Zerosilver84

When you have positive space commuting it really doesn't matter. I never ever have to worry about missing a flight to and from work.

SoFloFlyer

The poster literally explained why and it didn’t have anything to do with “engine under wing time.”

ninerdriver

The flip side of that argument, though, is if Republic can't staff its flying as is, then why would the legacies that hire Republic want to make it any harder for Republic to stay staffed?

LoneStar32

Well, they can hire them or they won't. Either way pilots are moving on to bigger and better things at record numbers here. If the big three don't hire them there are plenty of other places that will take RPA pilots like LCCs, Cargo, etc. There is nothing like flow or bonuses too keep the pilots here. Either hire them now or not only lose them to some other place where they aren't helping out the Big three system at all, but where they will be directly competing with it as well.

chrisreedrules

The bonus is going to accomplish neither for American. Which means the next step likely won’t be more money being thrown at the problem (because that isn’t the solution to begin with). I don’t know how many you’re losing /month at Republic but our attrition at the WOs has been more than I can ever remember, and this is without Southwest, AA, and Delta hiring at full tilt yet.

And regarding WOs, the legacies that own them (key word: own) aren’t going to let them fail any more than General Motors would let a subsidiary fail. Pilots are the commodity at the moment. If they let a regional fail, they lose the pilots. They are obviously not going to let that happen. So no, the rest of the industry besides SkyWest and Endeavor are not on life support. The United Express side will likely go through a couple of transformative years though, to include SkyWest.

KirillTheThrill

I’ve been told through a solid source airline apps actually will score your app with higher total points if you compare 1,000 hours of turbine time in a 50 seater compared to 70-76 seater. It has nothing to do with seats or engine location, but weight. So technically E175 time would be more valued if that holds true.

It’s probably why you see regional FO’s go to ULCC’s, get 737 time, and never see the left seat before being hired by a legacy carrier.

Zerosilver84

While I do see the point and if that holds true. I just don't think there's one place better to go to get a major. Especially now with hiring picking up and only to continue to increase over the next 5 years. Plus if that is the case it's scored higher well in 2 more years Endeavor is losing all its 50 seaters....but we will see if delta sticks to that. Then that will make 9E one of the best places to go. Even though we lost 41 Capts and 26 FOs to other carriers since July.

KirillTheThrill

Well we’ll see. I’ll be starting with UAL in October and would love to see them hire 10,000 pilots behind me by the end of the decade, but I have my doubts.

Zerosilver84

Congrats and I would too! I'd also like to be one of them.

Random Task

Considering the CL-65 (the type you should be entering on airlineapps) seats anywhere from 50 to 76 seats (hint: that's the same number as a 175) I would call BS on this """source"""