View Poll Results: What is your dream pilot job?
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Where Would You Go
12-04-2018, 07:55 AM
#2
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Joined APC: Sep 2016
Posts: 1,948
Originally Posted by PurpleToolBox
Please do not vote if you are currently not planning to move to another airline.
If you are a pilot currently building hours to transfer to your dream job, where would you go?
If you are a pilot currently building hours to transfer to your dream job, where would you go?
12-04-2018, 01:59 PM
#5
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Joined APC: Feb 2012
Position: CRJ FO
Posts: 4,599
American turns over 75% of its current seniority list by about 2031 not accounting for early retirements and medical-outs. Someone hired on by about 2022 can likely hold either Group 4 FO (widebody) or Group 2 CA (narrow-body) in about 4-5 years. Not to mention being able to hold the base you want quickly. It’s hard to beat those numbers anywhere else. Con for AA is that they have a massive amount of corporate debt which makes them less resilient to an extended economic downturn.
Delta I think has a great contract but their management seems ever more willing to code share away their widebody flying and I think in the coming decade they will have a smaller percentage of the highest paying jobs compared to AA and UA.
UA has the most widebody flying of the big 3 but I truthfully don’t know much about them. Knowing what I do about their current cadre of senior leadership I don’t have a ton of faith. But that’s my opinion only.
FedEx and UPS aren’t interesting to me but of the 2 I’d pick FedEx.
Southwest is great but based on the numbers I’ve seen I would spend a considerable amount of time on reserve for the remainder of my career there and I’d be flying a narrow body on mostly domestic routes that I currently do at my regional. The flying seems fatiguing the older I get.
So AA is my choice.
Delta I think has a great contract but their management seems ever more willing to code share away their widebody flying and I think in the coming decade they will have a smaller percentage of the highest paying jobs compared to AA and UA.
UA has the most widebody flying of the big 3 but I truthfully don’t know much about them. Knowing what I do about their current cadre of senior leadership I don’t have a ton of faith. But that’s my opinion only.
FedEx and UPS aren’t interesting to me but of the 2 I’d pick FedEx.
Southwest is great but based on the numbers I’ve seen I would spend a considerable amount of time on reserve for the remainder of my career there and I’d be flying a narrow body on mostly domestic routes that I currently do at my regional. The flying seems fatiguing the older I get.
So AA is my choice.
12-04-2018, 02:42 PM
#6
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Joined APC: Mar 2018
Position: sideways
Posts: 294
Originally Posted by chrisreedrules
American turns over 75% of its current seniority list by about 2031 not accounting for early retirements and medical-outs. Someone hired on by about 2022 can likely hold either Group 4 FO (widebody) or Group 2 CA (narrow-body) in about 4-5 years. Not to mention being able to hold the base you want quickly. It’s hard to beat those numbers anywhere else. Con for AA is that they have a massive amount of corporate debt which makes them less resilient to an extended economic downturn.
Delta I think has a great contract but their management seems ever more willing to code share away their widebody flying and I think in the coming decade they will have a smaller percentage of the highest paying jobs compared to AA and UA.
UA has the most widebody flying of the big 3 but I truthfully don’t know much about them. Knowing what I do about their current cadre of senior leadership I don’t have a ton of faith. But that’s my opinion only.
FedEx and UPS aren’t interesting to me but of the 2 I’d pick FedEx.
Southwest is great but based on the numbers I’ve seen I would spend a considerable amount of time on reserve for the remainder of my career there and I’d be flying a narrow body on mostly domestic routes that I currently do at my regional. The flying seems fatiguing the older I get.
So AA is my choice.
Delta I think has a great contract but their management seems ever more willing to code share away their widebody flying and I think in the coming decade they will have a smaller percentage of the highest paying jobs compared to AA and UA.
UA has the most widebody flying of the big 3 but I truthfully don’t know much about them. Knowing what I do about their current cadre of senior leadership I don’t have a ton of faith. But that’s my opinion only.
FedEx and UPS aren’t interesting to me but of the 2 I’d pick FedEx.
Southwest is great but based on the numbers I’ve seen I would spend a considerable amount of time on reserve for the remainder of my career there and I’d be flying a narrow body on mostly domestic routes that I currently do at my regional. The flying seems fatiguing the older I get.
So AA is my choice.
Preference wise ditto, plus I prefer AA domiciles
