To my knowlege they're ending service to IND.

Pulled the plug on Indiana a couple weeks ago. All crews were displaced. Many ended up in ALB.

ALB is 9K's newest base, serving EAS routes to way upstate NY. Shifts there are 4 on, 5 off. Show time on day 1 is around noon, release on day 4 is about the same. Overnight in the outstation, car and hotel provided. 14 hour duty days, 42-44 hour credit per duty period.

Other bases have you home every night. 5/2 schedules are most common, some 4/3, 3/3/, and 4/4s are available. Daily schedules run from 6 to 11 hours of duty, with weekly duty times between 38-46 hours.

Thanks for the posts guys...do you have the pay scale? Or does it stay at 15 for a while. I take it you can pretty much bank on average of 40 hours of pay a week?

Longevity pay increases of about a buck a year are the norm.

Most lines are worth about 40 hours a week (+/-5). OT is readily available in season, if you are looking for a bit more.

hey robtree you seem pretty smart with all the cape air stuff... I got offered a PIC position and im about to be furloughed from a regional... moving to hyannis/boston/wherever is a big thing for me and i just want to know im gonna be safe here ya know... question is whats keeping cape air affloat... is it that a lot of there routes are subsidized or what??

smithee,

I'd say that Cape is as safe a place to be as any. Which isn't saying too much right about now. All the growth has been in the EAS business. To date it has been reputedly profitable. With luck the new routes will be as well.

The other business is operating to geographicly isolated areas on segments which are too short for larger airframes to be profitable on.

BOS - PVC is a 30 mile, 15 minute flight, or a 150 mile, 6 hour drive.
HYA - ACK is a 26 mile, 14 minute flight, or a 45 minute ride on the fast ferry, or 2 1/2 hour ride on the slow ferry.
RSW - EYW 1 hour flight, 6 hour drive.
STT - STX 30 min flight, 2 1/2 hour ferry, in some of the deepest, roughest waters in the world.


Many Cape air pax are quite well off and appear somewhat immune to a poor economy. The median price of a house on Nantucket is over 1.6 million. Another big segment of our traffic is commuters to the island. There is a very small pool of labor on ACK -so construction and tradesmen fly over every day to go to work - its actually much cheaper to buy a R/T ticket every day than to live on ACK. And the very high end of the Real Estate market has not been affected at all by the housing bubble bursting - so they've still go work to do, both new construction and remodeling.

Oh yeah one other thing, we burn AvGas, not kerosene. And a lot less of it than what you're probably used to.

yea good explanation. I'm very excited to come fly I just want it to be a good move. But I guess I'm just happy to have another offer in todays industry. Especially one with such a good reputation. Thanks for the info I'll see ya next month

I m working in Naples, FL. KAPF
Does Cape Air need pilot base in RSW?

I hear FL goes very senior, but that's just what I've heard floating around.

it's very true