USA Jet pays for college degree

[RedGuy]

Most pilots already have a degree so they neither know nor care about it. Nice that it's there, but it's not setting the bar.

I don't know about most pilots. Actually most of the pilots I work with do not have a degree, including myself. Most of us worked our way up from ground support.

 

[TWA]

The pilots that are currently competitive in the job market have college degrees. The guys planted at the top of the seniority lists at the majors, and the kid that sat down in the right seat of an RJ two weeks ago don't have degrees. The top dawgs at the majors don't have degrees because they were not needed when they were initially hired, and the new FOs drank the Delta Connection Kool Aid and decided a first flying job was more important than a proper education. This program makes USA Jet a great stepping stone for the RJ children who actually want to make it somewhere, assuming pilotyip will hire them.

 

[nitefr8dog]

The pilots that are currently competitive in the job market have college degrees. The guys planted at the top of the seniority lists at the majors, and the kid that sat down in the right seat of an RJ two weeks ago don't have degrees. The top dawgs at the majors don't have degrees because they were not needed when they were initially hired, and the new FOs drank the Delta Connection Kool Aid and decided a first flying job was more important than a proper education. This program makes USA Jet a great stepping stone for the RJ children who actually want to make it somewhere, assuming pilotyip will hire them.

For what it is worth ABXAIR offers this to all employees also.

 

[pilotyip]

Use it for anything

The pilots that are currently competitive in the job market have college degrees. The guys planted at the top of the seniority lists at the majors, and the kid that sat down in the right seat of an RJ two weeks ago don't have degrees. The top dawgs at the majors don't have degrees because they were not needed when they were initially hired, and the new FOs drank the Delta Connection Kool Aid and decided a first flying job was more important than a proper education. This program makes USA Jet a great stepping stone for the RJ children who actually want to make it somewhere, assuming pilotyip will hire them.

If it an accredited prgram, tech degree, A&P, dispatchers, etc without a 4 yr degee it can still be used. BTW Hired lots of RJ guys in the last year, so far they love it, pay, time at home, rapid movement into the DC-9 pax operations. BTW not much hiring going on right now, no one is going anywhere.

 

[Way2Broke]

For what it's worth this isn't my first time going to college. I left college after three semesters to go fly. It seems to have worked out pretty well, because not only does all that time transfer, I also get all the experiential credit (30 hours just for that) applied towards the BS. Not to mention I only have to pay for 50 percent of the degree now. If you ask me it saves a ton of money and I'm doing all this while building PIC Jet Time. But then again I'm so far from a "RJ Kid" it's absurd. I come from a part 61 instructing, bank check hauling, 135 402/414 Cape Cod Flying, 121 19 seat flying background. When you got your Commercial around December 2001 you pretty much took whatever flying job you could beg, borrow, or steal. I finally hit it a company with good timing at USA Jet, and I like the Falcon.

The way I look at it my resume is missing 3 things, a company that I have longevity at, PIC Jet time,
and a college degree. USA Jet is doing all three for me right now. Everything on top of that is just icing on the cake.

USA Jet has been good to me so far, and I recommend the place to others if they ask. Of course, I also warn them of the horrors of "The Pager" too. I tell them that if you enter USA Jet with realistic expectations you will be rewarded for your work. If your one of those privileged types this really isn't the type of flying for you. While we don't fly all that much, when we do some of the days are very long, and sometimes I have to push freight. But I get paid extra to push the freight, and I need the money. I can handle this job while I'm young, but I don't think I would want to be doing it 20 years from now. I really have alot of respect for the older folks that do this job. Their work ethic is amazing.