Tips

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Recently started working for a 703, never knew how many tips charter pilots make.
I'll be making around 4K this year from tips. The most I ever got was 500USD from some people.
Just wondering how much some of the other pilots here make from tips?
It would also be interesting to know if some of the 704/705 guys get any tips.

[TG]

If you plan on getting tips, fly a business jet based in the Middle East.
Then you may get some pretty fatty ones (Tips, not girls) In the range of thousands a pop sometimes.


So I've heard...

[UndisputedTruth]

Don’t count on any at airsprint… they tell the clients “don’t worry about tipping the pilots, their tip is built into their pay…”

[ant_321]

Most of my flying was sched so no tips. I did occasionally get tipped on charters but nothing too crazy. I once got a nice bottle of scotch. My wife on the other hand, being a young, pretty girl flying dirty old men on hunting trips would sometimes make $1000/day in tips during the short deer hunting season.

[scdriver]

I probably get anywhere from $50-100 per week in the summer (depending on the trips of the week - more with charters, barely any with scheds). When there's charters for americans, guys have gotten $400-500 for the trip. Couldn't tell you anything about 704/705.

[schnitzel2k3]

In Soviet Russia, only tip you get - tip of knife at base of skull.

Do svidaniya.

[stef]

Don’t count on any at airsprint… they tell the clients “don’t worry about tipping the pilots, their tip is built into their pay…”

I can understand a company not wanting to have a weird dynamic for their clients where tipping is expected. I’m not a waitress so have always felt a bit odd when someone offered me a tip.

[UndisputedTruth]

Don’t count on any at airsprint… they tell the clients “don’t worry about tipping the pilots, their tip is built into their pay…”

I can understand a company not wanting to have a weird dynamic for their clients where tipping is expected. I’m not a waitress so have always felt a bit odd when someone offered me a tip.

Never said anything about expecting a tip purely the pax prerogative but don’t specifically tell them not too and claim their “tip” is built into their pay..

[Rowdy]

There was a sign in one of the beavers I flew that said "tip your pilot so he remembers where he left you'.

One lodge i worked for I'd average about 4k a month in tips! Plus a lot of beer.

[Meatservo]

I politely decline "tips". I'm not an hourly-paid menial labourer grubbing out a living in the service industry. I am, or am supposed to be, a technical specialist at worst and a professional at best. I am always vaguely insulted when offered a "tip". It's an artifact of the caste/class based social hierarchy; intended to humiliate. Fine if you like getting condescending little handouts from your social betters, but as for me, even when I was being paid in sawdust and magic beans by some northern bank-beaver with a Cessna and a short line of credit, I tried to take what I earned with some small amount of dignity. Which didn't include bowing and scraping for gratuities. Once in a while, when a "tip" was pressed onto me by pushy passengers who couldn't take "no thank you" for an answer, I would distribute the money among the ground/dock crew. Once, I even gave the money to my boss and told him I reckoned he could use it. I hate tips. Some things are more important than money: self-respect being chief among them. I'm a good guy, or try to be, and sometimes it seems like I've provided service above and beyond the minimum expected. Don't get used to it: next time the weather, the air regulations, or my schedule won't permit me to perform to your expectations. Bribery will do you no good.

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I politely decline "tips". I'm not an hourly-paid menial labourer grubbing out a living in the service industry. I am, or am supposed to be, a technical specialist at worst and a professional at best. I am always vaguely insulted when offered a "tip". It's an artifact of the caste/class based social hierarchy; intended to humiliate. Fine if you like getting condescending little handouts from your social betters, but as for me, even when I was being paid in sawdust and magic beans by some northern bank-beaver with a Cessna and a short line of credit, I tried to take what I earned with some small amount of dignity. Which didn't include bowing and scraping for gratuities. Once in a while, when a "tip" was pressed onto me by pushy passengers who couldn't take "no thank you" for an answer, I would distribute the money among the ground/dock crew. Once, I even gave the money to my boss and told him I reckoned he could use it. I hate tips. Some things are more important than money: self-respect being chief among them. I'm a good guy, or try to be, and sometimes it seems like I've provided service above and beyond the minimum expected. Don't get used to it: next time the weather, the air regulations, or my schedule won't permit me to perform to your expectations. Bribery will do you no good.

Sounds like your not working for the money