Royal Air Freight

peterpilot55

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I was wondering any info on Royal Air Freight. Is all their freight on-demand, or do they have routes? What kind of schedule do they have? How about pay?

I've searched through several threads and it doesn't seem that they've been discussed much.

Thanks in advance.
 
As far as I know, they're all on demand. Used to have a bunch of MU-2s but I believe they've all been parked/turned in to beercans/whatever. Falcons and maybe some Lears? Used to run in to their pilots from time to time, seemed happy enough.
 
Lear 25's and 35's. Falcon 20's (although haven't saw one in a while). Also have some C402's and EMB-110's. All on-demand out of PTK
 
I was wondering any info on Royal Air Freight. Is all their freight on-demand, or do they have routes? What kind of schedule do they have? How about pay?

I've searched through several threads and it doesn't seem that they've been discussed much.

Thanks in advance.


I book their aircraft daily, and know all the dispatchers. I have met some of their pilots that come to YIP to for freight, and from what I have heard and know, they are strictly a on-deman operation. Their pilots get paid by the mile, not flight time, so they dont mess around. Their one of the quickest turn around time charter carriers that I work with, averaging less than 30mins a turn on the falcon. The schedule is comparable to every other on demand operation from what I have experienced from talking to their crews here. They are a 1st class operation from the experience I have work working with all of them, and if I had the hours, would be one that I would love to fly for.
Current fleet that I know of is : Falcon 20's, Lear 24/25/35's, Emb-110, c-310's. The Mu-2's are long gone.
 
I used to fly for them and they also fly C-402 in addition to the types mentioned by Capt Obvious. The MU-2's were parked a few years back and they have begun painting the E-110's. Thankfully 64DA is no longer in its original paint (or lack thereof).

It is a pager lifesyle. You will get a small guarantee. The guarantees were running 300-500 a week depending on seat and acft type. You are then paid by the mile. e.g. an E110 is paid 300 a week. You aren't paid anything until you break 3000 miles in the week. The lears FO's get about 400 a week and about 4 cents a mile.

Expect to only get about 4-6 days off a month and be tied to a pager. They have 45 min response time. Which means they get the plane in the air in 45 minutes or less so you will need to live within 20 minutes of PTK.

Kirt is the Owner/DO and Ron is CP. Both are good guys and do a lot of the training, themselves. They also had great healthcare when I was there and I don't think they changed as they were grandfathered into an awesome plane. You pay for it, but it rocks.
 
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