Hotels paid for in training?

[Whitestoneclimb]

Anyone know which regionals pay for your hotel while in training?

 

[HughBeamont]

Colgan does, two pilots per room, plus $50/day walking-around money.

 

[ShyFlyGuy]

Colgan does, two pilots per room, plus $50/day walking-around money.

Sure is better than a kick in the teeth, isn't it? Compare that to ExpressJet's BYOYO (Boy, You're On Your Own).

Shy

 

[CFIfornow]

Mesaba does, along with min pay (75hrs/month)

 

[SkyBoy1981]

I think most companies do....Pinnacle being the exception. They are the only one that I'm aware of that doesn't cover the hotel bill.

 

[srjorion]

Comair pays for the first week and then you are on your own. ASA gives you a single occupancy room.

 

[328dude]

PSA does. 72/month guarantee + 24hrs per diem. Single Occupancy.

 

[FirstMate]

Ditto for PDT, but our per diem was half normal rate...either way, everyone got hosed on the first paycheck by roughly $200-$300...

 

[Whitestoneclimb]

Thanks for the replies. Yeah, it sure is unconsconable in this day and age that, not only do they pay you next to nothing the first year, you have to pay for the fricken hotel to.

 

[rattler]

Sure is better than a kick in the teeth, isn't it? Compare that to ExpressJet's BYOYO (Boy, You're On Your Own).

Shy

What are you talking about? X-Jet does pay for your hotel room, and a small piece of per diem too.

 

[Whitestoneclimb]

Yeah, it seems that either they pay for your hotel but don't put you on the payroll until after IOE, or don't pay for the hotel but start your measly pay. Either way, your on food stamps.

 

[Paul R. Smith]

Sure is better than a kick in the teeth, isn't it? Compare that to ExpressJet's BYOYO (Boy, You're On Your Own).

Shy

The last time eXpressJeT made you pay for a hotel room was in the mid to late 90s when we were still IACP, and still a wholly owned part of Continental and we were not even called expressjet. Things change man.

 

[labbats]

Air Wisconsin does.

Eagle does.

Skywest doesn't.

Great Lakes doesn't.

 

[uba757]

Comair does not but you can get a nice c-pad in CVG for between $150 and $180 a month depending if you hold a line or not, You get $240 a week during Training. Uba757

 

[English]

Colgan does, two pilots per room, plus $50/day walking-around money.

Even for the street captains?

When I went through I had my own room. I think the street captains get single occupancy rooms.

 

[uba757]

Comair will pay the first 7 days of initial. Uba757

 

[flyguy81]

Had a buddy go through Great Lakes training a couple months ago and he wasn't paid during training but they picked up his hotel, double occupancy, but he said his roommate had to leave halfway through training due to family reasons. Mesa doesn't pay for hotel, but you get your guarantee from day 1, they have rooms reserved for $35/day so split is $17.50 a day...not too bad.

 

[flighttime]

what about chq

 

[flyguy81]

I think they provide hotel but you only get like $125 a month in pay until you've been there so long. Not real sure, haven't talked to anyone from CHQ in awhile.

 

[bobbyice]

Air Wisconsin does.

Eagle does.

Skywest doesn't.

Great Lakes doesn't.

SkyWest does. No pay until IOE though.

 

[FirstMate]

A rhetorical question, but how can anyone survive if they are not receiving a paycheck during training and have little or no savings once training commences? Not to mention having to pay for a hotel room, food, and cold beverages...

 

[RAV152]

CHQ Room and Board

CHQ pays for the hotel from day one through training in dbl occupancy. Usually you're paired with your sim partner after Indoc when you go to FSI.

$125.00 per week for the first four weeks (if I remember correctly) and Gty after that - no per diem.

 

[TheRaven]

Eagle covers the hotel room, 64 hrs a month of first year pay during initial training, and $1.55 an hr per diem for 16 hrs a day while in training (they don't pay you while you are in class for 8 hrs a day....strange but true). New Contract amendmant permits double occupancy during Indoc and systems, but I think it goes to single occupancy for sim training.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

XJT gives you a room (double occupancy) and a lump check for just under $1500 that has to last until your FOPC (just under 2 months usually). After that you're on the payroll.

 

[millhouse21]

Trans States pays a 60 hour guarantee ($21.75/hr) in training. No hotel or per diem unless you get sent out of STL for some reason.

 

[UnstableAviator]

Chautauqua does. Double occupancy, then $125 a week in per diem until your 30th day when min pay begins.

 

[falcon20driver]

A rhetorical question, but how can anyone survive if they are not receiving a paycheck during training and have little or no savings once training commences? Not to mention having to pay for a hotel room, food, and cold beverages...

Hell, I'd go to Pinnacal if they would at least pick up the tab for the hotel, I don't know WTF their deal is, no pay or hotel for the first 3 months and they wonder why they don't have enough experienced Capt's.

 

[DashTrash400]

several months pay + several months of hotel =~$8000 cost. Wow, it's almost cheaper to do PFT with Gulfstream than train at Pinnacle...

Hehe, sorry Peanucklers, just kiddin with ya.

 

[ShyFlyGuy]

The last time eXpressJeT made you pay for a hotel room was in the mid to late 90s when we were still IACP, and still a wholly owned part of Continental and we were not even called expressjet. Things change man.

Wow, don't I feel like a jacka$$. I guess I'll just have to stick to the things I know from here on out: very little.

Shy

 

[cathal]

Pinnacle's, and everyone else's, reason for not picking up hotel bill is pilots don't make them.
The pilots that are there don't negotiate it, and they still get applicants out the ying-yang who don't mind the screwing.
Who's to blame?