Keewatin King Air

[703doge]

Anyone have info on WAWCON for this job?

Thanks

Bark!

[FICU]

Experience
A minimum total of 1,500 flying hours
A minimum of 100 flying hours as Pilot-in-Command (PIC)

Wow!

100PIC to Captain a BE20 in the arctic.

When I started at Keewatin they wanted 5000 hours for left seat on the PC-12.

[FICU]

Their current required experience for a PC-12 Captain... hmmmmm

Experience
A minimum total of 2,500 flying hours
A minimum of 500 flying hours as Pilot-in-Command (PIC)
A minimum of 500 hours turbine time

[leftoftrack]

they just took the Cam Bay contract from Tindi and replaced the pilots who worked up there with pilots that earn half as much and work on worse equipment. its what they did to borek in the eastren arctic. if you enjoy not making money, the place is for you.

[FOD_Vacuum]

Probably the worst paid Medevac pilots out of all Medevac companies. Have buddies there that are trying to get out to greener pastures. Equipment is okay with the G1000 but they have hard time for FOs to stick it out to captain. Lots of hours to be flown and long legs. Definitely need to update that $45k a year to $75k imho. Be prepared to fly lots.

If I had close to 2000 TT and 500mpic I would consider Missinippi Airways. New pay scale has gone up to 75k for Medevac captains with confirmed travel to and from home anywhere within Canada for your 13 days on. For 3000+ hour and 1000mpic Pilots, they pay 90k. There, my two cents! Oh-and the average hours flown in 13 days rotation was roughly 35-40 hours vs Keewatin which does around 80!

[FICU]

Definitely need to update that $45k a year to $75k imho. Be prepared to fly lots.

$45K was the 1st year King Air Captain salary 19 years ago at Keewatin!

[dogfood]

I have a couple of buddys that worked there over the years and not one person has ever had anything but bad things to say.

[FICU]

It was a great place to get your start when it was owned by Bob and Judy.

[Maynard]

It was a great place to get your start when it was owned by Bob and Judy.

I think that statement applies to every single carrier that EIC has acquired over the years.

[Stretcher]

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[olivierw]

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[FICU]

$45K was the 1st year King Air Captain salary 19 years ago

How are you guys not getting a better wage after 19 years?!

[piperdriver]

$45K was the 1st year King Air Captain salary 19 years ago

How are you guys not getting a better wage after 19 years?!

EIC needs to pay their executives and shareholders first, the employees get the remaining scraps.

[leftoftrack]

oli, are you a proud Keewatin employee? can you tell use what a first year captain there makes?

[Stretcher]

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[yhz41]

50k

[planett]

I'm not sure which is worse, this or the $58,000 posted on the other thread for the Skyservice Medevac Lear Captain.

Honestly, are you tax exempt for doing humanitarian work? If not, this is $60,000 underpaid.

[mbav8r]

Well, I’m guessing they’re still able to find pilots willing to work for the low pay, why raise it.
19 years ago, 45,000 was a good starting wage for a King Air, 12 years back it was the same as mentioned but from what I remember it went up 5g per year to a top pay 75g which again wasn’t bad, if pilots are going to keep taking the jobs how could we expect it to go up.

[dogfood]

They only keep finding pilots because they keep dropping the minimum experience. At some point either pay is going go up or there is going be 200 hour king air captains flying around in the arctic thats only going end bad..

[V3-HGX]

Pay for the King Air is $50000, and goes up by $5K every year...if you last that long. The pay was negotiated by the union, so don't expect to be able to negotiate for more. The pay is very low, but it is a great stepping stone to better things, and it seems like nobody lasts for much longer than a year. They are putting 1200-hour guys into the left seat, so it is a great opportunity for a low-timer.

I found the operation to be pretty decent compared to other 703 operators. You will fly lots, and if you can handle max crew days/min crew rest for two weeks straight, you will fill your logbook quickly. Per diem was decent, and there was very little BS with scheduling and commuting. They seem to get a lot of hate, but I have nothing but good memories from my time there. They have had some turnover in management lately, which is likely for the best. The 703 Chief pilot was a great guy to work for.

[mixturerich]

I have a buddy left seat at Keewatin and he says it’s fantastic, a great rotational gig.

[703doge]

Any new info on this job?

[greygoose]

Any new info on this job?

Pretty sure they still start captains out around 50k/year. They can get away with it because of the lack of requirements by their current contract. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the whole Manitoba RFP thing... They’re gonna need to probably double what they currently are paying for any hope of filling the required medevac seats in Mb IF they were to win that contract. Many other medevac captains in MB currently making 80-120k per year flying less hours than Keewatin drivers. They’ll be way more restricted on the hour requirements in Mb hence the need for them to boost pay across the board if they don’t want to piss off current captains there. Pretty sure they are unionized too so it could be fun watching things play out between current pilots and any new hires they’d be looking for If they were to win new contract.