Originally Posted by
mkfmbos
I have an interview coming up. 7k tt 1500 TPIC on A320. I work overseas. I don't need another minute of airbus time on my resume and I'm ASSuming that I don't need the practice. Now for the question:
If I join I'll be on McDonalds fry cook pay for a year on reserve and then McDonalds fry cook Manager pay year two. I keep hearing that you can drop your entire reserve schedule. How does that work? Do I still get paid my minimum? On 3k a month, with two kids, and not living in base, a crashpad would be impossible. If I took the job, pending the offer of course, I would rely on the fact that I can basically take the first year off and not have to worry about a crashpad. Is this possible, or am I reaching. Otherwise I could hold out for a better job that may never come. I don't need the "don't come to Spirit" rhetoric. Facts are appreciated.
Just a friendly heads up; apparently they’ve been telling interviewees that they will upgrade in 3 years, which I think is very misleading.
We have about 1900 pilots now, about 900 of those are FOs, waiting to upgrade. We have less than 60 more aircraft on order. That equates to only about 600 more captain upgrades for this aircraft order. We have very few retirements. Attrition is tough to predict.
You do the math and predict realistically how long it’ll take you to upgrade. Plan on being paid horribly for years.