Much of the current growth in the airline industry consists of the major airlines in the United States competing for passengers who want to travel across the ocean. That is why it is good news for pilots aspiring to fly for the airlines to know that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported that international premium traffic for March was up 8.6% compared to the year-ago growth of 2.9% recorded in March 2011, and up from 6.3% growth in February.
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Month: May 2012
Another Airline Pilot’s Success Story
ATP is a flight training academy which has traditionally trained pilots to fly for the airlines, and has been more successful at it than any other flight training entity in this country. As the Director of the advanced jet training arm of ATP, as well as a former Captain in the airlines, I get the real pleasure of helping many pilots take that final important step to flying for an airline.
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The Payoff for a Successful Interview: A Flying Job and $5000
The ongoing shortage of commercially rated pilots has created a lot of competition between the airlines to attract qualified recruits. Republic Airways has upped the ante recently and offered a five thousand dollar signing bonus paid to newly hired pilots. These new-hires will be spread out among Republic’s three airlines; Republic, Chautauqua and Shuttle America.
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U.S. Airline Industry Reports Record Breaking Profits
Things are looking up for airline companies, which have reported respectable profits in what is historically their slowest quarter of the year. The top seven U.S. airlines have together posted a first-quarter operating profit of $247 million, compared to a modest loss a year ago.
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Getting Hired as an Airline Pilot
The Airline Industry has been hiring new pilots at an ever increasing rate for the last year, and hiring can only become more frantic as we approach the beginning of 2013. That is the year when over two thousand senior airline pilots will have to retire at age Sixty-five. With the increased amount of pilot recruiting going on, it pays to spend some time thinking about how to prepare for the rare opportunity a pilot’s interview presents.
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An Airway Less Traveled
Commercial Pilots, as well as those that aspire to become one, crave information about our profession and are usually either reading or talking about the latest aviation news. Since we pilots are constantly on the move, the internet has become a valuable source of the kind of information that pilots seek to feed their curiosity and provide needed information about the Aviation World.
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Airline Pilot Terminology Explained: Flight Time and Duty Time Limitations
In the course of learning about how to become an airline pilot, you hear a lot of phrases that are not self-explanatory. Since you will definitely have to learn and use these concepts I thought I would explain a few of them. Flight Time and Duty Time are two phrases that mean something different to a Part 121 Airline Pilot then they might to the average General Aviation Pilot for example.
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A Night Flight Across The Atlantic
Chris Carey is a graduate of ATP’s Career Pilot Program and ATP’s Regional Jet Standards Certification Program. Chris now flies the Boeing 757 for Continental Airlines and is a Career Coach and Mentor on BeAnAirlinePilot.com. In the remainder of this blog Chris shares details from a trip he recently flew while piloting a Continental Airlines 757 from Newark’s Liberty International Airport to the Netherland’s Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport.
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