N152SY

It’s really only an issue if you’re going to Canada,which is almost exclusively MLS flying

YerOnGuard

We are doing a pax YVR route starting next month.

ExaDeuce

Job offer to class date for me was four months, so it sounds like training new hires is at capacity.

Gabriel257

Hi all. What’s the trick to getting looked at? 8000+ hours with 3 types. 121 and 135 experience.

GHawk

Had my app in for a couple months with nothing until I had an internal LOR submitted and then I received the interview invite about 10 hours later.

maverickchill

in an effort to get to 50 pax and 20 cargo planes they only want to hire people who want to stay long term, training is the bottle neck. we still have people leaving, a good cover letter or letter of rec should state your desire to remain at sunny.

Gabriel257

Sadly I don’t have any internal rec. will try for a job fair the next time they hold one. Fly safe everybody.

GHawk

I'm hoping these haven't been answered anywhere else but I'm in the pool and trying to learn as much as I can.

1. Is it leg by leg block or better? This may not be as big of a deal when the average seems to be two legs per day but it was really nice at my regional.
2. How do junior assignments typically go? Are they common?
3. What are inviolate days?
4. How do golden days work?
5. How are the hotels? Are there different short and long layover hotels? If so, what's the cutoff?
6. Any more details on the sort lines? I believe these are the out of base reserves that are meant to help the cargo operation?

nibake

I'll take a stab at these.
1. Yes. This applies to DH as well. Assuming you are actually on block pay and not trip or duty rig.
2. They aren't common. They aren't uncommon. But the chances of you getting jr manned are pretty small. It does get used from time to time, but you have to be able to take the flying and jr to get called. However, you just don't answer the phone if you don't want it. It's that simple. Unless you are on reserve, in that case you have to be contactable and they can assign you something on your days off. Like I said, it does happen, but the odds of it happening much to you are rather slim. Especially since people aren't staying "jr" for very long at this airline.
3/4 I believe they are the same thing, someone else can weigh in here if I am doling out misinformation, but they haven't ever come into play for me so I never really cared about the specifics. The only circumstance I can think of off the top of my head is that they can't put training on you for those days, except when they can (grace late).
5. Hotels are generally good. Contractual standards are fairly high. That doesn't prevent customer service from sucking from time to time, though. Unfortunately the one thing we are really missing is the short vs long that you mention. If you have a short layover you are still going to make the drive to a hotel with restaurants and shopping, etc, like it or not.
6. Still waiting on sort lines to become a reality. Why? My guess would be staffing. We are strapped for pilots without putting some on inefficient sort lines. Idk how hard our cargo customer is pushing for this, bc that's the only real motivation outside of March Madness which we didn't do in 2022.

phrogpi

Inviolate days are a block of four days that show up on reserve and vacation relief lines where no flying or training can touch or "violate" those days. Golden days are a block of 1-5 days, all of which must be used in one block e.g. consectutively, this blocks the training department from placing any training on those day. Golden days are requested after the initial schedule comes out. They cannot be used for grace late months.