Pinnacle class on Friday needs pilots...

[atpcliff]

Hi!

I interviewed there last year.

In training, they don't pay you, they don't pay for any housing, they don't pay perdiem, AND, even though they are 100% owned by NWA, you are not allowed to jumpseat anywhere until you are done with your training.

However, if you were an off-the-street captain, you will be paid in training and have housing paid for. Pinnacle is to be spun off and sold (like Continental Express) sometime soon.

When I was interviewed, I was told the CRJ failure rate was at about 50%.

A guy from my airline was at AirInc this past weekend and said they did hire 5 guys from the conference to fill this upcoming July class. They are getting a lot of CRJs and upgrade is relatively quick.

Cliff
GRB

 

[dondk]

Yes.. as a N/H FO your are 100% on your own. The only passes you get are the ones from home to class, if you flunk, your taking Greyhound home!
Although they would occassionally give you a pass to get home if there was sufficient time between class and sim or something else. No JS, no pass benefits until passing the checkride.

As for the N/H Captains, that program was stopped sometime in July, a few N/H captains got screwed on the pay but they did get the hotel paid for. If you were a MX, you got hotel, pay, rental car. If you were a FA, you got pay and hotel, but a FO you got screwed....

Our IPO is becoming "doubtful", it seems NWA does not want to take a bath like COEX did in this poor stock market. I would not count on us being spun off anytime soon!

Last I heard through training (about 6 weeks ago) we were still at 25-30% washout rate in the sim, that number has been relatively constant for the year I have been there..

83 CRJ's by April '04... Upgrade quick? maybe up to 2 months ago a guy could do it in less than a year, but they already had some serious time before coming to us. I would speculate we will top 2 years by the end of this year and probably move into the 3 year mark sometime next year. Unless we get alot more CRJ's, or nationals, fractionals, and majors start hiring.

We have about 40 jets on the property and 550 pilots on the line, a good 60 or more Captains are sitting reserve and about 30 FO's are sitting reserve and those number increase monthly. We train more per month than we need in the aircraft we get and that is with the failure rate we have!

We are not known for our planning!

 

[Wowjack]

Hoop Dream

Wow...and I thought just maybe there would be some light at the end of the tunnel.