"It's an opportunity to give good, hardworking, well-qualified folks jobs who want to live in the US want to be a pilot for a US airline," Owens said.īreeze already has around 120 applicants for the program, with the majority of pilots living in Australia and some who are already in the US. Skilled Australian nationals can apply to legally work in the US and regional airlines including CommutAir and ExpressJet Airlines have used the program to recruit pilots from the country. Alternative solutions to the pilot shortageĪustralian pilots will be able to work as Breeze pilots under the E-3 work visa program in a little-used but not unprecedented solution to the pilot shortage. Airbus pilots will help induct Breeze's A220-300 fleet later this year and fly longer flights and multi-day trips comparable to traditional airline pilots. It often indicates a user profile.Įmbraer pilots fly what are known as "out and back" trips that will see them return to their home base every night. Unless a couple regionals fold and all of a sudden you have 100’s on the street.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. But in order for breeze to capitalize on that potential, they will need pilots, I Just don’t see how they’re going to manage their hiring needs. F9 is already going into smaller secondary airports because they too see the demand. The market will be wide open for the LCC’s. Specially when regionals start to fold because of lack of pilots. I still think the underserved secondary markets will be $$$. I agree with all these statements except #2. He is going to turn the airline model on its head! What what what? But this is Neeleman!! He started jet blue. We’re not in love with any in particular other than making money.” Neeleman’s answer: Who knows? “We’ve got a hundred cities we’re looking it.
We will see.Īvelo was first to up pilot pay.
Breeze airways pilot pay free#
Hopes he can ride the wave of free press up the hill and get over before it crashes. yeah, looking like the last day of the quarter. Oh, the A200 will fly in the second quarter. Pople still won't stop speculating about the West Coast base. How many months did we see article after article about how they were going into underserved secondary airports with no completion? First flight, TPA-CHS and it went on to be even more underwhelming from there. Or will the investors just pull their remaining investment like what happened at Skybus? Breeze is sounding more shaky with each passing day the moment I saw their route structure, I gave them near zero chance of survival.What what what? But this is Neeleman!! He started jet blue. Looking at this operation, I have to wonder how long it will take to run out of the $200M in capital they raised for this experiment of an airline. I've got to work on my sarcasm it was a bit too subtle. It could well be some sort of gimmick since the announcement just came out today, but it shows they at least acknowledge they have to do something to stay competitive. Hopefully they get their act together sooner rather than later.īeyond that, in the start-up world, Avelo is still offering an $1800/month commuting stipend and now a bonus.
It sounds like sooner or later they'll have to improve things pay and base and commuting wise because while people may want to take a chance on a start up, if it has a base they really want and can jump on the seniority train early, it's a problem when you close that base that so many people came to the airline for. Obviously now, that's all a moot point since the E-Jet base in TPA is gone, and while I do have 121 time, I don't have the time they want for the A220. I posted this over a week ago, because of my interest in eventually applying here and making it to TPA if attrition was high. Attrition level is high and we lost our most commutable base on the 190 and dont have the commuter stipend anymoreYeah, for sure.
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