Corporate Regrets?
12-06-2014, 03:53 PM
#21
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,796
Corporate Regrets?
I did 8 years of corporate. 3 regionals, one LCC, one major, lots of furloughs. Then went part 91 for a Fortune 500 for another 8 years.
Started out as the best job I could imagine in aviation. It was everything I hoped a flying job could be. Lots of time at home, very few overnights. Weekends and holidays at home, good money, great equipment, and the department had never laid off.... Until it did. Before long the layoffs were followed by more overnights, 28 day "tours", days off rescinded with no notice, expense control that bordered on ludicrous.
Soooo... came back to 121. Now I wonder why I left and lament the loss of seniority over those 8 years.
Corporate can be fantastic, no question about it, it can be better than any major airline by a wide margin. The problem is that there are no guarantees and, at least in my case, it changed for the worse very quickly. Went from being my dream job to the corporate equivalent of Mesa almost overnight.
I still find it sad that the management there took the best job in aviation and made the choice to turn it into nothing more than a stepping stone.
Started out as the best job I could imagine in aviation. It was everything I hoped a flying job could be. Lots of time at home, very few overnights. Weekends and holidays at home, good money, great equipment, and the department had never laid off.... Until it did. Before long the layoffs were followed by more overnights, 28 day "tours", days off rescinded with no notice, expense control that bordered on ludicrous.
Soooo... came back to 121. Now I wonder why I left and lament the loss of seniority over those 8 years.
Corporate can be fantastic, no question about it, it can be better than any major airline by a wide margin. The problem is that there are no guarantees and, at least in my case, it changed for the worse very quickly. Went from being my dream job to the corporate equivalent of Mesa almost overnight.
I still find it sad that the management there took the best job in aviation and made the choice to turn it into nothing more than a stepping stone.
12-06-2014, 04:59 PM
#23
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,796
Post 9/11 and after a few furloughs getting away from the airlines and trying part 91 corporate seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately time doesn't stand still while you experiment with new careers. During the 8 years I was flying corporate I missed out on some valuable seniority progression (whether I had accepted recall at my prior company or started with a new one).
Had I ever imagined that I was going to leave corporate it would've been smarter to do it sooner rather than later and get back on a seniority list somewhere.
Had I ever imagined that I was going to leave corporate it would've been smarter to do it sooner rather than later and get back on a seniority list somewhere.
12-08-2014, 03:25 PM
#26
You scratched my anchor
Joined APC: Feb 2011
Posts: 4,876
Originally Posted by TransMach
For crying out loud, AAL's top B777 capt is only $202 an hour.
TransMach
TransMach
$273.00/hr 2015
$308.00/hr 2019
Narrow body FO
$108.00/ 2nd year 2015
$130.00/3rd year 2016
Not too shabby.
12-08-2014, 05:10 PM
#28
You scratched my anchor
Joined APC: Feb 2011
Posts: 4,876
Originally Posted by RI830
Considering my salary to hours flown.
My corporate job pays $200/hr.
Not too shabby. Considering that my non flight duties can't add up to much more than a 121 guys time.
My corporate job pays $200/hr.
Not too shabby. Considering that my non flight duties can't add up to much more than a 121 guys time.
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