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Filler.

 

Some things to consider before you accept employment at Flexjet. They recalled furloughs and laid 60 of them off again about a year later. They have to recall them before they can give you a class date. Whatever they tell you about schedules, vacation and pay is subject to change by an arbitrator because they are forcing the contract to be arbitrated. They are talking about Globals and Gulfstreams. But your chance at those airframes is subject to the new contract, and the arbitrator's ruling. If he honors seniority, you will be on the phenom, not the Global or Gulfstream. I'm not saying don't come here, but do come here with your eyes wide open.

 

Flexjet is 80 percent captains, and Flight Options is 75 percent captains. You will never upgrade, I would not go there. Seniority means nothing! Ricci Land is not a pleasant place to work.

 

What's the schedule like on the Embraers. I'd like LAX base.

 

There is no set schedule on any airframe at Flexjet

 

Sorry, a little confused..so is it a set rotation of 7/7 or 8/6? I see the orange site has a listing looking for captains at 2500tt, safe to assume this would be on the phenom? And last but not least how's the pay over there? Is APC pay scale up to date? Many thanks in advance

 

Flight Options has a 8/7 schedule. 25 percent of the pilot group in each fleet may bid for a 7/7 schedule. That forces 25 percent of the bottom folks onto a 16+2 schedule. That is 16 days on per month with the company being allowed to work them an additional 2 days.

Flexjet has flexbid so they have 13 bid cycles per year. You bid what you want and if you are senior you can get it.

There is a large discrepancy in pay between the two companies and between normal flex pilots and "red label" flex pilots. Both companies are owned by Directional Aviation Capitol. All of their companies now fall under the One Sky brand.

OneSky management has fought tooth and nail to get the Union at FO desertified but they keep failing and losing in court!!! The Union was voted in at Flex about 1 1/2 years ago. Since then management has been openly hostile to combining both groups preferring to segregate the pilots. They cherry pick the pilots for the red label program and have tried to protect them from future layoffs or furloughs by allowing furloughs OUT OF SENIORITY.

Now the whole mess is in the hands of an arbitrator. Hopefully all will be resolved by mid July.

As far as hiring there are still quite a few pilots on furlough from FO and there are plenty of SIC's to be upgraded.

If you saw an add for a pic position for Flexjet it may be for some type of operating partner probably not for the actual Flexjet.

Cheers

 

Roger that. Thanks, sounds like a mess of a situation. Hopefully it all gets cleared up sooner rather than later

 

Interesting. I just received this email from [email protected] today...

Good day!

I hope this message finds you well! Flexjet
has had a very exciting start to 2017 and we
are expecting the rest of the year to have
even more growth! With that, we have opened
up our pilot hiring again! We received your
resume a short time ago for our open Flexjet
Pilot position. Since then, we have
switched recruitment systems and would like
to kindly ask you to resubmit your resume
into our new system. Should you still be
interested, please take a moment and follow
the link below to our new system.

We thank you for your time and have a nice
day!

 

I got that one too.