airline to corporate

[heywatchthis]

What about stability. I think the airlines have much more stability to offer. Yea I know 9-11 screwed everyone, but besides that once you got 5 or 10 years in with a major then your almost untouchable. (I know what about USAIR). All I am trying to say is that this is my 4th charter company and I fly with a lot of guys who used to have a GREAT corporate job. If I never would have left my regional job to go to a major in June of 01, then I would be sitting pretty.

There aren't very many good flying jobs anymore. All the excellent part 91 flight departments all went fractional, so the only thing you have left is charter.

All the great airlines are not ALL (LCC) low cost carriers that work the crap out of you for low pay.

A good flying job is a good flying job, it doesn't matter if it is corporate or airlines. Finding won is the trouble.

 

[HMR]

All the excellent part 91 flight departments all went fractional, so the only thing you have left is charter.

Really? If you stand in front of our hangar you can throw a rock and hit aircraft that belong to 3 or 4 excellent PT91 companies (great pay, schedule and equipment). If you walk down the taxiway there are a couple more. 30 minutes away is another airport with more excellent PT91 flight dept's...

 

[AA717driver]

heywatchthis: Airlines and stability should not be used in the same sentence.

I made the move from the airlines to corporate--but not by choice. I landed in a good situation and certainly won't be taking the recall when it comes and the number one reason for that is stability.

I can take my qualification as corporate captain and go anywhere and compete for a job as captain. My three years as captain at TWA got me exactly squat when applying for another airline job. (JetBlue was kind enough to offer me an interview 6 months after I got laid off and 18 months after I first applied--months after they had hired most of my former FO's. Thanks. )

Keep in mind, the legacys are just now doing a little better but any hiccup (interrupted oil production in Iraq, maybe?) could send them back into their death spiral. That means you, newbie, hit the street along with thousands of others. (BTDT.)

To say that the Legacy pilots don't work as hard as the LCC's, have you looked at the workrules at UAL on the NB fleets? Howabout NWA's new contract or America West (yeah, I know what's painted on the side of their planes...)? Looks like LCC workrules to me.

Sure, it's not fun getting chewed because the hand towels are hung wrong or you have the wrong coffee on board or some ramp guy ripped the hook off the boss' hanging bag but it beats being unemployed. TC