a hotel that long.
Not a single reduced rest overnight the whole month. A few just over 9 hours though.
I thought the same thing, a 117 sort of trial run, but union says it is because we got the schedules from mainline late.
I hope this isn't what 117 looks like. I can't stand wasting my life in a hotel that long.
10-31-2013, 09:46 AM
#470
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Joined APC: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,459
No rigs of any kind... yet. They are a top priority in contract negotiations currently underway.
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