Be Carefull with NJ Seniority
@ Atlantique
The fleet is divided in small/medium jets and large cabin (Hawker 4000 and above), the ratio is 80-20.
NetJets crews 8 pilots per aircraft, at the moment around 1000 pilots and 150 aircraft.
So from the 1000 pilots some 200 are flying large cabin.
How long will it take?
Lets see:
NetJets growing 20% per year.
Average 70 pilots walk away (pension, sick, other job etc).
So if you join now you be around the nr 1000 position. Every year you are in the company the large fleet gets 20% bigger. At the moment they have 100 captains and 100 FO large fleet.
year 0 - most junior large fleet captain around seniority 100.
year 1 - 7 walk away (evenly spread throughout 1000 pilots) so we take 7% leavers, and fleet grows 20%, so most junior captain now around 127
Year 0 100
Year 1 128
Year 2 165
Year 3 212
Year 4 272
Year 5 349
Year 6 448
Year 7 575
Year 8 739
Year 9 949
Year 10 1218
So it will take 11 longs years of bitching around on the small/medium fleets. That means 2 to 4 legs a day, 33% of them have no apu (airco/heating) etc.......good luck !