Life at Compass

Gonzo said:
Yup, as someone who is living the cluster of having no spare planes within 2 hours or crew within 5 hours.


We have great west coast pairings on paper, then the real world steps in.
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I'm not holding my breath either. They did seem to be a bit proactive on not trying to have a million flights a day on a pairing. As I said time will tell.
 
USN88 said:
I'm a current 135 FO flying a PC12. Kind of the in between I guess? Also, still working on my degree. Don't have much going for me other than a few years in the Navy.
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I would throw in your app! Your quality of life and movement will be much better at this place if you get hired at the beginning of the flows as opposed to a couple of years down the road. As Clark said, the degree requirement is highly preferred, but the pool of applicants with experience that Compass has previously hired are becoming few and far between these days as evidenced by conversation with the recruiting lady last week. They have hired people without the degree in the past, and I know they called my friend for a interview without a degree but he was already flying for a different carrier. If you meet the mins I would highly suggest that you throw your stuff in ASAP!
 
Kool Aid maybe or I think it's having something to look forward to compared to what we had at Pinnacle or some other places. Even if it's most likely short lived.

Dream Crusher!
 
amorris311 said:
Explain how this is Kool Aid? All I said was the pairings look like they have factored in the what ifs and only time will tell to see if it actually works.
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You are drinking the Kool Aid as they have new clue what the "what ifs". Your management just told Delta yes without regard to logistics. @Gonzo, why don't you fill in these Kool Aid drinkers what's you on with the CRJ and the West Coast stuff at Eagle? For example, say there is fog in San Fran and a flight is delayed 2.5 hours pushing the legal limits of your 'great pairings' the company made. While you are being pushed back y'all hear a thud from the nose gear bay while the ground crew is disconnecting the bar. They say it is fine, but you know it is not, here comes the gate return with the crew then timing out! Oh the closest reserve crew is in MSP...

The way you and your buddies at the transitional jet mainline regional are talking is the same way the XJT folks were talking about in 2005-2006.
 
OK @Seggy here is one I saw two weeks ago. LAX-OKC plane blows a tire on landing. The crew working the flight heads to their overnight. The crew working OKC-LAX just came in from ORD. They are on day one working ORD-OKC-LAX-DEN with a sit in LAX it is a long duty day. So you have a crew siting in OKC that was going to work LAX-DEN and no way are they going to be able to do it and there is no way to get a crew from ORD to work it because of how our RSV raps are set up Rap 2 is 1000-0100 CST, most west coast flying ends after 0100 CST. End result OKC-LAX CLXD and LAX-DEN CLXD. That plane was going to work OKC-LAX-SJC-LAX-ABQ. Now it is great that we had crews for the flights but because of aircraft routing there wasn't a plane to work LAX-SJC-LAX so it CLXD also now they did end up using the plane for LAX-DEN to work LAX-ABQ. That is what happens when you have a operation that is so isolated from MX and crew, you can't fix anything on the fly or day of.
 
Not that it will help with crews but we are keeping atleast 1 airplane out there... We do need a LAX base though.


Too bad we all can't be at our dream mainline carrier.
 
Right, remember Colgan kept at least one extra plane in IAH and we sucked. Of course we didn't fly the -175! :)

You don't need a LAX base. If I was your VP of Flight Ops I'd be working with ALPA for a TDY LOA. Like Mesaba did with their SLC stuff a few years ago. I thought y'all had better management than Mesaba did?
 
Seggy said:
You are drinking the Kool Aid as they have new clue what the "what ifs". Your management just told Delta yes without regard to logistics. @Gonzo, why don't you fill in these Kool Aid drinkers what's you on with the CRJ and the West Coast stuff at Eagle? For example, say there is fog in San Fran and a flight is delayed 2.5 hours pushing the legal limits of your 'great pairings' the company made. While you are being pushed back y'all hear a thud from the nose gear bay while the ground crew is disconnecting the bar. They say it is fine, but you know it is not, here comes the gate return with the crew then timing out! Oh the closest reserve crew is in MSP...

The way you and your buddies at the transitional jet mainline regional are talking is the same way the XJT folks were talking about in 2005-2006.
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Big thumbs up to you for crackin the code. I'm not the guy doing the pairings but from what I've seen they might work. The MX issues you talk about dont happen everyday. If they happen once a week then ok you gotta deal with them. Once again I said lets wait and see. If it falls in shambles out te gate I'm sure they will try to fix it. They seem to be open to that approach. It's a huge financial obligation to open and close bases. With no guarantee of flying it doesn't make much sense to open a new base. Hopefully they offer TDY but not right now.
 
amorris311 said:
Big thumbs up to you for crackin the code. I'm not the guy doing the pairings but from what I've seen they might work. The MX issues you talk about dont happen everyday. If they happen once a week then ok you gotta deal with them. Once again I said lets wait and see. If it falls in shambles out te gate I'm sure they will try to fix it. They seem to be open to that approach. It's a huge financial obligation to open and close bases. With no guarantee of flying it doesn't make much sense to open a new base. Hopefully they offer TDY but not right now.
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