a little bird in my family told me that gemini might be getting the 747 to replace the dc-10s when they're parked this year. you can try there

 

FMI,

I don't know of any of our pilots that were straight corporate. However, with that said, Focus Air (and others I presume) are looking for pilots with a background in heavy jets and with experience flying one week to South America, the next week to the Ukraine, and the following week all over Asia and Africa.

If I may add my opinion, if you can highlight in your resume and in conversation any of the above qualities, than by all means send something to the Chief Pilot of any of these Cargo carriers. I was hired at Focus with no 747 time at all. However, I had other resume items that made up for it, and knew a network of pilots already employed there. Both of which, I think are equally important.

Bottomline, if you can network and market yourself as to having what they can prosper from, by all means start the process.

 

UPS (and other flavors of the year, like Fed Ex) have USPS contracts. I believe one of the stipulations to flying the USPS contracts is residence in the US over the last 5 years.

If you go to CX, make sure you are a DEFO on the cargo side. If you go in as a SO you'll go straight to Hong Kong and will possibly de-qual yourself for UPS.

Perhaps someone more familiar (or willing to go read their employment contract) with UPS hireing mins knows more, but I wouldn't set my sights on 'brown' w/o knowing this if I was looking at international carriers.

 

I've come over from the maintenance side of the airlines, after 15 years of working, training and teaching the 747 classic and -400. With just at 3K hrs, most of it multi PIC and some 121, I'm having no luck at even a "thanks, but no thanks" response to my resume's.

Anyone know of a place that could use a low timer ATP, ex-tech 747 guy? I'm as unencumbered as a pilot can be, and would love to use that freedom to work from the right seat of the whale.

Ronin

 

Try Connie, there will be more hiring this year. The downside is at 3000 hours they'll probably only hire you into the fe seat, not right seat and the pay scale is really low.