PSA Airlines to Host Dayton Job Fair on April 30 to Fill 70 Local Positions

DAYTON, Ohio – PSA Airlines is hosting a job fair on April 30, 2016 to meet with eligible candidates for 70 open positions in Dayton to help support the immense growth the airline has seen over the past 18 months. The job fair will take place at PSA’s Training Center in Vandalia, Ohio. Recruiters will be on site to meet with potential candidates for open positions including frontline positions such as pilots, flight attendants, maintenance technicians, as well as management and support positions in flight operations, maintenance and engineering, planning, and IT.

 

Dayton Job Fair Event Details

When: April 30, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time

Where: PSA Training Center, 3300 Terminal Dr., Vandalia, OH 45377

PSA is the fastest growing regional carrier under the American Eagle brand. Since 2014, PSA has doubled its size and will grow to operate 150 Bombardier CRJ aircraft over the next two years. As a result of this growth, PSA has expanded it Dayton-based its facilities, including a new maintenance hangar opening later this summer. The new 77,000 square foot hangar is adjacent to PSA’s current maintenance hangar located at the Dayton International Airport and will be the airline’s largest aircraft maintenance support facility the company operates. Nearly half of the open positions PSA has open in Dayton will be supporting the work at this state-of-the-art facility.

In addition to its open maintenance positions, PSA is recruiting the best and the brightest pilots. PSA gives its pilots advancement opportunities few other regionals can match – the most significant being seniority-based flow through that creates a direct career path from PSA to American Airlines – the world’s largest airline. PSA’s future offers even more comprehensive benefits to new pilots, including an up to $15,000 sign-on bonus; fast upgrade time and flow to American; a well-established pilot training cadre offers fully-subsidized ATP-CTP course certification enabling new pilots to immediately join the next First Officer class; the most flexible scheduling capabilities in the regional airline business; and reduced reserve time for first officers and captains.

Other benefits included as part of the open positions available in Dayton include a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive wages, medical and dental insurance, 401(k) and profit-sharing. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Airlines, employees have non-revenue travel benefits across the entire American network which offers nearly 6,700 flights per day to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries.

About PSA Airlines

PSA Airlines operates an all-jet fleet consisting of exclusively Bombardier regional jet aircraft. The company’s more than 2,400 employees operate nearly 700 daily flights to nearly 90 destinations. Headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, PSA also has flight crew bases located in Dayton, Cincinnati, Ohio, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Charlotte, North Carolina. PSA has maintenance facilities in Dayton and Canton, Ohio and Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport and Charlotte, North Carolina. PSA operates 35 Bombardier CRJ 200 aircraft, 26 Bombardier CRJ 700 aircraft and 45 Bombardier CRJ 900 NextGen aircraft. The airline expects to add an additional 50 aircraft to its fleet in the next two years, tripling its fleet size and employee base since the airline’s growth plan was announced in December 2013.