Alaska opens new SAN pilot base

Roger Roger said:
If it was just me and the Mrs, or the kids were younger or older, I would 100% pick up and move to CA and rent out the JNU house until I could hold JNU overnights. Commuting is expensive as •, and at our pay rates (especially on the Captain side) it’s easy to make up the difference in cost of living picking up premium or even someone else’s trash in pilot to pilot and STILL be home more. Plus you can’t beat the weather. I was off for 2 days and spent both of them shoveling 5’ of snow including as much of my roof as I could get done yesterday. Before that when I was off, it was -8° F and I had to fix 2 separate problems with our boiler.
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It is cold enough here that I'm actually concerned my pipes will freeze which for my house is rare - it's just that we've been cold for like a month. I've got a space heater in the downstairs bathroom desperately working over time to make sure I don't have to deal with a massive bill.
 
bp said:
nah you paid some greaseball to line his pockets and perpetuate a crap business to step on someone else's neck who was either equally or more qualified than yourself
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Stepped on a neck, equally or more qualified. Now you sound like a DEI-spouting right wing loser. Again, pathetic.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Stepped on a neck, equally or more qualified. Now you sound like a DEI-spouting right wing loser. Again, pathetic.
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remember that whole Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, where the parents paid off a coach to lie about their kid being good at water polo so they'd get in to their to pick of schools?
 
ppragman said:
It is cold enough here that I'm actually concerned my pipes will freeze which for my house is rare - it's just that we've been cold for like a month. I've got a space heater in the downstairs bathroom desperately working over time to make sure I don't have to deal with a massive bill.
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First cold weather advisory I’ve seen in Anchorage in…..I don’t honestly recall.
 
bp said:
remember that whole Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, where the parents paid off a coach to lie about their kid being good at water polo so they'd get in to their to pick of schools?
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That’s irrelevant to this topic. What they did is actually illegal, and some got prison time if I recall.
 
it’s not irrelevant, it’s drawing a parallel on ethics. you did the same thing, but theres no regulatory oversight regarding RJ admissions.
you paid a guy who had a connection with rj recruiters to get your interview while they already had a stack of applications.
 
bp said:
it’s not irrelevant, it’s drawing a parallel on ethics. you did the same thing, but theres no regulatory oversight regarding RJ admissions.
you paid a guy who had a connection with rj recruiters to get your interview while they already had a stack of applications.
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So going to a flight school where airline recruiters come is… bad. Got it.

Cool story bro.
 
bp said:
how much those cost, pray tell? and the jetu tuition?
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So now it’s okay as long as the cost is acceptable to you?

One is a flight school. The other are job fairs in which your goal is to stand out from the other applicants to get noticed by the interview team, and I quote, “step on the necks of other qualified candidates.”

You literally have no argument.
 
Pinnacle Airlines website itself. Under Careers, and Bridge Programs. They literally listed the 6 different bridge programs they approved. JetU was just one…….


Pinnacle Airline’s Approved Bridge Programs


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so you paid 27k to get a leg up on an ~18k a year regional job? your apc post is one of the first pages to pop up when i googled it

hell if were gonna throw job fairs into the equation, at that ratio I’d be paying NGPA 150k for an interview at a legacy. but we don’t.
 
bp said:
so you paid 27k to get a leg up on an ~18k a year regional job? your apc post is one of the first pages to pop up when i googled it

hell if were gonna throw job fairs into the equation, at that ratio I’d be paying NGPA 150k for an interview at a legacy. but we don’t.
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Seniority system. Won’t know if the right decision was made until we retire at 65, but doing jetU at the time I did - and by the way, straight from the airline’s website - an approved bridge program.


Cost wise, yes $27k. But that ended up being in lieu of Comm-SE, CFI, Double I, and MEI. That’s 4 separate training events and 4 separate checkrides. I was going to be spending thousands either way.

All dumb luck and timing, so I don’t take take credit for that. Just stating what ended up being the case: it allowed me to be hired at Pinnacle at 23 and Virgin at 27. If all goes well, I’m suppose to retire #2 at my shop.

Ask me at 65, but as of right now I wouldn’t change anything. I’m happy so far with my career.
 
wait- did you never have a flying job before jetU?
your first hour of paid, actual PIC time was as a captain at alaska?
 
Roger Roger said:
FYI I don’t believe that commute tool to be accurate, unless they’ve loaded more data into it.
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I'm gonna guess they got this data directly from the company file of registered commuters. If I lived in San Diego, or especially north county, I wouldn't even bother if I were an LA guy currently. I'm guessing there are more than what this tool is showing.
 
bp said:
wait- did you never have a flying job before jetU?
your first hour of paid, actual PIC time was as a captain at alaska?
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Flying job, no.
Prior aviation job, sorta. Paid internship at (now defunct) Evergreen Airlines in Oregon.

And correct, 4.5 yrs as a RJ FO and then 6.5 yrs as A320 FO = after 11 yrs of 121 flying, my first paid PIC time was as a Capt at my current shop.

This was the crazy times of 2006-2007. At the time, off the street newhire mins at Mesaba were 600 TT and 50 ME. No RJ course, no Univ/collegiate program. Just pure off the street interview mins.
 
JDean3204 said:
Oh Cmon, you don’t want to drop 1.5-2 mil on a 3br with no yard, 600 a month on HOA on top of that fat mortgage, Mello Roos tax, over 400 a month on insurance (fire), 5 dollars on gas and about 15-20% more on groceries than pretty much anywhere else?
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There are plenty of areas near SAN with nice houses well under a million. SAN is also a waaaaay easier drive than LAX for most people in the lower IE and southern Orange County. I’d guess the radius is over 100 miles for an easier drive considering traffic.
 
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