Republic Airways presents: Schedule your own interview!

United to cut Cleveland regional flying mainly due to lack of pilot staffing(Likely XJT in particular). Heard the company can't get ERJ 117 skeds to match staffing.

And it's just the first day of February.

Popcorn anyone?
 
Derg said:
In front of the decimal point, right? :)

That's good. I think I was supposed to get $500 for successfully referring @H46Bubba for his position but I never applied for the loot as I knew he'd be a kick ass employee and it'd show up in my profit sharing check over and over.
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And its going to be a good one this year!:cool:
 
pete2800 said:
So this cracked me up. Apparently RAH has recently joined airlineapps. This is posted on their page:


"Republic Airways will be conducting on-site interviews for First Officer positions at Shuttle America, Republic Airlines and Chautauqua Airlines on Saturday, February 8th at The Westin Lake Mary, Orlando North in Lake Mary Florida, and on Sunday, February 9th at the Marriott Miami Dadeland Hotel in Miami, Florida.

With immediate class dates available, Republic operates over 270 aircraft, including Bombardier Q400s, Embraer 145s and the popular EJET series of aircraft 170s through 190s. As one of the fastest-growing airline companies in the regional industry, Republic offers pilots not just a job, but a career!

Successful candidates also receive a $5,000 signing bonus during training!

Interview sessions will be held beginning at 8:00 a.m. and 1 p.m. at each location. Email us today at pilotrecruiting@rjet.com to reserve your interview slot.
(Every effort will be made to accommodate walk-ins as well.)

Every pilot applicant at each session will receive a Starbucks gift card and the first 60 pilots who register for and attend a session will be entered in a drawing to win one of two iPad Air tablets to be given away each day!"




So you can email them and tell them you want to interview, or you can just show up and they'll interview you anyway. Oh, and they'll also bribe you with free Starbucks, just for showing up! And you get to enter some BS contest!

I wonder how their contract negotiations are going. Haha...

http://www.airlineapps.com/home/news/company/0149.asp
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Starbucks? How about Starbucks on a paid flight to Orlando for the interview?
 
Trip7 said:
United to cut Cleveland regional flying mainly due to lack of pilot staffing(Likely XJT in particular). Heard the company can't get ERJ 117 skeds to match staffing.

And it's just the first day of February.

Popcorn anyone?
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Has nothing to do with RJ staffing. They've been threatening this for awhile. It was mentioned during the merger that they were giving CLE two years, and time is up.
 
Trip7 said:
United to cut Cleveland regional flying mainly due to lack of pilot staffing(Likely XJT in particular). Heard the company can't get ERJ 117 skeds to match staffing.

And it's just the first day of February.

Popcorn anyone?
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Source? That's not what I read...anywhere...
 
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/54247405/#.Uu2xOn-9KSM
While our decision to reduce our flying was driven by our continued losses in Cleveland, the timing of the flight reductions has been accelerated by industry-wide effects of new federal regulations that impact us and our regional partner flying. Those new regulations have caused mainline airlines to hire regional pilots, while simultaneously significantly reducing the pool of new pilots from which regional carriers themselves can hire. Although this is an industry issue, it directly affects us and requires us to reduce our regional partner flying, as several of our regional partners are beginning to have difficulty flying their schedules due to reduced new pilot availability. We need to reduce that flying in our most unprofitable markets, which unfortunately are out of Cleveland.
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- sincerely smechey
Very interesting


Our hub in Cleveland hasn't been profitable for over a decade, and has generated tens of millions of dollars of annual losses in recent years. We simply cannot continue to bear these losses.
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but pilot shortages are more sensational.
 
A LETTER FROM BRAD

Dear team,
Thanks to you all and your unwillingness to properly staff our airplanes in addition to you all forgetting to remind us about the new federal regulations that went into affect this year, we will be closing our CLE base. Its all your fault.

Regards,
Brad
 
Firebird2XC said:
Meanwhile, they're asking pilots to allow cross-certificate transfers. They seem to have a heck of a staffing problem.
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This is actually a little bit off, we do allow cross cert transfers for CA's if its a higher paying position. I.E. Q400 CA to 170 CA (though there is a two year seat lock). The drama is that we're closing ATL on the S5 cert which is pretty senior. According to our CBA the displacees are moved at the needs of the company which is obviously not ideal. The LOA (that just passed btw) essentially allows the displacees to go where they're seniority can hold and involuntarily displace people more junior to LGA.

On another note... Everyone is getting cocky about coming here because of the "perceived" shortage and although people keep leaving, things may slow down. So if you want to come here, put your best foot forward and take advantage of the situation. Nothing lasts forever. Here's three reasons why I think things may stabilize a bit:

1. Base closures/consolidation, as I said above ATL just closed. With this latest United announcement it looks like CLE will be gone before the end of '14. That's more pilots cycled back into the system to other bases. Also a lot of speculation that we may gain more hub bases because of the new rest rules, time will tell.

2. Charter flying, we fly NCAA basketball charters which will go away obviously at the end March.

3. 50 seater consolidation, lots of speculation here but whether its a 50 or 70 seat RJ, it still only takes 2 pilots to fly it.
 
SeanD said:
A LETTER FROM BRAD

Dear team,
Thanks to us and our unwillingness to change in addition to us neglecting to prepare for the new federal regulations that we have seen coming for at least a couple years, we will be closing our CLE base. Its actually our fault.

Regards,
Brad
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A little dose of reality.
 
HVYMETALDRVR said:
This is actually a little bit off, we do allow cross cert transfers for CA's if its a higher paying position. I.E. Q400 CA to 170 CA (though there is a two year seat lock). The drama is that we're closing ATL on the S5 cert which is pretty senior. According to our CBA the displacees are moved at the needs of the company which is obviously not ideal. The LOA (that just passed btw) essentially allows the displacees to go where they're seniority can hold and involuntarily displace people more junior to LGA.
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Ahh.. my knowledge is second-hand about this. What exactly is being voted on right now, then?
 
Will Republic let me write my own schedule, too? :D

Trip7 said:
United to cut Cleveland regional flying mainly due to lack of pilot staffing(Likely XJT in particular). Heard the company can't get ERJ 117 skeds to match staffing.

And it's just the first day of February.

Popcorn anyone?
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So much derpitude there, if true.

It's not a secret that 117 was coming and the carriers had ample time to prepare. Wow.
 
Firebird2XC said:
Ahh.. my knowledge is second-hand about this. What exactly is being voted on right now, then?
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ATL is being closed on S5. The rules of our decade old JCBA allows the company to displace people to any base or any cert they want... the company has recognized this pisses people off, since ATL is so senior and we're already short staffed they threw a bone to the union and offered a "one time" LOA saying they can go anywhere they want on the S5 cert only IIRC. Basically, they can go to bases that are full and displace those off the bottom to LGA which is most junior. This is what passed yesterday, the other option would have been almost everyone in ATL would go directly to LGA and then go to other bases as vacancies became available. I agree with the LOA, seniority defines this industry.

FOs are still seat locked until upgrade, the company has offered people to jump in the past. Before I worked here, 07 I think? 145 FO's could jump to the 170 when we first got a lot of them and staffing was tight. Last year for a few months the company allowed FOs to jump to the Q since it was also short staffed, a few ex-Colgan guys and at least one FO that lives in PIT went over to Republic. I flew with a CA recently that's been on all 3 certs over the years.

Clear as mud right?
 
HVYMETALDRVR said:
ATL is being closed on S5. The rules of our decade old JCBA allows the company to displace people to any base or any cert they want... the company has recognized this pisses people off, since ATL is so senior and we're already short staffed they threw a bone to the union and offered a "one time" LOA saying they can go anywhere they want on the S5 cert only IIRC. Basically, they can go to bases that are full and displace those off the bottom to LGA which is most junior. This is what passed yesterday, the other option would have been almost everyone in ATL would go directly to LGA and then go to other bases as vacancies became available. I agree with the LOA, seniority defines this industry.

FOs are still seat locked until upgrade, the company has offered people to jump in the past. Before I worked here, 07 I think? 145 FO's could jump to the 170 when we first got a lot of them and staffing was tight. Last year for a few months the company allowed FOs to jump to the Q since it was also short staffed, a few ex-Colgan guys and at least one FO that lives in PIT went over to Republic. I flew with a CA recently that's been on all 3 certs over the years.

Clear as mud right?
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I followed, more or less. Ask me about Eagle's bid issues sometimes. It's like anthropology. Ya gotta wonder- why the bossman gotta make it so complicated? I get it- it costs money, but geez.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Will Republic let me write my own schedule, too? :D

So much derpitude there, if true.

It's not a secret that 117 was coming and the carriers had ample time to prepare. Wow.
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The funny part is, AA was ricky-tick quick to give up that 175 flying, and now it's melting down because their chosen feed can't staff it.. but hey, fork over the cash, or you'll never see a new airplane again! It's like being mugged by the Three Stooges.
 
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