This, too. Like someone told me, "the only people Southern hates more than it's passengers are its pilots."

 

What are the duty times? Days off? Bases? I see them at west Memphis doing touch and goes everyday....do they do all in house training?

 

Indoc is in DuBois PA, hotel, crew van, flights paid for (you will have to ride a SAE caravan). Will be led by an old man who talks more than teaches, will be accompanied by female HR who threaten more than welcomes.
FOs will be doubled with another FO, Captains have their own room, no per diem during any initial training to include flight training. All sim and flight training is in house. They will claim it's 6 weeks of training, it'll probably be around 3 weeks in PA and they'll send you home and you wait forever and a day for flight training.
You'll fill out monthly hour reports however you'll still have to contact a number of people to adjust your pay to your respective hour bracket. Pay won't make sense nor will it be enough if you come in with 250+ hrs and no support system (IE parents/family/wife/husband)
FO pay 15$ >600hrs 18$ 601-899hrs 21$ <900hrs (temporarily 27$ <1200)
20100$ promissory note if you leave prior to upgrade
Holiday 6$
CA pay 45$ or 65$ if you re-sign a 12m contract
Holiday 20$
10050$ promissory note for 45$ if you leave prior to 12 months as Captain
18000$ promissory note for 65$ if you leave prior to 12 months as Captain

Stateside
Aspen and avidyne no autopilot
208/208b/208bex
Hawaii
Mixed G1000, aspen, avidyne, autopilot and no autopilot
208b/208bex
SAABs were scrapped and in the boneyard


CAS and KCM most of us use our downtime jumpseating to make up for our pay.
The Pilatius team says they're barely flying and the maintenance is rough.They start at 28$ an hour. I'm honestly not too familiar with their operation.
Lots of flight hours, bidding is as fair as it gets with how many people flush in and flush out. All Stateside flights are XC, Hawaii only has 2 routes that are XC. 65hr guaranteed per month for whatever that's worth at 15$ an hour.
Health insurance is different stateside and Hawaii but both are a bare percentage of whatever pay bracket you're in.

Like most places, bases are cool, management isn't. You might be questioned here or there to complete a flight but if you say no it's sometimes respected. Dispatch will ream you more than anyone.

 

US's Mokulele Airlines grounds fleet due to maintenance

https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/149...edium=facebook


By Dominik Sipinski15JAN2025

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Mokulele Airlines (MHO, Kona) grounded its entire fleet on January 15, 2025, "due to maintenance and an abundance of caution". The airline did not disclose the nature of the problem nor how long it expected it to last.

The carrier, which is a division of Southern Airways Expressand a subsidiary of Surf Air Mobility, provides vital inter-island connectivity in Hawai'i with its fleet of Cessna (single turboprop) C208 Grand Caravans. It is the only airline serving five out of 11 Hawaiian airports with scheduled flights, namely Kaunakakai, Kalaupapa, Kamuela, Hana, and Kapalua. While Hawaiian Airlines and Southwest Airlinesalso provide intra-island flights in Hawai'i, they focus on the main airports.

Mokulele Airlines did not respond to ch-aviation's request for comment.

The airline previously briefly grounded part of its C208 fleetin August 2024 over "potential discrepancies in the documentation of a recent landing gear maintenance". In an October 2024 interview with ch-aviation, president of Hawai'i operations Louis Saint-Cyr emphasised the importance of reliable community service for Mokulele Airlines.