dark_reaper
Airport Bum!
I am considering to apply for a Dispatch position with ASIG at one of the airports. Can anyone give me any insight on the position and the possible pay of that position?
Airport Dispatch
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Kev
RNP 2112
I may be mistaken, but I believe that dispatch positions at ASIG relate to the communication between ramp operations and are not associated with exercising operational control over flights. If this is indeed the case, I'd imagine many of the licensed airman dispatchers on this forum may not have the information you seek. My apologies if I am wrong, but in the past I've seen the ASIG Dispatch positions available on job boards and understood them to not incorporate flight planning, rather to coordinate the efforts of deice, ramp loading and unloading and fueling operations.
jynxyjoe
Queso King
Dark Reaper, to mirror what Kev said above, that is probably what you are looking at. It depends on the airport your at, but generally you get paid a buck or two better than the people on the ramp due to extra responsibility. Also, you might get to play with the enroute radio a little bit too
. Let us know your freq and base!
dark_reaper
Airport Bum!
The position is more on ramp coordination, but I am not too sure about it. ASIG website does give details. I know stress wont be a problem... go work in a news room and you will know what I mean. Right now my options if I want a position that pays more than mine right now is a Fueling supervisor or a Dispatcher, within the ASIG system. I work at Signature but there is only two bases of all SFS that fuels commercial and I am at one of them. ASIG is our sister company so an internal transfer should not be a problem.
jynxyjoe
Queso King
Dispatch is a fun job, and your inside a lot more. It's not an aircraft dispatcher position which is the forum you posted in, which is what Kev was trying to say.
Go for it man, looks good on a resume if you ever go base manager.
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
Nice to see another Signature employee here! Somedays I want to transfer over to ASIG too.
manniax
Well-met in the Ka-tet
I have heard of people with dispatch licenses being hired to work in airport operation positions, but as previously mentioned it is not a dispatch job in the traditional sense. Often a company will be contracted to provide weight and balance services, put together weather packages, etc. for international carriers, and usually those carriers like the person doing it to have a dispatcher license. I am not sure what the pay or non-rev benefits are like, but I think at the larger airports it pays decently. However, it would not be a stepping stone to working at a major, in all likelihood, since they want to see actual flight planning experience. However if you're already working at an airport and it enables you to make more money without having to move it could well be worth it...and if you did ever decide to pursue "classic" dispatching it would look good on a resume for a smaller or regional carrier (vs. your competition with no airline experience.) Just my personal thoughts/opinions here, you understand. Best of luck in reaching your career goals!
jynxyjoe
Queso King
I did some of what you mentioned above but we actually did do flight planning for some of them (Turkish, Olympic, China Eastern (Cargo King), Royal Air Maroc, AeroMar (before they went Tango Uniform), so on and so on. Most of the guys who stuck with the Dispatching made it to Polar/Atlas, North American, Eos (before they went Tango Uniform), Jetblue and so on.
Sometimes this job is strictly a glorified ramp coordinator, sometimes the job has real hope for the future. Either way, if it pays more, get on it.