flyjbh

Just seen on flight aware: Tommy Boy in a Juliet Sierra 172 chasing Jimbo’s Longitude to the BVI, just realizing Danny Boy’s fuel planning will leave him a bit short……..

PilotodeFE

💀 🤣 💀 🤣

straight out the chicken farm! 🐔

JohnBurke

Even if the initial post were in English and used complete sentences with some guide to explain, it would still only make sense to millennials and below.

flyjbh

or folks that have worked there.

JohnBurke

There's a company called "#FlyFamily?"

AvantiDriver

Ive interacted a ton with Fly exclusive, Nice crews, BUT their planes are broken ALWAYS, the company changes their departure times 40 times a day and then cancels their trip while they wait in the pilot's lounge for hours. its just (from what I've heard) a dumpster fire and laying off 50 employees before the holidays while the CEO files out of the country on his private jet just further proves that. #FlyFamily my ass

Amphibian

Sadly, many of those put on the street nine days before Christmas are support staff whose backs FE’s growth was built on. They were told they were part of Seagrave’s “Work Family” and that they were building a place for their children to work.

100LL

Anyone active with general aviation out in North Carolina boycott Crystal Coast Aviation at Beaufort, NC (MRH), the sole FBO at the airport. Seagrave owns it and the building is littered with fly exclusive all over. Hell they even have a crew car with fly exclusive painted on it. Pass the word around to all your pilot pals who frequent the coast to bypass.

PilotodeFE

https://www.witn.com/2022/12/20/work...usive-kinston/

followingdreams

As a pilot for FE, I dont really agree with this. Some fleets are definitely more prone to MX issues but what plane that flies a ton of hours doesnt. I have never experienced "40" changes in times per day. I find it is VERY seldom that times are changed once we are notified of a trip and RARELY do we sit in the pilot lounge for hours. Company is very good at getting us out of the FBO either on a trip or to the hotels. With that being said, on my rotation, I am paid a salary, in return I am giving them 15 days of them telling me where to go and where to fly to....its what the job entails. If they need me to sit and wait for a pop up trip (or a trip they are trying to sell), I sit, if the PAX need to change times, they change times, they are our customers in a very high end business. You see A LOT more NJ and FLEX pilots sitting around then FE pilots. As far as the layoffs, yeah it sucks and there really is no good time to do it. I am not in management and cant say what was or was not put into the decision. I do think there was some fat around Kinston and probably could have timed it better but as companies grow a lot of jobs were added. As the economy gets tighter, sometimes you have to look where to cut. Hopefully those affected land on their feet and find themselves in a better position with the experience the gained at FE. Time will tell what is coming for this entire industry.