UPS Announces Training Program - FlightPath
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Joined APC: Dec 2017
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I am currently a corporate pilot trying to get on with you guys. I can say that there is a pilot shortage. Who is seeing the shortage first is definitely based off of what you can offer on pay and benefits. I have been trying to tell the owners this for a while now but to deaf ears. We have one outfit we’re their pilot left to go work for the FAA for schedule and benefits and his aircraft has been in managed for 6 months now. I have friends at Proctor and Gamble, that was the place to go and highly sought after are hardly getting resumes any more. One of their pilots just went to UPS this year. I remember in the early 2000’s, we used to get resumes all the time for guys just trying to get a job. I am currently running 2 separate corporate aircraft operations with aircraft requiring 2 pilots with only 2 full time guys and I am one of them. Most of the guys I am seeing to use as fill ins are either flying extra with having a schedule at their current job or guys near retirement or have retired and just want something to do. Until I have to cancel trips because I can’t get anyone, will these guys shell out more money. Deepest pockets will win out for this period until a recession hits the passenger industry or enough time goes buy and enough pilots are created.
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Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: B767
Posts: 1,899
A couple years ago I was told by an AA recruiter that I should quit my RJ job, go to Frontier or Spirit and “Learn how to fly big airplanes” to be competitive at AA. At the time I was a CRJ PIC flying multiple legs into Aspen every week. I was without question the sharpest I’ll ever be in my career at that time. His comment was clearly laughable, stupid, and I’m sure not representative of most people at AA.
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Joined APC: Feb 2011
Posts: 49
What's your PIC time? They really want Turbine PIC time, I'm told. When I would update them, I tried to give them info that the UPS site specifically asked for:
Total Time
Total PIC
Crew PIC
SIC
Multi Eng Turbine/Jet Total Time
Turbine PIC
Previous 24 MO
Part 121&135
Part 91
Type specific times (your 747 time and anything you're currently flying)
Also, did you study the company and know what UPS does besides ship boxes? That's a huge part of the process! I don't mean generic knowledge, but have some pretty in-depth knowledge of what UPS does, the services they provide, history of UPS, some of the cutting edge moves they've made in the past, and the tenets of how UPS operates.
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