Management/ non-line flying jobs in Flight Operations after getting CPL
 

What kind of management jobs or non-line flying jobs (but still in flight operations) can one try for after a CPL?

Ones I could come up with are

Training
Compliance
Operations Analysis/ FOQA

How about working in ATC, or airport system control sound interesting for you?

It would depend what your previous aviation experience amounted to. Difficult to imagine you would be any use in the three areas you mention without a lot of previous, relevant time. A recently qualified CPL is usually only useful to aviation as a junior pilot at the back of the learning curve.

With your current position as an Ops Manager a CPL would help you to understand the pilot's problems a bit more. How about Flight Dispatch Management?

Some jobs will simply be unavaialable due to lack of line flying experience. Others will be unavailable simply because the regulatory authourity and CARs requires a current line pilot in that position.

Depending on what additional qualifications you might have, there are quite a few other positions you could be capable of. The problem is the folks doing the hiring within flt ops are pilots and they tend to stick with what they know - other pilots, capable or not. They also don't like non-pilots within flt ops telling them they can't do this or that or there's no budget.

From a job satisafaction or renumeration pov, best to stay away from flt ops. Look at marketing, dispatch, scheduling,etc. If your an Engineer/Flt Sciences/Programming person, but the job falls in the Flt Ops Branch, only accept it if you can do it from within the Engineering branch.

One has to ask...... why, after spending all that money and time on a CPL, would you (or who ever it is) be looking for any job that isn't behind the controls of an aeroplane?

You'll end up as another pilot hating/failed pilot manager. And believe me, there are plenty of those already.

Thanks for your responses. I actually read an article about BA and one of its chief pilots who was not even a pilot but came up from the mechanic ranks. A lot of the US carriers have managers in flight operations that have no flying experience and that sparked my curiosity as to how this would work.