Direct Entry Captain Course

[rudder]

The only way that things will improve for SKY pilots is consolidation with Jazz.

You inherit the Jazz pilot contract and for those aspiring to AC you will be included in the mandatory 60% hiring/10% maximum rejection guarantees.

If you think that you will do better at the bargaining table with SKY/AC, go for it. Jazz has already picked up guarantees for 80 75 seat airframes after 2025. That does not leave much for any other Express carriers, particularly with the arrival of 50+ c series aircraft over the next few years.

[altiplano]

Captains at this company are egregiously underpaid. You’ll be working 19-20 days a month, doing three and four leg days, and flying into places like EWR/LGA/ORD for 80k/year. Meanwhile E190 skippers at AC are pulling in 150k-160k/year to fly virtually the same airplane with 21 more seats, and they’re working at max 16 days per month. The planes have the same red maple leaf on the tail, but you’ll absolutely be made to feel like a second class citizen.

Pretty sure Mainline ACPA pilots didn't want to lose the E175s to Sky.

And you didn't have to accept the low paying job to fly them at Sky.

In theory, you made yourself a second class citizen.

Correct. E175 scope was STOLEN by The Ratt and the Harper Government.

Those should be Mainline jobs and SKY should only be operating 5 Q400s out of the island.

[rudder]

Correct. E175 scope was STOLEN by The Ratt and the Harper Government.

Those should be Mainline jobs and SKY should only be operating 5 Q400s out of the island.

My prediction is those will be the last 175’s operated at Express. All are the oldest first generation models. Third generation is significantly more expensive (but significantly better performer).

AC will have to make a decision about the EMB175/CRJ900 replacements that will probably start to occur in the post 2024 time frame. Only 2 products meet ACPA scope limits - E2 EMB and the MRJ100. AC has a commercial obligation to operate a minimum of 80 75 seat Express aircraft at Jazz post 2025. It most certainly will not be 80 Q400’s. Probably 25-35 Q400’s and 45-55 76 seat jets.

As for the method of movement of the 175’s from mainline to Express - it was distasteful. Similar actions by the former government manifest at many airline bargaining tables. However, the ACPA scope limits on subcontracted regional flying are not excessively liberal vs the US. BY 2020 there will be 60 76 seat jets in service at Express. That is probably the peak and will decline nominally over time as AC removes the old 175’s from service as the A220 fleet expands.

[DanWEC]

Sky is purely a staffing company. It's AC's structure, gates, ground crew, dispatch, fuel, airplanes, even the training bill (For the sim only, not the instructors, since they're Sky pilots).
All Sky does is supply crew and mx at a cut rate, paying their employees to do the same job, on the same equipment, wearing the same uniforms, for less money and longer hours.
That being said, there are some great people there, and the combination of the tablets, AC's ACARS/Load, and good SOP's make for a surprisingly streamlined lift.

[iamthecaptainnow13]

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[Jetpilot350]

NO Direct Entry Captains were hired for the September 9th ground school.