American Leads with 150K Bonuses

Autothrust Blue said:
Unless the game is hockey and the player is Sidney Crosby, in which case we love the game and hate the player.
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I mean, if you can forgive him for being a whiner when he was first entering the league, and get past Pierre and Mike constantly fellating him, he's, uh, pretty good. Immense talent, hard worker, can't back from near career-ending concussion issues to let his team to more championships. Stays out of the headlines for negative reasons..... What's not to like?
 
roundout said:
I mean, if you can forgive him for being a whiner when he was first entering the league, and get past Pierre and Mike constantly fellating him, he's, uh, pretty good. Immense talent, hard worker, can't back from near career-ending concussion issues to let his team to more championships. Stays out of the headlines for negative reasons..... What's not to like?
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All fair. I still don't like the establishment fellating him and the League going out of its way to protect him, and I tell you what: stay on your skates and play heads-up hockey too.

But, yes.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
As a Delta frequent flyer, I wouldn't know anything about this regional feed you talk about it. Every place I need to go, Delta has a mainline jet. Even the new A220s are mainline aircraft instead of being outsourced to the lowest bidder. Maybe AA should work on that instead of trying to trick their customers into thinking they're on mainline when they're not.
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Cheaper to give a one time pop(bonus)of 150 than to pay it in perpetuity aka CBA
 
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He's multiplying.
 
CoffeeIcePapers said:
It's nothing compared to earnings if you go to a major or lcc instead of waiting 5-10 years for a flow.
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Still a nice consolation prize if you can't get hired at a major/LCC, assuming you don't get Comaired before you have the chance to flow, which will probably happen to Envoy sooner or later. Passing up on a chance to escape the regionals never makes sense, with or without the bonuses.
 
Apophis said:
“I hear the Envoy interview is pretty tough.”

1. Do you have a pulse?

2. Have you been convicted of murder in the past two weeks?

Welcome aboard.
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Is that speaking from experience?
Granted, the only two airline interviews I've done so far were Air Wisconsin and Envoy, hired at both, both were different (first one with the base CP and HR lady, second one much more structured modular conveyor type deal), neither one was "fog the mirror". Both had dudes that were sent home.
 
BigZ said:
Is that speaking from experience?
Granted, the only two airline interviews I've done so far were Air Wisconsin and Envoy, hired at both, both were different (first one with the base CP and HR lady, second one much more structured modular conveyor type deal), neither one was "fog the mirror". Both had dudes that were sent home.
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I managed to fail the Envoy interview in 2017. Of course I'm sure the interview has changed since then.
 
BigZ said:
Is that speaking from experience?
Granted, the only two airline interviews I've done so far were Air Wisconsin and Envoy, hired at both, both were different (first one with the base CP and HR lady, second one much more structured modular conveyor type deal), neither one was "fog the mirror". Both had dudes that were sent home.
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When was this? My OO interview was still draw turbine engine and electrical system with advanced aerodynamic questions part of the technical portion but right up to pre-pandemic I don't know of any regional with a "tough" interview anymore. And if it was I don't know if any afforded to have any significant amounts of "no's" coming from the interview.
 
Yakob said:
I managed to fail the Envoy interview in 2017. Of course I'm sure the interview has changed since then.
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Conceptually should have stayed the same. Something like 7% don't make it through the probationary ride just inside of 12 months. Typically that's a collection of issues, not just "struggled in the sim" or some such.
tcco94 said:
When was this? My OO interview was still draw turbine engine and electrical system with advanced aerodynamic questions part of the technical portion but right up to pre-pandemic I don't know of any regional with a "tough" interview anymore. And if it was I don't know if any afforded to have any significant amounts of "no's" coming from the interview.
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Both of these were 2017. Neither was "tough" per se, Envoy was oral (some systems from current equipment - mine were jet since I was flying jets, don't know what the CFI guys had; how to eyeball 3to1, mostly jepp stuff - they sent you a link to the US jepp handbook and you were expected to have read it and tell what's on the SID, enroute, STAR, approach, taxi diagrams. Dude doing the phone screening was also recommending that a copy of Everything explained to the professional pilot is bought and read prior to showing up.
Whiskey had a short version of ATP written, questions about equipment while flipping through your logbook etc. Both obviously had the tmaat stuff too.
Envoy had a sim for the guys without however many flight hours in the past 12 months.

People still washed out from training and 1st recurrent (Envoy thing), so obviously not all got filtered out, but it's not a you show up you're good to go.
 
For what it’s worth, mid-2000’s Eagle was a pretty tough 2 day affair. Technical multiple choice test, separate HR and technical interviews. Maybe a third didn’t make it through those. The rest got driven over to the sim, and it was instrument procedures in the Saab. I think half of the total group made it past that. The second day was the medical…full blood work, ekg, this computer based cognitive test that I was convinced I failed but apparently didn’t. And the most detailed hearing test I’ve gotten. They even measured the volume of our ear canals, which is how I found out I had surfer’s ear.

It was *way* more involved than Mesa (written test, easy 1 on 1) and significantly tougher than Skywest, which had the goofy little FTD.

Not going to lie, felt like a mainline pilot the minute I accepted that offer.
 
I remember the astronaut physical and having to talk with the shrink who I thought looked kind of cute as she was interviewing me as the last thing I had to do for the Eagle interview in 2006.

When I reinterviewed at Eagle in 2007, there was no medical at all, just a pee test. they used the 707 sim instead of the Saab sim. When they asked me why I wanted to work at Eagle during the HR part of the interview, they told me "You used the same answer last year, so why do you really want to work at Eagle now?" Homer-Simpson "doh!" But for the tech interview, the interviewer said, "You passed the tech interview last year, so we're just going to chat for a few minutes" he didn't ask me anything and we were talking about I don't remember what we talked about to be honest. So that was a bit wierd.
 
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