What about Caribbean? Anyone with any experience do any expat flying down south? The wife and I have bounced a kind of half serious dream back and forth about selling everything up here and moving to the Caribbean. I'll be sitting on my military pension, with ATPL(H) and CPL(A) in hand, and our kid...

up on one wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:54 pm From my understanding, if you are in the experienced bunch, you should not have an issue negotiating 180-220k on a super mid (on a respectable OC) with 3 crew members in yyz. That is strictly base salary with all the fixings on the side

What other "fixings" are usually part of the package?

Does Porter offer years of service credit for DECs from other airlines?

I assume this is quarterly

Why is step 3 787 FO lower than step 3 737 FO? All the other 787 steps are higher than their equivalent 737 step.

Somewhat underwhelming.

What health benefits are offered to pilots at Porter (life insurance/disability; dental …)? Do the pilots pay a portion of the coverage? Two different plan options. CORE or ENHANCED. I’m on family enhanced. Cost about $250-$300 a month. (I did very crude mental math) Enhanced has $300 vision every ...

First of all, you were not booked in First Class. Air Canada hasn’t sold a First Class ticket in over 25 years. As well noted above, Captains, First Officers and Augment First Officers are contractually given a Business Class seat when DeadHeading. RPs in Economy, pending space in Business or Premi...

What about the rest of Porter's conditions?

Min days off per month?
min daily credit? trip and duty rigs?
How is scheduling done?

Spotify wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:12 pm I have to say wow, that’s exactly how other companies should be posting their job ads! Upfront and in the open. Quite the salary to fly a Be200 or Falcon!

So what's the salary? It's not posted on the ad.

What aircraft type is your current job upgrade going to be on? Getting 737 PIC time will make you extremely marketable globally. If you go to the ULCC, you can still jump to AC if you want and if not you can upgrade in a couple years and open up lots of other options.

In case you missed it we are involved in contract negotiations to do exactly that. Regardless of the pay stealing pilots from other companies is a bandaid solution and moves the problem to another carrier and does little to address the underlying issue of not enough experienced 705 pilots in Canada...

I didn't realise AC had that TBP. No thanks. I'd much rather have a straight DC than that. I'll take 100% of my money any day over an amount decided by other people that may be reduced out of concern for future solvency of the plan. This seems like it would only benefit those who can't budget or man...

Does any operator in the Fraser Valley or Vancouver Island rent out twins?

So did the pay scales increase when the EMB joined the fleet and as the smaller Dashes are removed since the average aircraft size increased?

Rowdy wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 2:53 pm All machines in the fleet fall under those YOS wages. The EMB is no exception.

I think I would need to start at year 34 captain pay to make that worthwhile. Can some post the captain pay scales, is it status pay even on the EMJ? If hired today: Pay scale effective 01 July 2022 (all aircraft) 1. 84.89 2. 87.55 3. 91.79 4. 94.45 5. 98.70 6. 107.21 7. 109.89 8. 112.65 9. 115.46 1...

Simple, sign the bond note, and there's language in it that says just that. On the brighter side, there has just been a substantial bump to pilot salaries across the board, other improvements to per diems /shift premiums, and promises of more to come on other aspects of WaWCON. What is the new pay ...

CpnCrunch wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:45 am There is now a proper maintained path at the eastern end of apron 3.

It follows the road or goes down the slope at the end of the runway?

Thanks. I figured now that the airport is a bit busier with some scheduled service and such, there would likely be a few more people around to possibly report you. What is the legality of walking around an airport that isn’t access controlled? Where would be the best place in the lower mainland to r...

I’m planning on doing some private flying to Tofino this summer. Is there an easy, and walkable way to get from the airport down to the beach? A friend mentioned that 30 years ago he used to just climb down the slope by the end of one of the runways right on to the beach. I’m guessing walking around...

Hopefully flat pay gets addressed next year during our contract negotiations. However, it usually takes a back seat to other issues unfortunately. Sadly there isn’t much support to make changes for pilots that aren’t on the property yet. I think that position is shortsighted but that’s just my opin...

Anybody know what the 350 captain job in YVR pays?

The food is fabulous if you go to the right places. Just don't eat the street food

But yes Old Fella. Delhi is definitely "interesting".

" Mr. Wagner said the publication ban prevented him from saying why he sought the publication ban"

Classic!

Just my opinion but if you were wanting to go to AC before the pandemic you should definitely go whenever the opportunity arises. The economic boom coming out of the pandemic combined with high retirement numbers will get you quite far up the list and safe from layoffs pretty quickly. Getting into a...