Ozflyer

hi
been offered a position with wheels up?need to know more about the company...can someone plz answer the questions I have

1. what's the training like?do they have in-house trainer?
2.what bases do they have?
3. with the training contract if you leave before the end of type rating, do you still have to pay the bond back?
4.whats the schedules like?do you bid for your own schedule or it's been given to you?
5.since,I haven't flown KA's before, how automated they are? In terms of coping with icing, auto throttle etc....
6.do you fly IFR or VFR?
7. does the company pay for hotel during training?



that's all I have for now

Thanks

EMAW

1. In-house INDOC. Flight safety for aircraft specific training.

2. Home basing with gateways. (As long as you live within 2 hrs of good airline service). Where do you live and I’ll tell you if it may be an issue?

3. You mean leaving after you start training but before you finish the type? Unsure about that as there will be costs accumulated for partial training. You can probably count on paying it.

4. Standard schedules are 8-6, 15-13, 31-29, and a limited number of half-time 8-20. I’m sure you can have any of the first 3 that you want.

5. No autothrottles. Anti-ice/de-ice is activated by the pilot. Boots are manually activated each time. They are 60s and 70s technology that’s been slightly updated. But most are only a few years old.

6. IFR

7. hotels are company paid.

AirBear

Go back in this thread and read the messages about Wheels Up financial position. They are teetering on the brink. Also check the fractional forum, I just linked an article talking about how Wheels Up and some other fractional operators don't have much of a future.
And with no union if they file Chapter 11 they can cut your pay & benefits (if the Judge allows it) but might be able to still enforce a training contract.

propsareforkids

All you have to do is google the name and it should tell you everything you need to know. Anyone taking a job there right now is nuts!

AirBear

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...ource=hs_email

-Aircraft membership and charter company Wheels Up canceled its second-quarter financial results release and investor call scheduled for today and instead announced an unspecified, short-term cash infusion from Delta Air Lines, which owns 20 percent of Wheels Up.

They're still burning the furniture but Delta is trying to keep them from going belly up.

AirBear

From AIN:

Wheels Up Pulls Harder on Delta Lifeline

Wheels Up is pulling harder on a financial lifeline from Delta Air Lines. In a Form 8-K filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Wheels Up said it was adding up to $30 million to the $15 million short-term financing it received from Delta in the form of a secured promissory note signed August 8.

Following the initial $15 million payment, the companies agreed to amend that note to include an additional $10 million, which Wheels Up received on August 16. Now they have amended it a second time to add another $20 million, bringing the aggregate value of the promissory note up to $45 million.

Wheels Up also said it had received lender forbearance on principal and interest due on the $260 million equipment loan it received last October, guaranteed by portions of its aircraft fleet. The company said lenders had agreed to further extend the grace period to August 23.

On August 15, Wheels Up announced that Delta and investment firms Certares and Knighthood would receive 95 percent of the company’s stock in exchange for a loan of $400 million plus a $100 million “liquidity facility” from Delta. In its latest quarterly financial statement, Wheels Up reported $161 million in losses and $335 million in revenue during the second quarter while seeing its available cash erode from $363 million to $152 million.

MasTamales

I need to send PRIA paperwork to Gama/Wheels Up. I flew a managed plane there 2 or 3 years ago on the Landmark/Sterling cert. With all the mergers, where should I send it and to whom should I address it?

EMAW

you might email [email protected]. Hopefully they'll point you in the right direction.

boburs999

do they pay for hotels while you are on duty?

EMAW

Not exactly sure what you are asking? Of course they pay for your hotel while you are on the road. The only time they don't pay for hotels when you are on duty is for Home Standby (on duty but from home).