Col. Bill,
Thank you for your incite into the dispatch industry. I never really paid much attention to how the airlines operated when I was in the Air Force. This even having spent most of my career around aviation fixing the old "Blue Boxes", (Singer-Link F-4E and F-111D flight simulators) and learning to fly through base aero clubs.
The company I worked for here was a Part 121 supplemental that carried both cargo and pax in an on-demand operation. Years before I came to the company they flew actual posted flights and you could walk up to the ABQ Sunport terminal and catch a flight. Even though the company had operated for the government for over 30 years, they were still getting jerked around by some career civil service types that were trying to impress their bosses as they clawed their way to their SES ratings. I guess politics is the same no matter where you are. As for pay, I started in the low $30s which for this part of the country is not too bad. The entire company only had aprox 75 employees so you got to know a lot of the folks as compared to the mega corporations.
Again thanks for the response and good luck with your job hunting too. I saw your post about Alaska Air which I believe has their SOC in SEA? Also when driving to work at Kirtland AFB, I would sometimes see C-17s parking on the Hot Pad un-load/loading. They do not look that large from a distance but when you get close they are just like mini C-5s. Bet they are fun to fly, especially with the stick instead of a yoke.
Sim-u-lator,
Terry
Thank you for your incite into the dispatch industry. I never really paid much attention to how the airlines operated when I was in the Air Force. This even having spent most of my career around aviation fixing the old "Blue Boxes", (Singer-Link F-4E and F-111D flight simulators) and learning to fly through base aero clubs.
The company I worked for here was a Part 121 supplemental that carried both cargo and pax in an on-demand operation. Years before I came to the company they flew actual posted flights and you could walk up to the ABQ Sunport terminal and catch a flight. Even though the company had operated for the government for over 30 years, they were still getting jerked around by some career civil service types that were trying to impress their bosses as they clawed their way to their SES ratings. I guess politics is the same no matter where you are. As for pay, I started in the low $30s which for this part of the country is not too bad. The entire company only had aprox 75 employees so you got to know a lot of the folks as compared to the mega corporations.
Again thanks for the response and good luck with your job hunting too. I saw your post about Alaska Air which I believe has their SOC in SEA? Also when driving to work at Kirtland AFB, I would sometimes see C-17s parking on the Hot Pad un-load/loading. They do not look that large from a distance but when you get close they are just like mini C-5s. Bet they are fun to fly, especially with the stick instead of a yoke.
Sim-u-lator,
Terry
