Originally Posted by
bryantchan1
As for why management appeals to me? No, I don't like reigning over others, I'm just interested in business, too. I do want to get my MBA, and flight operations management and things like route/network capacity planning, a financial details interest me.
I completely understand wanting to apply your MBA, but as many before me have said: "Why take a good flying job and screw it up by sitting at a desk all week?" Of course that's a broad generalization, there are some guys who move into management for right reasons, and some that do it for ego.
As I mentioned, most Chief Pilots are middle management (at best) within a large airline, so how and where you could actually apply an MBA would be up to your creativeness. If you want to fly AND you want to apply the MBA, why not pursue a flying job and then build a "plan B" business on the side?
I'm not trying to discourage you, although I think that there is a misconception about how much input management pilots have in the business process within an airline.