Flexjet Interviews
02-16-2018 | 05:12 AM
#71
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Yes I chose to stay on the Options pay scale. My choices 1) Bid an SIC slot on a larger aircraft and remain pay frozen until my pay catches up( unknown duration) 2)Go from a fixed schedule to the PBS and work an average 16 days more per year for $20,000? No thanks, I have a life outside of this place. Now that the Union has negotiated for us to bid PIC slots in larger aircraft, I will wait my turn to hold one of those seats.
02-16-2018 | 04:17 PM
#73
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Even a PIC slot in the Phenom is not all that great. Just got my W-2 for 2017. I didn't miss any time, worked a couple of OT days, and still made less than $110,000. I fly a Flex airplane, wear a Flex uniform but am still on the Options pay scale. I doubt they mentioned that at the interview. Oh, and I've been here 18 years.
02-16-2018 | 08:44 PM
#74
weekends off? Nope...
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Wow!!! After 18 years? Sorry to hear that. SWA is hiring plenty of fractional pilots (including SICs) and you could make that in year 2! It’s your career - but the financial difference between fractional and 121 flying is really too much to ignore... Even Delta is hiring pilots in their upper 40s and low 50s.
Oh and nevermind the 11% longevity raise and 3% contractual raise that you can plan on...
02-17-2018 | 06:13 AM
#75
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It'd actually be REALLY difficult to make 110 in your 2nd year...you'd have to fly the absolute minimum each month, never get rerouted/reassigned/moved up, don't do any of the online distance learning events, and not pick up one minute of extra flying. 90 trips per month puts a 2nd year guy at $108k and flying that little just isn't realistic within our system. I made $137k last year, half of which was at first year pay. And that's just my flight pay, does not include everything else.
Oh and nevermind the 11% longevity raise and 3% contractual raise that you can plan on...
Oh and nevermind the 11% longevity raise and 3% contractual raise that you can plan on...
02-17-2018 | 07:09 AM
#76
weekends off? Nope...
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Seriously. As Kenny Powers said "money may not buy happiness...but have you ever seen somebody on a Jet Ski who wasn't smiling?"
02-18-2018 | 10:41 AM
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Sorry, but the “delta” between airline and fractional pay is just too big to ignore any longer... And the flying may be a lot less fatiguing on the 121 side. Delta is hiring something like 600-1,000 pilots over the next 2 years.
05-25-2018 | 05:59 PM
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05-25-2018 | 08:07 PM
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From: Retired NJA & AA
They're looking for "A-Teamers" who will never fatigue and not write up any MX issues unless cleared thru management first. If they lose the union don't plan on having any family life.
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