TurkeyFarmYQX wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:39 pm It's not a glamorous job so I'm not sure why you'd really want to get into the job. Have you considered ATC?

Depends on where you work. I have a friend who dispatches at Air Canada and it seems like a pretty good job that pays well. If you’re dispatching for Pat and Flo in YQX then not so much.

DO NOT DO IT! Signing any type of training bond is far from ideal but paying money up front is a big NO! Move along, another opportunity will come up. It may involve moving out of your parents house though.

Year 5 Captain at Sunwing. Base pay - $171 200 Overtime - $64 000 Vacation excess pay - $3500 Deployment allocation - $15 500 Per diem and other allowances - $3100 Total - $257 300 I didn’t include my company RRSP match. I’m usually not much of an OT guy but I’m still digging out from covid so I’ve ...

JasonE wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 4:48 pm If you need to finance, don't buy one. That's my advice.

I expect fish4life is correct that prices will fall in the next 2 years.

+1. For an airplane or a boat if you can’t buy it twice you can’t afford it.

The luck of the draw, open system is so strange to me. I’m not looking forward to it. Why not have the ability to list yourself available and then get notifications on open flights.

It’s pretty short sighted for any professional to advocate to make any sort of licensing in their profession easier. In my opinion it’s far too easy to get an ATPL. Keep the entry as high and difficult as possible and limit supply. My comment was more to do with, if we’re substituting actual PIC wi...

I started flying commercially in 2011. My first $100k+ t4 was 2016, but that took a lot of OT. The following year I was below and then back again. I consider myself pretty fortunate compared to most people starting out in that era of aviation. It took one of my classmates 7 years to break $50k.

I absolutely agree. Only 2 exams is just skimming the surface. Mind you those exams range from 2hrs down to 45 min so not as convoluted. And it's 13 exams now. It’s pretty short sighted for any professional to advocate to make any sort of licensing in their profession easier. In my opinion it’s far...

canadian_aviator_4 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 12:30 pm Doesn’t Air Canada have a pseudo bond, where the PPC is a restricted type rating with Air Canada and cannot be transferred to another airline?

I don’t believe so. A lot of laid off AC pilots took their 767 type rating to cargojet during the pandemic.

Because it's a retarded ancient rule. EASA doesn't do it, while their airspace is 100x more busy airspace and specific exemptions of the rules depending in what airspace you fly. RCAF doesn't do it. So yes, I complain, because that's how changes are made. The flight safety report proves it. It only...

Westjet will for sure lay off pilots if the economy slows. The layoffs will not be a "result of merger", they will simply say there is less work than anticipated. Let's hope this doesn't happen! BUT because of sunwings business model they have way more pilots than tails they are brining over to Wes...

Brand new cadet hire here at SWG, starting my training very soon. Given the current climate of the merger in 2024, I have following questions: 1- Since SWG will no longer have the damp lease/European deployed ops with Tui, does this mean I will be laid off this summer right after my training is com...

Have you ever worked a schedule other than 9-5? I did the 9-5 thing for a while and felt like all I did was work, eat and sleep. I get to spend way more time with my kids flying the line.

Keep the A20. Or buy something else designed for pilots. If you buy the ufly you’ll be holding your mic to the mouth with your hand after 6 months. I’ve seen it 100 times before and it’s ridiculous. Welcome to the airlines, it’s your career. Use professional equipment. I, along with about 25% of th...

Keep the A20. Or buy something else designed for pilots. If you buy the ufly you’ll be holding your mic to the mouth with your hand after 6 months. I’ve seen it 100 times before and it’s ridiculous. Welcome to the airlines, it’s your career. Use professional equipment. I, along with about 25% of th...

I really hope this is a joke. I was making more than that doing the same kind of work back in 2014 and we were underpaid back then! Skylink just needs to disappear. They’ve always paid absolute trash but somehow manage to find people.

Thanks Canadaflyer. Roughly what I thought.

I think all but the extremely senior SWG pilots will be pleasantly surprised at the WJ schedule. There are a large number of 1 day pairings that are just a turn and back (for example, in YYC, 45% of the pairings are one days). In the last year I have only had two months where I had a full 16 days a...

I’m guessing like in a bunch of other mergers there’ll be fences so you’ll keep your seat. But doing 7-8 turns down south will be gone, I’d guess you'll be doing multiple leg days for 15-16 days a month. This scenario seems more realistic to me. I think all but the extremely senior SWG pilots will ...

I agree Happyflyer is a troll, but after doing interviews his scenario isn’t that far fetched. The amount of people who can’t show up to an interview at all or on time is wild. Some of the excuses I’ve heard when the interview is rescheduled are both mild boggling and entertaining. It seems the vast...