Hello out there: numerous pilots with my company will be laid off this spring, many for their second time after only returning last January(!), and FEDEX (among others[?]) will not even consider an invitation to an interview- or do they assume that a resignation letter is somehow not authentic?
A fellow pilot lives in the northwestern US and prefers not to commute again, but are there any good jobs with cargo or passenger airlines whereby the pilots all have numerous days off in a row and the airline is very tolerant of commuting ( assuming no crewbase on the west coast)?
ALL have unique, solid, first-class qualifications. My partner today instructed pilots in a previous life on the KC-135 (he has the 707 type-rating: these four-engine aircraft had NO Flight engineer, only two highly-motivated pilots...) and is now current on a "classic" narrowbody aircraft which has no computers to fly it -- this alone requires unique abilities. He, among many others, nows spends very little time at home, being on reserve/standby, and has a family. Despite seeing a "gloomy forecast" here on his "company horizon", he has a positive attitude and is top-notch. Any airline would consider itself most fortunate to be ABLE to recruit this type of individual.
Many of these most junior pilots will be furloughed their second time by this company, late in the winter. Many are between age 35 and age 50, and all have extensive experience in multi-turbine, fixed-wing transport category (medium and/or heavy) aircraft, classic and/or FMC operations.
Do any solid Asian airlines (whether passenger or freight) base regular or contract US pilots on the west coast? How about the best corporate flight departments in the northwest?
Thanks very much for any reasonable recommendations.
