North American

[JJET44]

Not much. Home 4 some Turkey.

 

[johnsonrod]

What's the flying like in terms of mix of scheduled, MAC and leisure/charter flying for most newhires? What could you expect - mainly flights to Africa or Guyana initially?

In other words, can you give an example of the variety of flying most newhires will get?

 

[JJET44]

I'm not sure, I'm still it training but there's about 15-20 hard lines Africa/Guyana and other advanced notice stuff (Kuwait, Shannon etc). Not sure if this goes senior or not. About 4 short call lines and the rest is long call (24 hour notice). Once again I'm not sure what newhires can pull.
If Big Boeing is out there maybe he can help out with this one?

 

[bigboeings]

It seems as though the ACC and LOS goes pretty senior, cause the lines have 20-21 days off and 80 hrs. The rest of the scheduled stuff is anyones guess. Im not sure how the short call lines go for FO,s, but for the Cpts. they are taken by senior guys who want to stay home. Im certain that pretty quickly you could expect to be on a long call reserve. 24hr call out. They are in 10 day blocks, and can expect to get 90-100 hrs credit for the month if you are somewhat flexible. Reserve is the best deal in my opinion, the better trips and better pay. The good thing is that there are schedules that work for everybody. Hope this helps, I know everyone has their ideas what a good schedule looks like!

 

[Cloudroller]

What cell phone company are you guys using?

 

[bigboeings]

ATT works most everywhere.

 

[Cloudroller]

is anyone using Sprint

 

[bigboeings]

That is useless outside this country. It has to be a GSM carrier.

 

[Cloudroller]

not really, Sprint has the Blackberry 8830 World Phone, CDMA and GSM. The phone comes unlocked, I think that you can use what ever sim card you want.

 

[bigboeings]

That could work, most of the guys I know use ATT or Tmobile. Some change sim cards in the different countries. All I can say is give it a try.

 

[nat]

Just curious what the upgrade time is at NAA?

Thanks

 

[NAAPilot]

As of now it is around 4 years. May get slightly shorter with the AA/TWA recalls and/or any additional aircraft.

 

[Cloudroller]

Are they currently hiring?

 

[JJET44]

Are they currently hiring?

Yes!

The rumor is aprox. 1 class per month, 6-8 per class

 

[cr7driver]

How do they get around not type rating the First Officers?
Thx