Most junior NYC MD88 captain...

Derg said:
If you're a regional captain with a side business, you can probably make a trillion dollars a year, drive your coworkers nuts with stories of how cool you are apart from aviation and, well, be working so much you don't have a chance to enjoy any of it! :)

The first question I always wondered when, in the first few minutes of a briefing, when another pilot says how much money his side business makes is "How bad is your P&L statement that you're showing up at 0500 in the morning to go fly the Clampletts to Orlando and have a nine hour layover in Baton Rouge?"
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I hated flying with those guys.

*Sets parking break and pulls out cell phone to make a business call inside the cockpit*

"Well...I guess I'll run the shut down checklist on my own...again..."
 
Gonzo said:
In my short time at Atlas, 767 guys who live in CVG can still have that regional life style. @dasleben would know better than me but I talk to a lot of CVG guys that spent a lot of time in their own beds.
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Yeah, but I tell people specifically that if they expect (or need) to be home every 3-4 days, don't come to Atlas. I personally prefer getting my work done in one or two chunks, then enjoying 3 weeks off like I am now. :)
 
Derg said:
If you're a regional captain with a side business, you can probably make a trillion dollars a year, drive your coworkers nuts with stories of how cool you are apart from aviation and, well, be working so much you don't have a chance to enjoy any of it! :)

The first question I always wondered when, in the first few minutes of a briefing, when another pilot says how much money his side business makes is "How bad is your P&L statement that you're showing up at 0500 in the morning to go fly the Clampletts to Orlando and have a nine hour layover in Baton Rouge?"
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Well, he may have a whole lot of loans to pay off or the ex wives are demanding more.
 
One of the bosses at my flight school was a furloughed AA pilot, and his career advice to us was, "Know where you want to go and don't get comfortable on the way there." It'd be very easy to get sidetracked (i.e. comfortable) living in base with weekends off and a little overtime as a regional captain, but most people need to remember they didn't get into this industry to fly for XYZ feeder for the rest of their career. I understand that in some cases staying at your regional airline makes sense, but this is the best legacy airline hiring environment in at least the past 20 years. Most people should realize that the rewards in being there is worth any short term hit in getting there. Take the long view peeps.
 
dasleben said:
Yeah, but I tell people specifically that if they expect (or need) to be home every 3-4 days, don't come to Atlas. I personally prefer getting my work done in one or two chunks, then enjoying 3 weeks off like I am now. :)
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That's the best way of doing it. I am jealous. I want to play with the beach ball.
 
Leave it to pilots to console each other on how much one can make, or not make, at various different airlines they don't work for. I know a UA guy who won't move on from the 737 because he can make more than a 777 CA. A DL guy who is thinking of making at lateral to another legacy. An AA guy who only works 7 days a month. A DL guy who only works 10 days a month and makes more than first year FOs do in a year in those 10 days. So on and so forth.
 
B767 said:
Leave it to pilots to console each other on how much one can make, or not make, at various different airlines they don't work for. I know a UA guy who won't move on from the 737 because he can make more than a 777 CA. A DL guy who is thinking of making at lateral to another legacy. An AA guy who only works 7 days a month. A DL guy who only works 10 days a month and makes more than first year FOs do in a year in those 10 days. So on and so forth.
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I know a UA guy that won't move on from the 737, as in his words, "I'm lazy". 8)
 
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