cnl311963

Any info on how things are looking for a new contract? That comes up in 2019 or 20?

Riverside

Too early.

No Land 3

Lots of rumblings about wanting to bring up our retirement, but too early still.

cnl311963

I've seen the K4 thread, but what is recent reality after applying as far as the phone call, interview, aircraft assignment, training, IOE delays, etc.?

Checkers21

Thanks for the super awesome lines in June!!!

Locke

Calls seem to be averaging a couple months. Classes are anywhere from 2 weeks to a month from then. Right now most are going to the 76.

Colt45

767 schedule has deteriorated to basically permanent reserve.

4runner

You might have to wait like most applicants. You may not get called. Did you mean that “what timeline can I look at to receive a call to interview? What were previous candidates qualifications”?

maxjet

Things are slowing down in the freight business. Revenue is dramatically down with prices dropping the past two years from a reported 7.00 per kilo to now 1.78 per kilo in certain markets. Flights from the Asia/Indian area to Europe are now 1-2 hours longer due to the Indian-Pakistan war. We now fly further West over Iran. The US is fixing to dust it up with Iran and we will possibly lose that routing, driving transport price margins even lower. SAFA inspections are having an effect on operations and our company will be putting out information in the near future on just how much damage bad SAFA inspections can do to our business. The Chinese economy is facing its first economic bump in a long time with an emerging middle class. The predicted global down turn is on the near horizon I think.

Due to our business model this will not hurt nearly as badly as it will at Atlas. The good news is, that Kalitta will survive a downturn in the economy. A small downturn would give the company time to catch up to hiring, IOE, upgrades, repairs and support infrastructure. The bad news is that hiring on all but the 767 will slow down. Hiring on the 767 is hampered by a lack of available sim time.

What does all this mean? I don’t know. Historically, airfreight has been a leading economic indicator on the civilized worlds economic health. With the bumpy economic indicators in China I expect a slowdown.

Just glad I am at K4 and not Atlas right now. Possible bright spot I see with a downturn. Atlas commits more lift permanently to Amazon and when the economy rebounds, K4 is positioned to pick up the surplus. Just an optimistic guess on my part.

Blackhawk

Yeah, I get nervous when a bunch of cargo pilots are sitting around hotel rooms on reserve. I've been through this rodeo once before on the 135 cargo side.
As much as I like sitting R-2’s at The Rockville and having beerless dinners with old friends it gets old after a while.