Experienced First Officer – Embraer 145 (Fast-Track to Captain)

🧭 The opportunity

Bring your hard-earned flight time to a carrier that maximizes your career earnings and accelerates your path to the left seat. As a High-Time First Officer at Piedmont Airlines, you’ll fly the Embraer 145 from our Philadelphia, Charlotte, and Harrisburg crew bases with a clear, contractual progression to Captain, comprehensive benefits, and family travel privileges across the American Airlines network.

🧰 What you’ll do

• Operate the Embraer 145 as First Officer, ensuring safety, compliance, and on-time performance under FAR Part 121.
• Execute standard operating procedures, checklists, and company policies with precision and professionalism.
• Work closely with the Captain and dispatch to deliver a safe, efficient, and passenger-focused operation.
• Maintain proficiency and currency through recurrent training and checking.
• Based at PHL, CLT, or MDT crew bases as operationally assigned.

🌟 Minimum qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Valid United States passport, or a valid passport with authorization to work in (and re-enter) the United States.
• Current FCC Radiotelephone Operator Permit.
• Current FAA First-Class Medical Certificate.
• Meet all FAA requirements to carry passengers for two years from your date of hire.
• 2,000 hours total flight time.
• Appropriate FAA pilot certificates to accrue upgrade-qualifying time under FAR 121.436(a).
• 500–949 hours of FAR 121.436(a) upgrade-qualifying flight time.

✨ Preferred qualifications

• Type rating in a Part 25 aircraft.
• Current employment in a pilot position.

🚀 Compensation & progression

• Captain upgrade eligibility after 2,500 total hours and 1,000 hours of qualifying FAR 121.436 time.
• Pilots with 750 hours of qualifying FAR 121.436 time are paid as a Captain (subject to verification).
• Captains flow to mainline after 5 years of service or are paid top of scale until they flow.

🎁 Benefits & travel

• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Family travel privileges within the American Airlines system.

📨 Ready to apply?

If you meet the qualifications and are eager to accelerate your path to Captain, submit your application and flight-time documentation to Piedmont Airlines. Qualified high-time First Officers will be contacted to discuss base assignment and next steps.