dhc# wrote:You forgot to add the free bonus of no risk of malaria for the Euro Ops

That's true. You also can't put a value on that clean northern air.

I sucked back forest fires smoke all summer.

Voyeur. Isn't that when you spy on your neighbor undressing?

Yeah in Africa you'll get 36k * 2.35 / 2 = 42,300
183 days per diem overseas + 6 days travel = 9,450 USD = 11,822 CAD
Say six days recurrent SIM = 592
Six days PD = 300
Vacation pay I think is 5% of your gross so = 2150

So you'll make 45k plus 12k per diem, 170 days vacation a year and you can travel to and from anywhere in the world between tours. Oh and they pay for your medical and uniform stuff.

I think I made 87k my second year there as a training captain, plus 12k per diem and I got a 23,000 tax return (not anymore!)

Some bases provide room and board, most have super cheap groceries and good kitchens, Mali you spend your per diem.

I liked it. Good safety culture.

$15k up front bond via upfront cash or a co-signed bank loan that is held in escrow in savings bonds. It's enforceable if you quit or are fired for cause, but I know some were fired and refunded. You can expense the interest you pay on the loan. You get paid out the interest on the bond at twelve months. A friend of mine got laid off and still had the loan in effect for the duration of the term LOL, they called him back to go on a different plane though. Which he was happy about.

I've heard the bond is a thing of the past.

From another site...


https://jobs.flightglobal.com/job/14014 ... r-airways/

Payscale has increased and the training bond has been discontinued.

Yes they’ve got contracts out with Avianco to finding DH8 and RJ captains for $8k/mth on short contracts! If I could get a leave for a tour I’d for sure go back! I can imagine they can’t find anyone to staff their planes.

How is Voyageur Airways currently making any money? Many of the pilots are not flying but continuing to be paid. Apparently Voyageur has had contract issues with the United Nations. Pilot experience not meeting contract requirements. Does anyone have any current information?

Anyone with any updated news from Voyageur ? Where are they flying in Africa these days ? Same fleet (-8's and RJ's) ? Still working for the UN ?

Make min $500/day plus 55 per diem in canada. As contract ame. Would no go to shithole country for less than 1000 per day. Appliance repairman charges 80 per hr. Shows up in old beat up truck with bag of tools.

Where are they flying overseas these days ?

Kosiw wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 11:14 am Where are they flying overseas these days ?

To the best of my knowledge:

RJ bases:

Al-Fashir, Sudan
Entebbe, Uganda
Kinshasa, DRC
Umea and somewhere else in Sweden
Aruba

Dash-8 bases:

Bukavu and Goma, DRC
Bamako, Mali
Niamey, Niger

Dash has some domestic work available too. This is a fairly current list but as with any contract work, subject to change with little notice.

Were they not looking at operating Q400s a few yrs back after some of their engineers got a Q4 course, or did that all fizzle out.

Good to see they're out of South Sudan.
Yes, the Q400 rumors died down over the last year.

Another Ebola outbreak happening in the DRC...Voyageur got really busy with UN work the last time it happened.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-congo-1.4670570

It is lack of pilots not lack of business that is the issue for them. Jazz pilots now being offered 1 year leave of absence to go fly for Voyageur.

What is the current Voyageur payscale since someone in a previous post said it was improved ? Can't see it matching current Jazz salary and perdiem rates especially for Captain's...so what's the incentive ?

It looks like if you did a whole year at Voyageur at best you’d make about what you’d make at Jazz. The only extra thing you might pick up is a strange disease... With the exception of the odd unattached pilot with wanderlust I’m not sure how they’re going to entice people over there.

Maybe not for a year but skipping winter and doing 1 or 2 rotations might be interesting, if you have no wife and kids and look for a different experience, it makes sense.