Goodbye DCA, Hello Comair!

H46Bubba

H46Bubba

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With my current job at DCA becoming way to unbearable, I had to go looking for a new job.
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Comair called this afternoon and offered me a full time ramp job at MCO.
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With the re-opening of the MCO base, they needed more rampers. We handle both Comair and Chautauqua flights. I went to an open interview about three weeks ago and breezed through the interview session. HR called Monday to get my FBI background check, fingerprinted, and drug test. Being at DCA helped as well as my ramp days at American before I joined the Navy. My first day is April 5th.
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I hope they have preferential hiring for flight crew from within the company. I know a Horizon ramper that got a pilot interview that way. Good luck.

I guess you won't be the new poster child for DCA ads, though, guess you're dissapointed with that......
 
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With my current job at DCA becoming way to unbearable, I had to go looking for a new job.
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Comair called this afternoon and offered me a full time ramp job at MCO.
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With the re-opening of the MCO base, they needed more rampers. We handle both Comair and Chautauqua flights. I went to an open interview about three weeks ago and breezed through the interview session. HR called Monday to get my FBI background check, fingerprinted, and drug test. Being at DCA helped as well as my ramp days at American before I joined the Navy. My first day is April 5th.
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Congrats! I will be coming in on Chatuaqua in April. You will probably handle my flight!
 
Hi! I just registered. I have been accepted into DCA. In fact My wife and I are planning a move to Central Fl. from Pittsburgh in about 3 weeks. I have been reading some of the posts in here and came across this one. My question.. What is your current job at DCA? If you are a flight instructor.. why are you so excited about a ramp job?.. I thought the idea of DCA is to get a pilot interview.. not a ramp interview??. Could you briefly clarify what the excitement is all about?
 
I don't mean to speak for H46 but I know he wasn't a CFI at the academy. He worked in aircraft maintenance. I think when he started at DCA he was in the normal program but things changed for him over time to the point where getting out was his best move.

I would highly recommend you do a search and find every word spoken by H46bubba at this site. He's been around long enough that the whole story should be right here.
 
Thanks Don. I'm still a Part 61 student. The full time program didn't quite mesh with my falily duties. It was pain is the a$$ to cancel or change flights to when they fit my family schedule. I've been working down in Maintenance in the parts dept. I'm leaving due to there being no real pay increase and no growth opportunity. The big reason was my increasing displeasure with the job and some management issues. I've had the pleasure with working with a great group of guys and will miss working with them. I'm hoping to have a greater opportunity for getting to fly with Comair from within.
 
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and some management issues.

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Tell me about it! If certain managers still collected a paycheck but didn't show up to work, I swear that place would run much more efficiently and turn over twice as much profit then it already is doing.
 
Congrats H46!
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I hope you didn't think I was critizing you by asking why you were so excited. I have read alot of posts about DCA and your name is all over them. I had not yet read all of your posts but got the impression that CFI'ing at DCA was not working for you and were thrilled to get a ramp job..//and or DCA was not getting the pilot interview for you.
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Each of us do what we feel is best.. and I hope the best for you.
 
DCA has a really good program and if you stick with it, the program works. Most of the current crop of instructors that have finished have been picked up by Xpress Jet. No I'm not going to instruct at DCA when I'm done. I would rather go on to an FBO. The new position at Comair allows me to transfer anywhere Comair has a station and hopefully find an instructing positon at a nearby FBO. And if I stay on long enough I hope it will help me out when I apply for an pilot postion. I know several Comair employees who have been hired from within to fly.
 
Um, but I didn't think XJT was associated with Comair? I'm guessing it had more to do with the hours and experience as instructors and less to do with the school.
 
You're correct. It was hours not the school. I'm pretty sure they had to get the interview on their own. I'll ask one of them if they had to do it on their own or if the school helped them out.
 
Howard, congrats!

Hey, when's the wife going to show up? She promised, man!
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Thanks. I know, I know! I'm on her butt daily and she keeps telling me she will.
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I still catch her lurking under my login. She will..... eventually.
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She's been working graveyard, so she's been pretty vampirish lately. Sunday will be my last work day.
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I'll turn over my ID and swap it for a student ID on Monday. Now I can be more liberal on what I say about DCA.
 
"Now I can be more liberal on what I say about DCA"

I've always thought you pretty much told it like it is about DCA, much more so than anyone else around here. That's why I have a lot of respect for you. It's a shame that you felt you had to temper what you say because of possible backlash. Of course, Doug and I both have to temper what we say about our employers because of possible backlash, but, seeing as how you are paying them as a customer of the program, you shouldn't be held to the same standard.

Anyhow, eagerly awaiting what you have to say...as always.
 
Howard's good stuff. Whenever he's ready for a job with a yoke, he's got a letter of recc from me already!
 
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