Continental scheduling.....gosh, why would you want to work here?

[whatitdoing?]

And what was your pay flying around the ERJ? 19 bucks an hour to start?

 

[dojetdriver]

It has nothing to do with not liking what you said there is a lot of truth to it. However the other option is to stay at a regional where top captain pay isn't even half way up the FO pay scale and you also are in a position to have no effect on the future contracts at the majors whichever you choose. I just dont see it proving a point to stay at a job that over the course of your career will pay so much less, if anything it proves the opposite, pay me enough to get by let me get my bills up because it takes so long to get to the point where you are paid enough to get by at a regional and then I will be stuck accepting this wage. Not a flame at all I worked a lot of years at a regional and some people dont ever want to leave there and I understand.

Agreed, I have no intention of staying either.

This isn't about the regionals vs. the majors or anything else but on here it always becomes that way, go to the job you like stay there as long as you like and who cares where others think you should be. When you get there dont forget to look at making it better for the guys that come after you. That means better pay and benefits from year one till the end.

Again, agreed. I had NO intention making a regional vs. major issue.

It is hard to say you wouldnt go some where that had low first year pay when there isn't a regional out there whos first year pay is even as high as CALs pathetic first year pay. (and dont tell me it is becauses your new fos are not experienced because that is the same argument here) Every one can do better. You go to a company because over the long haul it will be good for you personally not because some one else thinks it is a good or bad idea.

For the third time. AGREED. Like I said, I have no intention of staying where I'm at.

The last statement in my post was the most important. I wasn't singling anybody out.

And what was your pay flying around the ERJ? 19 bucks an hour to start?

See above. Just curious, were you OO or EV? Yeah, I know one owns the other.

And to answer your question no. $19/hr is what SkyWest was paying at that time.

 

[Captain X]

I would imagine that most of the complainers here are commuters or came from Express (Most XJT folks are strange to begin with...lets face it they mostly all paid for their jobs back in the 90's.)

Easy there on your generalizations tiger. There are close to 1000 former Express pilots at CAL that didn't pay a dime for their job. Many hired in the '90's.

 

[Kugelblitz]

You should thank God you still have a job, but yeah everyone's schedule sucks now. Enjoy the time you have with your family, one day it may be gone.

One day it will be gone.