Originally Posted by
KnotSee
UPS doesn't fly into Frankfurt.
Night flying is night flying. I'd say someone with night experience would be preferred by UPS. And AMF pilots would get to know how UPS works just by being exposed to them. Plus, you'd get to hobknob with there pilots during the sort and maybe get one to write you a rec.
Cologne, same crap different toilet
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Look it’s not me you have to convince. UPS hasn’t hired anyone directly from AMF in over a decade, and that was literally 1 person and we don’t know the qualifications of that pilot prior to AMF. My buddy who was and AMF new hire with me, who’s dad is a captain at UPS had to go to Frontier before UPS would hire him and it took 6 years.
Saying that UPS should love AMF and hire them is great, but flying at night at AMF is just a little bit different than flying augmented crews through 11 time zones in a heavy multi crew jet, it always will be. Does that mean it’s hard to do? No. Does it mean somebody can’t go from a 1900 to a heavy jet and learn it all? No.
One thing AMF cannot address is the gap from flying 135 single pilot cargo, to the rest of the industry. Turboprops are going away, And there are tons of ways to go get jet time. Look at the metrics of who UPS hires right now and see where AMF stacks, I’ll give you a hint, it’s zero.