Silver Airways
10-10-2013, 11:23 AM
#4503
I'm a man of my word.
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Position: Devil's Advocate
Posts: 2,883
But the Spark Notes version is: $10,000 per year per airline. $5,000 initiation fee for first time airlines. The Company sees it as benefiting only a select few bases and cannot justify the cost. But if you come up with a clever way to raise $10,000 ourselves, we can probably get the Company to sign up.
Car wash maybe?
10-10-2013, 12:17 PM
#4504
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Position: Gear Handle supervisor
Posts: 1,035
Done and done
But the Spark Notes version is: $10,000 per year per airline. $5,000 initiation fee for first time airlines. The Company sees it as benefiting only a select few bases and cannot justify the cost. But if you come up with a clever way to raise $10,000 ourselves, we can probably get the Company to sign up.
Car wash maybe?
But the Spark Notes version is: $10,000 per year per airline. $5,000 initiation fee for first time airlines. The Company sees it as benefiting only a select few bases and cannot justify the cost. But if you come up with a clever way to raise $10,000 ourselves, we can probably get the Company to sign up.
Car wash maybe?
10-10-2013, 12:21 PM
#4505
On Reserve
Joined APC: Jul 2012
Position: C-5, 737, C-152
Posts: 22
Hey Guys
I applied for Silver a few weeks back and got a call this week. I am not hard up for a job but I do miss flying, ex military engineer and previous part 135 pilot. I'm told that Silver is trying to make basing at major hubs and if I came on line this year by the end of training it would be all major hub basing. I know, don't drink the kool aid...It sounds like they are trying to make a better QOL for the pilots. I was also told they need 80, yes eighty pilots this year. Do that many guys jump ship from there.
I applied for Silver a few weeks back and got a call this week. I am not hard up for a job but I do miss flying, ex military engineer and previous part 135 pilot. I'm told that Silver is trying to make basing at major hubs and if I came on line this year by the end of training it would be all major hub basing. I know, don't drink the kool aid...It sounds like they are trying to make a better QOL for the pilots. I was also told they need 80, yes eighty pilots this year. Do that many guys jump ship from there.
10-10-2013, 02:10 PM
#4506
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2012
Position: B767
Posts: 446
I doubt they'll switch to hub basing this year. Everything I was told during my interview was a straight up lie. They were hiring people for the new IAD and ATL systems but assured me I could be holding a line in Florida in a few months. I struggled to hold a line at the most junior base after 6 months. They are bleeding pilots for a reason
10-10-2013, 03:20 PM
#4507
New Hire
Joined APC: Aug 2012
Position: Reclined
Posts: 8
Kavu, as you may already know, positive things, or company promises/projections always seem to take longer then originally anticipated. I believe that is an industry standard, and standard with many things in life. Hub basing may happen, but maybe not as fast as they're advertising.
10-10-2013, 07:00 PM
#4509
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2009
Posts: 332
Kavu, as you may already know, positive things, or company promises/projections always seem to take longer then originally anticipated. I believe that is an industry standard, and standard with many things in life. Hub basing may happen, but maybe not as fast as they're advertising.
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10-10-2013, 07:17 PM
#4510
I'm a man of my word.
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Position: Devil's Advocate
Posts: 2,883
But the Spark Notes version is: $10,000 per year per airline. $5,000 initiation fee for first time airlines. The Company sees it as benefiting only a select few bases and cannot justify the cost. But if you come up with a clever way to raise $10,000 ourselves, we can probably get the Company to sign up.
$1500 initiation fee + ($3/per pilot/month x ~250) x 12 = $10,500/year.
Even cheaper than I remembered! Alls we gotta do is sell at least three candy bars per month, per pilot to have enough for the yearly costs. The tough part is that $1500 initiation fee
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