Kalitta Air

[CWI]

I just accepted a B747 FO position with Connie and class starts on the April 26th. They have 52 crews and want to go to 75. Business is good and they are turning away business because of lack of crews and planes. Ned Wallace, founder of Polar Air, is now working for Connie and heads the Sales and Marketing Department, probably the reason business is so good. The class on the 26th will have 12 FO's and 6 FE's.

The interview is in Ypsilanti, Willow Run Airport, headquarters of Kalitta on April 7th. Friendly people and no BS. Everything was straight forward. All they wanted to see was your passport, medical and licenses. The simulator ride was in Denver, UAL's facitlity. The simride was on the 14th in the B747-200. Typical simride, takeoff out of LAX, climb out to 4000 feet at 180 kts, flaps 10. Level off at 4000 and accelerate to 200 kts. Then a decending turn to 3000 feet at 200 kts and 500 fpm. Vectored to a hold at Seal Beach, after entering the hold and doing one turn in the pattern I was vectored to an ILS to runway 24 right. Anything below 300 feet doesn't matter.

The schedule is 17 days on and 11 off on a 28 day month. Pay is 40 dollars per hour first year on a 56 hour guaranty. Second year goes to 60 dollars per hour. Well, what the hell, money isn't everything! With a little luck upgrading to Captain in a couple of years or less. Everyone is based in Ypsilanti, but nothing flies out of there, so you are commercialed out of your home airport.

A lot of the guys I interviewed with were furloughed Atlas pilots.

Prior B747, DC8 or B727 time would probably be helpful.

http://www.kalittaair.com

 

[T-Gates]

Hey man, thanks for a good post on Kalitta...not much info on here.

 

[chacka]

Actually all bid periods are 30 or 31 days. You do work 17/off the rest. Guarantee is correct though based on a full bid period, it is actually 60.7 hours.

 

[CSY Mon]

Kalitta pay can actually be quite good once ya get the left seat.
Sell yer days off and fly yer tail off and ya be way up there in the double six digit range after a few years.

Did same kind of flying and schedules with Tower Air.
Made more money than God from time to time, but job security ain't all that great....Just ask the original Kalitta guys, and the Tower Air guys, and the Southern Air Transport guys, etc..

Good luck with yer class however.
The -200 is a sweet airplane...Did it for 13 years for 3 different carriers.

 

[Dart]

Who do you send resume to? I looked on the site...something I missed?
Pm with the info..... that would be great! I want to go back to flying cargo.

 

[CSY Mon]

Dart.

PM on the way.

 

[CWI]

Kalitta Air
818 Willow Run Airport
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48198

Attn: Captain Richard Hagquist

or call

1-800-521-1590 and ask them where to fax it.

 

[CWI]

Kalitta Teamster website. You can find their current contract and read it if you like. Pay, scheduling etc.............

http://www.ibt747.org/airlines/kai/kai-index.html

 

[CWI]

I just finished my first week of Indoc with the April 26th class.

Ground school is about 33 days. You pay for your own hotel room and no perdiem during training in Detroit. Training pay is $2000 per month.

The simulator will be in MSP at NATCO, Northwest's training facility and that will run about 2 weeks.

Kalitta is getting ready to interview next week for the June class which will have 12 FO's and 6 engineers, who I believe will be recalls. The FO's are all new hires.

There will be another class of 12 FO's and 6 engineers in the early part of September. That is all the classes they have planned this year, but I think that might change if the training department can keep up with all the training.

They are very short of crews and Connie wants to add more airplanes as soon as the crews are trained. They have 11 operational B747's and want to go to possibly 15.

They will be upgrading 28 FO's as soon as we get out on the line to fill their vacancies. I believe 6 of the 28 will be starting class next week.

The schedule is a 30 day month 17 days on and 13 off. If you want overtime there is no shortage of it!

Send resumes to:

[email protected]

They will be forwarded to the Chief Pilot and put into his data base.

 

[EMBATP]

Questions

What is average number of hours of pay per month for new F.O.'s?

How is upgrade determined and how long?

Any scheduled stuff or all charter type flying?

Where do most of their trips take you? Long overnights?

I know a lot of the flying is in support of the Iraq war. What happens when that ends?

Are the engineers PFE's or do they hire into the panel?

what kind of time/experience/aircraft is getting interviewed/hired?

thanks.