US Airways Pilot Pool and Hiring

[LittleDeuce]

If you get hired as a flight crew training instructor do you get to fly and can you get a seniority number for line flying?

Flight Crew Training Instructors (FCTIs) are represented by the Transport Workers Union (TMU) and are not on the US Airways System Seniority list.

In fact, most FCTIs are not pilots, their backgrounds are military as Flight Engineers. Some do have their ratings and worked in GA. We also have some that are retired US Airways Check Airmen.

It's a great job for a person that lives in CLT and still wants to work after age 65.

The only way to get a US Airways seniority number at the moment is to meet all the qualifications and complete the interview process.

 

[migration]

After I got Furloughed from United in March of 2002, I bit the bullet and took a position as a ramper for AWA in Late 2002. I then was lucky to get a job as a 757 ground school instructor in the summer of 2003 with the intent to get a Pilot interview ASAP. The requirement back before the merger was a 2 year commitment as a ground school instructor before being eligible to interview. I'd imagine that's still the case?

 

[Mad Dog 80]

Thanks for all the good info, hopefully the pilot window will open soon.

 

[acaTerry]

What do instructors make for ground?

 

[dollacrackho]

Whats airways gonna do when Ted and Song start hiring and all the new hires bail?

 

[LittleDeuce]

What do instructors make for ground?

The FCTIs at US Airways have a VERY good contract. I'm not sure of the exact numbers but my boss in in charge of them and I know he was looking through resumes last week.

I'll ask him tomorrow.

 

[FurloughedAgain]

Whats airways gonna do when Ted and Song start hiring and all the new hires bail?

Metrojet will push Song into the Atlantic.

 

[SXMp2c]

calls are still going out for interviews in Aug

 

[acaTerry]

The FCTIs at US Airways have a VERY good contract. I'm not sure of the exact numbers but my boss in in charge of them and I know he was looking through resumes last week.

I'll ask him tomorrow.

Thanks. You can PM me if you don't want to put it out here.

 

[LittleDeuce]

Thanks. You can PM me if you don't want to put it out here.

We are going to hire 5 FCTIs. The pay is a litlle north 70K per year.