Captain Monkey Suit said:
I'm new to the cargo world...for comparison's sake...how does Capital Cargo compare to another ACMI company such as Atlas?
Are ACMI's stable?
Why the secret with pay? This raises the "UNDER-PAID" flag...thanks for sharing the info about your company guys.
There's no secret about the pay silly, we're just too lazy to sit down and type out the payscale, that's all.
FO first year is about 37,500, 2nd year about 39,500, 3rd year about 41,000....just keeps going up. That does not include perdiem (1.75 per hour), performance bonus and attendance bonus. Factor in all of that, and you'll gross about 50,000 your first year. You'll find some sticklers on here who will say that's not true, but I can back it up with all of my paystubs.
In my opinion, a good comparison to Capital is Kitty Hawk, Custom Air, Express.Net, etc... Then, there is your Atlas, Gemini, Polar, SouthernAir, Tradewinds, etc... The difference, IMO, is that with the latter, you're flying longer routes, bigger equipment, gone a little more, and paid more. With Capital, you're narrowbody domestic, gone for 14-16 days max, and paid a little less. Capital has a great reputation and the checks have never bounced.
Is ACMI stable? I don't know, but who can predict anything in this industry anymore. Anything can happen; just look over the past year. ASA was sold, ComAir's in trouble, a legacy airline merged with a LCC, Delta & NorthWest filed bankruptcy.
To answer your question about ACMI, I don't know. But I do personally think freight is the place to be. Mail, packages and cargo always have to go no matter what, even in hard economic times, however, I've noticed passenger loads are the first thing to drop when families start tightning up their belts to save money. Just my .02
. Normally its a flight in from TOL and back out to TOL. See ya..
