Chataqua

[citdrver]

Hey everyone,

Well this airline called me for an interview, and I would like to know a few things if possible:

How long is reserve for the new guys?

What is the benefit package like for a family?

What are the flight benefits like for spouses (wife wants to know)?

Would you reccomend a close friend or relative to work there??

Thanks and fly safe!!

 

[ERJDRVR]

1) Do a search on here and you will find a million different answers on this subject.

2) Learn how to spell the company before you go into the interview:

CHAUTAUQUA

3) www.flychautauqua.com www.aviationinterviews.com

4) Flight benefits depend on which code share you fly with. Wife flys free on Delta no matter what code share you fly for. Free on US air if based in CMH or LGA or RIC/BUF. American benfits are $15.00 or so each way.

5) Reserve running from 1 week out of training up to three months depending on which base you choose.

6) Bases are:

MCO, RIC, GSO, BUF, BOS, LGA, STL, CMH & IND
DFW soon, BUF & RIC closing

7) Health and Dental start immediately for Pilots. Expensive for family's until one year probation up then cheap.

8) Would I recomend the job? Are you kidding? Do you have any other interviews coming up? Have you seen the aviation economy? Take any jobs that comes up.

 

[stillaboo]

Take any jobs that comes up.

Republic might be dangerous. Seems eerily similar to Freedom at Mesa. If CHQ is hiring, take it. If the interview's for Republic though, well, talk to some of the CHQ pilots flying the line before you accept GS. I would take ALMOST any job that comes up, but there's a couple I'd pass on. PFT jobs, Republic, etc might not be best. Do some research on the board if you're unfamiliar, and weigh your options.

-Boo!

 

[chops]

A quick question. Do you get paid while in training?

 

[BE58 Driver]

I know pay in training is 125 dollars a week. My question is when do you start getting paid for real?

 

[PilotRon]

I know pay in training is 125 dollars a week. My question is when do you start getting paid for real?

Your pay kicks in 40 days after you start training (Seniority Date). From then on your on the payroll.

 

[ERJpusher]

Just a quick clarification...

BOS is the only base that is closing as of now. RIC is being reduced to about half.

BUF and GSO will be opening in Aug 2003.

 

[citdrver]

Thanks

Thanks folks for the info.........I will work on the spelling. I have an interview in June and want to know as much as I can before hand. It is going to be a tough decsion if I ma offered this job, but I should wait to see if they even offer me the job! Ok I am stopping now less I jinx myself............Toodles and thanks again!

 

[maddog805]

HA

My question is when do you start getting paid for real?

When you get a job somewhere else.

 

[citdrver]

When you get a job somewhere else






I like it!! That is my biggest hang up with CHQ, I can stomach a first year at 20K a year, but I need something a bit better in the second year. Two years in a row making 20-25K just isn't my idea of a good time. Maybe I'll go sell insurance.......anyone need any car insurance.......arrgh!

Take care

 

[C210drvr]

citdrvr,

First of all, I agree that you really need to learn how to spell Chautauqua before you even think about going to the interview. Second, this airline didn't just call you out of the blue. The only way to get an interview is to know someone and for them to walk your resume in. Chautauqua has somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 résumé’s on file. If it is going to be a tough decision if you get offered the job then you shouldn't even be going to the interview and wasting Rosa's time. We don't need people with attitudes like yours working here. People like you do nothing but bring morale down. I took a $15,000/year pay cut to work here and I absolutely love my job and I want to share it with people who feel the same about what they do and where they work, not people like you.

 

[StarChecker]

I have an interview next week and don't know anyone there. I've been sending resumes since December...so for the record...I really want to be there.

 

[ERJpusher]

I have to agree with C210Drvr. You obviously don't want to be a pilot that bad. Do us all a favor and stay home. Let someone who actually wants to work here have a chance. I like to work with people who love their job here, not someone who's just here for something to do. I can guarantee that the rest of the CHQ pilot group will share my sentiments.

 

[embraerdriver]

agreed...don't bother stay home citboy

 

[Krusty]

Anyone,?

If I were to upgrade now or in maybe 6 months, where would I expect to get based?


K

 

[ERJDRVR]

Fourty pilots a month being hired for now....
All cities open for upgrade.
CHM MCO & STL seem to have the most CPT upgrades right now.

 

[whosyodaddy]

I would take ALMOST any job that comes up, but there's a couple I'd pass on. PFT jobs, Republic, etc might not be best.

Don't worry about the pay for training crap. You guy's pi$$ me off! As long as you didn't pay for your training you'll be fine. Go to any airline you'ld like.

When are pilots going to pull thier heads out? This PFT stereotype is too far out of hand

 

[Krusty]

What happens to the pilots based in CMH now, and then, I guess June, all AWA flying stops. What happens to those pilots, will they just remain in that domicile and fly DAL side??

 

[ERJpusher]

Yup. AWA Express pilots in CMH just became DCI pilots in CMH

 

[Krusty]

That's good, with all the problems everywhere, and new companies within companies.

 

[citdrver]

To all the EMBAER pushers and drivers and 210 driver too,

Well boys sorry to get ya all stirred up! All I did was ask for some information, please see the beginning question, and all I got was grief about my conflict with a potential postion (I still havent interviewed) and I recieved no real answers to my questions except from ERJ DRVR, BTW thank you sir for your answers and helping me make an informed decision. To all the rest, there is precious little information out there about "CHAUTAUQUA"...(please note I have been working on my spelling). The company website mentions nothing in the way of pay and benfits, and the information I have found is from unofficial sources, so I take that info rather guardly (not sure if that is even a word). Yes I have issues with the pay, I have a mortgage and a family to feed, my wife isnt making big coin coin teaching youngsters to read and write (another isssue for a later time), so I MUST choose my moves carefully and make INFORMED decisions. If my chuckilng at the pay remark offended you guys...well I apologize, but I take issue with the low pay, and I am sure you guys do also since your out there earning it and deserving more.

We all have our own unique circumstances and goals, I would love to work for your airline, if I find out it is compatible with my circumstances and the airlines' needs. If not, well then that is why the interview process was developed, it is a two way street. My job isn't awful now, it still needs a lot to be desired, so I am not super motivated to run out the door. I am fortunate that I can be a choose my steps in the way I am. I know this could all end tommorow, and I could be begging for any job out there.

BTW, c210drvr....they did call me out of the blue...I dont know anyone there, also very honored they did that considering what you stated about the amount of resumes they have been intaking.

Well fellas I dont mean to sound arrogant or pompas....I am just another squirrel chasing a nut.......just looking for the right one.

Take Care and fly safe


A citaion pilot who has proven to many that he can misspell many other words including CHAUTAUQUA!

 

[rptrain]

I really don't understand CHQ people.

First off, let me say that I don't think CHQ provides a bad
product. I think their crews are professional and they run a
quality airline. I've commuted on them a lot.

But what is up with the "thank you sir, may I have another"
attitude over there? Citdrver is right: the pay sucks. Admit it.
Especially second year. 2nd year FO pay is by far the most
overlooked detriment to working there. Don't give me a big rant
about how the CA pay is only a little less than Airline X. The
second year FO pay is what really stings.

Every pilot I've ever talked to there goes on and on about how
great the people (management included) are there. It's one big
family, blah, blah, blah.

Here's how their CEO feels about their pilots' concerns:

Republic Airways Holdings inked a deal with Embraer
worth about $240 million for 12 ERJ145LRs slated for
US Airways Express flying by both its airline
subsidiaries.

CEO Bryan Bedford noted that even though Chautauqua
pilots reversed a rejection of the US Airways Jets For
Jobs agreement in an effort to halt the establishment
of Republic's second regional carrier Republic
Airlines, they "were a day late and a dollar short.
The door is closed and it's beyond our ability to
reopen it."

Translation: "Shucks, my bullls**t scheme for circumventing labor
has been exposed!"

CHQ may or not be the right place for someone like Citdrver to
work, but you guys need to ease up on the kool aid over there.

PS: why is the screen width of this thread all messed up?

 

[citdrver]

Thanks rptrain........this thread was feeling a bit cold! Thanks for helping a brother out!

 

[1.3XVso]

Dam you guys should become spelling teachers. I can't spell chittalka**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** either. Let me hear it boys!

 

[Freightdog75]

The width of this thread is pi$$ing me off too.

 

[Capt America]

I would venture to say that all Chautauqua pilots agree with you on the pay issues. Our current contract was signed years ago and we were all turbo props. We are in negotiations now and believe me we are not rolling over or saying thank you may I have another. A strike vote is imenint and I am very confident that is will pass overwhelmingly. We will need everyones support if we are to stop this cancer of concessions...alter egos...and fear tactics.