Originally Posted by
pmd603
Okay, so I'm fairly new to reading through these threads and am confused what all this 9E, S5 talk is all about. I'm pretty sure they are companies or contracts or whatever. Can someone please clarify. I am a commercial pilot building flight time and potentially looking at regionals as the next move cause what else is there really at this stage in my career?
Every airline has a two digit identifier. 9E = Pinnacle, F9 = Frontier, S5 = Shuttle America, etc. The regionals are the most popular option after flight instructing, then probably freight/cargo. There is also ferry flying, ag, banner and pipeline patrol. Corporate flying is usually pretty hard to break into with less than 3k or 4k hours unless you know somebody. There are also foreign options such as Dynamic Aviation if you want to move out of the country. Good Luck to you.