Cherry Air?

[propilot]

The left side of the aircraft has a nice feel to it..My logbook likes it as well. Did you take the 72 job or are you still at ACC?

 

[lkmlo]

Cherry Air hasn't furloghed any pilots...don't know where ya heard that one. However, we did change our schedule last week. 5 on 2 off. Home every weekend. Doesn't get much better than that. Great group of guys to work with. Great DO and CP. Good place to be to build jet time with a reasonably quick upgrade. Just ran a new hire class a couple of weeks ago, and there is talk of another in June or July.

"5 on 2 off. Home every weekend". Did you just get lucky or do all of the pilots have weekends off.

 

[propilot]

Everyone has weekends off. Not just the pilots... We are on a weekend duty rotation. For the Falcon side it works out to roughly every 6th weekend you'll have to stay on duty. Not sure about the Lear side. Probably more like every 4th or 5th. This is for the on-demand side. Both of the runs (1 Falcon and 1 Lear) have always had weekends off.

 

[FR8FO]

every 3rd for the lear

 

[lkmlo]

So if you are on stand by and get called out on sat. and sun. then you are potentially gone for 12 days straight. Is this right. How likely is it to get called out?

 

[Jamis81]

After Tahir (founder of Grand Aire) crashed, his wife didn't take over, she remained as the marketing executive. Art, who was the COO became the CEO. He just dies from complications of Diabetes. Tahir's Ex-Wife, Katrina (Co-Founder of Grand Aire) is now the interim CEO.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Ga

I worked for Grand Aire for several years. Flew everything except the Hansa.

TC had it comin.

I had some friends who worked for Cherry Air back when I was at GA. They used to undercut us, which was scary. But I have heard that things are much better there now.

Freight is a great way to build time and not work for the slave wages of the commuters. You can easily make 50-80k as a cpt at many of the cargo companies. As an FO you will almost certainly start out at least in the mid 30k range which is twice as much as a regional.

You should look at USA Jet also.

 

[Tommy Boy]

KATRINA came back????

 

[USA_Av8r]

Is there still a base in ELP for cherry air? and if so, is it the same sked mentioned above?

Thanks

 

[Big Dog]

bump.

 

[8inMan]

bump.

 

[bobs98tlr]

I work at an FBO and see Cherry air quite abit, especially lately. Ive talked with a lot of there pilots and overall it seems like a great place to have a good flying job and build time. Im hopping to be knocking on there door sometime soon so i can head back to Texas.

 

[Big Dog]

bump.

 

[propilot]

There is one Lear based in ELP. Same schedule as everyone else.

 

[Way2Broke]

Don't Go To Cherry Air If You Value Your Life And/or Career