CHQ Hiring?

[EMBPILOT1]

The ego's at the regionals is amazing. While you my fly for a "major" by DOT definition, the things that REALLY matter, pay, retirement, QOL are definately still regional and always will be.

What QOL? What retirement? What pay? Wake up my friend, ALL those things are going if not gone at ALL the majors. I'm not for regionals getting larger planes, but the majors(legacy) carriers created this problem and mainline pilots went along with it. Now everyone is paying the price.

 

[W8N4UAL]

Here's a first from a pilot:

I am the problem with the industry. I took my legacy-furloughed kiester and accepted a position at CHQ. Okay, so maybe I'm not the problem, but the overall supply/demand equation for airline pilots is not in our favor. A desireable career has become attainable to loads of people and the resulting market will determine what the pay rates/benefits will be. Unions can slow the work of the market and demand that those in management do what they said they would do even when it's no longer convenient, but even that has limits based on how severe the crisis is at the specific company.

Eventually, the market will settle on what a pilot is worth. We are free to take our talented selves to other industries that may reward our skill sets better. Until some of us do or there is a massive increase in demand for pilots we will continue to struggle to win gains in all the areas posted about previously.

The very first time management came to a legacy pilot group and said "we'd like to sell tickets on airplanes not flown by you, but you'll get..." and the group bit was a huge turning point. We put our hope in scope and allowed inter-airline competition for flying and ever since it has been a battle to keep flying from shifting to regionals/code shares. Scope has failed.

W8N

 

[fly5boy7]

That might be the best post I have ever read regarding the industry.

W8N4UAL is dead-on. You took the words right out of my mouth.

I am furloughed from another regional currently at the RJET joint myself.

Very nice post.

 

[BoilerUP]

Ual

DH is that you?

 

[W8N4UAL]

Indeed, it is I.

DH

aka

W8N4UAL

 

[saviboy]

[. Okay, so maybe I'm not the problem, but the overall supply/demand equation for airline pilots is not in our favor. A desireable career has become attainable to loads of people and the resulting market will determine what the pay rates/benefits will be.


How about raising the level of difficulty of the training? Is it normal that someone can take a one day crash course for the ATP written?
There needs to be a means of selecting poeple for the airline postions.
Currently, it is flight time, that most poeple acquire through instruction.
Perhaps the FAA should make the written exams requirements a little tougher and there would be less poeple in competition.

 

[miles otoole]

[. Okay, so maybe I'm not the problem, but the overall supply/demand equation for airline pilots is not in our favor. A desireable career has become attainable to loads of people and the resulting market will determine what the pay rates/benefits will be.


How about raising the level of difficulty of the training? Is it normal that someone can take a one day crash course for the ATP written?
There needs to be a means of selecting poeple for the airline postions.
Currently, it is flight time, that most poeple acquire through instruction.
Perhaps the FAA should make the written exams requirements a little tougher and there would be less poeple in competition.

After reading your post, I believe the government should make it more difficult for people to procreate.

 

[Mav204]

How long are some of you guys swimming in the pool?

 

[snap145]

i interviewed middle of Aug....got my good letter nine days later....got a call for a Sept 22. class 9 days after that...they cancelled the class a week before it was supposed to start for a million reasons...ive been swimming ever since...things should start to move again soon..i hope....there are talks of a january 145 class and who knows after that...not even sure how many peeps are in the pool total....once travel picks up again and delta gets their CH11 stuff sorted out i think itll pick back up again...just in a little slump right now