PSA Pay, etc.

[Flyjets]

What is the current new hire pay rates/guarantee? Has there been anything established on the RJ's yet? How are the work rules and company overall?

Thanks!

 

[DorkProp]

I posted the pay rates for the Dornier and CRJ not too long ago. You'll find them if you do a search. Guarantee for reserve is 72 hours, line-holders 75 hours.

First pilot class for the CRJ is 9/22, with one class per week for the forseeable future.

 

[Flyjets]

I posted the pay rates for the Dornier and CRJ not too long ago. You'll find them if you do a search. Guarantee for reserve is 72 hours, line-holders 75 hours.

First pilot class for the CRJ is 9/22, with one class per week for the forseeable future.

Thanks. I'll do the search. How do you like the company overall? You can send it private if you need to.

 

[328dude]

Uh Oh, that's a loaded question.

Dorkprop, go for it!!!!

 

[mullet]

On reserve youre are treated like a rented mule. Sat reserve for close to 2 years and was called in every reserve day except 10-15 days over that period. (Captains took the brunt of the punishment) During those trips had your scheduled changed constantly. Sometimes get 17 changes over a 4 day. Deadheaded constantly, 39 times in one month was my record. Mostly due to poor scheduling.I heard reserve has got better, I've held a build-up the past two months, but back on reserve tomorrow. **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**... If you hold a line its a whole different world and not so bad.
good luck

 

[DorkProp]

Reserve was pretty crappy right after I upgraded. It seems it has gotten better lately, maybe partly due to the fact that I'm based back in CAK now. I rarely fly the right seat anymore, and there were five reserve days in August where I wasn't used at all. I think it's worse in PIT. It's definitely worse in Dayton, probably because the reserve pilots are so much more versatile there, able to be deadheaded to PIT, PHL, CLT, or DCA. From CAK it's only to PIT, or possibly CLT, but there's only one flight a day now.

Quality of life and satisfaction is what you make of it. There are tons of guys who are chronically PO'd and hate their life at PSA. I, on the other hand, am glad to have a job, glad to finally be making enough money to be comfortable, and glad I'm not stuck behind a desk all day. I enjoy my job for the most part. There are days that I think will never end, but other days where everything goes perfectly and I get to the hotel (or home) feeling good about life.

Not that I'm a "I'm happy, you're happy," kind of guy. Here are some things that really bug me about PSA: 1. They have paid me incorrectly on about 80% of my paychecks. I grow tired of having to research my paycheck and fill out paper-work for every last penny that's owed to me every month. 2. We as pilots work our tails off every day but never get any kind of "atta boy" from the company. I may solve twenty mini-crises during a day, from over-loading, or CG problems, being over-fueled, dealing with the FA's complaints about catering, etc., avoiding costly diversions by some quick thinking and creative decision-making when weather goes sour or things break; and through all those little crises, I still manage to get every flight out on time that day. But instead of any thanks for all our hard work, we only hear constantly how poor our performance is and about all the rules we're not following properly, or that mainline pilots are upset that some of us aren't wearing our hats. 3. Management here seems to make rash and hasty decisions when it comes to furloughs. The furloughs following 9/11 were unnecessary and probably costed the company more than they saved. The furloughs last summer caused a pilot shortage that destroyed the morale of the captains who had to pick up all the slack, and probably cost the company tons of money due to canceled flights. And the furloughs and downgrades when Iraq II began was completely reactionary and unnecessary. As a result, morale swings wildly up and down.