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onepoint5thumbs 02-18-2022 07:25 PM
How did you get to UPS?
 
I am curious about the background of current UPS pilots.

How did you get to SDF?

Straight from the RJ? ULCC? ACMI?

I've seen the threads where guys talk about jumping ship from the legacies...

If you chose to leave, why?

C2078 02-18-2022 07:27 PM
Also ask why UPS pilots leave, even if few and far between.

tnkrdrvr 02-19-2022 05:40 AM
Originally Posted by onepoint5thumbs (Post 3374994)
I am curious about the background of current UPS pilots.

How did you get to SDF?

Awarded ANC MD11 as a newhire, displaced to SDF after a couple bid periods. Anything in SDF was my initial goal.

Straight from the RJ? ULCC? ACMI?

Retired from USAF direct to UPS.

I've seen the threads where guys talk about jumping ship from the legacies...

I didn’t do this. I have one friend who left AA for FedEx and would have done the same for UPS. We seem to have had a steady trickle (~10-20/yr) during my time here. Covid may have accelerated this slightly.

If you chose to leave, why?

The vast majority of pilots who left here did so in the 90s because they had recall rights due to furlough from Delta and AA. That was a different age when our contract was not yet competitive. Today, it’s relatively rare. My presumption being it’s guys who live in base for a legacy.
I will bite.

BoilerUP 02-19-2022 06:29 AM
How did you get to UPS?
 
UPS Co-op (Intern) 1yr
Regional jet FO 2yr
Corporate CP (light cabin) 7yr
UPS

UPSFO4LIFE 02-19-2022 06:54 AM
Originally Posted by C2078 (Post 3374998)
Also ask why UPS pilots leave, even if few and far between.
I don’t think this job is for everyone. The night flying can be really difficult on you mentally and physically if you don’t really take care of yourself and know what you are getting into. I also think some leave because this was not their first choice and when they get an offer from a place they would rather be, they leave.

Brett Hull 02-19-2022 09:06 AM
I was a corporate pilot my whole career whose job was going away soon due to a buyout. I decided to bite the bullet and attend a job fair. Once I attended that, everything happened pretty quickly.

The recruiter (retired mgmt pilot) was completely un-interested in my resume while he was looking at it until I mentioned that I’d been flying internationally quite a bit. Then he completely flipped.

Hogan came a couple weeks later. Interviewed about a month after the Hogan. Swam in the pool for 5ish months.

Dan Roman 03-11-2022 06:51 PM
Civilian; former regional captain (ExpressJet) straight to UPS.
Hired into SDF MD-11. Now SDF 747
i don’t miss passenger flying at all!
cheers!

C17B74 03-12-2022 07:25 PM
Originally Posted by Dan Roman (Post 3387455)
i don’t miss passenger flying at all!
cheers!
Best Seller! No one has ever said the opposite.

JungleJetDriver 03-14-2022 01:11 PM
Did you have internal recs.?

WNFO 03-16-2022 04:20 PM
20 years military.
4 at WN.


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