Heavy Equipment Operator:
You friend does not need a bachelors degree until the day of his interview at a legacy carrier.
I understand that Southwest Airlines has dropped their requirement of a bachelors and will now accept an associates degree.
If he is working on his associates degree, then he should continue it all the way to bachelors.
On-line is fine, and flying night freight is a fine way of getting there.
UPS has just announced a flow thru agreement with Ameriflight, as has Allegant Airlines.
I don't see how these type of programs would make me want to stick with the Ameriflight life style.
There are simply too many other opportunities you'd be passing up along the way.
You'd be placing all your eggs in one basket, (I just mis-typed casket for basket. Maybe it was more a subliminal thing) on the hopes of a job at a flow thru airline.
If he had started flying in the right seat of a two pilot cargo plane at 250 hours, and upgraded to captain at 1200, then I'd be happy with his progress.
Like McNealy SA-227s or Air Cargo Carriers SD-360s.
But he has missed this valuable opportunity.
So what would I recommend he do is.
Just wait until 1500 and go with the regionals.
There are plenty of flight instructors with restricted ATPs and 1000 hours who make it into the right seat of a CRJ, so I'm sure your friend will do just fine.
If he wants to move up now to jets, a better move would be somewhere like IFL Group with FA-20s.
IFL is the kind of company you can stay and grow with.
I believe they have big plans for the future.
But first it would be best to decide if you want Delta/American/United or FedEx/UPS.
I feel that a separation of the two sides of the industry is becoming more prevalent.
Well it actually three sides of the industry, as airlines like JetBlue prefer NexJets type people most.
It's time for everyone to start thinking where you want to end up at.
And position yourself at the most compatible carrier.
I saw the funniest thing ever.
A Delta captain was talking to a regional captain and said.
"Do you want to work for Delta someday?"
The answer he got shocked him.
"No, your job is just like mine. I want to work for FedEx or UPS and do a 12 day around the world trip and be off the rest of the month."
The look on the Delta captains face was priceless.
Last edited by button push ignored; 19th June 2017 at 13:52.