no chance
 

Unfortunately chances of a green card without family or a wife/fiancee are about 0 percent. I am Canadian by birth lived and flew out of Manchester for many years, last job 737. Met an American girl got engaged and now I have my green card. The process was easy having a fiancee that was American.

Answering your other question, no company will help you in attaining a visa, they are very very strict on this, even the regionals. Just before my green card I was issued a red card which was my work authorization, one regional turned me down with that, another said it was ok. My green card was issued shortly after.

As far as the conversion , for an EASA ATP you will get a great FAA PPL. I was lucky because I also had a Canadian ATP which meant it was a straight conversion ATP for ATP with all ratings carried over and no skills test.

Many jobs in the USA currently but it depends what you want. Regionals are starting off at 65-80 k a year, but the clincher is 121 time. The legacy carriers want 121 time which means a job at a regional like myself now. I can't go CAPT until I have 1000 hours 121 time and my total time and other PIC means sweet FA

sorry to be the bearer of bad news but thats the way it is. if you were Australian you would be welcomed in to fly here on a visa, go figure!

regarding life here, well its great, I live in Florida commute to work on any airline I want for free, free passes ect. I do like the lifestyle just not the regionals. I am currently with Piedmont.

If any Canadians have a question shoot me a message.

Bafanguy, Havick et al.

First off thank you both for all of the useful info you've both posted here and in the Aus forums over the past few years.

If you don't mind though I was wondering what the lifestyle at the better regionals is like now. Can you bid for day trips, or are they all multi's? Really I'm after what your experience has been like.

I have a pretty cruisy job with one of the Aus big 4, and a US partner who's pretty keen to get home so I'm weighing up whether it's worth the jump.

I must admit though it sounds like it'd be one hell of an adventure!

Cheers,

Socks

My company has a combination of day trips (called locals), 2 day, 3 day, and 4 day trips. We have almost no redeyes but we have a couple. I’ve never done one. We also have something called “standups” which are also known as “split duty” or “high speeds” which is flying the last flight out to an out station and bringing the first flight back in the morning. They put you in a hotel for 4 hours or more and you pay is typically much more than what you actually fly (on a standup). A friend of mine works at a company that also has 5 day trips.

What you get awarded depends on your seniority, the availability of trips, your base, and the plane you fly. Schedules can sometimes vary wildly month to month if you are very junior, and get more consistent with seniority.

PM me with your contact details and I’ll give you a call, too much to be able to write on here.

Drop,

Do you have a green card via your spouse ? If so, you've got 51% of the problem solved.

Thanks for all your replies ✌

No green card at this stage, but that'll be the plan for the future. At this stage the move is more for the missus, and the regionals seem like a good way to get acquainted with how life works there.

The idea would be to settle and move on to the majors, so it's more a matter of how to spend the next few years until then.

Cheers,

Socks

Drop,

Understand. So, you'd shoot for a regional that'd get your FAA ticket for you and go from there ?

What airplane have you been flying so far ?

Not a gimmick
 

Not sure how it’s a gimmick if you choose an American wholly owned and have guaranteed flow to mainline no interview .

What is a gimmick is the bonus they offer. American regionals - psa, envoy and piedmont get an American Airlines employee number from day one , it’s pensionable time, free passes on par with main liners , buddy passes ect.

Others that have regionals may offer an interview but not guaranteed employment like American . 5 year flow at Piedmont !

Bonus
 

My bonus with piedmont was 21500 and it was paid out , same with envoy ! Average salary is 60000 with all the triple time paid out some FO’s made 12000 in a month . Not for me , I like my time at home on my days off ,

There's quite a bit of discussion about the AA flow. Yes, it's there and will be great for those able to get it in a few years....IF they get it in a few years. That's the wild card. As the financial wizards say, "Past performance is no guarantee of future performance.". There are a few black swan events that could radically change the flow timeline.

Having it in one's pocket as an option is certainly a plus especially considering the low numbers of AA new hires who are civ-only street hires.

Lots of ways to look at these deals. No one has to be right or wrong...que sera sera. :cool:

Right or wrong
 

Everything in aviation is a what if . What if another volcano blows and companies go under like a few years ago . What if there is another terror attack closing us airspace for over a week .

Point is this , currently I know guys who are flowing monthly , american is obligated to take from its feeders as long as guys pass the initial course . This is why you don’t see the street hires as you once did . All our apps are American , SOP aligned American now , uniform is american , as is our flight and commuting perks . Pay is being negotiated as we speak as is quality of life . If you are looking at a legacy carrier than the way to go is a regional wholly owned . Upgrade quickly you will just need 1000 hours 121 time .

I don't recall saying people weren't flowing. AA's flow may the secret code to attracting new blood from a currently limited supply.

And I'm happy to see things go well for people.

I spent 35 years as a working Part 121 line pilot so I'm quite familiar with earning a living in the airline biz...and the often negative factors that influence it having experienced them myself. :)

Yep this pretty much sums up my situation.

I joined Envoy late 2016, flew 1000 hours the last 12 months, slated for CA uograde training very shortly.

My flow date for AA mainline is mid 2022 and decreasing each time I check the list and proposed flow date.

All things considered not a terrible deal considering I was a helicopter pilot (didn’t need the RTP course offered) only weeks before I started at Envoy.

If I can goto mainline or a better deal between now and my flow date I will (fedex/UPS being the dream sheet), just starting to send apps out now so we will see. If it works out I end up flowing to AA because I don’t get bites anywhere else at least I gave it a shot and I still ended up at AA all the same. Better than sitting in Skywest or of another contract carrier 6-10 years from now still not getting bites to a legacy, just my opinion I’m sure there are others out there that may disagree.

All the while with AA mainline travel benefits and ID90 with lots of carriers and jumpseat with just about any US based carrier.

The often overlooked perk of flow is even if you don’t end up at the mainline carrier that owns you, the benefit is guaranteed progression up the seniority list every month due to the flow. Certainly helps with upgrade times, bidding for lines, vacation etc. As an FO I was bidding number 6-7 in base in only a year, and I’ll likely get a line right away as a CA once I finish training in a month or so.

Just my 2c from someone currently living it.

Right, but never lose sight of why this is being done. It's being done so that they can keep pay at the regionals low and still fill the seats up front. That's the bottom line. Note, I'm not saying that they haven't put together a package which has potential long term benefits, I would agree that they have Just pointing out that despite the attractiveness of the deal, it's still a case of holding out the promise of a good job to get you to work for a while at the job that you don't really want to do, at least long term.

Agree with your points, but where else do you go? There’s only other !!!!ty regionals (let’s face it they’re all pretty much the same). Let’s not forget it was mainline pilots that made B scales/regionals possible in the first place by allowing scope.

havick,

Nicely summarized.

Someone has to be the glass-half-empty guy so I stepped up to it. It's what we do here at Ye Olde Pilot Home. :E

All true, I wasn't saying don't take the job. Hey, it's a relatively good time to be in the pilot job market. Enjoy the fact that, for now at least, they're offering some things to sweeten the pot, and pay scales *are* being pushed up some. I'm just saying don't fool yourself that this means that the pay and conditions will keep improving until they are approaching mainline terms. Quite the opposite, they're adding flow through agreements and other carrots precisely to keep that from happening.

And yeah, the unions agreeing to B scales, (as long at they remained on the A scales) really illustrated how sincere they are about the whole "we're all in this together" concept. Hell, it's inherent in the name "union". You'd think they'd at least pretend to adhere to the concept.

This can't hurt Trans States' recruiting efforts:

"Trans States Airlines pilots now have a direct pathway to the Frontier Airlines flight deck. An agreement inked by the two airlines guarantees participating Trans States pilots a First Officer position with the Denver-based Airbus operator after as little as two years of service with Trans States."

“A guaranteed pathway that allows for quick progression to a major carrier of Frontier’s caliber will be a huge asset to Trans States’ pilot recruiting efforts.”

https://worldairlinenews.com/2018/04...low-agreement/

A few hurdles but not outlandish:

“Trans States pilots will forego Frontier's interviewing process, and flow to Frontier Airlines' flight deck as a First Officer. “

http://www.transstates.net/careers/p...w-Program.aspx

Announcement dated today:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...=eml_cleartime


And, they take E3s:

http://www.transstates.net/careers/P...andidates.aspx

Cape Air creating its own pilot supply pipeline:

“The local plan would see future pilots train for 750 hours -- roughly 1.5 to two years -- and then train with Cape Air for the next 750 hours.

If they complete the program, Whitmer said, the student pilots would more than likely land jobs with Cape Air.”



Airport, Cape Air creating pilot school | AviationPros.com

Because it’s always been my dream job to bounce around New England, The Caribbean, Micronesia, The MidWest in a light twin.
Really I don’t see the point of feeder airlines starting such programs.
Just watch reruns of ‘Wings’, and you’ll get the whole Cape Air experience.
Who has this as a career goal?
I can not see any career path going through a light piston twin job.
At least at Wiggins up the road in Manchester NH, you’ll get turbine twin time.