Originally Posted by
pithblot
Anyone prepared to say what Air North pay its pilots?
I remember one manager in the company saying, of the glut of pilots some years ago, that the recruitment process was something like "go outside to the nearest tree and give it a shake. What hangs on is monkeys and what falls out is pilots". The pay back then reflected this sentiment.
Times have certainally changed, but has Air North changed with them?
Just askin.
There is a bunch of pilots in Darwin who could all easily slip into an AN seat but they probably wouldn't want to take the pay cut to do it....
Last time I looked on the AFAP website, CareFlight were offering its Darwin based pilots a starting wage of $122,000 pa plus allowances, super, six weeks annual leave, salary sacrifice etc.
Good coin to fly a King Air.
Air North needs to up the ante.
The only people I can see that would be willing to put their hand up for AN will be the charter pilots up there. You’d be crazy to jump from CareFlight or even the Dash 8 - it’d most likely still be a pay cut for a Dash FO to go to the Ejet as an FO. The only ones who may jump ship are the ones who want to remain in Darwin long term and fly a jet.