Ameristar is Hiring Pilots

[Xfr8dog]

What Clyde said. Nothings changed. The only difference is at USAJet its a 20 minute callout not 30....

ATPCliff, what have you heard about 135 being rewritten? Rest and duty changing? Is that wishful thinking or do you know something specific?

 

[canadflyau]

USA Jet schedules-

How do you choose schedules? I have heard that there is not a seniority system, so how do you bid/schedule? Is it 7ON/7OFF or some combination for every 28 day cycle?

 

[RideTheWind]

The job posting says 10 off per 28 day bid, sounds more like 7 0n /3 Off

 

[canadflyau]

Surely someone on here has some facts.... 7/3 would only be 6-7 days off per month..

Thanks

 

[pilotyip]

USA Jet Days Off Bidding

The crew scheduler builds 28-day bid lines that run Wed to the Tue four weeks later. She builds crew daily staffing requirements for each position based upon a number of factors to include business expectations, i.e. Sat not as busy as Wednesday, ground schools, vacation etc. This includes lines with 10 days off in a row, or two 5 day weekends, or one four day weekend and two three day weekends, and other combinations. Three weeks prior to the start of the bid period, bid sheets are published and placed in the pilot's mailbox. Pilots have 10 days to fill out and return the bid sheet with their preference. Lines are assigned by seniority alone. One bid sheet for each crew position. As far as I know everything at USA Jet uses the seniority system

 

[RideTheWind]

Surely someone on here has some facts.... 7/3 would only be 6-7 days off per month..

Thanks

You need some help with your math.

10 off per 28 day bid period, in other words 7 on and 3.88 off, or 18 on and 10 off, or 9 on and 5 off.

 

[canadflyau]

Pilotyip-

Thanks for the info... So typically they do group the days off together? (That was basically my question.)

Sorry ride I didn't think my math was bad, I just looked at a 28 day bid period (7/3) starting with a day on, on, on, on, on, on, on, off, off, off, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, off, off, off, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, off. So there would be 28 days... of which doing 7/3 you have 7 days off.. I guess I was looking at it probably way too simplisticly! I have no idea how on demand schedules work, thus my questions.... Just assumed like a RSV line works where I am now. So I like what yip says, they group the days off together in different groupings to bid on, and they do it by seniority.. sounds good to me. I read a post on aviationinterviews.com that made mention of upgrades and soforth not being done by seniority but by merit and I was unclear how everything worked at USA Jet...

Thanks for the input!

 

[Xfr8dog]

Before the threat of a union almost a year ago the company was upgrading out of order occasionally and not honoring pilots days off. When the union was voted out they changed all that and have honored both things ever since. You can count on your days off now and an "in order" upgrade assuming you meet the insurance minimums.

 

[Mahi]

it's 10 on, 4 off... got a friend interviewing next week
anybody got the gouge for Ameristar?

 

[canadflyau]

You can count on your days off now and an "in order" upgrade assuming you meet the insurance minimums.

Outstanding!

What are the "Insurance Mins?"