Continental Hiring Plans

[enigma]

What's the chance of a newhire getting Houston?

Thanks,
enigma

 

[LJDRVR]

Pretty slim to impossible from what I understand. The EWR commute's not too bad a deal, though.

 

[Lear70]

What are the GUM schedules like? As a 1st year can you bid to work the equivalent of two weeks on then get 7-10 days off? (3-4 days on, two days off, 3-4 days on, 7-10 off)?

If you could, even being married and commuting would be perfectly doable, especially for someone coming from a regional used to only 12 or 13 days off a month anyway.

Additionally, does anyone ship their food in? Every year we take a vacation to somewhere very remote for 7-10 days and when we do I usually package up a bunch of dry goods (pastas, sauce mixes, mac anc cheese for the kid, cereal, snacks) and ship them over FedEx with my discount. Usually costs about $100 in groceries and $40-50 in shipping but saves us $300 to $500 for the week in buying stuff there or eating out. Would imagine it would be even more if you bought stuff at Sam's and shipped it over... (Yeah I know, I'm a cheap bast*rd).

GUM sounds fantastic; I LOVE the ocean and would gladly "jump on the grenade" for my fellow classmates.

 

[English]

Why are you looking English? Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.

Funny.

No, a friend of mine's ex-wife was "supposedly" a mail order bride (about two weeks after their divorve became final) for a guy that is there doing research on the effects of the brown tree snake on indigeneous birds. It was a funny story and I was just trying to get independent verification that stuff like that really happens.

She wasn't a nice person, so it couldn't have happened to a nicer person!

 

[Falconjet]

"Funny"

Are you kidding me, that was TBS funny!

FJ

 

[Boeingman]

Funny.

No, a friend of mine's ex-wife was "supposedly" a mail order bride (about two weeks after their divorve became final) for a guy that is there doing research on the effects of the brown tree snake on indigeneous birds. It was a funny story and I was just trying to get independent verification that stuff like that really happens.

She wasn't a nice person, so it couldn't have happened to a nicer person!

Yes, it happens, that is true.

 

[Boeingman]

What are the GUM schedules like? As a 1st year can you bid to work the equivalent of two weeks on then get 7-10 days off? (3-4 days on, two days off, 3-4 days on, 7-10 off)?

If you could, even being married and commuting would be perfectly doable, especially for someone coming from a regional used to only 12 or 13 days off a month anyway.

Additionally, does anyone ship their food in? Every year we take a vacation to somewhere very remote for 7-10 days and when we do I usually package up a bunch of dry goods (pastas, sauce mixes, mac anc cheese for the kid, cereal, snacks) and ship them over FedEx with my discount. Usually costs about $100 in groceries and $40-50 in shipping but saves us $300 to $500 for the week in buying stuff there or eating out. Would imagine it would be even more if you bought stuff at Sam's and shipped it over... (Yeah I know, I'm a cheap bast*rd).

GUM sounds fantastic; I LOVE the ocean and would gladly "jump on the grenade" for my fellow classmates.

The schedules from what I have heard are productive and varied. There are 7 or 8 cities served in Japan, plus other destinations. They had a couple evening trips to Narita and Nagoya but the others left early in the AM and got back in the afternoon.

Plan on doing a lot of night flying since the non Japan stuff the aircraft flows to the other destinations. All very productive, some trips are blocked over 10 hours with an IRO.

Then there is the Island hopper. 16+ hour duty day.

They used to build the reserve lines in large blocks so you can escape to the mainland. The flying itself is the best in the system if you can tolerate the lifestyle and commute.

I am not sure about the food issue. The food isn't bad on the island, just a little different and expensive.

The commute is a choice (obviously). It is not an easy commute. I don't care what anyone says. BTDT.

There are always guys from GUM in the schoolhouse. You can get much better info from these guys during training. I do not know how the initial assignements are bid on though.

 

[Boeingman]

Pretty slim to impossible from what I understand. The EWR commute's not too bad a deal, though.

THE EWR IAH commute is hit or miss. There are plenty of options though to get back and forth.

 

[Boeingman]

What's the chance of a newhire getting Houston?

Thanks,
enigma

Right now, I don't think it would be to bad. When the bid closes next week I can give you a better idea of vacancies left over. Remind me I'll let you know.

 

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psysicx:

are you retarded? seriously......

dude, I commute from the U.S. to HKG. it's the mother of all commute, but it works.

 

[SlapShot]

Lear70 - I think the island hopper is similar to the same route EOI had that led to the crash.

On another note, I would be happier then a pig in $hit to sit reserve in EWR.

 

[Cardinal]

FOM, Section 5, Page 11
"The necktie may be removed while at the destinations of JON, MAJ, KWA, KSA, PNI, TKK, YAP, SPN, and ROR"

 

[Z_Pilot]

FOM, Section 5, Page 11
"The necktie may be removed while at the destinations of JON, MAJ, KWA, KSA, PNI, TKK, YAP, SPN, and ROR"

Wow....icing on the cake!

 

[Lear70]

Lear70 - I think the island hopper is similar to the same route EOI had that led to the crash.

On another note, I would be happier then a pig in $hit to sit reserve in EWR.

You and me both...

Yeah, I have pictures of that Ponapei aircraft when the sun came up; really sucks but both the F/O and F/E have decent regional flying jobs now (if there is such an animal).

That route was cake from what I understand - it went pretty senior pretty fast and I sure wouldn't mind flying it under CAL colors!

 

[GuinessGuy]

Hey SlapShot, me too. TTN was nice, but CAL and EWR would be acceptable...

 

[Guam360]

you guys are killing me, I understand that if you haven't been there , yes could be misunderstood.

There is an Outback steakhouse there, ok I will make a list:

Costuless, at bulk item place
Costco
Kmart
wendy's
MacD's
BK
Hard Rock Cafe
Fridays'
Hilton
Westin
Hyatt
Mercedes
BMW
etc.

I haven't been home in 5 years ,but we are talking about America here, this has been ours since 1896 or so?
mail order brides????? this happens here in the mainland, so what's the difference?
The whole island is Typoon proof, everything is concrete block, the only thing that blows away are corrigated tin shcks in the south and tin roofs, which are cheap and replaceable for some locals.

I rented on the beach, three bedroom for $900 five years ago, it was old and small but less than 5 min walk to the beach.(Tumon Beach).
back in the days of Barney's Beach house, where the drunk get drunker and play volley ball.

I have my hand raised high for this one, a dream come true for me.

Good luck to all!!!!!

 

[poor2thecore]

How productive are the trips for a farily junior IAH 737 FO, and IAH 757/767 FO? Also, has anyone gotten a 757/767 FO slot out of training? Or is that a not a chance type of deal?

 

[Cardinal]

Back in the day there were some 756 newhires.

 

[cforst513]

where do you guys fly to from guam? what are all the destinations (or is there just one?!)

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

back in the days of Barney's Beach house, where the drunk get drunker and play volley ball.

Barney's was awesome. That was my favorite hangout when it was open.

 

[Guam360]

yea,
"coconut olympics", I never threw any of those coconuts around, I was always too drunk, besides i was swimming or eating. It was definetly a Diver/ EOD hangout. We killed alot of time down there.

 

[Z_Pilot]

Back to Guam....

I found a pretty good link about living there:

http://www.heptune.com/guam.html

...and here is some real estate:
(houses are not pretty, concrete for typhoons)

http://www.todaysrealty.net/home/new/http://http://www.todaysrealty.net/home/new/