Flight Options ?s

[Propblast]

Just wondering if there is a training contract at Options. If so, how long? Is it prorated? How far from your domicle can you live?

Thanks

-PB

 

[dime line]

Just do yourself a favor, go fly at a regional or NetJets. If you don't have the Netjets time, then go to a regional and get it, then apply to Netjets

 

[Dep676]

Just wondering if there is a training contract at Options. If so, how long? Is it prorated? How far from your domicle can you live?

Thanks

-PB

I just heard that they are not making new hires sign a contract. However if current pilots change airplanes they are making them sign one.

As far as domicle I do not know.

 

[Galaxy]

I agree with the others....find a better route to go. Turmoil is the soup of the day here..served everyday in big bowls. I dont know much about new hire contracts but I do know for a fact that they make current employees sign one when the go to a new type, so I am sure they make new hires do. I do hear of some cases where they forget to have you sign it before you go to training then when they are on the road they are approached and they flat out refuse to sign it after the fact. As for the domicile question..When I was kicked out of my tier 3 I was told I had to move within 1 hr drive to my new domicile. However, and sadly I can not reccomend FLOPS to anyone regardless of your total time. Dont risk you FAA ticket here. Go somewhere safe like NJ or CS. They seem to either treat thier employees right or just have a contract that forces that to happen.
Good luck on your search.
Galaxy-working a crappy job so that YOU dont have to...

 

[TurboHonda]

No Contracts at FLOPS

There are no contracts at FLOPS. Only commitments on the pilot's part. A contract would imply that each party live up to their part of an agreement. Pilots sign all sorts of stuff, including training obligations. Management signs nothing.

 

[Propblast]

Wow!

Successfully scared away. Thanks for the info. I think I'll leave the industry rather than start over at a regional.

-PB

 

[Dep676]

WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 29, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN) has closed an agreement with Flight Options International to
purchase its remaining equity in Flight Options, LLC, a fractional jet service
provider.
Prior to this agreement, Raytheon had a 97.6% ownership stake in Flight
Options, LLC. This equity purchase makes Flight Options, LLC a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Raytheon Company. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2004 sales of $20.2 billion, is an
industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information
technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.
With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs more than 80,000 people
worldwide.


Found on Raytheon's website. Looks like they own 100% now boys and girls.

 

[greygoose]

I talked with someone else about this. There is some sort of employment law in Ohio, that employers can not enforce a emloyment contract. I am not sure if it is state to state or across a federal law. I have heard from a friend that the law is the same in FL. The biggest concern you would have breaking a contract and not paying up, is using them as a reference.

 

[Dep676]

Well by law they are only allowed to say if you worked there and the dates. They can not talk bad about you at all.

 

[leardawg]

Assuming one has done the proper research, why anyone would chose to go to FLOPS instead of NJ or CS at this point in time is beyond me. It's a big roll of the dice for a lot less pay.

 

[hawkercpt]

Assuming one has done the proper research, why anyone would chose to go to FLOPS instead of NJ or CS at this point in time is beyond me. It's a big roll of the dice for a lot less pay.

Bottom line...

Lower requirements. Kmart blue light special.

 

[be-400xpdriver]

Assuming one has done the proper research, why anyone would chose to go to FLOPS instead of NJ or CS at this point in time is beyond me. It's a big roll of the dice for a lot less pay.

Because they like to take it in the A#$

 

[Beatrix Kiddo]

Assuming one has done the proper research, why anyone would chose to go to FLOPS instead of NJ or CS at this point in time is beyond me. It's a big roll of the dice for a lot less pay.

Buddy everything these days is a roll of the dice. Do you think that guys/gals who went to work for RTA wouldve done it if they knew we would end up at Flight Options? Not likely. You roll your dice and you take your chances:bomb:

wiggle your big toe...

 

[leardawg]

Buddy everything these days is a roll of the dice. Do you think that guys/gals who went to work for RTA wouldve done it if they knew we would end up at Flight Options? Not likely. You roll your dice and you take your chances:bomb:

wiggle your big toe...

Yeah, but c'mon! Just look at the pay scale issues alone. If I were of the mind to apply to a Fractional, all other things being equal, I'd go where the money is. It's a no-brainer! For sure, noone knows for sure where any of the fractionals will be a few years from now, but I'd be willing to bet that Netjets would be the last man standing. Even the industry "experts" would pretty much unanimously consider Flight Options to be on the shakiest ground of the Big 4.

 

[leardawg]

P. S. I got a lead that Bill is living in Costa Rica!

 

[Beatrix Kiddo]

Not anymore he isnt....

wiggle your big toe...