Best Buy- MSP

[SheGaveMeClap]

Last I heard, Best Buy had two Citations at Flying Cloud. Is that still the case? Do they employ full-time pilots, or are their airplanes crewed by Executive Air out of FCM?

 

[XL Pilot]

Here is the story on Best Buy. I work for the "Best Buy" Flight Department. The first thing is that the founder of Best Buy Richard Schulze owns the aircraft, you fly the Schulze family and he leases them back to Best Buy as well. The aircraft are registered to Olympus Aviation. There are positives and negatives of this of course. One being right now the company announced they are making cut backs of 300 million this year. This will not effect us but if we worked for the company it might. This is not because the company is doing poorly it is because they apparently with there large amount of expanding in the last few years they feel that they have over spend alot. So they are now "trimming the fat" as they put it. Now on the other part. yes, we are at FCM and as of right now we have 2 Citation Excels. We also have a Larger aircraft on order that is going to be dedicated primarly for International use. We have 6 pilots at this time and they are all full time.

 

[HS125]

Here is the story on Best Buy. I work for the "Best Buy" Flight Department. The first thing is that the founder of Best Buy Richard Schulze owns the aircraft, you fly the Schulze family and he leases them back to Best Buy as well. The aircraft are registered to Olympus Aviation. There are positives and negatives of this of course. One being right now the company announced they are making cut backs of 300 million this year. This will not effect us but if we worked for the company it might. This is not because the company is doing poorly it is because they apparently with there large amount of expanding in the last few years they feel that they have over spend alot. So they are now "trimming the fat" as they put it. Now on the other part. yes, we are at FCM and as of right now we have 2 Citation Excels. We also have a Larger aircraft on order that is going to be dedicated primarly for International use. We have 6 pilots at this time and they are all full time.

I don't know about you, but if it was me, I would think about editing this post and remove the information about the family and the lease back arrangement. Employers are funny when it come to information like that.

 

[Stealthh21]

Here is the story on Best Buy. I work for the "Best Buy" Flight Department. The first thing is that the founder of Best Buy Richard Schulze owns the aircraft, you fly the Schulze family and he leases them back to Best Buy as well. The aircraft are registered to Olympus Aviation. There are positives and negatives of this of course. One being right now the company announced they are making cut backs of 300 million this year. This will not effect us but if we worked for the company it might. This is not because the company is doing poorly it is because they apparently with there large amount of expanding in the last few years they feel that they have over spend alot. So they are now "trimming the fat" as they put it. Now on the other part. yes, we are at FCM and as of right now we have 2 Citation Excels. We also have a Larger aircraft on order that is going to be dedicated primarly for International use. We have 6 pilots at this time and they are all full time.

Yeah might be good to remove it, cause then you have people quoting you and it becomes more difficult to remove the information that you posted.

Hey thanks for the info! What kind of airplanes do they have?

 

[737Wannabe]

XL Pilot,
How many days do you fly a month on average? RONs? Any benefits through the company? Thank you.

 

[XL Pilot]

First of all Who would quote me all this info. It was in the Wall street Jounal, the Minneapolis star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer press. Also Almost everyone in Minneapolis knows how this is operated and this not a news flash. The reason that I explained it was that there has been posts in the past about this Flight Department that have no idea what they are talking about. For the other Question every year that I have been here it has been about 100 days with about 65-70 overnights. Benefits are good.

 

[737Wannabe]

Thank you for your reply! Doesn't seem like a bad company to work for. Have you lived in Minneapolis all your life or you moved there for this job? How do you like the place?

 

[GVFlyer]

First of all Who would quote me all this info. It was in the Wall street Jounal, the Minneapolis star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer press. Also Almost everyone in Minneapolis knows how this is operated and this not a news flash. The reason that I explained it was that there has been posts in the past about this Flight Department that have no idea what they are talking about. For the other Question every year that I have been here it has been about 100 days with about 65-70 overnights. Benefits are good.

Relax...it was a good post XL Pilot.


GV

 

[typhoonpilot]

Relax...it was a good post XL Pilot.


GV

GV:

You may not relax if you find out what kind of "larger" aircraft they are getting. Although the rational for the choice did have to do with operating from a relatively short airfield.


Typhoonpilot

 

[Spooky 2]

GV:

You may not relax if you find out what kind of "larger" aircraft they are getting. Although the rational for the choice did have to do with operating from a relatively short airfield.


Typhoonpilot

Must be one of them Falcon aeroplanes, huh?

 

[CA1900]

The big question is, did they get the PSP for the Citations?