Regions Air????

[belchfire]

REV 01-01 AM/FM

Insert page 3-31 to AM and page 7-40 to FM

"After passenger deplanement on overnights, the crew shall taxi the aircraft to the most poorly lit portion of the airport and secure it by throwing camoflage netting obtained from the station over the aircraft, obscuring it from possible detection by lessor(s)"

hehehehehe

Lord, please forgive me, that was wrong...

On a more serious note never, ever, ever use your own credit card to pay for a motel room on company business!

 

[belchfire]

I dunno about where your hotel is my man-right now, even as I type I am in the Waikiki Joy hotel-about 300 yds back from the beach...I am too junior to be here, there must be a screw up! Got a day off, on my third miller light after 1:30 walking on the beach looking at a few cuties and a bunch of beached whales...mmmmmmm....

I don't know, you really can't tell a 100 from a 200 just by looking. The deminsions are identical and upper deck window number is per customer-I've only been here twice-both times in a -100. One was an ex-UPS bird...nothing but the finest for me! hehehehehe!

I really am not sure-I used to know-but if I recall BMA and Clipper Connection were tied in somehow...they ignored my resume and I remember being happy in retrospect-but I sent out so many that I just can't be sure. The caution would be to someone interviewing there-it may not be what it seems!

One of the CA's lives here. On his boat...he has had the inclination to invite us over-in a few hours I will be on a 75 foot catamaran grilling the biggest fracking Porterhouse I can find! Huh, I wonder if I can find a decent merlot here...

I love it too!

 

[AV80R]

I dunno about where your hotel is my man-right now, even as I type I am in the Waikiki Joy hotel-about 300 yds back from the beach...I am too junior to be here, there must be a screw up! Got a day off, on my third miller light after 1:30 walking on the beach looking at a few cuties and a bunch of beached whales...mmmmmmm....


Your hotel must be close to where I was last week; the windows in my room were facing Wakiki beach, very cool view. I was there last week hanging out with Frank D. - don’t know if you remember him, ex-corpex guy flies for JALways and lives in Hawaii. I fly in there quite often, hope I’ll run into you there soon, CY. Ps. Don’t forget to go to Duke’s – their buffet is awesome!

 

[AV80R]

Current corpex dudes and dudettes,

How many pilots are left? How many cities out of STL and how many out of CLE? Which airlines are the guys leaving for? FOs and CAs?

 

[belchfire]

Your hotel must be close to where I was last week; the windows in my room were facing Wakiki beach, very cool view. I was there last week hanging out with Frank D. - don’t know if you remember him, ex-corpex guy flies for JALways and lives in Hawaii. I fly in there quite often, hope I’ll run into you there soon, CY. Ps. Don’t forget to go to Duke’s – their buffet is awesome!

Uh, I plan on blowing two days per diem on tonight, so nothing but the hotel breakfast buffet for me tomorrow! Ha! My walk out balcony has a view of no less than eight taller hotels-including the one with the rotating restraunt-if that helps...it's two blocks over or so. I did walk past the Sheraton that is on the beach that has the pillars and old fashioned woodwork on the street side.

It's not snowing here.

Don't know when I will be back. As I said, it's a mistake-I'm too junior to be here!

I love it!

 

[AV80R]

Uh, I plan on blowing two days per diem on tonight, so nothing but the hotel breakfast buffet for me tomorrow!

Ask your captain to put you on the “probie” payment plan Pretty nice tradition here, captains take care of junior guy’s bills, usually including the extras LOL We have some great, and very laid-back aviators here, it rocks.


Ok, back to REGIONS theme

Don’t know much about this program but today I got this email:

Maybe it's a good way of getting several inerviews on the same day?

ASA, TransStates, and Pinnacle Hire 23 First Officers during On-Site Interviews at ATP​

January 8th thru 10th, 2007, ASA, Trans States Airlines, and Pinnacle Airlines interviewed 25 pilot applicants during an on-site airline hiring event at ATP headquarters. Twenty-three pilot applicants received firm class dates or conditional offers of employment, based on successful completion of ATP’s Regional Jet Standards Certification course.
ATP facilitated the airline interviews for pilots with flight time between 330 and 700 hours total time. Applicants interviewed before meeting published minimums thanks to the Airline Pilot Hiring Agreement letters ATP has established with the airlines.​

The agreements are based on completion of ATP’s Regional Jet Standards Certification program, which prepares pilots for the airlines with airline-style training in a CRJ-200 FTD, and a comprehensive ground school covering jet aircraft systems, flight deck management, jet automation, crew resource management, flight management systems (FMS), and electronic flight instrumentation systems (EFIS). Regional airline pilots developed and teach the course, providing the added benefit of real-world operating experience to the learning environment.​

Trans States Airlines hired and offered class dates to 5 applicants. Pinnacle Airlines hired and offered class dates to 9 applicants. ASA notified 9 applicants of conditional offers of employment based on successful completion of a simulator evaluation.

With the success of these 23 applicants, ATP remains the leading provider of pilots to the regional airlines. In the last 12 months, ATP has assisted 150 pilots with achieving their career goals—more than any other single flight school or academy.
Read the current press release on this exciting news. ​

ATP's next on-site airline hiring event takes place February, 2007 ​

Multiple airlines will be on-site seeking ATP-recommended pilot candidates. Airlines will be offering some interviews to applicants for conditional offers of employment which will require applicants to meet specific flight times and successfully complete ATP's Regional Jet Standards Certification program.​

Applicants will be required to complete an interview prep program before interviewing. If you're interested in participating, please email your resume to:​

[email protected]​

www.atpflightschool.com/airlines/on-site_summary_2007-01-11.html?utm_source=atp&utm_medium=email​

 

[Tram]

How many pilots are left? How many cities out of STL and how many out of CLE? Which airlines are the guys leaving for? FOs and CAs?

No idea on the CLE side of the house..

The J32, for about another month and a half goes to..

Decatur, IL
Marion, IL
Springfield, IL
Quincy, IL
Fort Wood, MO
Cape G, MO
Jackson, TN
Burlington, IA
Owensboro, KY

I dunno how many pilots we have left either..

We lost 2 CA's, one to another Jball deal out in Africa and one to a Citation X out in Cali..

We have lost more FO's than I can count.. Just lost one this week to CHQ and probably another to Big Sky...

It's been fun.. but I'm afraid the days of Corpex are coming to an end..

 

[AV80R]

We lost 2 CA's, one to another Jball deal out in Africa and one to a Citation X out in Cali..

Tram - Thanks for reply, wow, not many cities left!

Well, at least it sounds like getting a job seems to be fairly easy for Corpex guys - that’s good news. Were did the 2 captains go? I heard a rumor of two ladies going to SWA? Hope that’s true, both good gals. And what part of Africa did the FO go to? Hope it wasn't Nigeria?! Don't think westerners are very popular there.

 

[belchfire]

Ah, man, it's his boat, his grill...I'm the one insisting on getting a Porterhouse when a burger would do...and yes, more than one evening has been taken care of by my senior fellows-including finishing up IOE...I don't even want to know what the total for that was! I paid some but jeeze it had to be bad! (I think even the bartender got in on the act and "forgot" a couple of rounds)

Funny thing is that in my wanderings I have bumped into three ex-corpexers-so you guys and gals need to know that there is a future! If you happen to be there and the place tanks, well, that's how it goes sometimes-heck, my escape got fouled up at first...as a result I am in an even better place!

Keep your resumes current and out there!

 

[Tram]

Were did the 2 captains go? I heard a rumor of two ladies going to SWA? Hope that’s true, both good gals. And what part of Africa did the FO go to? Hope it wasn't Nigeria?! Don't think westerners are very popular there.

It was a Captain who went to Africa and a Captain who went to the Citation X in Cali..

I hear the SWA rumor, but they are both still here..

Seems there are Corpexers all over the place.. Talked to my pops tonight, his FO on this trip is an X-Corpexer..

 

[belchfire]

There is life after furlough...perhaps you will find that it is better than you imagined!

I did...things just work out sometimes for the best...sorry, you just have to trust me on that...some people have their plans work out to the tee. Others, well, sometimes it works out better...

The two ladies are not due an answer yet...may God bless both of them!

Tram! I'm only sure of one ex-corpexer at Fed-ex...if you can, pm me his name-if it is the same chap no one, absofrackinglutly no one person deserved it more...

 

[AV80R]

Talked to my pops tonight, his FO on this trip is an X-Corpexer

Which airline is your pops at?

 

[Tram]

He flies purple tails, Av8or..

 

[AV80R]

He flies purple tails, Av8or..

I see, so he’s my archenemy huh? LOL Just kiddin’, have had quite a few purple guys on our jumpseats, they all seemed to be very nice guys.

Yeah there were 4-5 guys who went to purple within a few months of each other in 2000 or so, then it kind of slowed down but they still took 1-2 guys a year I believe.

Hopefully, they’ll be hiring more corpex guys soon, I figured KT & ML would be there already, I hope really soon, both are great guys. Maybe their FedEx online profiles should say that if they don’t get a call soon, a “Corpex Brownie” will do his best to bring them over to Big Brown? I think that’d scare FedEx HR into interviewing them ASAP. What do you think?

Tram – you are still in the right seat correct? Why aren’t you moving somewhere else where you can get pic time fairly soon, ie Colgan, etc? The 1K PIC is all YOU need!

 

[Tram]

Yeh, Archnemesis..

Yeh, I'm looking at where to go.. KT and ML should be there soon, hopefully..

I THOUGHT I could get the PIC time here.. Lookin' at Big Sky pretty closely..

 

[AV80R]

Archnemesis – yeah, that’s the word I was looking for. I knew it, I was just testing you!

...KT and ML should be there soon, hopefully..

Awesome! Can’t wait!

I THOUGHT I could get the PIC time here..

Well, sometimes things just don’t work out exactly we’d planned, time for plan B maybe? B as in Big Sky?

Don’t know much about BigSky but if they’ll take you to the left seat in 12 months or so, I’d say do it yesterday. If you start at the end of March 2007 and upgrade 12 months later, you might be interviewing at FedEx by March 2009, don’t wait –

Besides, it'll keep Jen busy recruiting new replacements and I know she just loves that!

Get~r~done!​

 

[Tram]

Yeh, it's a tough call.. I'm on an overnight right now.. Stuck in MWA.. When I get home, my resume' is going to Big Sky..

 

[belchfire]

Yeh, it's a tough call.. I'm on an overnight right now.. Stuck in MWA.. When I get home, my resume' is going to Big Sky..

Ungh, that cab in MWA. You could beam it Star Trek style to any third world country and it would blend...all for a 9:00 overnight...minus 15 minutes on either side for the ride-I never liked that! I liked the folks there, but I got to say that there was gladness in my heart when the hotel's Suburban showed up to give us a ride instead of the wore out chevette wagon taxi...what a wretched p.o.s. it is! Straight from the suburbs of hell!

 

[BlackPilot628]

Man...I knew this day would come. I thought that it would come back when I was an FO at Corpex and our cities were up for rebid. The pilot group was great there and that was what made me enjoy most of my time. I had a Regions Air Saab driver check in for the jumpseat yesterday out of CLE. We gave him a ride down to ATL. Sounds like things have gone way down hill and he is headed to Exp Jet.

I know there are some people that have been at Corpex since 1999, hopefully that will find a good job out there.

EVERYONE there should be sending out resumes as fast as you guys can get them out. Best of Luck!

 

[CopilotDoug]

Friday is my last day! WooooHoooo!

Man...I knew this day would come. I thought that it would come back when I was an FO at Corpex and our cities were up for rebid. The pilot group was great there and that was what made me enjoy most of my time. I had a Regions Air Saab driver check in for the jumpseat yesterday out of CLE. We gave him a ride down to ATL. Sounds like things have gone way down hill and he is headed to Exp Jet.

Was that TD in the jumpseat?

What I found funny during one of my technical interviews was that the interviewer looked at my resume and said, and I quote, "You fly the 'A' model? Oh $hit !"

 

[BlackPilot628]

It was indeed TD.

 

[CopilotDoug]

COEX has been very accomodating. One of their female Captains came down to the broom closet and mentioned that she did the interviews up in CLE and that ANY Corpexers who needed a job would have their resumes shuffled to the top of the pile. She was cute too!

 

[Tram]

Yeh, gotta give it to the COEX guys.. I've had a few contact me already... It's nice to see the help..

 

[belchfire]

Yeh, gotta give it to the COEX guys.. I've had a few contact me already... It's nice to see the help..

Okay, so to answer the original "any 411 on Regions Air" question. When people find out where you work and offer to move your resume to the top of the stack at their outfit it probably isn't a good sign!

 

[PRINCE AKEEM]

The Proof is in the Puddin'

The other night while I, the Prince, was sleeping in my 1000 thead count sheets and bed of roses; I slowly drifted off to sleep dreaming of 100 brunette virgins and cowboy-clad midgets when a vision came to me. It was about untold tails from the past and present...
...Corpex's growth rev from pax flt ops and government subsidies for 2004 (22.5 M) and 2005 (21.9 M).
...in 2001 and 2003, the company actually officially posted a profit. (but the pay freeze is still chilly)
...annual lease expense on the 340A in '06 was 600k, while projected between '07-'10 to be $1,014,000/year. Compare that with DOT grants totaling $880,000/year for 3 cities. (Awesome, now how do I highlight that red as it should be)
...May '06, J-CO (the actually owners of the J32s) wanted $7.4M paid to them seeing that the company has not paid them from 9/01-5/06. Fred and Doug (who actually deserve some sort of award for being 'Used Car Salesmen of the Year') actually got out of the debt by offering 8-10% in Corpex stock to J-CO which accepted it.
...the most recent bank switch concerning our pay checks is actually another spineless way to get out of paying the owners of the one remaining Saab, who have an automatic withdrawl set up to be paid from the company's old bank account.

Absolutely embarrassed to work here. Oh wait, what's that I hear coming...it's the ATTRITION TRAIN and it's making a pit-stop in white trash mqy! Choo-Choo, get on board!!!
Akeem has spoken...shhhhh

 

[AV80R]

Hmmm, my main concern here is - exactly why does Corpex come to your mind when you’re thinking of 100 brunette virgins? Am I missing something here?

Also, did my explanation on your Airtran thread make sense to you? Princess – I’m worried about you!

 

[PRINCE AKEEM]

Hmmm, my main concern here is - exactly why does Corpex come to your mind when you’re thinking of 100 brunette virgins? Am I missing something here?

Also, did my explanation on your Airtran thread make sense to you? Princess – I’m worried about you!

Don't be envyous of my superior German genetics, rapist wit and fantastic hair! My track record speaks for itself (and you know what I mean!). So when you are done waving white flags at other countries and sucking on Ricola herbal mints, give me a buzz and we'll do lunch (you know where)!

 

[CopilotDoug]

It's priceless when your CEO has to send out a company wide memo to dispell the rumor of his forced resignation! Can it get anymore dysfunctional? You bet!

New theory on who is buying Regions: Northwest Airlines

Reasoning: Regions is already saddled with a couple million dollars in debt. Northwest will come in, take ownership, offload its hundreds of millions of dollars in debt onto Regions. It will clean the books up for NWA and leave Caldwell with a sore behind and scratching his head. I am sure Caldwell would figure out a way to transfer the hundreds of millions of dollars in debt to a local Children's Orphanage, all the while finnagling another partially airworthy J-32 out of BAE in order to keep the company floating for a few more weeks. Anybody else happen to notice the Company Organization Chart for Regions is outlined with a Septic Tank?

 

[Tram]

Why would Northwest want our 121 certificate... They obviously have their own..

Northwest airlines.. Riiiiiight..

 

[Berkut]

It's priceless when your CEO has to send out a company wide memo to dispell the rumor of his forced resignation!

I never heard that rumor until the memo came out.