chautauqua info

[RightTraffic]

Check out the gouge on aviationinterviews, pretty much spot on. more hr than technical, 25 question written. may or may not have the sim ride depending on you written score and experience.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Atccfi]

While we're asking questions.....

I have a few.....
1) How long is the contract with CO?
2) What is the latest on the DL rebidding? Will you hold on to that flying?
3) How does your nonrev work? Can you only non-rev on the companies you feed or do you have benies on all the companies?
3a)Speaking of benies, how is your medical coverage? dental, etc...
4) How many are you expecting to hire for the new aircraft?
5) Are there classes going on right now or is still a pool?
6) How many aircraft are you getting? It's a strange equation from what I gather...69 from CO minus 20 from US but you are getting 175s... help me out....
7) Are your lines built over guarantee? Can you make more than the minimum?

Sorry for the bombardment of questions, I have an interview coming up and would like some info to help me make my decision should I be offered a job. Thanks.

 

[FLAPS 9]

I have a few.....
1) How long is the contract with CO?
2) What is the latest on the DL rebidding? Will you hold on to that flying?
3) How does your nonrev work? Can you only non-rev on the companies you feed or do you have benies on all the companies?
3a)Speaking of benies, how is your medical coverage? dental, etc...
4) How many are you expecting to hire for the new aircraft?
5) Are there classes going on right now or is still a pool?
6) How many aircraft are you getting? It's a strange equation from what I gather...69 from CO minus 20 from US but you are getting 175s... help me out....
7) Are your lines built over guarantee? Can you make more than the minimum?

Sorry for the bombardment of questions, I have an interview coming up and would like some info to help me make my decision should I be offered a job. Thanks.

I'll help you out...go work for somebody else!

 

[FlamingFUPA]

I have a few.....
1) How long is the contract with CO?
2) What is the latest on the DL rebidding? Will you hold on to that flying?
3) How does your nonrev work? Can you only non-rev on the companies you feed or do you have benies on all the companies?
3a)Speaking of benies, how is your medical coverage? dental, etc...
4) How many are you expecting to hire for the new aircraft?
5) Are there classes going on right now or is still a pool?
6) How many aircraft are you getting? It's a strange equation from what I gather...69 from CO minus 20 from US but you are getting 175s... help me out....
7) Are your lines built over guarantee? Can you make more than the minimum?

Sorry for the bombardment of questions, I have an interview coming up and would like some info to help me make my decision should I be offered a job. Thanks.

ok, my best shot, a mix of fact and speculation

1) 2-5 years(scary huh?)
2) No word, no idea, nobody knows(what is that uneasy feeling?)
3) Non-Rev on the paint that your base serves
3a) Better than some, worse than others.depends on where you live really.
4) i think 540 is the number being thrown around
5) a little bit of both i think, the CRJ classes are going to be kinda irregular at first in their timing, so some may see the pool, others may not.
6) 54 growth aircraft. the CO contract is for 44 planes, 20 of which are coming from CHQ's 145s currently serving USAirways. We are picking up 24 CRJs and 30 E175s for total growth of 54. more if anything positve comes from the delta RFP
7) Line target Mins and Maxs change from month to month in pbs, but usually is see a range from 82-92 (min target-max target), I'm big on reserve at my base, but most people see 82-86 hour lines. Take home in credit is almost always higher.

I'll help you out...go work for somebody else!

awwww, aren't pilots cute when they're angry?

 

[FLAPS 9]

ok, my best shot, a mix of fact and speculation

2) No word, no idea, nobody knows(what is that uneasy feeling?)

awwww, aren't pilots cute when they're angry?

Fun feeling eh?.....Enjoy the race the to the bottom!

 

[FlamingFUPA]

Fun feeling eh?.....Enjoy the race the to the bottom!

thank you, i am

 

[EMB170Pilot]

Enjoy the race the to the bottom!

Foxtrot Uniform

 

[gojo]

Is a first class medical required for the interview or just before class?

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

Is a first class medical required for the interview or just before class?

Just get it now, pokey, you'll need it in any case.

 

[FLAPS 9]

Foxtrot Uniform

Right back at you!

 

[FLAPS 9]

Foxtrot Uniform

I am just one of many in this industry that you have already done this to!

 

[skytrash969]

Fun feeling eh?.....Enjoy the race the to the bottom!

:bawling:

who has "he" done this to....he flys the F#$N planes, doesn't do the dealing. cant u come up with something better than "enjoy the race to the bottom". Its been way over used.

 

[freeflyer14]

I'll help you out...go work for somebody else!

Hmm, care to enlighten us where he/she should go to work then? Want to let us all in on who hasn't "raced to the bottom" or "lowered the bar"? I suppose you are a pissed off XJT pilot mad at the CHQ pilot group for undercutting you and taking "your" flying. Because we all know that the entire CHQ pilot group walked into Indy a few months back and said "Hey Mr. Bedford sir, let's bid on some Continental flying and screw the Expressjet pilots." uke:

 

[flyforfood77777]

Foxtrot Uniform

What a mature response. I have nothing personal against Chatuqua/Rep./Shuttle/etc., but what are they doing for the careers of all regional pilots? I would say more harm than good. Did the pilots directly seek out to low-bid all the contracts and fly airplanes that anyone sane (and not self-centered) would wish were mainline, certainly not. However, if you have any knowledge of this industry, you would have some knowledge of your company's history and their business practices before you took a job there. I am no saint, and I will always have a lot to learn, but I would rather do 135/91 corporate than fly for a company like this.

 

[ground stop]

pilots now jump at the first job offer they get without doing any real homework about the companies they are applying to. the only info they get is what is posted on this board and that is a crap shoot at best. "what is the pay, what are the bases, what aircraft do they fly...all questions that they should be getting from the company's websites or other sources, airlinepilotcentral.com for one. (some questions such as QOL are legit.) so when that question comes "why did you want to work for our company?", hopefully it will be better than "because you gave me an interview."

 

[snap145]

What a mature response. I have nothing personal against Chatuqua/Rep./Shuttle/etc., but what are they doing for the careers of all regional pilots?

And what are the rest of the pilots at every other regional airline in the universe doing to better everyone elses careers?

 

[wmudriver]

I would rather do 135/91 corporate than fly for a company like this.

 

[SennaP1]

However, if you have any knowledge of this industry, you would have some knowledge of your company's history and their business practices before you took a job there. I am no saint, and I will always have a lot to learn, but I would rather do 135/91 corporate than fly for a company like this.

So tell us what are these business practices and our history? I couldn't find anything in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

To each his own on the 135/91 gig, I assume you have experience in that part of the aviation sector. That must be that rj that you are flying in your profile.

 

[pilot22]

QOL is comparable to every other regional (Mesa excluded). .

What is the QOL like at CHQ compared to Mesa? Just curious. It always amazes me that people have this idea about other places but can never back up any hard core evidence to suggest. People think something then say it as if it were true. QOL at regionals are terrrible period and collective effort needs to be made. Set up a poll to see.

 

[flyguy81]

85 hr line next month, 16 days off, probably credit near 90 when all is said and done. Got all the days off I asked for including a nice 8 day stretch...so QOL...pretty good.