Any rumors for an American Eagle New Hire?

[wannab0133]

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Anyone see a pattern here? All the newhires and people with very little experience love it and the grizzly veterans speak the truth. Poor newhires with the googles on. It's cute.

 

[pacsky72]

Anyone notice a pattern? The grizzly veterans won't leave the seat and company they hate but they'll sure whine about how terrible it is to others. Go back to school or get a job at starbucks (Great benefits!) or pin your hopes on the lottery if you're that unhappy, but don't let your mistakes screw with the minds of young guys persuing there dreams and achieving them. We are all firmly aware of the state of the industry.

Eagle is a great stepping-stone to something better, and could be better itself soon with the end of AA furloughs.

There is a huge difference between explaining the pros and cons of a job and just trashing others.

bye bye

 

[CapnVegetto]

Except for the LOOOOONG upgrade time, I hear Eagle is a good place to work. Decent pay, work rules, etc. Only problem is you'll be sitting in the right seat for 6 or 7 years, and even then you'll just upgrade to the Saab. I BEGGED my buddy to try ExpressJet or Skywest, but he wouldn't listen to me, he was just so happy to get a job SOMEWHERE after all the trying, so now it's Eagle or bust. All I can do now is support him and wish him the best, which is what I'm going to do. He's lucky, though, who knows where Eagle will be in 2 years? Might have some kind of drastic turnaround, have a bunch of people leave for CAL, American recalls, you never know. In 2 years, they might be right in the middle of a hiring binge and he'll come back to a captain seat somewhere. I guess he might be seatlocked, and you know more about it than me, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. They're going to have to completely retrain him anyway, so I figured they'd just give him whatever equipment and domicile his seat could hold. Ah well, we'll just have to see in 2 years.

 

[chuckheb]

Pilot1625 Nailed it. Im Eagle as well and he's right on in his description of the company. However, Here's some things to look forward to in SJU(6 years here). Good beach and surfing/kitesurfing, Great looking girls, Waking up on beautiful Caribbean islands (although overnights are very short nowadays), it never snows, Good diving, cool bunch of friends bonded by the adversity of a crappy contract. Good luck.....

 

[belchfire]

well, good luck. Hope that you like looking
out the right hand windscreen and that you
are young enough to get upgraded before
you turn 60!

And you might try to break the AMR employee
tradition of ignoring the employees of other
airlines. Return the nod even if they are not
wearing the AA cloth.

 

[ILSJUNKIE]

Except for the LOOOOONG upgrade time, I hear Eagle is a good place to work. Decent pay, work rules, etc. Only problem is you'll be sitting in the right seat for 6 or 7 years, and even then you'll just upgrade to the Saab. I BEGGED my buddy to try ExpressJet or Skywest, but he wouldn't listen to me, he was just so happy to get a job SOMEWHERE after all the trying, so now it's Eagle or bust. All I can do now is support him and wish him the best, which is what I'm going to do. He's lucky, though, who knows where Eagle will be in 2 years? Might have some kind of drastic turnaround, have a bunch of people leave for CAL, American recalls, you never know. In 2 years, they might be right in the middle of a hiring binge and he'll come back to a captain seat somewhere. I guess he might be seatlocked, and you know more about it than me, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. They're going to have to completely retrain him anyway, so I figured they'd just give him whatever equipment and domicile his seat could hold. Ah well, we'll just have to see in 2 years.

Certainly better that Pinnacle. Once 138 arrives, no more upgrading or hiring...period. Rumor has it that unless safety and performance improves, Pinnacle may be actually losing Airlink flying and jets to another airlink carrier. Makes sense to me since Pinnacle doesn't even own one aircraft. Why would NWA continue to put up with them.

 

[fxbat]

My 2 cents: Hired by EGL June 2001

Pic from the Jump Seat.









SXM was a 19hr overnight

The crew hotel is on the left. And the tops optional bar is on the right. Over the hill is Camelot. (Too many kids on the reg. board to go into details) You can’t see the casino that is across from the hotel or the best nude bar in the c-rib 2 blocks down the street. My favs are the Bombay 1.75ltr for $8.00 us and JW-blue for 75.00 us. The ship in the background is the Black Sheep @ 120' (met the crew at the beach bar and got to hang out on the ship)

SJU (and life for that matter) is what you make it.

1) If you got into aviation for the money and security. You made a huge mistake.

2) No box on an application can ever replace what you love doing for a living.

3) The future is uncertain. Enjoy what you have now.

4) 400 flow backs and 400 flowup Capt.’s with AA numbers (strange when the bitching started isn’t it) hint... it wasn’t when the fo’s stopped upgrading.

Airlinepiot777 welcome. Study your a$$ off, work hard, learn from the Capt's that have been around for a while, avoid the negative people and enjoy. Let the details worry about themselves.

PS. The 1k Pic turbine might (and I mean might) put you in the bottom 1% of the 15k+ applications continental has received.

 

[fxbat]

Dam... those pic's PM me if you want some