I've flown both 121 and corporate. Here are my cons and pros of the corporate world.

Cons

1. The average life of a corporate flight department is 4 years-often times you're bouncing from job to job.
2. You're always on call and have no life. You typically need to live no more than two hours away from the airplane
3. The client(s) constantly keeping you waiting. They can and will change their mind in an instant. Often times I've found myself in Europe for an extra week or two. I have had them change their destination many times while in flight.
4. You can't just walk away from the airplane after you land.
5. You have to throw bags, do you own flight planing, kiss ..., etc just to name a few.
6. No jump seat privileges. These are just a few of my dislikes.

Pros

1. The flying is much more challenging than 121.
2. Meet a lot of neat people.

I am burned out on cooperate flying and really want nothing to do with it. I would much rather fly 121 (thought I'll make less money for the first few years). To me it's well worth making the switch to a 121 carrier.

 

There is a way that a strike can happen without a cooling off period. Thus, call the hotline before going to work or at least make sure you walk past the front door of the airport to get to ops.

 

No sir. I was attempting to be funny. Didn't land. Poor judgment on my part because what's going on at G4 is NOT funny. I nominate myself for T.O.T.D. Apologies gents.

The "former athlete" part of GVGUY's stats gave me a chuckle and I thought it would be cute to present myself as the Anti-him. Maybe I'm just jealous - I need to hit that exercise bike more often.

Truth be told, I did apply to G4 several times from about 2010 trough 2013, multiple internal recs. too, and never so much as got a call.

I'm very happy at F9 but we will have our challenges going forward too.

 

Substitute MD80/AB319-20 for B737 and I think we would have a good foundation for the first IBT pay scale at Allegiant. How about Alaska's old #'s?


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New-hires receive 13.5% company contribution to their 401k.

 

Too low. That might have been fine 2 years ago, but after their shennanigans, I'll require more.

 

Its good to dream big.

 

You don't work at Allegiant. You post on here repeatedly and with a vague sense of diminishing what we hope to achieve. Why?

 

Any hopefuls hear back from last week's interviews?

 

Phone interview a couple of weeks back. Haven't heard back. Hope everything is well with the pilot group.

 

If you never dream, you will never achieve more than mediocrity.