Another year?
05-31-2009, 04:35 PM
#12
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05-31-2009, 05:38 PM
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I'll just touch on this, i'm sure other people have more to chime in on in terms of where the industry is going, but i'll leave that up to them... It depends where you want to go. Gojets is hiring right now but you wouldn't want to go there. I'm sure with Republic getting more 190's, it won't be long before they start hiring. Again, that's a road you don't want to go down. As well as Mesa but I think they are just barely getting by now. As far as other regionals...I don't know what alot of them got coming up. I have heard that Air wisconsin, which is burning through furloughs at a pretty quick rate might be hiring sometime next spring.
05-31-2009, 05:42 PM
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I think RAH pilots have been getting a lot of flack recently, I agree its disgraceful they are flying those planes for that pay, but MANAGEMENT of RAH & Midwest are to blame, it will be interesting to see what RAH pilots do. If they sit there idle and fly that plane at the current pay scales, that will be disappointing, but I wouldn't write em off just yet, give it some time lets see if they negotiate proper pay rates.
anyway no point in trying to guess where the industry is going, if you have a "non-aviation" opportunity go for it and re-visit aviation when that opportunity presents itself, may be quite a while
anyway no point in trying to guess where the industry is going, if you have a "non-aviation" opportunity go for it and re-visit aviation when that opportunity presents itself, may be quite a while
05-31-2009, 06:11 PM
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i disagree with going to find something else and coming back to aviation when it presents itself.
do what you love to do. if you have the passion to fly airplanes like everyone else on this forum then stick with it go for it.
my father always said to never chase a job based on the economy, it never ever works out and/or you will never be happy....
do what you love to do. if you have the passion to fly airplanes like everyone else on this forum then stick with it go for it.
my father always said to never chase a job based on the economy, it never ever works out and/or you will never be happy....
05-31-2009, 07:21 PM
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But before this can come to pass, whipsawing would need to end.
Or at least modified to mean the whipsaw only cuts the shortest blades of grass...
05-31-2009, 07:49 PM
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Actually Republic is planning on furloughing 150-400 more pilots by fall. I have 4 friends that fly for them (2 still flying and 2 furloughed) and this is what is being talked about right now with management. However I wouldn't put Republic in the GoJets category yet because if the pilots are able to negotiate a minimum of JetBlue payrates for the 190, then the other payrates will have to increase as well making everything all better once again. As a furloughed pilot I too am hoping that things pick up within a year or maybe less but I'm not holding my breath. Good luck Whacker77 in what you decide to do as well as to everyone else who is struggling!
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