Comair Newhire!

[prodigal]

I just got the letter yesterday with the good news!
The hard work and persistence has finally paid off. I want to thank all the guys (and gals?) who offered me information about Comair in my preparation for the interview. I am very grateful to have this opportunity.
To all of you who are trying to get on somewhere all I can say is "never, never, never, never give up." Good luck to all.
Cheers!

 

[V-1]

Congratulations!

 

[skyjocque]

Congrats,
I hope to join you soon.

 

[PositiveRate]

Welcome aboard! You're going to love it here.

 

[tubelo]

Congrats! Maybe I'll see you in training. When did you interview? They told me October when I interveiwed in July.

tubelo

 

[prodigal]

tubelo

Thanks, everyone.
I interviewed last week and they told us likely class date in October. Can't wait! Anyone know what Cincinnati is like? I've never resided above the Mason-Dixon line

 

[DDpaysoff]

Congratulations

I am sure you will enjoy your time at Comair. You struck gold in this job market, brother/sister.
What part of the south are you coming from?

 

[prodigal]

Gold, indeed!
I live just outside CLT.

 

[DDpaysoff]

Cincinatti:

Well, I don't live there but I am not going to dog the place. It really is pretty nice. Cost of living is low, people are friendly, traffic is not bad at all and everything is pretty convenient. Beats the heck out of other places I have been based.

CVG is a very small place. I commute and I have met some great freinds up there that I will stay in touch w/ forever. In one way or another CVG is a place where everybody knows everybody type of thing. You get a hotel the first week. And I would say it is absolutely necessary to have a car there for your first year and at least a crashpad if you commute. You can find a great crashpad for around 150.00.

If you need some leads on housing or crashpads, PM me I have some numbers for you depending on what you are looking for.

From the day you walk on the property you have a lot of people looking out for you and you become part of a great group that have done a lot of things for the industry, regardless of what you hear on message boards.

This is a great place to get on a plane, come to work, work, get on a plane and go home, and not have to deal w/ any crap. The paycheck shows up on time, every time and it is not bad at all after first year. If you are one of those people who likes to "get involved", there is room for you as well.

Once again, congratulations, good luck and I will see you soon

 

[Flash 7]

Welcome Aboard!!

I have to say I came here about a year ago from Eagle.

This place is absolutely Awesome!!!!!!

All the Chief pilots bend over backward to help or accomodate you if you would need it.

I commute from San Diego and never have a problem.
The pilot group is extremely cohesive unlike any I have seen.

We have great Schedules once your off reserve.

The contract is excellent, sure anything could be better but we have major airline work rules and a pretty good B fund / 401k retirement.

We're also the highest paid RJ pilots in the industry.

PM me if you have any questions.

 

[prodigal]

You guys are awesome. I'm already loving it!

 

[FurloughedAgain]

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

After being furloughed (again) by a major airline in 2002 I was starting to feel pretty beat-down and frustrated with the airline industry. Jobs were (and still are) few and far between and Kit Darby's AirInc seminars were far more depressing to me than inspirational.

After all, there were literally hundreds of blue-suit/red-ties with extraordinarily impressive qualifications at those seminars.

I was ready to pack up flying for good and go back to school to seek a new career when a friend of mine (also furloughed) suggested that I take a look at Comair.

Comair was, for me, a dream come true!

My good fortune started with an interview late last summer. I still feel overjoyed to come to work even now a year later! This company is amazing. I have had the privilege to work with some of the finest, most professional, most cohesive employee groups I have experienced in my career. I am amazed almost daily by the relationships between the employees and the company. I honestly feel like a valued member of a team.

The contract is stellar. There are little lifestyle perks in that agreement which are far superior to anything we had at the major airline I worked for over the last three years. My lone complaint would be first-year pay. After that, however, the salary is certainly reasonable. (thanks to the Comair pilots who worked so hard to attain that contract for the rest of us)

My class included 4 other furloughed major airline pilots, 2 Captains from other regionals, 2 F/Os from other regionals, 2 corporate pilots, 2 military pilots and 3 Comair academy graduates. Experience in the class ranged from 1500 hrs TT to over 9000 hrs TT.

I intend to stay here at Comair (hopefully!) for the duration of my career. While I certainly miss the paycheck that I enjoyed in the majors I actually enjoy the JOB far more here at Comair.

I wish you a long and prosperous career and my sincere congratulations.

I think that especially post 09/11 the vast majority of newhires are looking at Comair as a career carrier -- not a stepping stone. & I for one couldn't agree more!

 

[jarhead]

prodigal

While the city of Cincinnati is a vibrant and interesting city, so is the general area known as "Northern Kentucky" An awful lot of Comair and Delta pilots live and/or crash pad there, vs. across the Ohio river, in Cincinnati. It is, in my opinion, much more convenient to live in one of the dozen or so towns in Northern Kentucky, as the Airport is in the state of Kentucky, and I have found that the traffic crossing the bridges over the river can be very heavy. There are lots of nice living accomodations, close to the airport in Kentucky, and also a vibrant retail, comercial, and entertainment venues in Northern Ky. Just one man's opinion.

I find the people in Northern Kentucky to be very friendly, and "southern" in talk and attitude. Nice people is what I am trying to say.

 

[Anaconda]

Re: Congratulations!

I am amazed almost daily by the relationships between the employees and the company. I honestly feel like a valued member of a team.

The contract is stellar.

dude, are you SURE you work at comair?

i know of a lot of poeple that would disagree with you on those statements (i'm not saying i'm one of them, however)

 

[prodigal]

Thanks!

FurloughedAgain & Jarhead,
Thank you very much for your thoughtful replies. It sounds too good to be true & I can't wait to get up there and get started.

 

[WrightAvia]

A few years ago around the campfire, a skydiving friend of mine told me about a wedding invitation he got from an old highschool chum, that had gone off to be a commercial pilot and wound up at Comair. He said it was unbelievable, that his friend at Comair was marrying this other guy and was quiting his airline job to move to Canada, to open up a bed and breakfast.

Stellar, I said.

(True story)

 

[marqmarq]

Comair

I think you are thinking of a Northern Exposure episode... that was Cicely, Alaska, not Canada.... and I think they were architects, not pilots... either way, its nice that folks found something that made them happy and they followed up on.

 

[WrightAvia]

No marq, it's a true story. You can look up a dude in Appleton WI, named Jay Langford. Ask him about his buddy that sent him the invitation to his same sex marriage, that was quiting Comair to move to Canada to open a bed and breakfast. In fact, I think Jay actually went to the wedding.

For a while after that, as I would drive to the drop zone on saturdays to go skydive, I could never think of the Harry Chapin song the same...

"You see she was going to be an actress and I was going to learn to fly.
She took off for the footlights and I married another guy."

 

[marqmarq]

WrightAvia,

With that much evidence, it must be true! You know, some have called me crazy for flying skydivers, some have called you crazy for jumpin' and this couple probably gets a little attention for being 'non-conformist'. As long as I can fly, you can jump and they can..... be happy, it's all good! Plus it opened a slot for me at Comair, and I really need the job!

 

[DDpaysoff]

Kind of like that Eagle flow through, Josslyn, who had a sex change after flowing through to AA. Must have been a great start to the whole flow through thing. LOL. Let's face it, there are definately some alternative lifestyles out there. They sure do seem to find the airline industry, don't they?

 

[DDpaysoff]

Not, that there is anything wrong with that, of course.

 

[marqmarq]

?

I agree with DD, I think our industry of primarily conservative, white men can use a little "color", if for nothing else, it gives us something to talk about after the 3rd day....

 

[Looking4Traffic]

B&B in Canada

I think that I recently met the Captain you're referring to at Comair. He's still flying and the B&B has apparently been very successful.