Alkoa wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:50 pm
Do yourself a favour, don't waste your time at Encore. You have better chance to be hired at AC or even WJ mainline if you fly for AC express. If you are flying 703, just stay where you are a bit longer, apply WJ mainline at 1500 hours and skip the whole Encore mess. There is absolutely no reason to come at Encore as there is no flow, no one list, low wages and no future. They are losing pilots and experience fast, sadly!
On the other hand, Encore is a company where you can spend several years, get paid $40,000 base salary, fly relatively new airplanes with people who have good personalities, and have a guaranteed job at WestJet mainline.
Even with the one list being out the window, we're still better off here than at Jazz. At Jazz you have a guaranteed interview, but an interview means nothing. At Jazz, you don't find out where you're based until your second day of training. At Jazz the newest guy gets all of the shit.
At Encore, as a first year FO, I am bidding for one day pairings and getting them. I got both of my desired vacation bids, Christmas and New years. I am happy here and, even with the shit going on, I am still in a significantly better place than I was last year.
If in five or ten years I can't flow to mainline, I'll have more than enough experience for AC to hire me on no problem.