mountain air cargo

[CrimsonEclipse]

It is a different group of people. You have to be alot more independent
here. You may not see the CP for years at a time. The Capts are usually
family guys that want (and can) be at home on the weekends. Going
to an airline would be a bit of a sacrifice for them with the paycut (although
only for a few years) and crappy schedule.

Also, there are a few Van runs that will take a body bag to get these guys
out of. 4 hour days and 4 day weeks are hard to beat.

It makes you re-think your goals. F/O in an asian 747 or C208 have the
same pay. The vans have about 1/10th the bull********************.

CE

 

[Nolife]

... and don't forget job security. I know quite a few MAC capts that left for greener pastures only to get furloughed. FedEx feeders are very safe as far as aviation jobs go. Also if you make it to capt and the company is properly staffed capts get every fourth week off. It's called a TCA week.

Now imagine... you live with your airplane in a city where you, your wife and kids are happy... you fly 10 hrs a week... house almost paid off... max pay with the company (high 60's maybe low 70's)... home every day... weekends off... and you get every fourth week off as well plus four weeks of vacation every year.


Would you leave for Air Tran, SWA, etc. to be gone for 4 days then commute home for 2 and a half days off, and risk furlough. Sure you'll see better pay for your last 5-10 years of flying, but a decrease in quality of life and such. It all depends on how you see your half full or half empty cup of urine .

If I wouldn't have dumb lucked into a dang good situation job-wise I'd have been a MAC lifer for the afore mentioned reasons as well.

Good luck.

 

[El Piloto Chido]

About this time last year, I heard 'through the grapevine' that FedEx was arranging the shipment of a whole gaggle of ATRs from Europe (former Eurowings birds) to add to the existing fleet of former AMR and CoEx planes.

They were to be distributed among MAC and Empire, with possibly a few going to Corporate. Does anyone know if that's still in the works? Is FDX delaying until GSO and other hubs are ready to handle em?

Just curious. I know of quite a few guys who would love to upgrade out of the Caravan and into something a little bigger/faster/sexier.

 

[tsky]

I've heard that FedEx plans to send many of the ATR-72s over to Asia after the p-f conversions are finished on them. I guess there have been some complications with the plan though-Empire has several ATR-72s in storage for FedEx-apparently FedEx wants to send them to China. It would be great to have more ATR-72 in the domestic feeder fleet.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

The ATR's are likely to end up with Empire and MAC.
The Asian situation likely fell through.

CE

 

[Grassstrippilot]

Is MAC who is operating the caravans out of SLC? Or is it another company doing the FedEx feed out west?

 

[pipejockey]

What aircraft flies into EWR? And is that considered a base?

 

[jvrac]

... and don't forget job security. I know quite a few MAC capts that left for greener pastures only to get furloughed. FedEx feeders are very safe as far as aviation jobs go. Also if you make it to capt and the company is properly staffed capts get every fourth week off. It's called a TCA week.

Now imagine... you live with your airplane in a city where you, your wife and kids are happy... you fly 10 hrs a week... house almost paid off... max pay with the company (high 60's maybe low 70's)... home every day... weekends off... and you get every fourth week off as well plus four weeks of vacation every year.


Would you leave for Air Tran, SWA, etc. to be gone for 4 days then commute home for 2 and a half days off, and risk furlough. Sure you'll see better pay for your last 5-10 years of flying, but a decrease in quality of life and such. It all depends on how you see your half full or half empty cup of urine .

If I wouldn't have dumb lucked into a dang good situation job-wise I'd have been a MAC lifer for the afore mentioned reasons as well.

Good luck.

Is it possible to get this kind of situation and be based in IND with MAC? If so, this is EXACTLY what I am looking for. I don't care about pay, I just want to spend time with my family.

 

[gringo]

IND only has a reserve aircraft, and that goes fairly senior. All of the aircraft you see in IND come from outstations (LCK, SBN, a few others)

So the short answer is... unlikely.