GE Flight Department
12-29-2008 | 06:01 AM
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Based at KSWF. They operate (approx. I could be wrong on numbers) 4 Challenger 604, 2 Global Express, 3 BBJ, and 3 S-76. Typical big corporate flight department. Good pay, decent QOL, great equipment, cost of living in the Hudson Valley can be decent. Plan on doing nonflying office stuff and being gone a decent bit of the time. I haven't heard any of their pilots complaining too loud, but good luck getting in. You probably need to know someone who's already there.
03-16-2009 | 07:09 PM
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From: Curator at Static Display
Corrections
3 Challengers; 3 Globals. BBJs are gone, have been for a number of years.
Flight department is actually too small...they outsource about half their flying because they don't have enough airplanes/pilots to support the required corporate travel. They are short a pilot or two but hiring is on hold due to stock price, general US economy, and misguided perception that all corporate aviation is evil.
There are no lead/chase airplanes or other UFO-Conspiracy-Theory wastes of investor money. They primarily use the Challengers for domestic flying and the Globals for global (get it?). There are usually several pax per flight; could even be full.
My sources tell me GE keeps the flight department because:
1. It helps them run the business and make money.
2. They can't always fly via airline to the worldwide places they need to go, at least, not in a business-competitive way.
3. They (senior leaders at one of the world's largest companies) like knowing that their pilots are GE employees and screened/trained to GE standards (which are high, by the way).
NowCorp:
I'm more impressed that you were able to figure out who the previous was.
Flight department is actually too small...they outsource about half their flying because they don't have enough airplanes/pilots to support the required corporate travel. They are short a pilot or two but hiring is on hold due to stock price, general US economy, and misguided perception that all corporate aviation is evil.
There are no lead/chase airplanes or other UFO-Conspiracy-Theory wastes of investor money. They primarily use the Challengers for domestic flying and the Globals for global (get it?). There are usually several pax per flight; could even be full.
My sources tell me GE keeps the flight department because:
1. It helps them run the business and make money.
2. They can't always fly via airline to the worldwide places they need to go, at least, not in a business-competitive way.
3. They (senior leaders at one of the world's largest companies) like knowing that their pilots are GE employees and screened/trained to GE standards (which are high, by the way).
NowCorp:
I'm more impressed that you were able to figure out who the previous was.
03-16-2009 | 07:19 PM
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Unreal they are trolling these boards looking for garbage like this, huh?
I have his email, phone, fax number if you would like it?...but nah...we are above this level of "journalism"...
Knowing people at GE, I can agree with everything you said. Its a well-run, modest, hard-working department vital to shareholder value.
I have his email, phone, fax number if you would like it?...but nah...we are above this level of "journalism"...
Knowing people at GE, I can agree with everything you said. Its a well-run, modest, hard-working department vital to shareholder value.
03-16-2009 | 07:47 PM
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Unbelievable. This guy is all over the boards trying to dig dirt on GE. Guys, be careful about what you say. These people are trying to RUIN our profession. Let's stick to the facts, and let these reporters get bored and run back to reporting on Paris Hilton.
03-16-2009 | 08:28 PM
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From: Curator at Static Display
News Item
I would like to pass on this info for him:
Elvis Presley did not die in 1977, and Michael Jackson never moved to Bahrain.
Rather, they are in a Government experiment, and cross-breeding with green Orion slave-girls in Area 51. (I should add they came to earth in a tragic circumstance; side-swiping Apollo 13 [causing the "Houston, we have a problem" cover-up], as they wanted to see how we staged the fake moon-landing in Nevada). They didn't use their turn-signal when they changed trajectories.
They and their children are finishing the choreography for next year's "People's Choice" awards show, to be hosted by Paris Hilton. Old Navy and Burger King already have a line of crappy seasonal merchandise and "Happy Alien Meals" ready to hit the market.
Michael Crichton's book deal, "To Serve Man," is reportedly in the works.
Elvis Presley did not die in 1977, and Michael Jackson never moved to Bahrain.
Rather, they are in a Government experiment, and cross-breeding with green Orion slave-girls in Area 51. (I should add they came to earth in a tragic circumstance; side-swiping Apollo 13 [causing the "Houston, we have a problem" cover-up], as they wanted to see how we staged the fake moon-landing in Nevada). They didn't use their turn-signal when they changed trajectories.
They and their children are finishing the choreography for next year's "People's Choice" awards show, to be hosted by Paris Hilton. Old Navy and Burger King already have a line of crappy seasonal merchandise and "Happy Alien Meals" ready to hit the market.
Michael Crichton's book deal, "To Serve Man," is reportedly in the works.
03-17-2009 | 07:37 AM
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3 Challengers; 3 Globals. BBJs are gone, have been for a number of years.
Flight department is actually too small...they outsource about half their flying because they don't have enough airplanes/pilots to support the required corporate travel. They are short a pilot or two but hiring is on hold due to stock price, general US economy, and misguided perception that all corporate aviation is evil.
3. They (senior leaders at one of the world's largest companies) like knowing that their pilots are GE employees and screened/trained to GE standards (which are high, by the way).
Flight department is actually too small...they outsource about half their flying because they don't have enough airplanes/pilots to support the required corporate travel. They are short a pilot or two but hiring is on hold due to stock price, general US economy, and misguided perception that all corporate aviation is evil.
3. They (senior leaders at one of the world's largest companies) like knowing that their pilots are GE employees and screened/trained to GE standards (which are high, by the way).
Each pilot who flew supplemental lift had to be personally approved by the GE Manager/Director/VP of Corporate Travel and each company had to meet GE's rather lofty AR/GUS standards.
There may be a helicopter still at SWF, but I haven't seen it around NY/CT so I cannot verify.
03-18-2009 | 10:19 AM
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The "outsourcing" of flying has dried up dramatically in the last 6 months. The Part 135 companies that benefited from this supplemental lift in the past are either out of business, laying off, or otherwise hurting.
Each pilot who flew supplemental lift had to be personally approved by the GE Manager/Director/VP of Corporate Travel and each company had to meet GE's rather lofty AR/GUS standards.
There may be a helicopter still at SWF, but I haven't seen it around NY/CT so I cannot verify.
Each pilot who flew supplemental lift had to be personally approved by the GE Manager/Director/VP of Corporate Travel and each company had to meet GE's rather lofty AR/GUS standards.
There may be a helicopter still at SWF, but I haven't seen it around NY/CT so I cannot verify.
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