Flyfalcons

That's great that you'll be making 200K with 17 days off per month as a year 3 FO. 1,450 credit hours is a lot to pack in to 13 days per month, so that is great to hear that so many credits flow freely. You must be so content with your decision to move on that you spend your time.......posting on threads about your former employer instead of your current company?

Flyfalcons

As to NJA vs Flex, one needs to decide what's important to them, learn as much as they can about each carrier, and weigh the pros and cons of each against that list of important items.

For example, one might look at a certain operator, whose pilots just voted to abandon having union protection and an enforceable pilot contract, and decide if that will be beneficial to them in the long run.

OhSnapAF

I’m not saying I’d ever work there, I’m merely showing that pay at NJA isn’t some intergalactic marvel.

OhSnapAF

Somebody has to stop people like you from inflating NJA pay to make it look like the place to go from a salary standpoint. A comparison was made to the airlines versus NJA pay, I merely shed light on that. And please make no mistake, no airline pilot works half as hard as an NJA pilot.

B727DRVR

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Wow! That’s a helluva 5th post on APC. Congratulations on your 5th post milestone and welcome to APC. And I appreciate your passion and intensity: I couldn’t find an Emoji for Frank Burns snittyness, so I just made your response bold.... If only you were right.......

Sorry that you didn’t like the message, but I didn’t have to do any homework because I was there in the Fractional trenches in 2008-2009 and saw the carnage at Flex and XOJET firsthand. Netjets and Options had a union with a written FURLOUGH policy, while Flex did not and TERMINATED their pilots accordingly. Flexjet TERMINATED, Netjets FURLOUGHED with Seniority Longevity for Pay and Vacation rights... Like I said respectfully, please correct me if I am wrong.....

I wasn’t, and you didn’t.

Oh, and thanks for your respect to a fellow aviator, LOL. When you get that Phenom Captain award, I would hate to be the FO who had to tell you that you were 1 dot low on the glideslope...

Flyfalcons

So, you are going to make 200K while getting 17 days off as a year 3 FO, right? I was being happy for you, that's good money and a good schedule.

"Hell, I’ll make more than the FO payscale goes to, including all the incentive pay, and I’ll do that on year 3 pay with 17 days off a month."

Your words, right?

G550Guy

100% WRONG.

I was a 12 year Capt at NetJets and pulled the ejection handle. Second year FO pay at UPS was 235k. More than I EVER made at NetJets.






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bro5mo

I’m an 18 year former FJ pilot who pulled the rip cord and I have not missed that place once. I’m making a little less (I will be back to previous $ with first pay bump), but I am much happier. Don’t just look at $$$, also look at QOL.

I left that place because of 13.5 hour days, airlines every trip (multiple) because they can’t keep proper staffing levels and “Red Label”. (A joke). I recently spoke to a friend who bragged about what they paid him for a day of OT then complained about How much he was working?

If you’re thinking long term go NJ. If you need to build time FJ will work. QOL is almost as important as compensation. (Just this grey haired veteran’s opinion)

727C47

[QUOTE=OhSnapAF And please make no mistake, no airline pilot works half as hard as an NJA pilot.[/QUOTE]

My wife ,a SWA pilot, just LOL , sorry , I couldn’t resist. Carry on : )

Finny McCool

You fly twice as much at SWA than NJA but perform one quarter of the work. Short duty days, relatively long overnights and no circadian shifts make all the difference in the world.