American Jet International in Houston TX
 

Who can tell me more about AJI American Jet International.

What's the interview like? Written test from the ATP Gleim, Sim, etc?

What do you like and dislike about AJI?

What are the upgrade times to the left seat?

Let's say you are a FO on the Citation, can you bid to become a FO on the Challenger for example?

How are schedules determined?

I believe there is a year training contract. What I don't know is if you need to fund that or if it is a promisary note. In other words, is this PFT or not?

I was told that you can make between 35 to 40K in your first year. Is this accurate?

Is this a place you can retire with or is it a stepping stone?

How is maintenance?

How is the pilot group taken care-off? Are they considered expendable or taken care off?

Anything else you can tell me, clue me in on, etc. You can PM me if you prefer?

Thanks in advance for your insight!

American Jet
 

I can tell you they fly a lot of medical middle of the night stuff. The lears they have are high time with a lot of landing cycles. Good news I heard from one of their guys last week he said they were finishing the final steps on adding a new lear 31. They seem to get southwest interviews fairly easy ( they don't all get hired ). Good bunch of guys as far as the pilots go. Can't really tell about management though. I believe there pay is on the low side and I really don't think it is a final career move for sure. If you are looking to build time it's as god as any other 135 I guess as long as you don't mind a lot of night flying. Good luck with your choice!

I almost have the required times to apply to AJI. I have two friends that work there and they have not had anything bad to say about it; they do work a lot. The Citation III pilot's schedule is two weeks on and one off as the Lear pilot's schedule is eight on and four off. The pay is ok; you are eligible for some type of bonus and they do pay well for flying on your days off. This is going by memory only and since I do not have much left I believe the King Air and Lear pilots do fly a lot of medical flights; in the middle of the night. The CIII crews do mostly non-medical flights. I am meeting a friend of mine who flys there for lunch sometime this week and will get more information about the company/upgrades/schedule/pay and whatever other information might be pertinent for interested pilots. :D

Let me know when you have had lunch and found out more about this company. You can PM me if you prefer.

Thanks!

had an hour and 20 minute hr interview on the phone, apparently i dont make the grade, :eek:

Yep, a few years ago I walked my stuff in and got an HR phone interview for a C650 FO slot, but never heard back from them. 121 HR depts don't seem to have a problem with me but they did I guess. Oh well.

Mins
 

Any idea what the mins and competitive mins are down there at American Jet?

Digging up an old thread, but I have a phone interview scheduled with these folks. Any idea what the pay is like for a Lear55 First Officer?

*bump*

Anyone have any updated information on American Jet International? Thank you!

American Jet International in Houston TX
 

Bringing back an old one, but does anybody have any updated info on these guys? Pay, schedule, QOL, etc... Thanks in advance!!

I'd like to know as well.

Looks like some folks have phone interviews in the works. Info I have was starting pay was around $35K.

My apologies..... :o

It was very late when I posted this and merged Amerijet and Ameristar together when I saw the name.

Disregard :cool:

You should come down to ADS and see the massive Ameristar boneyard of rotting Falcons and Lears.

I don't know if this is the company or not but I know of a pretty bad story I have heard from a couple of sources including one of their pilots. Again I do not remember the name of the company but I know they were from the Houston area and had a similar sounding name to the one in this thread.

The story goes that they were flying a guy back and forth from somewhere in South America to the US and the local police figured out something was up. They searched the guy and the plane and found a boat load of cash. Pilots were in jail for somewhere around 18 months because of this. Not sure of more details and not sure if this is the company but I would try to ask around if it were me.

This was the only other info I found.

Working at American Jet International | Glassdoor

Also, got info that they do a lot of night flying as well, and you are required to live within 30 minutes of Houston Hobby.

Just had the phone interview with them, they use a system called Talent Plus, all HR type stuff so if you get a phone interview with them that is some good stuff to study on.

Sorry to dig this old one up, but AJI has been doing a lot of hiring recently so I figured it would be good to get some more current info out on this place. Different management team, fleet growth and better pay/QOL improvements have made this a very different place to work as opposed to years past.

-Still owned by Million Air.
-Most of the growth had been at their new base in DAL.
-Set schedule is 10-on, 5 hard days off with most trips out and back since they do aeromedical stuff out of Love Field.
-Pay is commensurate with experience but it's not bad especially in comparison to cargo or the regionals.
-Holiday pay, $59 a day per-diem, and $300 extra if you want to work on an off day makes for a lot of opportunity for extra cash.
-Health/Dental/Vision and 3 plans to choose from.
-Full pay/per diem during training.
-10 days vacation after first year of employment.
-1 year promissory note pro-rated for training expenses (not technically a training contract since those are not enforceable in Texas)

They're looking for King Air 200 PIC's and Lear 31 PIC's/SIC's. Experience in-type is preferred.

Here's the job posting:

American Jet International ? Private Jet Charter and Air Ambulance Services in Houston, Texas

AJI is actively recruiting a BE-200 King Air PIC and 2-LR-31 Pilots to support our newest base of operations at Dallas Love Field.

Hiring Minimums

Turboprop PIC

2000 Total Time
1000 PIC
500 AMEL


Turbo Jet PIC

3000 Total
2000 PIC
LRJET PIC type Preferred

Turbojet First Officer

2500 Total time
1500 PIC



Michael E. Turner

Assistant Chief Pilot-Training Manager
American Jet International
8501 Telephone Rd
Houston TX 77061
713-641-9700 (Office)
866-294-1676 (Fax)
[email protected]
American Jet International ? Private Jet Charter and Air Ambulance Services in Houston, Texas

What's a typical night like doing their medical transportation flights? Multiple hops per night shift? Back to base every night? Or out of the road most of the time? Just the flight crew onboard or other pax too? Thanks to anybody who knows and replies.

Most all aero-medical ops we do are organ donor runs. Generally they're all out-and-back with a return to base. Not all of it is night ops but 60-70% is, so it all just depends on demand. Very rarely there would be 2 runs in one duty period but all have to fall within the 14-hours, of course. Most of the time we have a medical team with 2-4 passengers per trip. Typical night would be to fly the medical team somewhere and wait at an FBO for 2-5 hours for them to finish surgery, then fly quickly back to base and drop them off. During the 10 days on it means on-call 24 hours, but there are PLENTY of days where you may not fly. Only side effect is that random call at 11:30 pm for a run to Lubbock for a liver! In all it's a great gig for those who like spending lots of time at home.

You guys hiring now ?

Banja- thanks a million for the info. I have house pets and really do not want to be away multiple nights in a row as a regular thing. Doesn't sound like they do that, it sounds more like what I imagined they do, take a liver somewhere, have some FBO popcorn and go on home. I hear Houston is less than wonderful though.

Satpak- yeah they have ads running on the subscription boards right now. Try CT350, Bizjet, or WFFF.

They are running medical flights out of KDAL. Our company used to have the contract. You aren't dropping off organs, normally, you are flying the crew to extract them. You fly to places like Tyler, El Paso, Galveston, Corpus, etc. You load up the crew and coolers, fly down there, sit for 3 or 4 hours for guts, usually, and then fly back. When you are sitting there, you get the med crew Whataburger or IHOP.

We still do some overflow for them. It's not bad, at all.

Thanks gents. I signed up for the incoming psych screen, we'll see how it goes. This sounds like a great job for someone who likes smaller aircraft and lots of home time.

[update] I apparently failed the Talent Plus personality phone test today. I wonder how much you can really know about someone from a single 20-minute phone call? Apparently they are quite confident in it though.

I sent my resume today. Fingers crossed!!

Anyone have info on the in-person interview; any tech questions, etc?