Lowrider wrote:
Picture this: You own an airline and times are good… you have a few Dash 7s, a couple of 8s and some RJs…
The bond at VAL is 15K and qualifying for a personal loan through VAL’s CIBC branch in North Bay is painless and easy… No one is asking you to max out your credit cards or sell your left kidney… After a year, the personal loan you took out and any accrued interest is reimbursed to you. Total cost to you: $0 and 365 days of commitment. Get a grip all of you who whinge about being better than that.
Apply to Jazz and earn 36K a year if it makes you feel morally superior…
Personally I’d rather work overseas for 6 months of the year earning anywhere from 55K-85K (.
First point, when you operate those types of aircraft you sure shouldn't have to bond, unless you treat your employee's like a bid bag of ole dog shit.
Second point. Personal loans. CROCK OF SHIT. switch to promisary note's. guess what there legally binding, if one leaves.
Third point, Did you say 55-85K to be in africa 6 months a year to fly the same planes as Jazz. excuse me LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Thats a fuckin joke right.
Yeah we start at 36 for year one. 43 for year 2, about 50 for year 3. OH and your home half the month, great benefits, and if you wanna see africa it'll cost you about 50 bucks to get there. You wanna start to talk bottom of the pay scale. whats VAL's? was it 24K on the king air, with a cash up front bond. thats right it is...
Top of the pay scale you said 85K hahaha, jazz you can do 120K and still be home every night.
As for the last few comments. When I was younger I always remember going I can't wait to fly that, something always bigger and I pursued this thought. I took the pay cuts and yes left one great company(Thunder Airlines, YQT)to come to jazz. Now that I am here I look and watch the 172's and such going by going I wanna go back to that.
I loved my time so much on the smaller aircraft so much that I am actually looking for a job now back on a navajo or king air or something small.
All I ask for from such company is 65K salary, lifestyle and benefits. Thats all I need. Sure staying with Jazz I could make 100K, mainline 150K, westjet 130K. but that money is absolutely useless if you can't enjoy your time off with friends and family and work all the time. Will I find something like this probably not. At least not in winnipeg. Oh wait SkyNorth, hehe, kidding
In my 10 years of flying now I have really grown up, its no longer about equipment. It's about lifestyle and benefits.
Airline flying is(this is for all the lower time trying to make it) is EXTREMELY boring. ALL your doing is programming a computer, hell the only time you fly now is landing and take-off due to RVSM. Enjoy the time where you are at. Don't rush to get to something bigger.
I know I kinda went way left field on this one. Sorry
Mike