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diggertwo

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I know that Allegheny is hiring, at least two classes for December, but how many more? I think that they are going to be picking up flying that US Airways mainline has dropped. I have also heard that they are getting five or more dash-8's. Has anyone else heard this?
 
I talked to a friend of mine who is in capt school right now and he mentioned that they are getting more aircraft, from where I don't know. I have an interview next week, and I know of one other old coworker who has a jan 9th class date. hope this helps.
 
Allegheny expansion and hiring

I was talking to Human Resources about a week ago regarding a friend's application, and I was told there would be about five classes over the next couple of months, varying in size from 5-6 to 10-12 pilots each. She didn't give me solid numbers, and that wasn't really the point of the conversation, so I didn't ask. But another conversation with one of the training department instructors indicated that they expect to be busy for the next few months, with sim time booked all the way through to June so far.
 
We are getting 10 more aircraft, according to Asst. Chief Pilot in the next couple of months. We have 16 slots open for FOs and 10 for captains next month which is a lot for us. There is a lot of growth here right now.
 
Allegheny ex.pansion and hiring[

Brae123,

I've heard much the same. I just hope that when we start running 50+ aircraft and lines of flying, they restructure the dispatch office. I ran 54 lines after the merger in '94, and believe me, if there was any weather, ATC issues, or multiple mechanicals (sometimes all of the above!) it could quickly became more than one individual could keep up with. It's like trying to solve a huge Rubic's Cube while several people are throwing things at you at the same time! Guess we'll see soon enough. It's nice to be on this side of the industry, rather than where several of my soon-to-be-furloughed friends are!
 
airbrush-

I used to work at ALG and remember those awfull days. It was hard on the crews and I can only imagine what the dispatchers and schedulers were going through.

I read somewhere that BWI may be re-opening as a crew base. Think it will happen? I'm currently enjoying some time off thanks to USAirways. One option is to return to ALG. Just trying to find some answers.

pappy

Your Dash-8 print still hangs in my den.
 
Pappy,

I've heard people talking about BWI reopening as a crew base, although I would think Piedmont might be more focused there given their current presence. But it could very well happen, since US Airways has once again courageously fled in the face of competition and left BWI hanging. And those new aircraft have to go somewhere....
Depending on your seniority, you might be "enjoying" a lot of time off.
I'm glad you like the print! The new one is out in the current paint scheme.
I'm curious...who is this anyway?
 
Piedmont in BWI

Piedmont won't take BWI as a crew base. We just opened one up in roanoke and don't even have enough people to add an additional base. We are supposed to hire 120 more pilots by the end of the year thoug so who knows.
 
When I was interviewing I was told they were thinking of opening up another base in the NE, possibly ALB. Any rumor to that ? Hey any ex-ALG guys coming back, I'm in the Jan. 8th class and could use a solid sim partner. Cheers ! :cool:
 
There has always been a rumor that they are going to open an Albany base. It would make more sense to open a base at one of the mainline hubs. The rumor is that they must open another maintenance base if they go over 50 aircraft. The lastest rumor from the guys that turn the wrenches around here is that SYR is going to be a maintenace base. You can never believe the rumors here until they are boarded up and have left the gate.;)
 
allegheny interview coming up....

I know that Allegheny's little exam is off ATP, and is 35 or so questions, but is it multiple choice, or fill in blank? Taking the real ATP written in a few day's, and was just curious.

EAirplanes
 
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Hey Brownonmybone...............why is it you never post on cargo board? For some supposed big shot UPS driver, you have nothing to say there? Your just a big poser, just like instructordoosh, pokemyhole, and the long list of other board trolls.
 
I thought USAir bought Piedmont.
 
Maybe they have a web site.
 
We didn't purchase ALG (US Airways owned all 3 or 4 if you want PSA/ALG/PDT/MidAtlantic) we just basically took over there operation. PDT merged the pilot and FA Groups straight date of Hire.

And now we have proceeded to go from about 110 Dash 8's to about 44 in a short 6 years.

So do you see a trend here?
 
US Airways decided in 2004 that they only wanted one East Coast Dash8 operator. Kinda made sense, why use 2 companies with 2 sets of overhead to do the same thing? ALG had the better contract and more employee-friendly mngmnt (doubt anyone from either company would argue) so naturally ALG had to go, and was merged into PDT. A whole lot of what was ALG flying (and profitable flying at that) was farmed out to Colgan, not only slapping Airway's wholly-owned employees in the face, repeatedly, but giving dollars to an outside company that could have stayed in house.

I miss ALG. Good times. Great people.

Q.

PS: Hey Surf, at least you got real meat in your crew meals....
 
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Allegheny/Piedmont

Allegheny was merged into Piedmont back in '05. Since then the combined fleet of about 110 Dash 8 100/200/300s was been reduced to about 45 Dash 100s & 300s (all of the 200s are gone). The current plan is to further reduce the fleet by 11 a/c by the end of '09. Hard to say what the future holds beyond that, although the current trend isn't good.
 
zasca said:
No, we have 51 planes soon to be reduced by 7 more in the fall.
Click to expand...

I stand corrected. The numbers I qouted were told to me recently, but since I now live on the fringes instead of in the center of things, I didn't ask for any other info. Thanks.
 

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