I'd choose Air Transat. Five (fairly) good of reasons: - there's no getting in on the ground floor at Porter. All 400 dash pilots are more senior to you and will eclipse your seniority number for a few years to come. Translation: your schedule will suck for a long time. - Business travel isn't neces...

@piperdriver

what does it have to do with Swoop? Seems you're blaming the child for the parent's failures?

That has been my experience. Routinely planned a max uplift of 400lbs less than book leaving out of a popular SE destination, whereas in Europe for example you could "overfill" the aircraft on occasion, getting 80-100 lbs more than book.

I've been overseas for twelve years now, got married and have two kids. So far an amazing experience and pay that will never be matched in Canada. You can make more money in an airline overseas as a DEC on a 737/A320 than a very senior wide body Air Canada guy. I've worked in corporate aviation for ...

Waldo, i love this idea and have been thinking about a similar set-up for some time. one of my biggest concerns is on how to manage sop's and a safety minded way of operating each and every flight. some individual operators may be more risk averse than others, but it would only take one incident/acc...

I love this idea. Been thinking about something similar for some years now. I think there would be no shortage of interested pilot owners/operators accross the whole spectrum from piston to jets. One thing that provides an area for concern would be operating standards and safety. A way to monitor th...

ok, lets see: Started flying in 1997: Started working in 1998: years 1-3: 14000-20000; dispatch, washing planes, very little flying year 4: 24000; did 1000 hours of flying in that year year 5: 36000, plus a bit of mileage year 6-8: medivac on king air 38000-55000 including mileage year 8-9: first je...

The G650 is easy to spot. When looking at it, one can notice that the cabin windows are about 30% larger than on the G450/550. Also, it's a much fatter aircraft, finally matching cabin volume of the Global Express. The easiest thing to spot though is the cockpit wrap-around windscreen, which has a m...

Flight training took a long time 97-2000: dispatch, washing planes, occasional vfr charter: 14-20K -2001: full time Navajo in northern Ontario: 24K -2002-2005: Caravan and King Air Cpt: 36 beginning - 65K end -2005-6: small jet: 36K -2006-8: F/O 737NG: First year 95K (with all extras), second year a...

It depends what you fly and in what capacity. Nowadays you can get a left seat position in the Middle East, Africa or Asia if you currently fly a Challenger or bigger. Even Airlines offer rotation jobs now, i.e. A320/737 in China 6 weeks on 2 weeks off type of deal. imho, I would not stick with Cana...

We went to a remote airport in northern China a few weeks ago and had to take a navigator, because the aerodrome wasn't in our database, nor did the controllers there speak english. Turns out the navigator is a pilot for Air China. The company trained him ab initio and since he got several type rati...

I heard a few days ago from a buddy of mine, who works at Air Transat, that he just received a layoff notice. He's been with them for over three years and didn't get layed off last time, meaning this time the cuts are deeper. Unless I missed it: Why is no one talking about this. Especially when Sunw...

I had the pleasure of meeting Peter about 10 years ago, taking the Aerocourse and sometimes giving him a ride from YVR to YYJ. I remember standing in front of the huge map in the Juan Air office with him and discussing the various regions of the beautiful province of BC. Peter lived aviation. There ...

Sunwing is a rapidly expanding company. They started over two years ago and are now the largest in Ontario for vacation sales. Yes sunwing and sunwing/red seal vacations are associated. sunwing airlines does not have any associations with other airlines (with one exception). while the airline hasn't...

Hey there,

I'd like to find out about Loss of License insurance. Does your company provide ie it or do you purchase it yourself? and also who will provide it?

I only got one quote so far and it is hugely expensive ($2500 p.a for $300000 coverage)

Thanks,

cms

SUNWING never had a starting wage of 65K for F/O. It's 48K first year, 60K 2nd year and goes up from there. it is 20% below par with skyservice and even more with air transat. however, there's a lot of overtime and if you have enough seniority you can go for uk deployment, which enables you to save ...

someone should tell them that if they are looking for professional pilots they should post a professional job posting. current on what, and how much mullah ??? is it captain or chief piot or both?????? looking at their website they bost an eclipse toyplane. why would i need pond experience, since it...

chances of expansion out west?????????? am not sure about that. swg is trying this winter season, however all pilots will be toronto based. in fact sunwing vacations already operated out west last season, not the airline. DO NOT EXPECT TO EVER see a permanent base out there. the western market tradi...

SWG is a pretty good company. money is not the best (if compared to skyservice or transat), but ok. it beats ac for the first two years and then you're behind for the rest of your career moneywise and otherwise i.e. benefits etc.. they do have big plans and will be seeing huge expansion for the upco...

you call a lear fast??????? so you cruise at M.78. big deal over the slowtations M.72.

try falcon 100 cruise at M.82 and an mmo @ M.87. had it at that speed all the time.

shit for range though.