Who is Arrow Cargo in MIA?

[Lear70]

Saw a job ad on Planejobs for all positions for "Arrow Cargo" out of MIA. Never heard of them, wondering if anyone has and what the scoop is?

 

[porra]

Arrow air is / was Fine Air, flying out of mia with old DC8's and I believe L1011.
Fine Air, a few years back they had PFT for the new F/Os. The name is gone now is only Arrow Air.

 

[Lear70]

Thanks for the info. A couple of other questions if you happen to know...

Their pay is listed at $89 per hour 1st year CA, but only a 55 hour guarantee. How much do you actually fly and what can you expect a monthly paycheck to be? (only 4,895 per month / $58,740 per year - not exactly "stellar" for a DC-8 Captain).

Do you have a hard line from day one or do you go sit reserve somewhere and for how long?

How many days on / days off is a normal rotation? How many days off in a normal month?

If and when they phase out the 8's, do the pilots get to bid over to another aircraft or are they furloughed out of seniority in preference of current and qualified people on the other fleet type? (a la' Falcon Air and Transmeridian to name a few).

Right now I'm flying left seat on a CRJ but used to fly 727's cargo and miss the cargo lifestyle, but I get 11 or 12 days off a month and make about $65,000 a year before per diem or taxes so it'd have to be a decent pay increase or quality of life increase without a pay cut to make it worthwhile...

Thanks in advance for the answers!

 

[Publishers]

They have gone 11 three times in the last 10 years.

 

[porra]

I would stay where you are...

 

[Xfr8dog]

stay where you are...

 

[Pilot877]

Arrow air is / was Fine Air, flying out of mia with old DC8's and I believe L1011.
Fine Air, a few years back they had PFT for the new F/Os. The name is gone now is only Arrow Air.

Wrong,

Fine Air is no more, Arrow is currently flying DC-10's as well as purchasing more of them, although there are still some DC-8-63's left. There are no L1011's, and there is DEFINITELY no PFT.

 

[uba757]

Lear ARROW is not worth your time. They started flying again back in August of last year after the 3rd Chapter 11 in like 6 years. New owners but they are really hurting for DC8 and DC10 pilots bad. So bad that they are hiring guys with questionable histories as pilots. There is an Open House this weekend at Aero Service in Miami and they are one of the companies that are going to be there.

 

[Lear70]

Bummer for them... and us. If they paid about $10k a month for CA's and 5k for F/O's and F/E's, plus paid training and decent schedules, they probably wouldn't have that problem, now would they?


Thanks for the info!

 

[Pilot877]

Lear ARROW is not worth your time. They started flying again back in August of last year after the 3rd Chapter 11 in like 6 years. New owners but they are really hurting for DC8 and DC10 pilots bad. So bad that they are hiring guys with questionable histories as pilots. There is an Open House this weekend at Aero Service in Miami and they are one of the companies that are going to be there.

Wrong, again!

You have to pass the U.S. Customs background check to work at Arrow, just so that people who have questionable histories won't be able to make it through the background check. The pilots who couldnt pass the check are gone. It is a requirement now, just to be able to be around the international cargo, which is all of it. The company is also conducting a pretty extensive check on its own, because of the type of flying there.

Ahhh, forget about it, you seem like you have some kind of chip on your shoulder, or some kind of grudge against the company anyway. By the way, you do get paid while you are in training, and the pilots just got a 15% raise. (not yet reflected in airlinepilotpay.com)

Good luck to you guys in your job search.

Have a good one.