Majors Pilot Job sat

[check six]

I'll make this short and to the point:

Do you major airline guys like your job.......
1. Is the flying still fun?
2. Pay decent?
3. Enough time off?

I am a mid career engineer making good money, but have flown 135 Learjets. I have 2500 TT and 500 SIC jet.

Getting sick of all the politics that corporate america requires to make the big bucks.

Seems like the good part of flying profession is that as long as you pass your checkrides, you keep your job.

I am about ready to jump back in and start flying again.

Please advise........Check Six

 

[ngsp]

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read this website. if you are still interested, then God help you.

 

[Friend]

DONT DO IT!!!!!!! you are warned. You will have no quality of life, your pay will be less than what you are getting paid now. No weekends off, no holidays, if you have kids you will never see them, you will be on reserve forever. It will suck if you have to commute to just sit on reserve. I have a friend at CAL and he divorced and he is only gettings 9 days off, he gets 11 but commuting he loses and extra 2 days. HE lives in a crash pad, shares with other pilots. He tells me he is never home and he can expect to be on reserve for 4 years. But hey, its up to you.

 

[BoilerUP]

You're not going to go from a non-flying job to a major airline with 2500/500, especially without currency and recency of experience. You'd have to make some pretty big sacrifices in QOL and income in the near-mid term in order to be qualified for a job with a national or legacy airline.

If you are a PE in any in-demand field with a reasonable amount of experience, it really shouldn't be that difficult to make $80-100k plus bonus. Additionally, your experience and expertise (and earning potential) is substantially more portable than any airline job.

 

[dicko]

I'll make this short and to the point:

Do you major airline guys like your job.......

1. Is the flying still fun? Yes, for the most part. When it's not, it's boring
2. Pay decent? Yes, but i want more.
3. Enough time off? Yes, but I want more.

Caught me on a good day. Remember that the grass is always greener than this freaky looking smiley face

 

[pilotyip]

I'll make this short and to the point:

Do you major airline guys like your job.......
1. Is the flying still fun?
2. Pay decent?
3. Enough time off?

I am a mid career engineer making good money, but have flown 135 Learjets. I have 2500 TT and 500 SIC jet.

Getting sick of all the politics that corporate america requires to make the big bucks.

Seems like the good part of flying profession is that as long as you pass your checkrides, you keep your job.

I am about ready to jump back in and start flying again.

Please advise........Check Six

If you like to fly, you will be pleased with your decision. If you are in it to escape corp politics, forget it they are everywhere including 2 man departments. I got out for 5 years and came back to flying, never looked back.

 

[check six]

Just to add to my initial post..............

I know I need 1000 PIC jet to go to the heavy iron, but my questions are to get an idea for the long term.

I am a senior engineer working in Communications with MSEE making commensurate with that level.

 

[Andy]

Do you major airline guys like your job.......
1. Is the flying still fun?
2. Pay decent?
3. Enough time off?

1. Don't know; it's been more than 2 years since I flew for United.
2. Not when you're on furlough. I've been furloughed 7 of the last 11 years.
3. Plenty of time off when you're furloughed.

Let me hit you with a few questions:
1 Do you have decent savings and no debt?
2 How old are you?
3 Have you been away from home on a regular basis in any job you've had?
4 Do you have a nonflying backup plan to earn money?

If the age limit doesn't change again from 65 to something higher, it could be a very good time to get hired at the airlines. And of course it'd help if we don't slip into another great depression.
If you're under 35, you might have a decent chance for a good career. Once the age 65 retirements resume, there should be decent movement.

 

[dojetdriver]

Seems like the good part of flying profession is that as long as you pass your checkrides, you keep your job.

Well, sorta. But like other guys, I've passed ALL my checkrides, and was still out of a job via furlough. As boiler said, your skill set now has portability if you lose your job, and airline job doesn't

1 Do you have decent savings and no debt?
2 How old are you?
3 Have you been away from home on a regular basis in any job you've had?

A good friend of mine from college ended up going the engineer route. Mid thirties he decided he wanted he was tired of the cubicle/office politics, etc etc etc. Decides he wants to fly and went through the steps and got hired at a regional. After about a year and half, the 3 things I picked from Andy's post drove him to quit and go back to engineering. Regional FO pay sucked, his age was at a point where he couldn't deal with some issues like commuting crashpads, never spend time away from home and realized he HATED the lifestyle

 

[GuppyWN]

I'll make this short and to the point:

Do you major airline guys like your job.......
1. Is the flying still fun?
2. Pay decent?
3. Enough time off?

I am a mid career engineer making good money, but have flown 135 Learjets. I have 2500 TT and 500 SIC jet.

Getting sick of all the politics that corporate america requires to make the big bucks.

Seems like the good part of flying profession is that as long as you pass your checkrides, you keep your job.

I am about ready to jump back in and start flying again.

Please advise........Check Six

I've been doing this for 20 years. Southwest is the best ********************ing job in the world. Seniority is everything and I have enough to make my life flexible and happy but being on the bottom today is going to be a long row to hoe.

Gup