Jungle Jim

Well to whittle it down even further, only 13 of the 40 big 3 hires were civilians according to the union czar's.

Random Task

And it seems the average civilian time to move to SWA is 10 years

planesense

5 months reserve at LGA?

I'm on a 4-month training delay right now, so I'm hoping for very little reserve time once I get off IOE.

planesense

What's the source of this info?

Viking6

If you want to go to the big three, then Republic is probably not for you. The 13 pure civilian hires were mostly either management pilots or CKA/ Instructors. I believe 2 were not, but one of those had a family connection at Delta. We should know soon how the Delta screening program is working, but it doesn’t look very promising. Still rumors about possible career progression to UA or AA, but I suspect they would resemble the current Delta program.

Viking6

The union puts hiring info out monthly. I think the number is 8-12 years for Southwest. We’ve lost more to JB, and some were FOs.

Hawk739

I see, well I’m Military Rotor wing. I wish I could be hired at one of the big 3 with the fixed wing time I have+rotor time but doesn’t work that way lol

Jungle Jim

The only thing I've heard from a senior CA about how that's going is he personally knows of 3 guys that were extended an interview so far, and those 3 are in the "waiting for a callback" phase. But that's hearsay which should be taken with a grain of salt.

Jungle Jim

Unless we magically get more flying and more planes in the next year, or a whole bunch of FO's upgrade or leave, I wouldn't be that optimistic. 179 FO's (incl those in training) on the LGA seniority list with 94-95 projected flying lines in February. While the flying will pick up March through the summer, there aren't going to be 50 hard lines appearing from thin air. New planes aren't going to be here until "2020," and that presumes we're getting the flying on these airframes (read: scope relief, getting flying away from other regionals) that aren't direct replacements of some of our dinosaur birds. The new Republic reality for the time being is long reserve stints are here to stay to those at the bottom of the list in any base until we get a lot more flying by means of scope relief, acquiring another regional and somehow shelving their pilots, or some other magic BB has up his sleeve. I just don't see how it translates into any other scenario. What I can lead to believe is that something is up otherwise we wouldn't be stocking this many pilots down the line, but nobody on this side of management has any real clue about what's happening.

05Duramax

I’ve read about this and have never heard a reasonable reason why this is the case. What makes Republic different from any other regional?