passinggas

I have an upcoming interview with Jetsgo and I was wondering what are they like to work for? Monthly hours? Wages? Moral?

I am a expat canuck looking to come back home. I'm also aware of the ramp pass situation. It would be for a DEC position.

Canadian Beech

Anyone with an answer (on the inside), should also comment on morale...

aerogull

Have you tried posting on www.avcanada.ca under the heading for Jetsgo?...You might have better results.

All the best!

meaw

I don't work for Jetsgo but I have a couple of buddies who do.

One is f/o the other Capt..

You have to pay 30000 for the training and you are not paid until your line check (about 3 months). As an f/o you will make around 45000 and Capt 65000.

The base will probably be yyz and expect to fly around 20 days a month. The guys there are just passing through.....it's a third level carrier with jets.....If you are really desperate to come home I guess it's ok but remember you are stuck there 2 years or you will pay........
Hope this helps

rotornut

Working for Jetsgo? Well, I was recently a pax on 2 Jetsgo flights.

Fl. 174 YYZ to YEG delayed 4 hours due to pressurisation problem.

FL. 173 YEG to YYZ delayed 4 hours due to a number of snags.

Enough said? But the crew were very pleasant!

Canadian Beech

The company who has the 'contract' for servicing(?) in YYC for Jetsgo was told their maintenance were allowed to have a flashlight, and a screwdriver... all other maint would be carried out in T.O.
(i don't recommend any of my family fly with them)

rotornut

and a knockometer?

bcflyer

A flashlight and a screwdriver huh? Hmmmmm I work at Jetsgo and have never seen anything like that. There is sooooo much misinformation about Jetsgo that you could write a book. The maintence is just fine. Yes if there is a snag at an outbase and it can be MEL'ed then it is. Only makes sense to do your work were it's the cheapest. That doesn't meant that aircraft are flying around unsafe.
The moral is just fine. There are a few people that grumble, but its been that way at every company I have ever worked at.
Jetsgo is one of the few places in Canada that is actually expanding. Yes the 30,000 sucks but its paid back with interest in the first two years.
The schedule is pretty good, mostly single day pairings which means you are home almost every night.
Good guys to work with. Management is easy to talk to.
All in all not a bad place to work.

passinggas

Thanks for the help guys and gals. But after my interview it's not the kind of company I'd like to join. Before you guys start saying that I'm putting the company down because I didn't get through, just know that I was offered the position. The money and benefits just don't come close to what I make here in Europe. It would be less than half. I'd love to get back home but I just can't justify it.

Cheers and good luck

c150driver

Passinggas.....smart move!

I am Birddog

...you know I find it sickening that 'we' Canadian pilots have accepted the fact that "it is ok to pay to work". JetsGo's policy made possible by it's 'CEO' is a cancer to our industry within Canada. Just to get at a chance at the 'Big Iron' what we won't sell, huh?! Whatever.

picobello

I am Brddog :

Unfortunately this process to pay for your job is current money here in europe... Take the Ryanair and Easy jet examples..... I know a few people in canada ready to pay 30000 can dol for a type rating (even turboprops.....) because the market is moving too slow..... and they want a big move in their careers...

Have a mate by jetsgo and he works the sock's off. He still happy because he is building up hours on a jet airplane!!!! and no more on a Emb 110...

Nothing we can do exept a big hope that the market will re hire very soon....

pico

meaw

picobello,


Its very nice and well to pay to advance your career but let me tell you one thing that the Jetsgo's of the world and the pilots that agree to pay for training do to the piloting career: yes you will build jet time......for what .....to get to a better job i.e one of the majors where you can have a good career with good pay and good amount of days off right?

Well every time one of these guys accepts to work for one of these carriers you errode this..You will get your experience on a jet but will have nowhere good to go work because the other airlines have to lower their standards to Jetsgo's.

So maybe yor budy is on an MD88 instead of an emb110 and will save a couple of years on his career.But by the same token what he is doing will insure that the next 30 years of his career,wherever he ends up going will be under crappy Jetsgo-like conditions i.e pay for your ppc, get paid less than a bus driver and work like a dog.

Some pilots are desperate for a job I know but having been in the industry for a long time I am telling you that long term you are hurting yourself and the proffession.Have some self respect and go get a job where you dont degrade yourself.......there are quite a few jobs out there on turboprops or corporate that pay more and you dont pay to get there.
Get your career the real way...........earn it.Believe me when you will get to your interview at a major the pilots on the board of hiring think like this and will look negatively on you paying for your training,accepting not getting paid until you are released on line than they will look positively on your jet time .
Stop prostituting yourself and our proffession.

c150driver

Very well said....there are far too many sluts in this industry (and I'm not talking about the FAs)

I am Birddog

That last remark is actually taking away from the professionalism in our realm of the industry. It's uncalled for, disturbing and outright trash.

How can we possibly gain any respect within this industry when comments as such are made about our peers in such a derogatory manner?

If you choose to post such filth...kindly keep it out of the 'Canada' forum. This is not a representation of who we are as a country.

IABD

McDoo the Irish Navigator

C150 Driver;

Careful with your choice of words. You could have used many other words to describe your opinion in an objective manner.
Use of the profane displays a limited vocabulary.

You also infer that all F/As are of this persuasion.
I'm sure you just failed to give your posting a sober second reading. Only the truly ignorant would believe such a statement.

Cheers;

McDoo

Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean no one is out to get you.

Yo767

C150, you made me laugh. Some people on this forum have lost their sense of humour.

Yo le Chameau, drinking Rosé in Bahrain

I am Birddog

Hey I remember that "Rose and the Camel" in Bahrain...yeah you and C150 made me laugh and laugh and laugh...*sigh* Good times. You guy's were hilarious. Nothing funnier than what you guy do for laughs.

picobello

meaw :



"will save a couple of years on his career"

hmmmmm couple of years??????? If you have jet time in your log book you have better chance to find a job in a airline. Remember a lot of airlines request "jet" hours or turboprop +12500 kgs. So with a emb 110 12500 LBS What are your career perspectives ?????


"there are quite a few jobs out there on turboprops or corporate that pay more and you dont pay to get there."

2 or 3?
Examples please! corporate : minimum days off, most of the time on stby, very few hours a year and well paid???? Examples in canada please!!!!!!!

Turboprops paying more than jets? Probably but again, examples please!!!

and last point : I personnaly work for a "major" and i will never "prostitute" myself entering in this kind of "pay to fly" but i have a lot of friends in canada who don't have my chance. If they want to pay for a jet rating . Nothing I can do.... But i understand after 6 years flying in the north of canada that they wanted to seat on a jet cockpit and land on runways longer than 800M


I am Birdog :

I like the camel! Where did you toke this picture?


C150 driver :

Have you flown in the north of canada????? with a C150 for example

Cheers!

Pico

LindbergB767

Hey guys d ont forget that at JetsGo they give u back the money after 2 years with interest

Anywhere in the world u do not get back your money

So in fact u d ont pay for it BUt it is a way for the Cie to be sure that you will stay there for 2 years

I have seen many pilots in the past joining a Cie to get the JET type then leave some where else a few months after