Eagle Desperate now?

[on autopilot]

So I hear Eagle is sending out notices to people to come and apply via airlinesapps.com. What's the story over there? Are they getting desperate? Even lower mins?

 

[Flyby1206]

Eagle isnt a stable rock solid place anymore since the company announced they want to get rid of us. Mega-Regionals like Skywest/ASA/XJT, Pinnacle/Mesaba/Colgan, RAH/CHQ/Shuttle are the places of future stability.

Trying to hire a lot of people in 2011, and lowered the mins from 1000/100 to 800/100, but its still not attracting enough applicants.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

They cant fill classes with 800/100?

 

[RiddleEagle18]

Compass is having lots of trouble filling ours as well. The problem we have is all new hires must meet atp mins! Just think this is how it will be everywhere when the new rules kick in.

 

[52Vincent]

Compass is having lots of trouble filling ours as well. The problem we have is all new hires must meet atp mins! Just think this is how it will be everywhere when the new rules kick in.

About time....should have happened years ago.

 

[Andrew_VT]

The problem we have is all new hires must meet atp mins!

Is that in your pilot contract? If it is, I wonder what they'll offer you guys in exchange for "fixing it."

 

[ualdriver]

If the above is true, that is really surprising. I would have ASSumed that the regionals would have NO problem filling classes in this environment.

 

[RiddleEagle18]

Is that in your pilot contract? If it is, I wonder what they'll offer you guys in exchange for "fixing it."

yes it is in our contract. Every new hire is PIC type rated in our aircraft.

I have also suspected they will offer us something for it as well but then again why? The rule changes will be in effect soon and everyone will be dealing with the same thing.


The problem is no Americans are going through flight training. Banks have stopped lending student pilots money as well. It is a good thing all around to help control the amount of people entering the profession.

 

[learflyer]

well...up the hourly rates and maybe they'll attract a few vets like me...

 

[Flyby1206]

If the above is true, that is really surprising. I would have ASSumed that the regionals would have NO problem filling classes in this environment.

Lots of out of work pilots and furloughed guys looking for jobs, but not willing to start at $23/hr. I dont blame them.

 

[DAS at 10/250]

Learflyer and flyboy get it. It isn't the minimums or supposed lack of candidates. It is the horse ******************** wages you guys are working for. Demand descent pay and there will be no shortage of qualified applicants.

I haven't flown in 15 months and still won't consider such embarrassing pay as what you get.

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[BrickTop]

Treat people like PEOPLE and see how production changes........

 

[CX880]

what is it with eagle. I remember last wave they had the lowest mins i think it was 300 and even paid for rj training and guaranteed a base.

 

[pilotyip]

and as a 10,000 hour pilot with 4 type rating, I could not get an interview at AE in 1996 because I did not have 500 hours in the previous 12 months, I only had 370 in the TC-690

 

[bob_sakamano]

I have been inundated by all of them, but refuse to go back to SHAMEFUL 1st year pay. I'll stay current and qualified overseas until the day comes, if ever, that US wages are where they should be. Unfortunately, it isn't just our industry. It's medicine, engineering, service sectors and more. Why pay an American engineer $75,000 when someone from India, Pakistan or any of a dozen other countries will do it for $30,000? It's corporate greed and the widening of the gap between those that have and those that have not.

As other posters have correctly stated, there always will be plenty of QUALIFIED applicants.

We all have to draw a line in the sand or continue to suffer ever more harsh consequences.

 

[atpcliff]

Most of the regionals lately have been filling about 1/2 their classes, from what I have read on these boards. Regionals, as well as China, KAL, Emirates, Qatar, etc. are quite desperate, and the pilot hiring tsunami has only just begun.

Just read about a guy who tried really hard, and only got 1 interview, with AAEagle last year. Just now, he has been called/emailed by 4 regionals, some multiple times, to come and interveiw ASAP.

AA, who has not hired for the longest time of any US carrier, announced that they will burn through all 1800 of their furloughees and be recalling this year.

cliff
MIA

 

[pilotyip]

all part of the 2012 hiring boom predicted back in 2009

 

[bluefin]

Then there are the jet4jobs deals. Your job gets outsourced to the lowest bidder, you were making $78 an hr and lose your job and are offered one by a regional for $31 hr, less than 1/2 of what you were making. Add insult to the equation, you were once a Captain at said outfit 15 yrs prior, prior to the rj onslaught. That sucks. There are plenty of qualified pilots, but not enough qualified pay. Hopefully this will cause wages to go up!

 

[TWA Dude]

AA, who has not hired for the longest time of any US carrier, announced that they will burn through all 1800 of their furloughees and be recalling this year.

Must've missed that announcement. Nothing's been announced beyond the flowthroughs that I've read.

 

[GOULET!]

Must've missed that announcement. Nothing's been announced beyond the flowthroughs that I've read.

Had a AA Captain on the JS yesterday and he said the rumor going around is they will be hiring off the street by this fall/early next year. FWIW.