Horizon

[91100 100 set]

Yeah, just don't answer your phone. My company blocks the caller ID (as I'm sure most others do) when they call. They only have my cell number, and when they call, they are the only ones that ever show up as "unavalible" on the phone, so they have their own "caller ID" when they call me. Works just fine, and in 4 1/2 years, I have never once been junior manned. Now if they get you while you are on duty with a message on the release (FO call crew scheduling, etc), that might be a different story. However, I have occasionally used the defense that a change to my schedule is not of an operational nature for that particular flight, and there is no business for a message of that nature to be on the flight release. Thats a shaky argument though, and if you're lucky (and off probation) you might be able to bully a new scheduler out of it (it has only worked once for me, probably never again)...

 

[Southbound]

I would have to agree with what qxpilot is saying about QX. It is not the end all regional airline. It is better than most, worse than a few but a great place to get your foot in the door I suppose. Send a resume to

Horizon Air Flight Ops
Attn: LaMar Haugaard (that is the correct spelling)
8070 NE Airtrans Way
Portland, OR 97218

As with any company, always better to have your amigo working here walk in your resume, or to have claimed residency in Grand Forks, ND for 4 yrs sometime in the past. LaMar is an alum.

Starting pay is around 25k/yr I believe.

 

[rgnlwannabe]

Horizon is not that bad of a place to work. I have never had to work on my day off, except for that last winter storm we had when PDX was closed for 2 days, and I was stuck at an outstation. The only thing that is bad about it is the upgrade, and the schedules need to get better. But the F/O pay is good, the equipment is great, and I love the pacific northwest. I have a feeling that qxpilot would complain no matter where he/she showed up to work. Horizon is not as bad as qxpilot says it is (part of the 10% that just can't be happy), but it is not as rosy as the new hire going to Denver says either, but not too far off.

As far as getting an interview, I have no idea what the trick is. Just send it in, you may get lucky. And ofcourse, if you are a UND grad, you have a very good chance of getting an invterview.