Brit pilots working in the USA
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I’m hearing from a number of different sources that more and more experienced British Captains are now working for US airlines.
Apparently, the US Citizen and Immigration Service have now included pilots on the list of those professions that qualify for ‘Employment Visas’ and are fast tracking applications.
Does anyone know the name of any of the agencies involved in recruiting UK pilots?
Apparently, the US Citizen and Immigration Service have now included pilots on the list of those professions that qualify for ‘Employment Visas’ and are fast tracking applications.
Does anyone know the name of any of the agencies involved in recruiting UK pilots?
Do your sources have any documentation to support this ? They are certainly in the RHS if they're here in a Part 121 operation.
And do your sources have documented explanations for how these folks got the legal ability to live/work in the US ? Green Card lottery ? Married into a Green Card ? Documented National interest waiver for the EB2 ?
They'd be welcome but it'd be informative to see for sure how they got here. Inquiring minds want to know.
I’m hearing from a number of different sources that more and more experienced British Captains are now working for US airlines.
Apparently, the US Citizen and Immigration Service have now included pilots on the list of those professions that qualify for ‘Employment Visas’ and are fast tracking applications.
Does anyone know the name of any of the agencies involved in recruiting UK pilots?
Apparently, the US Citizen and Immigration Service have now included pilots on the list of those professions that qualify for ‘Employment Visas’ and are fast tracking applications.
Does anyone know the name of any of the agencies involved in recruiting UK pilots?
Every airline in the US is seniority based. If you get hired you start at the bottom of the list regardless of your experience.
Unless you know something I don't, the only visum for foreign pilot's is for OZ E3. I have not seen a single pilot giving proof of getting a EB2 NIW.
proof....
Didn't know about the United London F/A base. The pilots could very well have been Brits but I find no mention of a London pilot base:
Domicile & Relocation
Upon completion of training, graduates are assigned to one of the United domiciles - Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco, Washington DC, Frankfurt, Guam, Hong Kong, London, and Narita.https://www.avjobs.com/careers-direc...quirements.asp
Lots of Brits in the US, likely some would bid for UK trips. UAL had 727 pilots based in London decades ago, and has had FA based there too. But I have not seen a single European get preferential treatment from US immigration based on aviation as occupation. I would know, came here myself the old fashioned way (lottery for a few years, followed by marriage).
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Erm, okay. I suppose that's why it only took me an hour to complete it. Mid - late eighties. The allowed time was 6 hours.
I did spend 30 minuets writing a note explaining why the only question I later realised I must have got wrong, did not have a correct answer. According to a Braniff '72 instructor I overheard, "That's why nobody ever gets 100% on the ATP . . ." I've always wondered if that's what he meant. I wish I'd pushed into the conversation.
I did spend 30 minuets writing a note explaining why the only question I later realised I must have got wrong, did not have a correct answer. According to a Braniff '72 instructor I overheard, "That's why nobody ever gets 100% on the ATP . . ." I've always wondered if that's what he meant. I wish I'd pushed into the conversation.
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Boeing is sponsoring a visa for the 737 production test pilot positions at Renton. The technical pilot positions at Everett require a green card or citizenship, though. My husband is American and I am seriouslty considering making the jump to either Boeing or a Legacy carrier but coming from the 777-200 / 300ER I am not hopeful. Delta has gone Airbus, United is 50/50 on replacing the older 777s with A350-1000 and American is also leaning Airbus (except for the 300ERs)
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If hired at any union-represented US carrier, you will join at the bottom of the list...period. Your previous experience will have gotten you interviewed and offered a job. From that point, you'd be a new hire and go to whatever base and/or airplane your seniority (or relative lack thereof) will get you through the bid process.
One's relative seniority within a new hire class is established by age in some places and the last four numbers of your Social Security number in others depending on the airline.
If the airline continues hiring, more new hire classes will get added below you.
That's how it works here. Good luck in your choice.
If hired at any union-represented US carrier, you will join at the bottom of the list...period. Your previous experience will have gotten you interviewed and offered a job. From that point, you'd be a new hire and go to whatever base and/or airplane your seniority (or relative lack thereof) will get you through the bid process.
One's relative seniority within a new hire class is established by age in some places and the last four numbers of your Social Security number in others depending on the airline.
If the airline continues hiring, more new hire classes will get added below you.
That's how it works here. Good luck in your choice.
It's all about options. If you have the ability to work in the US, joining a legacy carrier...a lifetime position...is just an option.
Things here are done differently compared to EU. Not better or worse...just different. And apparently, it doesn't suit everyone. But that's okay.
Anecdotally, UAL new hires are getting B737 captain slots while in new hire training (sort of the same at Delta but not so drastic). This is unheard of. But it's because those pilots senior to them just don't want the position...for a variety of reasons. So to play out possibilities, as soon as those pilots senior to these new hire captains decide they now want those captain spots, the new hires will get pushed down perhaps into the RHS on some airplane on subsequent bid cycles.
Seniority is sacrosanct here.
Best of luck with your choices. Let us know what you decide.
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What that means is better schedule control, AND quite likely more money than someone with similar seniority on a 777, if desired.
The work rules you’ll find at US carriers will enable you to exercise far more control over your income than you’re accustomed to. So you don’t have to be on a 777 to earn what a 777 pilot makes.
As a fellow EUr but now USr, I vastly prefer the american way. Yes, I will probably mean I will have to start at the bottom if I decide to switch companies (and after 10+ years I might). It does also mean that when I wil not have people come over above me and hurt my progress, This makes sure people are invested in making their own company better as opposed to trying to catch the bird in the air somewhere else. And the current T&C difference between the USA and the EEUU makes me believe the US is doing this one thing right. Unbelievable that the unions are stronger here than there......