beechpilot
Well-Known Member
Always the optimist.:buck:
Well, I try.
Always the optimist.:buck:
is great lakes hiring street captains?
is great lakes hiring street captains?
There is no longer a sim ride for the interview as there is no written either. Just 50% HR questions and 50% basic IFR (point at symbols on Jepp charts and IFR scenarios).I got a call about 4 or 5 months back. It was the standard interview scenario with a sim ride. I turned down the interview when I found out I would have to pay for my flight to and from DEN which seemed strange since they have "agreements" with United and Frontier. They also don't pay you a salary or hotel while you are in training. I am just a cfi so I can't afford all the expenses that come with working there. I will say they seemed like a nice group of people. They didn't sound very surprised at all when I called and respectfully declined the interview.
after you upgrade the pay cant be that bad? either way geten paid to do what you love to do. is the atmosphere at the airline that bad?
How are Lakers viewed upon by the rest of the industry?
How somebody can live off that payscale is beyond me.
1) When your furlough pay is $0/hr with 0.0 hr guarantee, something is better than nothing.
2) Finding a flying job is easier when you have a flying job.
3) See #1, rinse, repeat.
A Laker, I believe, recently wrote something along the lines of "I fly a 19 pax plane for 19 pax pay."
Let's take this from another direction. Let's start with an assumption that Lakes is low pay for a 19 pax plane. Then Colgan and GULFSTREAM have pretty good pay scales for the same aircraft. Since Colgan 1 FO is published at $21 and Compass 1 FO is $24, wouldn't that mean that Compass FOs are working for substandard pay (19 seater v. 76 seater)? Or RAH 1 FO's at $23?
It's all relative. Like Ethan wrote, since Skyway, Air Midwest, and Big Sky have all folded, Great Lakes might just be the last, true regional/commuter airline.
Are they still hiring street captains? If not, how fast could someone upgrade?
Once I'm 23 if I don't military it up after my degree, or go to the bush, I think I might try that route, walking in and jumping into the hondo again would be good, especially if I could go right into the left seat. I wonder if my 600hrs of 1900SIC count for much with them.