FlexJet

[doh]

If you only commute twice a month to your job; thats not too bad. It beats 4-5 times a month to my regional job.

Actually, 3 commutes is more likely. And you don't have reciprocal jumpseat because we never know where we will be going.

 

[finnjl]

How long would be the average upgrade time assuming today's growth rate? Let's say you start as a CL300 FO, how long before you could potentially upgrade to Lear 40/45 Capt?

who knows.....my best guess would be 2 to 3 years...but that all depends on growth, retirement, how many people leave to go fly for the airlines, etc.

 

[CL300Pilot]

FALSE! If you are a third year FO and you upgrade, then you are a Third Year Captain as far as pay goes. Been here over 8 years and

Sky,

That was me. Are you sure about that? I ask because that is not what I was told. I personally would love to be wrong.

CautionsBelly, can you clarify here?

CL300

 

[DirtyBeech]

I'm pretty sure when you upgrade to captain you go down one year on the payscale.

 

[hammer2]

I'm pretty sure when you upgrade to captain you go down one year on the payscale.

No No No I was here when they rosolved this issue years ago.
Year one is theirs after that the clock is runnig. 2yrs- 1st yr ca pay ,3 yrs- 2nd year ca pay, 4yrs-3rd ca pay. so on & so on.

 

[DirtyBeech]

Like I said, you go down one year on the payscale even though it is captain pay.

 

[CL300Pilot]

No No No I was here when they rosolved this issue years ago.
Year one is theirs after that the clock is runnig. 2yrs- 1st yr ca pay ,3 yrs- 2nd year ca pay, 4yrs-3rd ca pay. so on & so on.

I thought that is what I said and thought. Now when you upgrade from Lear to Challenger, I don't believe you drop a year again. You go in at what year pay you are already at. Am I correct in this?

 

[finnjl]

yes you do go down a year in pay when you go over to captain

example
year 3 FO
upgrade to Captain
you get year 2 captain pay

 

[livethedream]

any talk of opening new bases? SAN or LAX or LAS?

 

[Tnkr Pilot]

Medical

Anyone know how the Medical coverage is...Say for a family of 4 (deductible, prescriptions, co-pay, etc.)? Thanks for any insight.

 

[Pilot's Wife]

They take about $85 out per paycheck for medical/dental. You have a couple of plans to choose from. A couple of HSA's (I don't remember all the details about these because we did not choose them) and POS. We found POS to be better for our family of 5. Co-pay is $20/$40 depending on if the doctor is a specialist. I don't think we have a deductible but we pay 80/20 on all major items with participating doctors/facilities. The insurance is decent. We get 2 dental checkups paid for a year per person. Max paid for prescription is $40. Just depends on what it is. I have some that are $8 and some that are $40. Generics are always cheapest. They use Aetna which is a pretty broad network so finding participating doctors/facilities isn't difficult at all. They also have flex spending which is helpful for families.

Hope that helps. Flexjet has been great for our family for a long time. As stated before, nothing is perfect, but for the most part it has taken care of us well.

 

[Tnkr Pilot]

Thanks for the info..very helpful post.

 

[711-24-7]

How many hours do you guys fly in a month(average)?
What are the flight benefits if any?

 

[doylehargraves]

I only flew about 400 hours last year and, by the way, upgrade time is NOT 4 years. Upgrade time right now is roughly 2.5 years give or take a month. Also, I heard we will be over 31 Challenger 300's by years end; there are 21 right now so, if you do the math, that's a need for an additional 25 Captains and over 30 F/O's just in that fleet and, that doesn't include normal attrition. So figure, that's at least 55 spots of movement just for that fleet. The figure is more like just over a 100 with the lear fleets so, if you're within say 75 numbers of being captain, you roughly have a year and a few months left to upgrade.

 

[learflyer]

Is emailing Karen the best way to get a resume to her? I've tried faxing, emailing, etc. Besides, I have 6 yrs frac experience!