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Since everyone always has questions here is some info on 9E
I have flown with 1 other regional (which many people consider the best) and a cargo gig besides pinnacle and I can say that Pinnacle has the most professional pilots out of all 3 of them. The airline grew so fast that it was tough to keep up for awhile, and crews had to pay the price for that. Now that things have settled down, this really is a good place to work. Sure it has its problems, but what regional doesn't. We are all one day away from being furloughed.
Here are some things i have noticed
1. Reserve is different here than other places, you will fly a lot. Reserve sucks, but depending on what base you get, you wont sit long. DTW is the fastest.
2. Once you get off reserve, quality of life goes up a lot. In all my time here, I have never been junior manned, only been extended once. If you treat the schedulers good, they will do the same.
3. Lines vary, sometimes they are awesome (may), sometimes they suck (april). Living in base helps out a lot with that.
4. There has been talk of management having a fire first ask later policy, but from the instances where i have seen people getting fired, most of them were just trying to get out of work. One example, sitting reserve at your house which is 2 time zones away from your base, and then getting called for a trip.
5. Pay for F/O's - you should expect to make around 24 first year and 28-29 second year. There is a new payscale in the works which will give F/o's a raise.
6. the rfp - Who knows, nothing will happen until NWA settles their stuff, but we are a profitable airline, we are not going to just go away.
A little word about Gulfstream and Riddle guys who were hired with low time.
I have met a lot of them, they all seem professional. It takes 3000 hours to upgrade here, so people hired with that low time are spending 3 years learning in the right seat before they can even think about upgrading, so they learn the plane very well. I will admit that I would rather people hired with higher times, but these guys are fine.
I have flown with 1 other regional (which many people consider the best) and a cargo gig besides pinnacle and I can say that Pinnacle has the most professional pilots out of all 3 of them. The airline grew so fast that it was tough to keep up for awhile, and crews had to pay the price for that. Now that things have settled down, this really is a good place to work. Sure it has its problems, but what regional doesn't. We are all one day away from being furloughed.
Here are some things i have noticed
1. Reserve is different here than other places, you will fly a lot. Reserve sucks, but depending on what base you get, you wont sit long. DTW is the fastest.
2. Once you get off reserve, quality of life goes up a lot. In all my time here, I have never been junior manned, only been extended once. If you treat the schedulers good, they will do the same.
3. Lines vary, sometimes they are awesome (may), sometimes they suck (april). Living in base helps out a lot with that.
4. There has been talk of management having a fire first ask later policy, but from the instances where i have seen people getting fired, most of them were just trying to get out of work. One example, sitting reserve at your house which is 2 time zones away from your base, and then getting called for a trip.
5. Pay for F/O's - you should expect to make around 24 first year and 28-29 second year. There is a new payscale in the works which will give F/o's a raise.
6. the rfp - Who knows, nothing will happen until NWA settles their stuff, but we are a profitable airline, we are not going to just go away.
A little word about Gulfstream and Riddle guys who were hired with low time.
I have met a lot of them, they all seem professional. It takes 3000 hours to upgrade here, so people hired with that low time are spending 3 years learning in the right seat before they can even think about upgrading, so they learn the plane very well. I will admit that I would rather people hired with higher times, but these guys are fine.
