Originally Posted by
Captain.Crunch
The rumour of E3s being considered at Frontier is 100% true. I am in regular contact with a senior member of the recruiting department there. Pre-COVID they had plans to trial 6 Australian E3 pilots who were already there and had gained hours flying for regional operators.
If those pilots were successful, Frontier would have looked at ramping up that program. Regardless it wouldn't be an option for someone who hadn't already spent some time flying at one of the regional operators. They would only consider those who had over 500hrs of regional jet flying in the US first and met the other min requirements for total time etc.
It's still something they may revisit if there is a need down the road as things recover. But there would be no direct path from Oz to that job without a stint at a regional.
Ok, so they had plans to trial it before COVID. Did they actually take any E3's?
Not really seeing why they would need that now or the foreseeable future with their new pay package and so many unemployed US pilots.