Theaveragejoker

Jr MDT captain is 2/22/16 hire. Which is likely fresh out of training. I pay 123.38 a paycheck for medical and 22.50 for dental and that's for the Cadillac family plan. It would be nice if I had received the $15k signing bonus haha, but I'm close to upgrade and I'll be on year 2 captain pay by football season.

CJflyer74

I've been in the corporate side of the industry for the last five years, and I really enjoy it. However, I'm thinking about pursuing a viable path to the majors, and given the fact that I don't have enough TPIC time to go directly to the majors, I'm considering the regional airline route. I'm 42 years old though.

1) Am I getting a little too old to be starting this regional to majors track?

2) Is the "flow through" to American something that you can count on, and is roughly five or six years an accurate estimate for going from new hire Piedmont FO to Piedmont CA to new hire American FO?

3) Would I have an equally good shot at being hired by a major airline if I just continued to fly corporate over the next five years? (I'm assuming that by then I would meet their TPIC time minimums.)

Thanks a lot for any helpful replies. Much appreciated.

dash8

probably not, you still have 23 years left, assuming the 6 year flow below is correct that leaves you 17y at mainline, even 8 yrs would leave you a decade and a half at american

as of right now yes you can count on it, its in our contract, so unless that gets amended, or they take a risk of violating it and going to arbitration, it should keep going

depends, not sure how the majors look on single pilot/corporate tpic as opposed to 121 crew time, i would think the latter would be preferable but, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men

CJflyer74

Thanks very much, dash8, for a really helpful reply.

dash8

No problem, glad I could be of service, check your pm's

greenleaf

What is the time frame for the retirement of the dash fleet? Or has that not been announced

3inthegreen

Are they going to put the ADSB upgrade in them?

Theaveragejoker

According to this article it's not likely they do ADSB.

http://airsoc.com/articles/view/id/573c94413139441e748b4567/piedmont-airlines-american-to-decide-future-of-dash-8-fleet

That also jives with what I was told as a new hire. They said all Dash's 100's done by 2020.

TheWrightStuff

Word on the street is that 12 -100s are getting parked next year.

speedr190

Correct! I was in sby a couple of months ago and spoke to the mx recruiter and he said 12 aircraft are being parked because they are going to be coming up on 80k and Hogg said he's not willing to spend the money to increase them to 120k because it doesn't include the cabin upgrade.