PDTFlyer

Schedules are 4 on 2 off. Plan to sit in hotels a lot. Each four day is at best worth 16 hours. Most lines are commutable and you'll get 11 days off for the month. The crap schedules are the biggest complaint at Piedmont at the moment. If we can fix that this place has a lot of potential to be a decent place.

Pedro4President

WOW. Is the schedule 4o2o standard or is that just for junior line holders? Do you have any good lines with 16-17 days off?

Theaveragejoker

No.

Filler

evrbodysmugglin

Lolololoollolololl

Pedro4President

Wow. How can you stand working that much? How can you stand those schedules? Never getting certain days off consistently. Commuting must be insane if your trip isn't commutable or if you can't get on. That leaves you one day off at home. I don't bid lines unless it's at least 14 days off. And then on top of that we can bid conflicts and bring it down more.

Your recruiters must be selling that flow so hard.

123494

Our classes are full and most people are happy here. The place pretty much sells itself with pay, flow, growth, etc

mm1989

I can suck it up and deal with the schedule. Been at PDT 11 months and I hold a line on the 145 as a captain

Otterbox

Without mentioning the F word- which is still the fastest btw:

Quick ugrades (12-18 months without airline experience, as soon as you finish FO training if you're transitioning from another airline).

300% premium pay allowing 2nd-3rd year pilots to make 6 figures goes a long way.

Growth (taking 2 jets a month now allegedly 3 jets a month in 2018).

No reseve currently for CAs or FOS. Virtually everyone is a line holder the month after they finish training.

Commutable lines.

Opportunities to get involved in various jobs outside of line flying due to attrition (We've got LCAs in their 3rd year and Chief pilots in their 5th year).

To address schedules:

Schedules aren't that great because 1/3 of the pilot group is in training for the jet at any given time and the company is writing schedules to "encourage" the union into accepting PBS.

Going to a PBS system which the company wants will decrease staffing needs by 15% allegedly (will probably be more in the 20%+ range based on how inefficient they write schedules), won't improve pilot scheduling to give them more days off or even more days off in a row, (just ask the folks at mainline AA who made the transition), would take away conflict bidding for vacation etc. and get rid of 300% premium pay.

AZFlyer

The schedules are definitely the worst part about Piedmont. Most other aspects range from tolerable to good.

The "best" lines will have up to 15 days off. But most of those lines group a lot of those days off in the first week of the month, allowing the schedulers to steal up to 4 of those days off from you in the interface period. It's a total farce. Sometimes you'll see a 15 day off line with a big group of days off in the middle of the month. That's not so bad...almost like a mini-vacation. But of course you have to have enough seniority to nab one of those.

You can get more days at home by bidding build-up or reserve, if you happen to live in base. I live in base and alternate between reserve and build-up depending on what I've got going on each month. I've been consistently having more time at home than line-holders while still breaking guarantee.

PDTFlyer

Fast upgrade, good people to work with, great healthcare, and flow. Yes the schedules are the big suckfest here presently.