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2011年8月4日星期四

Is it still possible to get a pilot job for ups in this economy?

-I work for ups in Arkansas as a part time supervisor. This ups is a center not a hub. They say I can transfer to another ups for school purposes if I need to. I have a private pilot license, I'm working on my instrument now. I'll have a bachelors in aviation this fall. I'm not transferring yet because I work 2 jobs to pay for the flight training. As soon as I am done getting my certifications I am going to try and transfer to a hub to be where the planes are. My managers hope the best for me but they aren't confident that there will even be a flight job for me in the next few years. I don't Want to quit ups because I have my foot in the door but if there is even a small cargo plane or airline that wants me I might have to take it because I'll be able to build hours. I am trying to meet as many people as I can. Should I stick around ups til I'm finished with my flight certificates or should I go ahead and quit. My other job pays more bc it's full time and im starting to get burned out I work third shift at one job and midshift at ups as a dispatcher. Im going to school too and when I get 10000 by december I'm going back to flight school to finish my certificates. I'm also female and companies get compensation from the government for this could that help me get hired? I wish some pilots would start retiring. Ive been working on this since 17 with no financial help from my parents they don't even have a car I walked 3 miles to work and the airport to do this. It took 5 apps in my area for ups to notice me. I almost gave up hope and just jokingly said I would lay down in front of their trucks until I was hired.The airline hiring boom (including cargo careers) announced by the flight schools is not there yet - Fact is, flight schools are announcing a pilot hiring boom since october 1973... Admit it with me, they need excuses to get more students spending their hard earned dollars -



As far as the pilot employment market, do not hope anything spectacular in the next few years, pilots retiring or not, there is a glut of licensed pilots with a couple of thousand hours of experience still waiting for jobs, so when you get your CPL, you will be at the end of the line -



Sorry for the bad news and hard facts - give me thumbs down as appropriate for the plain truth - The more negative the airline industry is, the more I get thumbs down -
No. UPS currently has over 100 pilots on furlough. Even if they were hiring they wouldn't be interested in you until you have 2,000 hours with about half of that time in jet transports. Their interview requirements are stiffer than most passenger airlines. That's just to get interviewed. If you check the qualifications of who they hired (when they were hiring) most had 5,000+ hours.
I am currently a commercially rated pilot. You will not get a starting pilot job working for UPS because you are going to need to meet their minimum hour requirements... which if you only have your private.. the minimum you have is 40. I believe UPS required 1500 PIC hours to even be considered for a job with them as a pilot.

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