Connect Airlines Enticing Pilots With $250K+ Pay

This is more than what entry-level workers at Wall Street make

If you are paying Dash 8 captains $250K… you’re going out of business very soon. Guaranteed.

If they can get by with it, it is because fares into downtown Toronto are high

That's in $CAD I assume. Also, the 1,500 hour rule does not apply in Canada as far as I know. I have a friend who just made B737 captain up there. It took him 27 years, steadily going from general aviation to charter to regional to mainline.

So they'll pay pilots 250K but they operate their website on a Wix drag and drop template that any user on here could make in an hour.

This whole ”Connect Airlines” thing makes no sense to me, even more so than Northern Pacific or Norse. I fail to see the point of it. I thought Porter (plus a token Air Canada turboprop route to YUL) was enough for the YTZ airport. Do they really need a new airline that essentially copies everything Porter has been doing? Are they taking advantage of the fact that Porter’s getting Embraers and flying them out of YYZ? And if I’m not mistaken, wasn’t there already a regional airline in the US with that name? I stand by the fact that this is some April Fool’s joke.

@ canuck_in_ca

Connect Airlines will be a US airline flying N registered aircraft, why would you assume that they would be paid in $CAD and not be subject to the 1,500 hr rule?

Pilots actually do something that benefits society, unlike Wall Street parasites.

I haven't a clue who decided to go ahead with Connect Airlines, but I simply can't agree with it. I only hope that things don't crumble awfully. Thanks for sharing.

Exactly. Using Wall Street as a measuring stick. Hilarious.

Good luck to Connect Airlines.

As a pilot myself, way to go Connect! Airlines are slowly but surely beginning to realize they actually have to pay us... not screech about labor costs and their god damn bottom line. Pilots put in the same time, study, and money into their careers as doctors, and only now are we starting to see them being paid the same. Regional airlines that can't or won't pay pilots a good salary are the ones losing pilots, and also their contracts with mainline carriers. If you're a miserly management type twerp, that's risking a death sentence to your business. My philosophy is that if you're not going to pay me at least the equivalent of what I paid for a college degree and flight training, then I'm not going to work for you, no matter how much you scream. I have a work ethic... you don't.