Phineas

Two sometimes three. Tons of two leg commutes but I don’t do those unless I have to. Bigger issue nobody says out loud is the free day of flight change for passengers. You’ll go to bed seeing plenty of seats open, only to wake up and see nothing but the jumpseat available. Doubt this lasts much longer but it’s made commuting a little harder. Either way, I don’t move for regionals and it’s my own choice but it’s what works for me and my family so I make it work.

Flyinguy

I think MDT gets 4 per month and CLT and PHL are 6 per quarter. If I am reading that right. So MDT gets 12 per quarter due to more difficult to commute to.

"A commuting pilot domiciled at a non-hub location (average less than onehundred (100) daily AAG departures in the previous month), will be provided ahotel room in domicile up to four (4) times in a calendar month"

"A commuting pilot domiciled at a hub location (average one hundred (100) ormore daily AAG departures in the previous month), will be provided a hotel roomin domicile up to six (6) times in a calendar quarter (e.g., January-March)"

HockeyPilot1

MDT is actually a really good deal for a NH that lives in CLT waiting to hold CLT. Plenty of flights, more commuter rooms, and you get shipped off to sit reserve in Philly anyways and get your hotels covered/per diem cuz you’re out of base.

bamike

Does anyone know a way to download your flight time out of Piedmont's system for import into a logbook? I know the company has a record of it but I cant find it on MyPiedmont. I'm looking for tail numbers, city pair, block time, and dates ideally in an Excel format so I can import it to my logbook.

Phineas

logbook pro with APDL add on is what I use. Gotta download your schedule via crew card into APDL then it usually pulls all the info and imports it into the app. Then you put it into logbook pro.

lowcountryfly

I’m reading through quite a few other regional’s forums, it seems like the CA/FO imbalance is slowing hiring across the board. Any hints of FO hiring slowing or stopping, or huge delays in training?
TIA

bamike

Right now the people finishing OE at Piedmont are the July 11th new hire class. Training does not have significant delays, expect about 3 months to get it all done. However, there is a massive imbalance in the regionals which is what the real pilot shortage is. There is zero shortage of FOs, it is all a shortage of people who are qualified and WILLING to be Captains at regionals. Tons of guys don't want to upgrade, or they bail at the first opportunity once they get any jet time. There's people who haven't even consolidated on the 145 at Piedmont that are interviewing at Spirit, that's how crazy it's getting.

Back in May 2022 literally every single day was in 200-300% overtime for FOs. As of today there is zero days of overtime being offered for FOs. We have 454 FOs at Piedmont on the seniority list, almost half of them hired since June 2022. Only 271 captains right now, 21 of them hired since June 2022. What you can expect as an FO right now on reserve is almost zero flying, people are having to do line checks to extend their consolidation timeframe, and they're still not consolidating in some cases.

Feel free to come to Piedmont as an FO if you want to sit on reserve and collect a paycheck. They seem to keep hiring more FOs every month so I guess they don't mind paying them to sit on reserve and do nothing. Not a bad way to make money if you don't care about flying. I have no idea about the situation at Mesa, Commutair, and Skywest as far as FOs and hours, but it seems the AA regionals and Republic are fat on FOs.

Chamisoso

Last interview class had 5 people on it. 3 cadets, 1 FO, 1 DEC. long story short, they are over their quota (guessing FO) and aren’t hiring in quantity but able to focus on quality a bit more.

Otterbox

No flows to AA means no hiring to replace them… PDT was severely understaffed for years but AA calls the shots on how much it’s allowed to hire At any given period of time.

ArmyRWP2018

With 206 pilots listed as TRN based today that is a long time to pay people for sitting at home. Metering hiring to let training backlog catch up a bit isn’t the worst thing.