With the current pilot shortage in the United States, Frontier Airlines is getting creative with its pilot recruitment, and is looking abroad.
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There is no pilot shortage, just a shortage of pilots willing to work for less than they could earn flipping burgers at Wendy’s. They wouldn’t be bleeding pilots left and right if they paid them well. This is just a way for Regionals and other carriers to avoid having to pay their pilots a real market wage. Outsourcing isn’t exactly a new idea.
Because 'merican pilots have NEVER crashed an airliner... NOT. If it was intended as a joke, nobody is laughing.
E3 is not allowed to apply greed card, no one wants to work for low paid carrier for years.
Does this apply to NZ pilots as well? I know an NZ pilot recently cashiered from Qatar.
There is not a pilot shortage. Low cost carriers are not sustainable. Frontier can't keep up with inflation, and wants to import labor. Soon legacy carriers and pilots union will come after this BS!
Expat--from expatriate.
I have had American pilots on many small international airlines in the past. I wonder if they have moved back to the US since the current shortage.
You DON'T know what you're talking about! USA is facing the highest levels of pilot shortage ever! Some flight are grounded cause there's no enough pilots! Either low cost (as you wrongly mentioned) ou national carriers.
Frontier first officers make $150+k per year and captains top $350-400k. You call this “low pay”?
I had my application for two years and not even a courtesy call at least saying thanks but no thanks. And there is a pilot shortage sure.
See where it goes good idea why Air New Zealand and Qantas have in increased flights coming to the U.S. should be interesting
Makes sense to me. My guess would be the USA could get many Mexican pilots if you look at their pay. They make little more than a McDonald's worker so would be happy to work for a US carrier.
Negative. Independent regionals and low cost carriers are the ones struggling. Pilots aim to apply for wholly owned carriers that offer a decent pay , with a flow through program to mainline. Pay well , and problem solve. 29 usd tickets are JOKE.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Pilots are paid handsomely. Their union ensures it.
during the pandemic, 3 regionals went out of business: TSA, Compass and Expressjet. Not to mention Miami Air, and some more small part 135 outfits. Right there is at least 2000 pilots. So how can there be a pilot shortage.
Yes, the Mexican pilots were desired at Air Astana because they never complained about anything and hardly said anything even when safety was engaged, not mentioning the flying skills. Later Air Astana hired lot's of Avianca pilots whose company went bust. The same story..... usually this airlines are not looking for safe pilots but the management is looking for pilots that just do what they want. Foreign pilots are more easy to handle and to fire when needed....
Is the pilot salary really better in the US than in Australia? I am not so sure....
This is BS. there is no shortage of pilots or those who want to fly. myself included. However the pay is horrendous and unless your 22 fresh out of college, its very difficult to switch careers and get into this field. I would be taking a massive pay cut and it would take 6-7 years to get back to what i make now. I'm not looking to make 200-300k, but im not trying to make 40k either after switching careers, going into debt or using my savings to get trained. Maybe they should start flight academies and stuff like some other airlines. train them or cover part of it and stipulate in the hiring contact they must work for X amount of years or pay back the cost of training.... they just dont want to pay a fair wage to Americans...
Interesting but I pilot jobs in Australia working for Qantas and VA are pretty good an d I would imagine a lot better than working for a low cost carrier.
I'm a foreigner, a couple of years before, I did my commercial pilot course in US. Right now I´m working as an instructor or CFI, here in my country. I already have 1600 hrs, a bachelor´s degree and a master´s degree.
Is there any chance to work as a pilot with Frontier?
Foreign pilots may not be aware, but a very reliable and common resource we U.S. pilots use to compare airlines here is called airlinepilotcentral.com. You can research and compare all the airlines there, including pay structures.
Frontier is maybe the worst place to go for a major airline in the U.S. There's some additional things not listed on the website, like they require flight crews pay 50% of onboard food purchases, and they require you to pay for a subscription flight schedule software called FLICA, instead paying for it themselves.