Hello PBS; Goodbye QOL
12-22-2017, 01:16 PM
#372
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Joined APC: Sep 2005
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Hello all,
I’m not sure if I should post this here or start a new thread, but I’ll start here and if you guys want me to move it I can.
I’m currently an FO at a regional. I live in base and I enjoy it. Although I have only been with the company a year I’m the #15 FO in my base and have the seniority to upgrade. Unfortunately, although I have the seniority, I do not have the hours. Currently I am 23 years old and have 1574 TT and 620.9 121/Turbine time. I have a friend my age who started 6 months before me and just hit the 2000 TT and 1000 121/Turbine mins. He applied on a Friday and had received an email the next day on Saturday and a phone call on Monday. He chose to stay and is in our next upgrade class. With that being said, I should be about 426 hours away from hopefully receiving an offer for an interview. I am very interested in going to Spirit instead of upgrading because my wife and I are originally from Florida and she is already tired of the winter and misses the beach. So I would really like to get the FLL base so we can move back and I won’t have to commute.
My question to all of you currently at Spirit is if you were in my shoes would you stay at the regional, upgrade and commute or try your best to get hired with Spirit? Obviously my end goal is to end up at a Legacy but Inalso want to balance that with QOL. I have been reading the forums here and I understand there are a lot of unhappy people at Spirit and the company is playing hard ball in the negotiations. But in your opinion, would it still be a step up of from a regional? and would living in base as opposed to commuting make it worth it to you?
Thank you for your time and opinions.
I’m not sure if I should post this here or start a new thread, but I’ll start here and if you guys want me to move it I can.
I’m currently an FO at a regional. I live in base and I enjoy it. Although I have only been with the company a year I’m the #15 FO in my base and have the seniority to upgrade. Unfortunately, although I have the seniority, I do not have the hours. Currently I am 23 years old and have 1574 TT and 620.9 121/Turbine time. I have a friend my age who started 6 months before me and just hit the 2000 TT and 1000 121/Turbine mins. He applied on a Friday and had received an email the next day on Saturday and a phone call on Monday. He chose to stay and is in our next upgrade class. With that being said, I should be about 426 hours away from hopefully receiving an offer for an interview. I am very interested in going to Spirit instead of upgrading because my wife and I are originally from Florida and she is already tired of the winter and misses the beach. So I would really like to get the FLL base so we can move back and I won’t have to commute.
My question to all of you currently at Spirit is if you were in my shoes would you stay at the regional, upgrade and commute or try your best to get hired with Spirit? Obviously my end goal is to end up at a Legacy but Inalso want to balance that with QOL. I have been reading the forums here and I understand there are a lot of unhappy people at Spirit and the company is playing hard ball in the negotiations. But in your opinion, would it still be a step up of from a regional? and would living in base as opposed to commuting make it worth it to you?
Thank you for your time and opinions.
12-22-2017, 01:28 PM
#373
sippin' dat koolaid
Joined APC: Jun 2013
Position: gear slinger
Posts: 982
Apologies for the thread drift
12-22-2017, 02:56 PM
#374
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Joined APC: Apr 2017
Position: Discount Pilot
Posts: 183
12-22-2017, 04:37 PM
#375
Banned
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Posts: 409
12-22-2017, 08:02 PM
#377
Line Holder
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Position: Right
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12-22-2017, 08:02 PM
#378
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Joined APC: Oct 2005
Position: Office Chair
Posts: 637
Do we get paid at door close? Do we get an international override for international flying? Do we have non-seniority list instructors teaching procedures in the FTDs? Management will do whatever they think they can get away with at our expense. If the language isn't set and solid, I'm a NO vote. Hoping everything shakes out alright for us in the end after a CBA is voted in is utter folly.
12-22-2017, 08:17 PM
#379
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Joined APC: Apr 2017
Position: Discount Pilot
Posts: 183
Our mins are 500 hours above the regionals and people are in fact getting called with that time because more experienced people are refusing to come here. That says a lot about how far we've fallen regardless of interview outcome.
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