Come fly in Asia for a few years and you'll never complain about the FO's in the USA ever again. I'm to the point that I'm just happy that the company I work for finally changed our Ops Manual to prohibit smoking in the flight deck on flights shorter than four hours. Now if the FO's and cabin...
Please explain how Asian carriers can afford to pay their contract expat pilots more that double what the USA airlines claim to be able to afford. The local pilots are also paid as well or better than pilots in the USA. Example: the local Indian ATR FO's I flew with in India were paid around...
Saved $63K in cash in 2010. Mortgage paid off last year, no school loans or credit card debt.....no kids or car. Age 30.
Of course, it's not too hard to save money while living in India......
After flying for an Indian airline for two years, this sort of event doesn't even surprise me anymore. In fact I'm surprised that it doesn't happen more often. In India it is normal for a 200 hour pilots to be hired on a Boeing or Airbus. Air India even has 200 hour new hires on the 777. It...
I fly an ATR 72 in India for Kingfisher Airlines. The pay is $8500/month net of Indian taxes, plus housing allowance of $1000 (used to be $1500/month). 12 weeks of leave each year with airline tickets paid by the company. It is not all roses though.......when at work we have one day off per...
I posted my first paragraph before finishing the thread. FreightDork, can you find out how much an Air India Pilot earns both as FO and CA?
I'm not sure what Air India pilots earn but it is definitely as much as a major airline pilot in the US, also being a gov't carrier there is great job...
It never ceases to amaze me how naive Americans are about the rest of the world. The ATR FO's I fly with in India think that I'm joking when I tell them what a regional pilot makes in the US. The Indian FO's on local/permanent contracts make $4000 USD per month and most will make it into the...
Hey "v" don't listen to uninformed small minded people like "stay low" who think that the US lives in it's own little bubble. I'm currently working overseas and have worked in both Europe and Asia and there have been PLENTY of Americans working with me in both places. Although I can't...
Ryanair fo's don't really get paid. They pay for their own type rating, uniform, recurrent training, airport parking. They pay for their own hotel during line training. They don't get paid during line training. But they get to fly shiny new jetz. Most time I've been on Ryanair the fo only...
I don't know why everybody thinks that foreign pilots would be willing to fly airliners for less money that American pilots are willing to do it for. I'm a contract pilot in the ATR and have flown as capt on 3 continents in the ATR and the USA job was by far my lowest paying job. Also the USA...
I don't think that they are doing validations on FAA licenses any more. The contact agencies specify only JAA licenses now. I know things are slowing down there and they are having about 10 fo's take unpaid leave for the winter. Europe is in as bad of a recession as the US, therefore airlines...
Think outside of the box. UPS/FDX aren't the only good jobs in the world. There are plenty of good paying jobs overseas. Going rate for ATR and CRJ capts hovers around $10,000/month and more for larger equipment. I'd recommend a flying job outside of the USA to anybody who can do it. There...
To convert from an FAA license to a JAA license you have to take/pass 14 theorhetical exams and then take a LST (license skills test). Plan to spend 2-3 months full time on the exams. The cost is significant as well. I did it last summer, feel free to PM me with any questions
Yes, you're right, the flight crew will have a thick foreign AMERICAN ACCENT....
Actually it'll be the Americans who are undercutting everybody and taking all the foreign jobs. I'm not sure what world you're living in, but American pilots are among the lowest paid (although most experienced)...
I would be willing to bet that the FO on this flight had less than 1000 hours total time. In Europe most FO's are extremely unexperienced. They have "junior" FO's here (less than 1500 hours total) and you can spot them because they only have two stripes on their epaulettes. I see the two...
It's funny how the people who bash overseas contract flying are the people who have never done it. The best move I ever made was leaving my US 121 carrier and going on contracts. I make the same pay as a 10 United FO. In Dec I flew 55 hours with 5 overnights and Christmas off, and that was a...
Just so you all know, Cape Air operates ATR's out of Guam, so there's a good chance that the JB flowthrough pilots would have a good amount of turbine time. I'd even go so far as to say that they'd have better experience than most because they'd start their careers in piston twin, then move...
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