Thread: Avantair Commute Policy

As for flight time I have no idea. I am not looking at the resumes so I cant quite tell what has come in the door. In the past they have looked for. 1. FMS/Glass experience 2. 121/135 time 3. Turbine time From my understanding they are looking at the resumes that have pilot recomendations attached first. My advice to anyone who would like to work for Avantair is to submit your resume. If you dont submit it we are not going to call.....

Quote: Originally Posted by BeenThereDoneIt Glass....is it true that Avantair adopted a 2-tier payscale, one for current employees and one for new hires, and the new hires will be paid less than current employees? I know you were vey vocal against such a thing. Good for you. There is only one pay scale.

Is the "2 hours from Gateway" a hard and fast rule? I am 3 hours from IND or CMH. Plus...once you are assigned a gateway (IND for instance) could you ever switch if another one became available (I am 1 hour from Louisville)? Thanks again for the replies.

thanks Celloman.... I have the 135/121 time and the turbine time. But I don't have much glass time. I'm not sure why the glass time is so important. anyone who has flown 1800 RVR approaches on steam gauges, can do it on glass. It will only be easier. Shoot, I could program a VCR back in the days before on screen graphics ... to imply I could not learn is just silly. I do some part time instructing in a G1000 equipped 172 and I made...

Does anyone know if Avantair allows their pilots to commute, or do they have to live within a specified drive time/distance to their gateway?

Negative. The FO pay was recently adjusted. I have no idea how long upgrade times will be as it depends on growth and attrition. We are still growing, but attrition is very low as you may expect. Captain First Officer $47,000 $35,000 Year 1 $53,000 $42,000 Year 2 $64,000 $44,000 Year 3 $66,000 $46,000 Year 4 $72,000 $48,000 Year 5 $81,000 $50,000 Year 6 $91,000 $52,000 Year 7 $93,000 $54,000 Year 8 $95,000 $56,000 Year 9 $98,000 $58,000 Year 10

How would you be able to commute? I didn't think fractionals had any JS agreements.

Is there any word on how many resumes are coming in? I would assume with the current state of hiring in the industry, the number would easily be in the thousand's.

Is there a training contract ?? FO pay is kinda low if you're stuck in the right seat for a while.......... When you upgrade, do you move to Captain pay at your current longevity - ie 3 years at company, upgrade and switch to 3 year captain pay - or is it like Floptions where you go to first-year captain pay when you upgrade?

No surprise. Avantair is the only "national" fractional that appears to be growing. Executive AirShares out of Kansas City (a "regional" fractional in the Midwest with domicilies in MKC, TUL, FTW and ICT) is also growing - albeit slowly (Avantair appears to be adding airplanes faster) with a new stable of Phenom 100s. I bet that many former Netjets, Citationshares, Flexjet and FLOPS owners have downsized to...