Netjets Upgrade Times
09-27-2020, 05:24 PM
#3
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: Weekends off
Posts: 403
09-29-2020, 08:31 PM
#5
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Position: Airplanes
Posts: 1,406
Hiring for the bottom churn won't have an affect on upgrades. Guys either need to leave or the fleet needs to grow. I was there, I was young, and there was an even younger crop of Captains who had fled the regionals after 2001. It didn't take long to realize that we were hired as career FO's. Even in a good economy NetJets isn't going to double the fleet and grow to 1,000 airframes. The only hope of an upgrade is to try to outlive the guys senior to you. My analysis of the job was that it was a dead end career unless you want to be jerking gear on a Citation for the next two decades. My opinion is that anyone who goes there who hasn't retired from somewhere else is a damn fool.
09-29-2020, 08:36 PM
#6
Mmmm wine
Joined APC: Feb 2020
Position: The Jet
Posts: 1,132
Hiring for the bottom churn won't have an affect on upgrades. Guys either need to leave or the fleet needs to grow. I was there, I was young, and there was an even younger crop of Captains who had fled the regionals after 2001. It didn't take long to realize that we were hired as career FO's. Even in a good economy NetJets isn't going to double the fleet and grow to 1,000 airframes. The only hope of an upgrade is to try to outlive the guys senior to you. My analysis of the job was that it was a dead end career unless you want to be jerking gear on a Citation for the next two decades. My opinion is that anyone who goes there who hasn't retired from somewhere else is a damn fool.
Yea I agree. Honestly even with the airlines going though hell right now, it wouldn't shock me if upgrade times are better at all of them, than NJA.
09-29-2020, 11:22 PM
#7
Gets Everyday Off
Joined APC: Aug 2016
Position: Fully Retired
Posts: 7,000
Hiring for the bottom churn won't have an affect on upgrades. Guys either need to leave or the fleet needs to grow. I was there, I was young, and there was an even younger crop of Captains who had fled the regionals after 2001. It didn't take long to realize that we were hired as career FO's. Even in a good economy NetJets isn't going to double the fleet and grow to 1,000 airframes. The only hope of an upgrade is to try to outlive the guys senior to you. My analysis of the job was that it was a dead end career unless you want to be jerking gear on a Citation for the next two decades. My opinion is that anyone who goes there who hasn't retired from somewhere else is a damn fool.
09-30-2020, 05:40 AM
#8
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2019
Posts: 1,538
My retirement plan includes lots of golf and free time, not yanking gear for a thirty something but I am still on my first wife, only have one paid for house, and no boat.
09-30-2020, 07:13 AM
#9
Mmmm wine
Joined APC: Feb 2020
Position: The Jet
Posts: 1,132
Yep, the last thing I am doing at 65 is taking another job, especially NJA. What a brutal job to start at 65 lol.
09-30-2020, 12:25 PM
#10
Gets Everyday Off
Joined APC: Aug 2016
Position: Fully Retired
Posts: 7,000
He has an addiction. He just loves flying. If I were him, I would get a 172 and fly some place for lunch a couple of times a week.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
