CaptainTeezy

Do any of you guys know if you have an ATP and 737 type is it possible to get hired on directly in the BBJ at NetJets? Thanks!

jmack

no, you can't get hired into the 737 at NJA

CaptainTeezy

How long would it take it get upgraded or would your upgrade be accelerated if you had an ATP and a type rating in a B737?

jmack

type won't make it any faster, we have 100's of guys with 73 type and time. just like every airline out there its all about the sr list. if hired now it is a plane you will most liekly never hold. Most jr captain on the 73 is in the top 50 on a list of 2600.

CaptainTeezy

Thanks JMACK, you have been very helpful. Another question for NETJETS...do you guys have the age 60 rule???

jmack

no Sir, guys can fly here as long as they have a first class med.
Just finished a trip a few weeks ago with a guy that retired from AMR in 1995 he is 70 years young and sharp as a tack.

CaptainTeezy

Wow! That is pretty cool, I hope I can still fly at that age!

AirWillie

They don't hire separately for the 737 like the Gulfstream? If not how senior do you have to be to even fly the BBJ? Can anybody explain??

jmack

Captains are in the top 50 on the sr list, most jr fo is just over 100 on the list of 2600

jtf560

Most likely nobody hired in the last 5 years even has any hope of seeing the BBJ in their career at NetJets. I think we only have 3 (maybe 4) and by the time anyone hired fairly recently was senior enough we will either have a new generation of very large business jets or we will have no very large business jets. I was hired this year and I doubt I'll ever even be in even a Falcon 2000 classic since it will take a long time to have the seniority to hold it and there will most likely be a new generation of airframes before I have the seniority. I already have over 300 behind me, but I need to move up quite a bit and we need to aquire many, many airplanes for me to hold any captain slot- years from now. NJA does fly the G-200, but even that takes at least 6 years of seniority to hold as a captain. Newhires can get anything under the BBJ, G-IV and V (at NJI), and the Falcon 2000EZ and guys with over 2 years of seniority have been slowly trickling over to the G-IV as FOs and I think we have 2 guys with at least 2 or 3 years of seniority as the most junior on the 2000EZ. The pay is greater on all of these aircraft so they are obviously more senior. I also believe that the "FOs" on the BBJ are all on captain bypass pay which didn't really change on the new contract for the BBJ.