JetAJunkie

I’m contemplating making a jump over from 135 and just wondering how many FOs are flying more than minimum and how many hours the FOs at different regionals are flying. Also looking to see which airlines are flying the most hours.

Thanks in advance everyone

Big Perm

Envoy,
145,
ORD
Started in September,
45 hours,
Still on reserve. Probably not going to meet consolidation (100 hours in 120 days after sim/type ride)

rickair7777

Totally depends on airline, equipment, and base.

Generally, you'll be flying a fair bit, with the opportunity to pick up flying on days off. In a few bases, they might be overstocked and have low reserve utilization. But even then you can often pick up extra flying on your days off. But you'd have to research each airline and base specifically to be sure.

havick206

It also really depends on you timing on joining a company. Join in the wrong month and you might fly 2-300 hours in your first year, join the right month you can fly 1000 hours in a year.

flydiamond

Endeavor here, currently very well staffed on 900 fo side (900 is the bulk of the operation). Expect 5 months of reserve post IOE in the junior base, with an average of about 20 hours a month of flying (and an equal amount of dead heading) unless you get lucky. High speeds (continuous duty overnights) are a possibility for some of those 5 months and range from about 30-45 block hours a month.

Once off reserve expect 70-90 block hours just depending on your preferences.
There is always open time paying 150% or 200% or straight time trade board stuff to stack your schedules to FAR maximums. Everything is paid on top of guarantee, no prohibitions against a reserve pilot picking up flying on a day off and you can make as much as 16 hours of pay for operating a one and a half hour flight in the evening followed by a dead head back the next morning if you play the open time game correctly. Lots of our pilots routinely credit 130 plus hours a month if they’re willing to sell their soul.

All in all you can expect to be upgrade eligibile in 18 months if you hustle. Of course by that time you’re getting great 17 day off schedules as an fo and don’t want to go back on reserve.

Excargodog

Right now Compass FOs are flying their butts off. For reasons that I still do not fully understand, they curtailed new hires for about a half year last year, and their attrition was higher than they apparently anticipated. Reserve is about a month and then you have an 85 hour schedule. Nor are you just sitting there your one month on reserve.

knewyork

Are we just going to ignore “flowen”?

BigZ

Yup

Filler

terks43

I’ve flown 43 hours in 16 days so far. All depends on where you go.

Tiger52

As mentioned different companies are well, different. I have also learned various bases of the same company can also be vastly different. For your data point my first flight on IOE was 17 Dec 17... 117 hours including IOE, differences, and sitting reserve at two different bases. I have only flown one leg on a day off and that was to fly a jet back to my home when the scheduled FO wasn’t available. Otherwise all flying was accomplished on scheduled reserve days.