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02-12-2012, 06:31 AM

#11

Laxrox43

Gets Weekends Off

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Joined APC: Oct 2005

Position: A320/321 FO

Posts: 1,114

Thanks for all who have chimed in. I have heard the rumors of S. Florida based 135 operators treating their pilots like dirt. I just wanted to see what the scoop was on these guys. Any additional insight would be extremely helpful. Thanks again.

02-12-2012, 10:32 AM

#12

JetThere

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Joined APC: Jan 2012

Posts: 3

LAXROX... you work for Colgan and thinking of breaking into the corporate side of aviation? If that's the case, I would go for the Fairwinds job. It gets your foot in the door. And south Florida doesn't suck because there's lots of sun and sand.

Being on-call is rough. And relocating can also be a drag. You might look into Travel Management... 2 weeks on/2 weeks off... reasonable upgrade time.... live where you like.

Just my 2 cents.

02-12-2012, 06:40 PM

#13

cboga30

On Reserve

Joined APC: Sep 2007

Position: A320FO

Posts: 11

When they offered me the LR40 co-captain job they had advertised about a month ago pay was suppose to be in the 75k range with health care paid at 100%. Schedule was sadly only the regulatory days off per quarter reason being why I passed. Supposedly they hired someone but he/she didn't work out.

02-13-2012, 04:06 AM

#14

dirtysidedown

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Joined APC: Dec 2011

Position: Left seat

Posts: 273

I understand that people have to make a living, but to work at some company with no scheduled days off and working maximum duty days day after day is just not right. I work at a 135 outfit and luckily we have the manpower to have 8 scheduled days off per month.The problem is most these places have high turnover and never seem to have enough pilots to cover trips, I can't tell you how many times we had to fill in for another company because of this.