Living beyond ones means is usually the cause of struggle now days. For example I bet you and your partner each have a cell phone where as years ago, families only had one landline phone. There's hundreds of dollars that could be saved per year. Don't start a family if you can't afford it is anothe...

I am an FO for a regional and run my own business on the side and still struggle to support my family in Toronto. I'm considering ditching the whole airline dream and going back to my software engineering career. Living beyond ones means is usually the cause of struggle now days. For example I bet ...

Are you current on a type that is in demand? If so, apply early as the recruitment process can take six months or more. When you say "warmer places than Canada" make sure you can tolerate it when it feels like mid 50s C. Budget $15000-17000 USD per kid per year for school. Rent will well exceed you...

Quote from above post, "And they're all garbage airplanes that everyone hates flying." What did that add to the conversation. It must cause you deep personal anguish to operate an fin that has SR in it's civil registration !!!!!! Those things are the most beat up pieces of junk in our entire fleet....

135k USD to fly a 767 in Japan. Year 5 pay is over 200k USD. As an FO. Upgrades are apparently around 3-5 years right now. 200k + USD first year. Year 5 is around 270k USD. Oh did I mention that includes 12 consecutive days off a month with round trip biz tickets? Go to AC, make 250k CAD in the nex...

Closing date for application collection was july 22nd, any calls out yet

Does mainline do the whole selection process and then dispatches to Swoop

We only have 6 Encore FO's coming over at the moment. The others applying either were frozen in their first year at encore or didn't meet the experience requirements. IF that remains the case for September we'll likely have to go OTS again for FO's. Hi tbaylx, Let's say you go OTS in september and ...

Bede wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 3:40 pm Yes. All open capt positions were filled by WJ pilots. All open FO positions were filled by Encore pilots.

I heard 6 FO's only went from Encore to Swoop, my info is 1 week old.

No one is getting divorced here coz they want you to be single when you apply .

Yes boeing bullshit did damage the C series but that's only the top of the iceberg, what really happened way before, why couldn't Bombardier sell it ? does their marketing dep suck that bad

What the hell went horribly wrong to serve a great Canadian marvel to europe on a silver platter...my stomach is upside down.

Guys why don't we stop barking at each other the white collars with the 6-7 digits salary love this division, as flyboys we all want the same thing so we need to show unity, strenth and construtive work.

Wasup Guys & Gals,

So now that the WestJet group is hirring for themselves and Swoop in an orderly manner, did the dust settle ?

Personnaly i can only see positive in this gesture.

Hey guys,

It's not often that we see company officials actively intervening in public forums, that sends quite a positive message about the company culture and transparency very impressive, thank you.

Best regards.

1)- 18 months for a kingair is a bit too much unless you make sure it's prorated and you are willing to pay half of it, after this you will probably go 705. 2)- I believe you can go 705 from now ( that s what i would do ), should that be the case in a couple of years you will either continue 705 or ...

DanWEC wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 5:59 am Ha! That guy is definitely not anywhere near any training department. More like got PFO'd from Sky trying to move from Jazz and is all bitter.

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Hello Aviators,

I am just coming back into the subject.. quick question please i need to take the temperature at this time so what s the time frame we are looking at from application day to 1 st call ??

Thanks a lot.

Hey guys & Galz,

If you are a DHC-8 driver try AbuDhabi aviation they have good conditions and feed G 5 and 737 BBJ operators.

Good luck.

Hey guys, don t worry about the sim eval too much i ve seen people going full scale on an ILS below 1000ft with all engines running they were asked to continue visually and guess what they are line checked now!! One thing for sure ill make sure of certain things before sending my family with this ma...

Hello there,

Not sure what you mean by these two sentences :

Legally entitled to work in Canada without restriction;
Valid Canadian Passport;

Is it a OR or an AND in between ??