PDTpilotXX

The health care bridge is brilliant. The last couple classes the guys have been breezing through and judging by the names on the list of the next 15 guys flowing (5/month the next 3 months) probably won't have any problems. GREAT groups getting ready to head over

billyho

Yes we will be going from over 20 years seniority down to about 16 by the end of the year and it drop off a bunch about the 1st quarter of next year.

Nice to see all this movement at Piedmont. Finally, Finally, Finally!!

Qwerty320

Does anyone know when the flight bennies kick in after your start date?

BSOuthisplace

It been awhile but from what I remember I had my travel privileges and CASS before I was done with training. It's however long it takes for them to properly process your paperwork.

Theaveragejoker

It took about a week and a half for my class two months ago. That's only if you show up to class with required documents though.

billyho

Changing cockpits

Fort Worth resident Nathan Sidwell, 33, walked into American’s training center on his first day not knowing what kind of plane he was going to fly or what city he would be based in.
Sidwell, who flew C-130s for the Marine Corps at Naval Air Station Fort Worth, met an American Airlines pilot at a kid’s birthday party a few years ago who suggested he think about flying for the airline.
“He said, ‘We’re going through bankruptcy right now, but in a couple of years when you get out, give us a call,’” Sidwell said.
When his time in the Marines was up, he started the application process with American.
Within a few minutes of the start of class for pilot hires, Sidwell and about a dozen other pilots learned that they would be based at either New York LaGuardia or Miami and would fly Boeing 737s or Airbus narrow-body aircraft.
Sidwell was one of two “off-the-street” hires to start at American this month. The others in the class were pilots who had flown for American’s regional subsidiaries Envoy Air and Piedmont Airlines.
“Half of a new-hire class on average is going to be comprised of the flow-through pilots, and those guys and girls have been flying for the regional carriers for anywhere from 15 to 25 years,” said Jim Thomas, managing director of flight training and standards. “They have an enormous amount of experience.”


So basically your chances of getting hired outside the military or one of the owned is going to be one tough a$$ task.

RegionalFO

Too bad it'll still take 7 years for a new hire to get to American but I guess it's better than others.


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billyho

7 years experience is just about right for a mainline job. Entitlement kids these days. LOL

sublime259

Something we agree on. If someone told me when I was first starting out that I could be at a legacy airline in 7 years, I'd suck it up. Financially, it's the best long term career decision.

Cujo665

Same happening at ENY it looks like. 220 upgrades announced, and 300 to flow next year. 220 upgrades is 1/4 of our total active FO's.

As of July 2015 our seniority list showed:
we had no new hires from 6-2008 until 3-2010
we had no new hires from 12-2011 until 11-2012
as of 7-2015 we have 8 pilots remaining on the list hired in 2012

Essentially 4 years worth of no significant numbers. Our flow will probably do exactly as they're saying