Accellerate the pilot shortage

[bigbird]

He is right! Hold off applying for at least a 6 months. You will end up getting huge bonuses, better contracts, and better pay.

 

[Black Hawk]

Black Hawk, there will be three stacks at UAL, one for college degrees, one W/O college degrees and a third W/O college degrees with 2000 hr TJ PIC and previous 121 Check Airman Status. They will draw from pile # 3 before they go to the bottom of pile #1.

Sure, they'll have those three stacks and probably a couple others stacks for a variety of other personal criteria that has nothing to do with flying an airplane.

 

[av8er2]

seems to me that the best way to change things at a company or industry is while you work in it. i think all you're doing now is losing a good seniority number.

That is the problem with this industry, it is all about "ME"! Until all stand together there will be little change.

Take an occurance for a fatigue call, etc. Do what is right!!!!!!

 

[bailey3083]

Keep dreaming..it will never happen and the regionals will always suck..

 

[Hootie9750]

Regionals will ALWAYS suck. But where else can you fly a jet for IHOP server wages and be gone from your home 65% of the time. What a fvxked up job.

 

[QXpeon]

And which regional exactly pays that much the first year?

Horizon does.

But I wouldn't recommend coming here. Unless you REALLY want to be in the Pac NW and sit as an FO for 5+ years.

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

One idea is to go somewhere like TSA/Pinnacle, or the turboprop operators, then you can go to a better regional like Air WI or Horizon after 6 months, or you can go to Chautauqua/Republic and get a signing bonus WITHOUT a 4 year contract like Mesa has.

cliff
DRT

 

[daviator28621]

You need to post this in the employment section so it will get read by everyone looking for a job at the regionals.!!!!

 

[Master Shake]

Why wait to apply? I only instructed because I HAD TO. I only flew freight because I HAD TO. If I had the opportunity to get on at any regional with 250 hours I'd have taken it. Don't kid yourselves, instructing sucks. So does flying freight. JMHO so feel free to follow your heart :nuts:

 

[buckeyeflyer]

The problem is, you, and I, and hundreds of other Flight Info readers can protest this and hold our resumes, but there is always another pilot out there who has less time and less experience who is going to be willing to put their resume in and take that $18,000 job. I like the idea, but like I said, there is always going to be someone that is willing.....

 

[John Pennekamp]

There is no "pilot shortage". There's a shortage of "qualified pilots". There is a difference. Pilots are out there, the airlines are just lowering their standards to get them. Now pilots who never stood a chance of working for an airline (like part time middle age general aviation guys) can add a wet Commercial to their PP Instrument and go fly an RJ. And they are doing it.

We're going to go back to the early 90s when "commuter pilots" were washed up 40 somethings who used to fly night freight in a Beech 18 and have two DUIs and a couple of FAA violations.

 

[TWA]

Ok, I know skipping college will probably allow you to get hired into the regionals a few years early so you can start building that coveted jet time. I have one question though, what do you do if you lose your medical? It can happen to anyone, anytime. Without a degree, it's almost a definate go strait back to the local FBO, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Is getting to a $20,000/year job a couple years early worth the risk of being forced into a lineboy position again at age 30? Even FBO managers are required to have degrees now.

Just my $.02.

 

[John Pennekamp]

Ok, I know skipping college will probably allow you to get hired into the regionals a few years early so you can start building that coveted jet time. I have one question though, what do you do if you lose your medical? It can happen to anyone, anytime. Without a degree, it's almost a definate go strait back to the local FBO, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Is getting to a $20,000/year job a couple years early worth the risk of being forced into a lineboy position again at age 30? Even FBO managers are required to have degrees now.

Or go into airline management...

 

[BigLebowski]

And which regional exactly pays that much the first year?

I'll make approx. mid 30's this year at SkyW...First year

 

[BigLebowski]

I have to agree with some of you. When I graduated college there were no regional jobs to be had...I was happy to get a job instructing. Then I busted my A$$ flying 135. Only after a few months did some of the regionals start hiring.

Bottom line...If I had the chance when I graduated college to go straight to a regional, I would have went to the regional.