Polar Questions

[Tomct]

On Your Six... My friend is a Captain on the 200 and he loves the flying, the destinations and his schedule. He is fairly jr on the 200 but he said that he just bids to fly the first two weeks of his schedule. Then if he wants to really pick up some extra cash, he picks up some trips on his day off and makes a LOAD of CASH!!! With the pilot contract, the company will never pay you more than 102 hrs per month and there is no banking system. You can really work the system..."so he tells me..." and do really well financially!!
Hope this helps. I am still waiting to hear from them...I hope that it is soon!!

 

[heilhaavir]

The 102hrs you are refering to exclude the premium (or extended duty) pay which means that if your friend does indeed hit the 102 mark is actual pay will be way above that

 

[B-atch]

Work it BABY, WORK IT!!!

 

[waazzuuuup!!]

Yeah!!!!!

Do It!!

 

[Tomct]

Smolley Hokes, I still have not heard anything from Polar. I can't believe it! They must have a ton of resumes or they are slowing down the classes. I am not sure why that would be seeing how they just picked up 1 of 4 routes into China. I would imagine that they would be looking to hire like crazy! Who Knows. I am just venting!
Austa!

 

[Dizel8]

So what kind of schedules does the Stansted boys end up with?

 

[B-atch]

AHH, I think you are refering to Atlas... Polar does not have a Standstead domicile.. Only JFK.. As far as hiring goes, we are presently conducting classes, and rummors are that another class of 12 will be hired early next year... As some might know, Polar is in the middle of contract negotiations.. Management never paints a rozy picture during this process..Attrition is a factor.. Our pilot force is fairly MATURE and a few guys are set to RETIRE next year..Good LUCK and keep the faith

 

[kilroy]

Standstead is now a base for Polar .A friend of mine interviewed with them last month....

 

[MooseTrax]

They just interviewed a group on like the 14th of Oct. I got a call, but had some other obligations that prevented me from going (mil. duty) They were very nce and said they would be call in the future.

I think Atlas is the Stanstead base. Because AWWH owns both and the interviews are at the same place it may get a bit confusing. One thing I did notice was that the pay is quite a bit different at Atlas vs. Polar. From a money standpoint I think I'd rather be at Atlas, but I hear the work rules are better at Polar. We had an engineer interview that day for a PFE job. I haven't heard back from him yet, but he seemed happy with the way things went. Good luck to all.

 

[kilroy]

What times does Polar want....A some what friend of mine interviewed with them in Oct. He said he done great and personally knows the chief pilot. Supposedly they also said he done better then most other guys in the interview as regards to flying the sim. BUt he was not offered a job. He said the reason they did not offer him a job is becuase he does not have 2500 pic in jets. He is about a 6000 hour guy ex-military jet pilot (french). Is he blowing smoke up my a$$ on this.Sounds fishy.. You,d think they would know his flight time before throwing him in the sim..