Swift Air/iAero. What you should know
02-23-2020, 04:50 AM
#41
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Another 4 Captains quit this past week. Rumor has it that they received some 30 plus PRIA requests, and the village Idiot ( aka CP ) has given orders to slow walk the replies, not to reply until they get a second request, or a phone call from the pilot or company that needs the information. Another form of retaliation.
02-23-2020, 01:52 PM
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Another 4 Captains quit this past week. Rumor has it that they received some 30 plus PRIA requests, and the village Idiot ( aka CP ) has given orders to slow walk the replies, not to reply until they get a second request, or a phone call from the pilot or company that needs the information. Another form of retaliation.
07-28-2020, 04:02 AM
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I'm interested in finding out a little more info about IAero. I know it’s not exactly the top of lists for places to work. However the junior AEX base is close to where I live, so it’s appealing in that regard. Obviously COVID turned everything upside and I’m assuming they aren’t hiring. What were upgrade times and average hours flown per month pre-covid? How many nights away can you expect a month particularly if you live in the AEX base?
07-28-2020, 06:16 AM
#44
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I'm interested in finding out a little more info about IAero. I know it’s not exactly the top of lists for places to work. However the junior AEX base is close to where I live, so it’s appealing in that regard. Obviously COVID turned everything upside and I’m assuming they aren’t hiring. What were upgrade times and average hours flown per month pre-covid? How many nights away can you expect a month particularly if you live in the AEX base?
Rumor has it we have to hire 90 by November. Upgrade time is a crapshoot right now. If we start hiring consistently you can probably expect 12-18 months. Flying in AEX varies, but you can expect 70-80 hrs per month with less than a handful of overnights as almost all the flying there is government and day trips
07-28-2020, 08:59 AM
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I'm interested in finding out a little more info about IAero. I know it’s not exactly the top of lists for places to work. However the junior AEX base is close to where I live, so it’s appealing in that regard. Obviously COVID turned everything upside and I’m assuming they aren’t hiring. What were upgrade times and average hours flown per month pre-covid? How many nights away can you expect a month particularly if you live in the AEX base?
Aex in normal life as someone stated you can fly over 60hrs. It’s all day trips so you’re back in base almost daily with few exceptions like catching the plane somewhere else.
The complication is there’s no established crashpads, we have FAs that have apartments or actually live there. The pilots we have in aex have been living in hotels and have their own vehicles down there since they live somewhere in the southeast.
We are about to open GSO as a base as well but it will be small and will most likely go senior.
11-28-2020, 07:40 AM
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Aex in normal life as someone stated you can fly over 60hrs. It’s all day trips so you’re back in base almost daily with few exceptions like catching the plane somewhere else.
The complication is there’s no established crashpads, we have FAs that have apartments or actually live there. The pilots we have in aex have been living in hotels and have their own vehicles down there since they live somewhere in the southeast.
We are about to open GSO as a base as well but it will be small and will most likely go senior.
The complication is there’s no established crashpads, we have FAs that have apartments or actually live there. The pilots we have in aex have been living in hotels and have their own vehicles down there since they live somewhere in the southeast.
We are about to open GSO as a base as well but it will be small and will most likely go senior.
11-28-2020, 07:56 AM
#47
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11-28-2020, 10:04 AM
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11-28-2020, 02:01 PM
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Rumor has it we have to hire 90 by November. Upgrade time is a crapshoot right now. If we start hiring consistently you can probably expect 12-18 months. Flying in AEX varies, but you can expect 70-80 hrs per month with less than a handful of overnights as almost all the flying there is government and day trips
11-29-2020, 06:04 AM
#50
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No we have only hired 22 total. They’re saving costs but our biggest issue right now is lack of instructors in the pipeline for sims. With recurrents, upgrades and new hire they’re strung thin.
They hired some new instructors recently I believe 2 who are going through training.
January looks like we’re going to be short pilot wise. We’ll see if OT looms around.
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