Eclipse Jet TV News Story

[Publishers]

These things are going to be flying around in the mid twenties or lower. Most trips are one hour or under. It is those 1 hour trips that are where they really do well as an operator. RSVM not a factor for the reason above. They are training pilots as fast as they can.
300 aircraft includes the southeast but they will be opening up regions as the aircraft come. Florida which has 5 Dayports now will probably end up with 10 and that equals at least 20 aircraft just for that operation. Remember, no weekend flying. Another problem is everyone has to train in the aircraft. Tom Costello knew what he was talking about and you must remember it is for the general public so you are trying to find a reference the public might understand. You do not do these stories for pilots or even aviation people. The reservation software is the story here for the educated but it does not do well with the masses. They want the plane.

 

[finnjl]

What is the pay? It seems like it may be a place for the retired airline pilot to work for fun. Where money is not a problem and it is just a hobby. Not good for those of us trying to make a career out of this profession.

I made 47,000 a year as a year 3 FO at the regionals. I wonder if it will be close.

Their site advertises average pilot experience is 10000 hours. That is why i figured their are retired airline guys there.

 

[x402]

Ecplipse is laying people off and cannot produce aircraft in the manner they expected. Dayjet will be a long time waiting for a large fleet. I hope their business model will work with 1/4 of the fleet they expected.