Hot AIR News Headline: Comair is Hiring

[Anaconda]

WHY anyone would want to work here at a time like this is beyond me...

Comair is hiring pilots and needs to fill immediate and future class vacancies with qualified applicants. Pilot minimums include: 1,200 TT, 200 ME, COMM/INST/ME, ATP written, valid passport, Class I medical, and high school diploma or GED. Applicants who do not meet the minimums are still encouraged to apply. Visit their Web site at www.comair.com for further information or apply online at www.airlineapps.com/transition/45/pilots.asp.

 

[saviboy]

does it beat instructing or unemployment?

WHY anyone would want to work here at a time like this is beyond me...

Comair is hiring pilots and needs to fill immediate and future class vacancies with qualified applicants. Pilot minimums include: 1,200 TT, 200 ME, COMM/INST/ME, ATP written, valid passport, Class I medical, and high school diploma or GED. Applicants who do not meet the minimums are still encouraged to apply. Visit their Web site at www.comair.com for further information or apply online at www.airlineapps.com/transition/45/pilots.asp.

 

[Anaconda]

wow, only one post before someone said that. original reply. ask some of the junior pilots and they might tell you no.

and fyi, when i was fired during the strike of 2001, i actually did make more on unemployment than when i was on reserve after the strike.

 

[Broke in CVG]

ask the new hires that just had their June classes canceled. I hope they hadn't given up their current jobs yet.

 

[Demboyz06]

Have the recent newhires been getting JFK or CVG?

 

[standaman]

Have the recent newhires been getting JFK or CVG?

We have not had any new hire pilots since October 2005. Training for a couple of new hire classes begins in a week (June 26 I think). Better to ask that question after that time.

 

[DrewBlows]

ask some of the junior pilots and they might tell you no.

I was unemployed and instructing for the first three months of the year, and I can honostly say that flying for Comair is better. My schedule sucks, but I'm flying a lot (which I want). When life gives you lemons make lemonade.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

I made $35 an hour as an instructor and worked my own schedule. Although I am quite content where I work now, there were times when my last jet gig made being a CFI look attractive again.

 

[Anaconda]

I was unemployed and instructing for the first three months of the year, and I can honostly say that flying for Comair is better. My schedule sucks, but I'm flying a lot (which I want). When life gives you lemons make lemonade.

That's all good but would you recommend that your flight instructing friends come work here knowing what you know now?

"Flying a lot" isn't everything...

 

[DrewBlows]

That's all good but would you recommend that your flight instructing friends come work here knowing what you know now?

"Flying a lot" isn't everything...

Of course I wouldn't recommend that my flight instructor friends come here, but for that matter I wouldn't recommend any regional to my flight instructor friends (well maybe Horizon). That doesn't mean that Comair isn't better than unemployment or flight instructing (would you do either?). You made a blanket statement that junior pilots (which I am) would say that flight instructing and unemployment was bettter. I'm telling you that I am a junior pilot, I have been unemployed, I have flight instructed (recently), and Comair is better.

I also understand that flying a lot isn't everything, but since my fellow "brothers" found it necessary to vote me a very large pay cut while I was "unemployed and flight instructing" I now find it necessary to find a better job, and since I am fairly low time, "flying a lot" is a pretty good thing. Not to mention that I am still making a fairly good living until my "brothers" decide to vote me another pay cut.

 

[Anaconda]

You made a blanket statement that junior pilots (which I am) would say that flight instructing and unemployment was bettter.

That wasn't what I said. I said to "ask" some junior pilots and they might tell you it was better. I wasn't putting words into anyones mouth. I know some and they feel that the quality of life at Comair is not worth holding onto and they have moved on to other things. Apparently that is what you are trying to do as well and I wish you luck.

 

[Broke in CVG]

We have not had any new hire pilots since October 2005. Training for a couple of new hire classes begins in a week (June 26 I think). Better to ask that question after that time.

June 26 class was canceled. All future classes on hold.

 

[DrewBlows]

June 26 class was canceled. All future classes on hold.

Source?

 

[Anaconda]

I heard it from a source within the union leadership. Also, all references to future hiring have been removed from EPIC or so I've heard (our employee website for those of you that don't work here). You many have seen the info on there on how to refer someone. I hear now the CP is saying it is a false rumor so take it all for what it's worth...

 

[Anaconda]

I found this on the "You know you are a regional FO..." thread and it reminded me of this discussion...

You actually looked forward to furlough because unemployment was an income increase and it meant you could spend more than 4 nights a month with your wife.

The captain tells you "don't worry I'm sure after the concessions are approved you'll be recalled right away" and you respond "How, I can't afford a telephone as it is".

 

[imacdog]

I heard it from a source within the union leadership. Also, all references to future hiring have been removed from EPIC or so I've heard (our employee website for those of you that don't work here). You many have seen the info on there on how to refer someone. I hear now the CP is saying it is a false rumor so take it all for what it's worth...

Yep, you used the phrase "I've heard..." three times in one paragraph. I wouldn't really consider that a "source".

 

[Anaconda]

Someone that I spoke to from the MEC personally isn't a source? The CP office isn't a source? Do I need to speak to Don Bornhorst directly to please you? I'll edit out the "I've heard" phrases if it makes you feel better. BTW, there are more rumors about this on the ALPA board.

 

[standaman]

Someone that I spoke to from the MEC personally isn't a source? The CP office isn't a source? Do I need to speak to Don Bornhorst directly to please you? I'll edit out the "I've heard" phrases if it makes you feel better. BTW, there are more rumors about this on the ALPA board.

As of 7:26pm on 06-22-2006.

I have spoken to a person in that class and I can tell you it is still on. Is this a good enough of a source. I almost gave the guy a heart attack.