REX Drop Minimum's
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looks like minimums have dropped again
We require all applicants to possess the following:
• Australian Commercial Pilot Licence (with ATPL theory credits) or Australian Air Transport Pilot Licence
• Command Multi Engine Instrument Rating
• Civil Aviation Safety Authority Class 1 medical certificate
• Minimum of 800 hours total flight time
• Minimum of 350 hours command or ICUS flight time on multi-engine aircraft under the I.F.R
• Australian citizen or permanent residence status.
http://www.rex.com.au/Jobs/JobDetail.aspx?jid=10
We require all applicants to possess the following:
• Australian Commercial Pilot Licence (with ATPL theory credits) or Australian Air Transport Pilot Licence
• Command Multi Engine Instrument Rating
• Civil Aviation Safety Authority Class 1 medical certificate
• Minimum of 800 hours total flight time
• Minimum of 350 hours command or ICUS flight time on multi-engine aircraft under the I.F.R
• Australian citizen or permanent residence status.
http://www.rex.com.au/Jobs/JobDetail.aspx?jid=10
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Interesting times ahead....
Regionals taking low time guys, drying GA up.....
Looks like a pilot shortage.....finally
The next REX EBA will be very intersting, now the JQ and VB hiring like never before and no endorsment cost up front....
I think REX are in serious strife, with no obvious answer..
Regionals taking low time guys, drying GA up.....
Looks like a pilot shortage.....finally
The next REX EBA will be very intersting, now the JQ and VB hiring like never before and no endorsment cost up front....
I think REX are in serious strife, with no obvious answer..
TK
Of course we all know what the answer is.
Unfortunately management will not even contemplate it untill it is too late. Too late, (if it hasn't come already) may now be only be a matter of weeks rather than months!
Forget waiting for the EBA, It'll be all over by then. Unless management take the initiative and make REX a viable alternative to the others, they are well and truely screwed!
I can be done, but the reality is that it should have been commenced 6 months ago.
I know I've said it before, but nothing less than a 40% payrise will do it, anything less and they are just kidding themselves. That will equate to approx $65K base for the average F/O & $105K for a Capt. Certainly not unreasonable in todays climate.
But no, they put the entire operation in jeapody rather than attempt to retain experienced personel. They will put at risk all the hard work done over the past 5 years, and knuter the most profitable regional airline in the country.
For what?
$4.30 a ticket!
Of course we all know what the answer is.
Unfortunately management will not even contemplate it untill it is too late. Too late, (if it hasn't come already) may now be only be a matter of weeks rather than months!
Forget waiting for the EBA, It'll be all over by then. Unless management take the initiative and make REX a viable alternative to the others, they are well and truely screwed!
I can be done, but the reality is that it should have been commenced 6 months ago.
I know I've said it before, but nothing less than a 40% payrise will do it, anything less and they are just kidding themselves. That will equate to approx $65K base for the average F/O & $105K for a Capt. Certainly not unreasonable in todays climate.
But no, they put the entire operation in jeapody rather than attempt to retain experienced personel. They will put at risk all the hard work done over the past 5 years, and knuter the most profitable regional airline in the country.
For what?
$4.30 a ticket!
Krusty you're absolutely right!!
The stupid regional airlines here in the USA are also doing the same thing, taking pilots with no flight experience , now down to almost bare commercial and instrument rating levels to fly turbo props, and especially regional jets and all the while paying minimum wage. All because they are too cheap and too stubborn to raise the price of a ticket one to three US dollars which would enable them to pay an FO approximately $50,000 a year first-year and increase the captain's salary by 20,000 a year as well. As I have said on some previous posts on other threads, first-year FO's make approximately 1500 to less than 2000 US dollars per month to fly a regional jet (When they finally get off reserve) in some of the world's most complex and busy air space.
I have wanted to fly jets since I was a little boy, but now after bashing my head against a wall
for 25 years in general aviation in two countries to end up yet again, broke and on the unemployment line when I got laid off I am not about to spend thousands of more dollars to relocate to another expensive city to get paid peanuts, and in fact, end up in the red even further than I am now at the end of a full year of full-time employment. So I guess I will never realise my dream of ever getting to fly a jet all because I refuse to be a monkey and work for peanuts.
I am planning on returning to Australia shortly, and if I am unable to secure a job in my hometown, then my flying career, such as it has been will be over permanently.
The stupid regional airlines here in the USA are also doing the same thing, taking pilots with no flight experience , now down to almost bare commercial and instrument rating levels to fly turbo props, and especially regional jets and all the while paying minimum wage. All because they are too cheap and too stubborn to raise the price of a ticket one to three US dollars which would enable them to pay an FO approximately $50,000 a year first-year and increase the captain's salary by 20,000 a year as well. As I have said on some previous posts on other threads, first-year FO's make approximately 1500 to less than 2000 US dollars per month to fly a regional jet (When they finally get off reserve) in some of the world's most complex and busy air space.
I have wanted to fly jets since I was a little boy, but now after bashing my head against a wall
for 25 years in general aviation in two countries to end up yet again, broke and on the unemployment line when I got laid off I am not about to spend thousands of more dollars to relocate to another expensive city to get paid peanuts, and in fact, end up in the red even further than I am now at the end of a full year of full-time employment. So I guess I will never realise my dream of ever getting to fly a jet all because I refuse to be a monkey and work for peanuts.I am planning on returning to Australia shortly, and if I am unable to secure a job in my hometown, then my flying career, such as it has been will be over permanently.
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................it's not an hrs issue anymore here with Rex or any other commercial carrier for that matter it's simply that growth is now outstripping available resources/crew. Still there are numerous pilots out there ( I know of many) that have way beyond these poultry hrs with lots of experience & few ever get a look in never lone a basic interview!
....................their ( Comm carriers) finally getting their just rewards, they've not done their homework by checking & retaining crews by way of decent W&C's and to see if there is actually enough resource out there to cover their expanding requirments.
What goes around comes around, they have left a lot of good drivers out in the cold over the years and not planned for the future.
Capt wally
....................their ( Comm carriers) finally getting their just rewards, they've not done their homework by checking & retaining crews by way of decent W&C's and to see if there is actually enough resource out there to cover their expanding requirments.
What goes around comes around, they have left a lot of good drivers out in the cold over the years and not planned for the future.
Capt wally
