Airnet or Airlines?

[Princedietrich]

dude that is the most retarted quote i have heard all day, QOL sucks big donkey d&*** you have to be on the night schedule that screws your body in the long run,

and you can not have a regular life and have meaningful and fulfilling relationships with girls or family , especially if you commute

but if you dont have a life , no girls no friends , no family and if your hand is your best friend then night freight is the place for you

do your one year get the experience and go to a good regional that is what i did

As per higher pay now that does not make any sense , it does not matter what you earn now what matters is how fast you can get into the job that you will retire at you will make a lot of money there in the last few years compared to what you make now remember we all 121 guys have to retire at 60


Airnet to majors is not happening during my time there i did not see a single lear captain get hired by the majors and jetblue ,southwest fedex etc had been hiring

Ok, well if YOU want to get furloughed after 2 months on the job and never get called back, and if YOU want to live on foodstamps, and if YOU want to pull 16 hour duty days with 9 legs and no lunch break, and if YOU don't want to be at home every night in your own bed, then by all means consider me a retard. I guarantee that any freight dog on this forum could fly circles around your pansy RJ-flying ass.

Here's a dollar, go buy yourself a clue.

 

[idratherfly4283]

BAM someone just got schooled

 

[SkyRat]

OK...no one says freight flying is easy...but as a freight mutt for over 6 years, I say no one in the industry has more fun. You could try another company if you don't like the year contract. It might have changed since I was there, but Flight Express used to be only a six month deal.
I now fly on-demand freight, and yes QOL could be better in some ways, but I still managed to meet a woman, get married, and have a baby with only 8 days a month at home. I'm planning on sticking with freight for my career.

Now if only UPS would call...

 

[Art Vandalay]

Ok, well if YOU want to get furloughed after 2 months on the job and never get called back, and if YOU want to live on foodstamps, and if YOU want to pull 16 hour duty days with 9 legs and no lunch break, and if YOU don't want to be at home every night in your own bed, then by all means consider me a retard. I guarantee that any freight dog on this forum could fly circles around your pansy RJ-flying ass.

Here's a dollar, go buy yourself a clue.

Dude, quit sipping the kool-aid down at LCK. I am sure Airnet is a great place, but THERE ARE better jobs out there. Personally, I don't see the QOL in working a 10 hr duty day with 6-8 hours flying from 10pm-8am.

And to the job security thing.......I'll let others chime in on that.




Art V.

 

[Art Vandalay]

Oh, I forgot to answer the original question. GO FLY FREIGHT, but only at a good company. Airnet, Ram Air, Flight Express, etc. come to mind.

Just take a look at the regionals board and see the amount of complaints compared to this board. Almost every post there is a rant, and the freight dogs here still actually talk about loving their jobs.
Good luck with your choice.


Art V.

 

[Goose Egg]

and you can not have a regular life and have meaningful and fulfilling relationships with girls or family , especially if you commute

but if you dont have a life , no girls no friends , no family and if your hand is your best friend then night freight is the place for you

If you are still calling them "girls," I'd say chances for success are pretty slim as it is.

-Goose

 

[starcheck1]

I did my time at Airnet..... I wouldnt give up my experience at Airnet for anything...but now after being gone from ANS for a year and a half...i work half as much and half as hard and get to overnight almost anywhere in the US, Canada, and Mexico that I want. Plus I make more money I would have if i was still at Airnet. I now hold 14 days off with day trips so I can be home in my bed every NIGHT (yes I said NIGHT...when us normal people sleep...haha jk to my buddies who still fly frieght). Flying at Airnet was a great experience, but everyone I have talked to that has left for other jobs have had no regrets. But there are some lifers out there and if your ideal quality of life is rolling out of bed in your sweats at 9pm and working till the sun comes up than maybe thats where you belong. As far as the airlines being boring....I pretty much fly where I want, whatever days I want and with different pilots....how about Airnet........see the same airports every night and same pilots....wow that 60 degree bank was cool.....how lets shoot that appch into UCA like we have done every night for the last 3 years.

 

[idratherfly4283]

extreme

 

[vossdr1]

go fly freight

Airnet

Make you strong like bull

 

[freemind270]

absolutely right ------------flying for airnet will make you a better pilot in the long run when i was there , saw all kinds of weather made a lot of decisions.

but still QOL = 0

i would not give up my time as a starchecker for anything i still have the freight dog sticker on my flight bag . and sometimes i hear a starcheck check in with approach i smile. ( i dont know why??????)

 

[starcheckdriver]

I don't quite understand how anyone at Airnet working Monday-Thurdsday with every weekend and most holidays off can complain about quality of life. Sure, you work the back side of the clock, but after a few months your body adjusts. And flying 8 hours a night...isn't that why you got into flying? I love flying 8 hours a night rather than sitting on my a$$ at some clapped out pilot lounge under a passenger terminal. At least flying freight, if I have to sit around, it is in a nice FBO.

This board just reminds me of how lazy pilots really are. A pilot working a 40-50 hour work week will always complain that he works too much and that his QOL sucks because of it. In four days, I generally work 40-50 hours, the same as anyone with a 9-5 job five days a week. The lucky thing for me is that I enjoy 3, almost 4 ful days off before returning to work.

If you don't like to work and all you want is time off, quit your job and go on welfare. You can join the rest of the lazy Americans in this country. I guess my final though/question is....why should a pilot be entitled to 18 days off a month or committed to only working 20-30 hours a week?

 

[3blade]

I'd say in a perfect world fly for Airnet 6 months and then go to a solid regional. Flying cancelled checks,Hazmat,mice,poop,the AIDS virus, in the middle of the night in some seriously old beat-up airplanes really isn't a career for most people.

The flying on the other hand is a whole heck of a lot of fun you won't regret the experience as long as you don't do it for very long.

Most of the pilots you'll meet at Airnet have an unhealthy hatred for Regional airlines and the like, personally I never understood why. I never hear guys/gals at the airlines standing around bashing Airnet and other freight companies. There's just a lot of insecurity going on there.

If you're hired at Airnet just tell Craig Washka to keep the rose-tinted glasses and the extra strength cool-aid, take the job for the great experience and move on.

 

[I Hate Freight]

dude that is the most retarted quote i have heard all day, QOL sucks big donkey d&*** you have to be on the night schedule that screws your body in the long run,

The word is "retarded." "I" should be capitalized and how about a period at the end of a sentence instead of a comma?

I guess our children is not learning.

 

[freemind270]

that is exactly what i meant

 

[flying2jd]

Im dumb

What is QOL?

 

[Princedietrich]

I'm not sipping kool-aid. I'm not sipping anything.
And yes there are better places out there to work, but VERY few if any are with the regionals. Seriously, have you even SEEN what those guys get paid first year? Some of them are getting 14k the first year, and that's BEFORE taxes. Most of them are 21k and under. How can you get a decent quality of life when there are flight instructors pulling in more cash than a three-striper at Great Lakes or Mesaba.

 

[Doc Holiday]

PIC recip prop time means nothing. Go to the airlines.

Don't think I'd go that far. A PIC in a 135/121 operation is the one signing the paperwork and making the decisions. If that means nothing than right seat time in a shiny new jet is even more worthless. It's all about the PIC time, granted turbine PIC is what really counts these days.

 

[EatSleepFly]

Most of the pilots you'll meet at Airnet have an unhealthy hatred for Regional airlines and the like, personally I never understood why.

Are you kidding?

 

[Superpilot92]

QOL= Quality of Life!

your welcome

 

[3blade]

Are you kidding?

no I'm not.