lrtst54

I was OEM flight test, Part 91 corporate, handful of Part 135 flt hours, B.S in Engineering, MBA, 9400 TT, 5600 Jet, 2000+ Flight Test, CFII/MEI time, Level-D sim instructor time, standards/eval time. Passed the FedEx interview process recently.

GOOP95

Latest intel: starting with 7/11-12 classes, 2 classes per month. Still only projecting 40 new hires per month. The remaining being instructors and returning pilots.


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bmxandjets

If FedEx was planning on hiring 600 this year, how many does the July class put them at..? 300?

captnmo

I'm currently in my first year at Alaska and love it here. I also live in the Seattle area and when I get based there, QOL will be great. So I'm eating my words when I told my wife, "I'm done applying for jobs....unless FedEx calls." Well guess what? FedEx called. So I'm curious of all your perspectives. Is the money and change in market (flying boxes, not people) worth the change in lifestyle? I'm sure that's a loaded question, but have at it.

BlackKnight

The money is great. But money truly isn't everything. Flying boxes is easier but not compared to living in domicile.

The vacation system is what makes it for me. Incredible.

GOOP95

Pray you don't interview with an ex Eagle driver. JK


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MaydayMark

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captnmo

Can you expand on that? I'm doing as much research into the company to help my decision if I were to be offered the job.

I would finish my 20 years in the reserves and seriously consider moving to domicile if I were to make this jump.

Check 6

Just flew a sim last night with a very Senior instructor....He said 50-70 a month for the foreseeable future.....Good luck one and all!

FDXLAG

The highlights:

First, we work a max of 15 days 8 months of the year and 19 days 4 months of the year.

You get 15 days per year until the 5 year point. 22 days until the 10 years on property, and 29 days 10 through 20 years. Each day is 6 hours of pay. If you have vacation in a month you can expand or subtract to use essentially as many hours as you want. You can go in the hole for hours and have the hours removed out of next years balance. If you bid a reserve line 7 days of vacation at 6 hours becomes 10 days at 4.5 hours and you get leveling for those 45 hours. If you don't use all of the hours the company will buy up to 40%??? back at straight pay. If they are short you might be able to sell your vacation back with a 24 hours bonus thrown in. If a trip gets extended to touch your vacation they buy it, throw in 24 hours, and then you reschedule it.

Essentially you can usually take a month or two off per year with pay. At the 20 years point with 35 days you can easily take 3 months off.