Corporate Job when Furloughed
03-24-2021, 08:42 AM
#51
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Joined APC: Mar 2021
Posts: 3
Originally Posted by RI830
Thats the truth!! Sleepy Boy loungers, cable tv and endless coffee. Sign me up!
There are good ops and bad, good CEO and bad ones. More importantly when the airlines are hurting usually (not this time) the corporate operation are in just as much trouble.
The company jet is the first thing to go when bad times hit.
I guess win one for the corp guys this time around......
I know Chiefs that won't even look at "airlines resumes" unless you have some prior corp time and a friend that vouches for you.
04-01-2021, 03:55 PM
#52
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Joined APC: Jan 2016
Position: A-320 FO
Posts: 33
I am a little tired of the corporate (including both 91 and 135) verses 121 arguments. While there may be career 121 guys that never dabbled in the other side, there are many who worked as charter and corporate pilots before making that switch. The realty is that we can’t judge solely based on prior employment history. I also don’t entirely agree that training in the 121 side is better than part 135 or part 91, this is also situation dependent. A good corporate flight department will have guys going to FSI or some equivalent twice per year. A good training center and a company willing to send their pilots makes the difference. One of the things I miss about flight safety is that they actually still teach systems during initial and recurrent.
12-21-2021, 09:12 PM
#53
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Joined APC: Jul 2017
Posts: 1,727
Originally Posted by gulfstrm5
Plenty of contract flight crew opportunities at www.crewblast.co if you are still current in type. All different aircraft types available on their platform, a lot of connections to bigger departments.
12-24-2021, 07:21 PM
#54
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Joined APC: Mar 2011
Position: Left seat on a kite
Posts: 1,884
Originally Posted by havick206
Do you have an interest in Crewblast?
Word of mouth and recommendations are where work comes from.
This thread is over year n half old. There aren’t any “furloughed” pilots looking for corporate gigs.
If there was some hold out, a good hiring dept will sniff this out quickly and such pilot will be fed a nice lunch and shown the door.
01-12-2022, 07:12 AM
#56
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Originally Posted by WingAttackPlanR
I’m flying Part 91 Globals now and have had at least one 121 buddy ask about jumping to our department if he got furlough from American. Our director is huge on loyalty and flat out will not hire, train and pay a furloughed 121 bubba who’d likely leave when recalled. Safe to say the mindset is “If you weren’t looking to work here when the airlines were going gang busters, than this really isn’t the place for you.”
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01-16-2022, 04:09 PM
#57
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Posts: 101
Originally Posted by WingAttackPlanR
I’m flying Part 91 Globals now and have had at least one 121 buddy ask about jumping to our department if he got furlough from American. Our director is huge on loyalty and flat out will not hire, train and pay a furloughed 121 bubba who’d likely leave when recalled. Safe to say the mindset is “If you weren’t looking to work here when the airlines were going gang busters, than this really isn’t the place for you.”
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I was the victim of very poor timing with COVID hitting and shutting down my regional just as I was becoming competitive for my dream 91 gig. No flight departments were interested in a furloughee. Oddly enough, after a year or so in the acmi world, a very solid 91 gig presented itself, and shortly after getting settled back into the 91 world, some of the legacies that I had all but written off have started to call. Pretty wild times for the industry the past few years. I suspect that a lot of companies will not have the luxury of being as selective as they once were going forward.
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