Lehigh Carbon Community College Signs Agreement with ExpressJet

Lehigh Carbon Community College(LCCC) will sign a partnership agreement with ExpressJet Airlines at 11 a.m., Monday, August 8, offering aviation students at the college a potential career progression with the airline. The ceremony will be held in room 113B of the Student Services Center on the college’s Schnecksville campus.

ExpressJet Airlines (which is affiliated with American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines) has partnerships in place with most of the major aviation training programs in the U.S.

Through this pilot pathway agreement, a student who completes the professional pilot program at LCCC (with flight training accomplished in-house) will receive a guaranteed early interview at ExpressJet. The program is designed to provide opportunities for future employment for graduates of the LCCC program, and to build a hiring pool of pilots for the airline.

Upon successful completion of the interview, the student will be offered a conditional offer of employment with ExpressJet. They would continue to flight instruct as a Certified Flight Instructor for LCCC until they meet the required hours to be hired at ExpressJet.

ExpressJet’s Airline Pilot Pathway Program, more commonly known as AP3, provides a clear path for students from partner schools to go from the training environment, to the right seat at ExpressJet. In addition, students are assigned a mentor who is a current ExpressJet pilot that can help answer questions, offer advice and be a resource for the student. ExpressJet is the only regional airline that offers career pathways to United Airlines and JetBlue Airways.

For more information on LCCC’s aviation program, located at the Lehigh Valley International Airport, contact Aram Basmadjian, chief flight instructor, at abasmadjian@lccc.edu.