NZNV

I can add a few things to CA1900. I am a 2nd year FO and I plan on about $1750/check take home without any OT, per diem or holidays on the 18-day. But it is going to very greatly depending on where you live and how much you put into 401K. The salaries on this website are what we make, calculate everything from them and you will know exactly what you are going to make, they pay once every two weeks. You can expect anywhere from 5-15% more with all of the extras. Also some thing you may not consider being an airline pilot, Atlantic Bucks, AvTrip, company card points or just free bees, we get them all over. I even got a Key Lime Pie last week in MIA and a tip in TPA. As an added bonus you may want to plan on gaining 15-30 pounds as there are usually 10-20 opportunities to eat free cookies a day at this job.

As far as aircraft assignments, I wouldn't plan on anything bigger than the G-200, but that will be very lucky and you will stay junior for some time, there now seems to be movement from the smaller fleets to the bigger fleets for FOs since there is such slow movement on upgrades. I will be moving to a bigger fleet when I can hold it this fall. There will be a spot in the BE-400 for you.

757upspilot

I came over to this forum to see what was going on in this sector of the fliing Jobs in the country.
Its really nice to see guys talk about the job and the company they work for in a positive manner.
Go to the cargo forum to see what its like on the freight side, can get very ugly.
Keep in mind when reading over there that some of those who post are management assigned the task to keep the troops worried about something and fighting amongst themselves, its the large old style corporate union busting procedure.
The concept of service to the people riding in back used to exist at the majors, not anymore.

serhito

CA1900, NZNV

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions.

Do you have any aircraft type that regularly fly to Europe or International destinations ? (Just to know if you have any extensive international operation)

I am aware that Netjets has no jumpseat privileges, do you have reduced airfares ? If not, how many frequent flyer miles do you usually accumulate in a year ?

Thanks.

Blueridger

I'll try to answer your questions serhito,

As far as int'l ops at NJA, they are quite prevalent, especially among the larger fleet types. The Falcon EASY is probably the a/c that will get you to Europe once in a while, but they do not hire directly into that fleet. However, the Falcon 2000, G200, Sovereigns, and X's do quite a bit of overseas flying, mostly to Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, and the islands (Carribean and Bermuda). There are also the occasional flights into South America.

You are correct, we have no jumpseat privileges, and the amount of airline miles you accumulate have a lot to do with your base and which airline provides the majority of service to your base. I am currently in the DFW area, so I fly AA about 75% of the time and SWA the remainder. I usually can cash in my AA miles once a year for a free roundtrip ticket to Europe and then get one free roundtrip SWA ticket once a year redeemable for any domestic trips I might have. Not a bad deal considering you have an assigned seat and don't need to sweat it out seeing if you'll get on.
You will also gain GE capital points from the company provided credit card. These points are redeemable for a variety of things, one of which is a price discount on airline tickets. Typically, for every $1000 you accumulate on the card, you will get $10 off anything on the list of perks. So far, my card has over $20,000 on it in a period of 5 months, so the points come quickly.

FlyFastLiveSlow

Do the airline tickets they purchase allow you to use your points to upgrade? What about hotels...does the company book your room or do you get to choose? Thanks for the info.

OmahaPilot

The company books all airline and hotel reservations.

We get to keep all loyalty points. The hotel points seem to be worth more than the airline points. I usually get about 150,000 Hilton points a year. Also get quite a few PriorityClub (Crowne Plaza, Intercontinental, etc) Marriott and Hyatt points.

Last month, I just stayed at a couple of 5-star hotels in Rome and Brussells using points.

Also, Hilton lets you designate an airline for points also. I get .5 Southwest point whenever I stay at a Hilton.

lizizpilot

I understand that when a pilot begins a tour it generally starts with taking an airline flight from their domicile to whereever they are needed, which brings me to my question. I was looking at the list of domiciles and I saw that PDK (Peachtree Dekalb in Atlanta) is on the list. If I'm not mistaken, PDK is strictly a general aviation airport, i.e. no airlines. So how would things work for a pilot who chooses to be based there?

NZNV

You will park your car at Signature for free and then take a taxi (sedan service) to ATL to catch an airline. And yes the company pays the $70 to get you to ATL, but if you volunteered to take MARTA I'm sure no one would complain. The same goes for TEB and VNY and even when you are at an airport like MDW they may send you in a taxi to ORD to catch a flight. The exception is in the NYC area the company arranges a CLS sedan to move you around.

LucasM

NZNV,
Did you happen to be in BWG last week? I talked with a couple Netjets guys that flew the Beechcraft/Hawker 400.

NZNV

Nope, never been to BWG. Spending some quality time in MUT today though.