PSA, CA insurance minimums.

surreal1221

surreal1221

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Just wondering what PSA's insurance minimum times for upgrade to captain is?

And also, how much time in type / time with PSA?

BobDDuck?
 
lol - That's what I figured man. Just wanted to know.

So what's the story there though? CMEL w/ IA, no minimum time requirements. . .I really don't know what to say.

I know the Jets for Job pilots are heading back to big daddy US Airways. So I'm sure the upgrade times will eventually start to lengthen out for anyone recently hired.
 
surreal1221 said:
lol - That's what I figured man. Just wanted to know.

So what's the story there though? CMEL w/ IA, no minimum time requirements. . .I really don't know what to say.
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There's a thread here somewhere. They just lowered the mins to get more of an applicant pool. Not that the low time guys with 300 hours are actually getting looked at too deeply. They also stated in the one forum they arent changing their training so you best be ready as if you were a 1000-2000TT pilot and there to be a professional not continue the training. But to make a long story short I think ACP has upgrade as most junior somewhere in Feb 2002? Check it yourself but I thought that was right.... 4 some years until upgrade?
 
meyers9163 said:
There's a thread here somewhere. They just lowered the mins to get more of an applicant pool. Not that the low time guys with 300 hours are actually getting looked at too deeply. They also stated in the one forum they arent changing their training so you best be ready as if you were a 1000-2000TT pilot and there to be a professional not continue the training. But to make a long story short I think ACP has upgrade as most junior somewhere in Feb 2002? Check it yourself but I thought that was right.... 4 some years until upgrade?
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True that about the 300hr guys. I was offered a ground school job with them when I interviewed, but I declined. I didn't feel right teaching fella's with more time than me about an A/C that I never flown before. Later a Pilot told me the real reason they wanted me to teach that ground school. I was not happy about that. Evidently some pilots complained that the training department.......... Oh well. I moved on.
 
Not really related to insurance mins, but pertaining to PSA...

We are SO short right now it is actually sort of funny. Not for the hundreds of passengers that are getting stranded, but for the crews who for the last 10 months have been warning management that this is going to happen.

Over the last few days we have been canceling about 35 flights a day. I picked up a plane in CLT yesterday at 1pm. It was an originator, meaning it hadn't flown yet today, flew it to SDF and back and then it terminated, meaning it was done flying for the day. Talk about a sweet out and back day for the airplane.
 
BobDDuck said:
Not really related to insurance mins, but pertaining to PSA...

We are SO short right now it is actually sort of funny. Not for the hundreds of passengers that are getting stranded, but for the crews who for the last 10 months have been warning management that this is going to happen.

Over the last few days we have been canceling about 35 flights a day. I picked up a plane in CLT yesterday at 1pm. It was an originator, meaning it hadn't flown yet today, flew it to SDF and back and then it terminated, meaning it was done flying for the day. Talk about a sweet out and back day for the airplane.
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That plane is really making money for you guys! What is it, 3 hours block in 24.....good planning there! :sarcasm:
 
BobDDuck said:
Not really related to insurance mins, but pertaining to PSA...

We are SO short right now it is actually sort of funny. Not for the hundreds of passengers that are getting stranded, but for the crews who for the last 10 months have been warning management that this is going to happen.

Over the last few days we have been canceling about 35 flights a day. I picked up a plane in CLT yesterday at 1pm. It was an originator, meaning it hadn't flown yet today, flew it to SDF and back and then it terminated, meaning it was done flying for the day. Talk about a sweet out and back day for the airplane.
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Do they know that if you increase pay- they will come?

How have they been warning them? What have they been telling management?
 
Increasing pay would require going into early section 6. With the company making the amount of money they are right now, I think they are afraid of what might happen. Also, it would involve paying more (duh!) and that isn't something this place is willing to do. In their minds, it is cheaper to keep stretching things out for a year at low pay and then pay the price for a few months with the cancellations.

As far as telling them it was going to be a problem... that really isn't the union's job. The company has a staffing model and they think it works. It normally does when times are down and nobody (major or other regionals) are hiring. But when things pick up their model breaks down. Additionally, this time around there are 80 JJs that are going to back Mainline some time. The training department has been screaming for more upgrades for months now. It was always denied. The Chief Pilot had requested more new hires so much that they were banned from attending staffing meetings.

The problem is this place operates as if junior manning and extending is a valid way of staffing flights. In theory it is supposed to be used for extraordinary operations only. Bad weather, illness, etc. However, they use it to cover normal flying that really should be covered by reserves.

It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
 
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