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05-25-2016, 01:46 PM

#571

holdmybeer

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I just spoke to a recruiter at TSA. Can anyone confirm that the CQFO program is only currently being offered to current qualified EMB-145 drivers?

05-25-2016, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by holdmybeer

I just spoke to a recruiter at TSA. Can anyone confirm that the CQFO program is only currently being offered to current qualified EMB-145 drivers?

Havent heard that at all...

05-25-2016, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by holdmybeer

I just spoke to a recruiter at TSA. Can anyone confirm that the CQFO program is only currently being offered to current qualified EMB-145 drivers?

Unless things have recently changed, you just have to be current in a jet or t prop.

If you haven't flown in 6-12+ months or so, or do not meet company or FAA mins (obviously) you won't be given a cqfo position.

05-25-2016, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Bellanca

That's what I thought. But not what I was told today when I spoke with someone in HR today. I am current in a Jet flying 135 and have a substantial amount of 121 time both jet and prop and I was told that they were only taking current and qualified EMB-145 pilots into the CQFO program. Maybe the lady didn't know what she was talking about...

05-25-2016, 07:55 PM

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What is the purpose of even maintaining the CQFO program nowadays? Is TSA having a hard time now upgrading the FOs that they employed from the start?

05-26-2016, 09:55 AM

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What is the purpose of even maintaining the CQFO program nowadays? Is TSA having a hard time now upgrading the FOs that they employed from the start?

We aren't even upgrading

05-26-2016, 10:50 AM

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We aren't even upgrading

Since when?

05-26-2016, 02:18 PM

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We aren't even upgrading

Well thats it, I quit. I was promised a fast upgrade. This is BS!

05-26-2016, 04:53 PM

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We aren't even upgrading

We didn't have a class of upgrades in May, but 6 are upgrading in June. So we need to see how July goes to see if its consistent.

05-29-2016, 02:13 PM

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What is the purpose of even maintaining the CQFO program nowadays? Is TSA having a hard time now upgrading the FOs that they employed from the start?

The purpose is that it's cheaper to pay a handful of well qualified, non-training-risk folks a "blended" rate to sit right seat than to pay everybody on property a retention bonus like Endeavor. It's just a recruiting tool. And it gives you (and skeds) the flexibility to pick-up (or assign) left seat work occasionally.
See it for what it is - a great (relatively) starting wage for a regional lateral move - and it's a good deal. If you take it for all that TPIC, well, you're likely to be disappointed like the many previous posters on this thread.