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Originally Posted by NC_BE300  Thank you sir. Yes, I’m a Comair pilot. I spent 4 months in CVG after IOE, then was awarded GSO in an open vacancy bid-came to GSO (have family nearby/grew up in the area/also took my private & instrument check rides on the field in GSO) in December and have been here ever since. I've really enjoyed it. I was even lucky enough to be home on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Years Eve nights after working the day as a reserve.
The people are really cool and fun to fly with. I was an intern in the flight ops offices about 3 years ago before coming back as an FO (had to build the flight time to the then published mins of 1200/200). But with the hiring going on now at 600/100-I’ve heard on the line that the hiring is possible with even less hours than that!
Right now they are hiring into both CVG & JFK, so either one is possible. I chose JFK because I would be much more senior there, compared to CVG. So we’ll see what happens in September.
Not to mention that I was talking to my friends in the general offices-where I was told that the captain upgrades are 12 people per month....and ongoing. The follow up was that our upgrade time could become in the 2 year time frame from new hire! Really awesome stuff- and it makes me glad to be here. |
The message in recurrent ground recently painted a different picture. They claimed that we are overstaffed by at least a hundred pilots, the crj 900's will not be delivered as quickly as predicted, and no additional flight hours or aircraft for the forseeable future. Take it for what its worth.