ExpressJet team members have been jetsetting around the country this fall, but we’re not vacationing. We’re visiting aviation students on their campuses and giving them a chance to check out our CRJ200 and ERJ145 aircraft first-hand.
“Gone are the days of reaching students by phone or email. Visiting students at their school, in the classroom, lets us engage and inspire the future generation of aviators,” said Darrin Greubel, general manager of Flight Operations at ExpressJet. “We want students to know it is never to soon to begin investing in your career, and to remind them what they’re working toward.”
Since August, pilots, mechanics, dispatchers and flight attendants have traveled the country on collegiate plane tours to 12 Airline Pilot Pathway Program (AP3) partner universities. The plane tours are a reflection of ExpressJet’s ever-present core focus of educating, engaging and empowering future aviators across the country.
“At ExpressJet, we are bridging the gap between the regional airline community and the university campuses through AP3,” said Darrin. “We take pride in educating and mentoring the future generation of aviators and helping them grow in their careers, from the beginning.”
Through AP3, ExpressJet has established relationships with and attracted talent from some of the most prominent aviation institutions in the country. So far this year, we’ve taken a jet to 12 univerisities that are part of AP3. We hope to visit our other partner school in 2016.
- Auburn University
- Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) – Daytona
- Florida Institute of Technology
- Indiana State University
- Lewis University
- Liberty University
- Louisiana Tech University
- Middle Tennessee State University
- Purdue University
- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
- University of North Dakota
- Western Michigan University
