Whats it like flying for connie?

[Flyby1206]

I am a young single FO with a dead-end regional and no hopes of upgrading for another 6-8yrs, when I get around the 4000hr mark I would love to fly for you guys. I see that the only domicile is YIP but it seems everyone I talk to lives far from there. Do they airline you to wherever you need to go for the trip start? I am only at about 2000hrs now, is it even worth getting a resume on file yet? Or just wait until 4000? Thanks!

 

[oceandude]

Just wondering if anyone has a recent interview gouge on connie? Not much on will fly for food and its old. Thanks!!

 

[b757driver]

To Go or Not To Go, that is the Question

17 days on. must be hard on family life.

Kinda of funny, that comment. How about being away from home for 2, 3, 4 or sometimes 5 months ata stretch! A 17 on and the rest off per month would be manna from heaven for me and others like me.
Problem is we would take up to 50% pay cut by coming to Kalitta, maybe more. It's a real dirtbag having to start over for the umpteenth time. How does one really know they are applying to the "right" company? I've had more layoffs and furloughs the past decade to fill a book......and never made it to the LHS because I've always stuck it out hoping for the best. But reality never works that way.
So, what would you do? Forgo the big paychecks and the lousy lifestyle of an ACMI carrier who doesn't really care and go into the unknown or stay where you are making the money but never getting the chance to enjot it.
That my friend, is the BIG question, as Shakespeare once said.
Decisions, decsions..........easy if it were not in this industry!

 

[oceandude]

how right you are 757driver! who do you fly for?

 

[b757driver]

Yes, but I would dearly love to be wrong.......trouble, is I'm usually right, except in choosing employers!!!!
I fly TF-registered airplanes ....

 

[Xfr8dog]

Flyby1206, has anyone ever told you that it hurts to get your application in? At the very least they won't call you. You keep updating it over time and you prove to them that you are serious about working there.... right?

b757driver, what is LHS? If I had to guess I'd say Left Hand Seat? ha! I really don't know...

 

[LR25]

Kalitta is not a bad place to work, definetely worse places