As soon as I signed in for airport standby my phone rang. Not wanting to waste my cell phone minutes for work, I didn’t answer. I knew what they wanted. I had a flight. Crew scheduling tried calling me 2 hours prior while I was at home and OFF DUTY. I had no obligation to [...]

Bryan Bedford, Republic Airways Holdings CEO, stated Republic Airways IS hiring pilots and flight crews. I find this highly suspicious. Take it for what you will. Interview starts about 1 minute 48 seconds in. http://www.wisn.com/video/20337448/

For the third time in a row I have weathered the displacement storm. The final bid came out today (due out yesterday). Just like on the preliminary result I am staying put. This is only due to one person above me choosing to move to a different base on the same aircraft while another pilot [...]

So it’s August 10th and I haven’t flown yet. I’ve gotten as close as the cockpit door. As normal I have airport standby this month. I had my 2PM-10PM shift Wednesday last week thru Saturday. Yesterday I was on at home reserve. On Thursday I would have flown, but I called in sick. I made [...]

I was wondering what type of hotels they give for your overnight stopover? I heard that on international routes they get 5 star hotels for crew members, what about on regional airlines & domestic routes? Does it includes free food or its up to the crew to pay for it? Hotels…..some are awesome (Hyatt Place!)…some [...]

Prior to flying for an airline, my wife and I were airline mile whores. No better way to say it. We craved airline miles. There was once a promotion where we would get 60,000 bonus miles if we flew 6 round trips between certain cities. At the time we were planning on going to Hawaii [...]