Airspray, Buffalo, Conare and Government?

[Dry Guy]

Weird, 55k is pretty low though if they want experienced people. That would mean they were paying 39k before?

You will definitely need a second job for the first few years but after that the pay becomes good enough that you can make it your only job and collect EI in the off season.

[CLguy]

Aeroflite which is Conair’s American Division are the highest paid in North America. Senior guys are doing well north of $200k US for a season working 10 days on and 10 days off. The European folks are up there in Euros as well. Canada once again lags behind in pilots salaries.

[North Shore]

And yet none of us here seem to be ready to step up the the plate and say “F**k you - pay me!”
And that goes for airlines, also...

[fish4life]

Are any of the bomber ops unionized?

[North Shore]

Conair is; Airspray is not; Sask. Gov’t I assume is; Manitoba was, but it’s now under the Airspray umbrella; Ontario, Quebec and Nfld are, dunno about the rest.

[ChrisB]

Do they still have Sabres?

[W5]

The Sabre is long gone. Was in a museum in the NW USA.

[Capt. Underpants]

Sorry, who had Sabres and what for?

[plhought]

Airspray had a Sabre for target-towing contract ages ago.

[ChrisB]

Duplicate

[ChrisB]

Conair 41% raise!!? I called BS on that one. So I phoned a pal to tell him the ridiculous load of crap that is being spread. It appears I am wrong. Again.
Directly from one of the pilots: "Starting pay for a 130 day run is $55,000.00 and $50 per flight hour. Top is $120,000.00 and 100 per hour. Two stints of 7 days off included in the 130 day run. Goes up 2% per year for inflation."
Now if my calculator is correct the top guys will be getting $130,000.00 for a 130 day and 100 hour season and I am sure there is vacation and and some kind of a pension plan. On top of that there is good overtime and they are starting to send more and more crews to Australia so possibly a 260 day season. Could these guys be pulling in above $300,000.00 and still get 4 months off? Seems doable.

$300k bomber pilots? Has this been confirmed anywhere?

[matt foley]

Had a long chat with a Conair guy today. It's slow so he had the time. I asked about pay and this was out of his mouth:
"First year pilots should see $70k on a 130 day contract(7 are training days and 14 are paid days off) That's $55k base, 100 hours and pension/perdiems. Top guys are doing over $1000.00/day with some RJ-85 crews doing double duty of 260 days/year of contract then add ons like training, ferry flights etc putting them north of $300,000.00 and maybe well north." They have almost 100 pilots in Canada and a bunch in the USA and guessing pile of resumes reaching to the moon.

[dialedin]

Just out of curiosity, what are application requirements for bomber pilots?