Overall DCA from what ive heard used to be a good school that was the "hot ticket" to getting an airline job, many pilots who graduated from the program many years ago speak nothing but good things about it. I think as the various garunteed regional interviews disapear with DCA, such as ASA and soon to be Comair, the situation at DCA will only get worse, I don't think American Eagle is going to be quite as anxious hiring someone from DCA with set amount of hours, they will probably raise the minumum hours requirments keeping the flight instructors for a longer period of time. I have a quite ironic story as well as it relates to the hiring of instructors at DCA into regional carriers like Comair and ASA etc...... A couple buddies of mine both have competive hours for a regional job, they went to a job fair in Nashville to submit their resumes to various airlines. When they came to Comair's table the guy was very arogant with them and being that they were both flight instructors back home they were telling him their current employment. The guy at the Comair table promptly told them "well, thats too bad cause we don't hire flight instructors"............what the? doesn't Comair hire CFI's out of DCA? I find that very interesting. I guess they don't want a cessna CFI flying an RJ, they must not make good RJ pilots......lol
My other question is about Delta and Comair. From what ive heard is there is a serious grudge between the Delta and Comair pilots, is this all from the union walkout thing that Delta's pilots had and comair didn't support them? or is it more than just that? Perhaps Doug knows?
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