UPS Giving Pilots Severance Package,Pilots Have Option To Fly Regional Jets

That’s like going from driving a big rig to Uber for us lol. No thanks I’ll take the buyout.

 

That’s crazy. Didn’t know it was this bad.

Those pilots make a very healthy amount of money. I tried to steer my young neighbor towards that career.

 

A friend of ours flies a Cessna Caravan that's leased out to Fed Ex. He runs hub and spoke and usually does pretty well. Usually.
This year he's down to about three nights a week, layovers everywhere where they used to come home every morning after the last hub drop. He carries a sleeping bag now. And extra clothes. He doesn't get paid for layovers.
He said he'd quit if there was anything else besides Amateur Hour Airways (Insert third level carrier here) and instructing open to him. All he's ever done is ag work and the freight dog hustle. Ag work around here isn't great and he doesn't want to follow the crops anyway.
Like he said "I have over ten thousand hours in Beech 18s. That and a dollar bill will get you a cup of coffee."
His wife has a good job teaching nursing at the local university. That's all that's keeping them afloat.
It ain't just truckers that are feeling the pinch.

 

Mannnnn not a good sign of freight coming back anytime soon.

 

Regional airlines are now paying starting FOs at around 100k

 

Can you tell us which ones or maybe quote a source? The last I heard most of the regionals were still paying slave wages. I'd sure like to be wrong about that.

 

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I’ll let you gentlemen do the math on this one.

75 hours a month, new first officer gets $90 per flight hour. Over the course of a year, 81K? Am I doing this right??