Jobs in the MSP area?

[PanJet]

I'm currently a soon-to-be CFI in Washington state who will probably be out looking for bigger jobs in about a year and a half. I'd really like to get back east somewhere, and I was wondering if anyone knew of some good cargo companies in the midwest similar to something like Ameriflight; preferrably in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Regionals? Any opportunies for good jobs over there as an early pilot? Thanks everyone!

 

[jrh]

http://www.nwairlink.com/pilot_listing.htm

That's the first thing that came to mind. I don't know about cargo in the area.

 

[PanJet]

lol! I knew you'd pick up on this one jrh!

 

[Malko]

I'm currently a soon-to-be CFI in Washington state who will probably be out looking for bigger jobs in about a year and a half. I'd really like to get back east somewhere, and I was wondering if anyone knew of some good cargo companies in the midwest similar to something like Ameriflight; preferrably in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Regionals? Any opportunies for good jobs over there as an early pilot? Thanks everyone!

I believe Airnet has a base in St. Paul (KSTP) Holman Field. The bad thing about Holman Field that it will often flood in the spring making it unuseable.

As for the regionals, Mesaba is not hiring pilots at the moment and Pinnacle is. That's about it.

 

[Minnesota_Flyer]

There's not a lot here. As has been said, NWA Airlink (Mesaba, Pinnacle, and Compass (presumably)) have bases here. Airnet has a base in St. Paul (I've not been able to figure out how big it is). Bemidji Aviation runs regional freight (if you count that as MSP area). A number of large local corporations run flight ops out of STP and other local airfields, but those are going to be much higher time jobs.

One of my personal criteria for ever making the jump would be to have the prospect for eventually basing our of MSP, and I have to say the prospects are thin.

MF