Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Kalitta pays a 4th year copilot 148 an hour. You would need 2000 hours to gross 300k. In addition they have no retirement plan other than a 5% match on contributions to the 401k. The reserve guarantee is 64 hours.
The APC Rates haven’t been updated. By the 4th year they probably have upgraded already. Omni upgrades are around 2 years.
$300k as a junior CA over there is entirely reasonable.
Nobody is saying it beats a legacy job, for some it might.... topic for a separate discussion. This discussion was best commuting policies. The job is certainly as good as a JB, Spirit or others in the majors forum. If you like large blocks of time off all at once it may be a better job for some.
So, if it’s a commuting policy comparison, I’d say K4, Omni & ATI have the best policies. Positive space, keeping the miles, all the time every time, never on their own time, counts towards duty time, never need a Crashpad as hotels are always provided and in most cases the pilot keeps the points.
However, I think the discussion was meant to be of the airlines jumpseating to/from work who has the best commuter policy. That would exclude the ACMI’s from the comparison.