Careers

No one can deny that the cost of entering the aviation industry can be expensive. But with a little detective work, industry hopefuls can find organizations with scholarship offerings to help make up some of the shortfalls. One organization that Flying has been recommending for years is Women in Aviation International. Each year they offer […]

As US airlines continue their search for enough cockpit crewmembers to fill both current and future demand, ATP Flight School and Sun Country Airlines just announced a pilot hiring partnership to create a direct pathway for ATP graduates to join the Minneapolis-based airline as Boeing 737 first officers. In a news release, ATP said, “Recommended […]

Just 18 short months ago, pilots chasing an airline job had a nearly bottomless well of opportunities to draw from. Industry experts compared the scarcity of experienced cockpit crewmembers to the 1960s—when the major airlines were so needy, they actually subsidized pilot training. As 2019 drew to a close, it was fairly common for regional […]

Frontier Airlines and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have teamed up to help meet the challenge of the once-again-growing pilot shortage. In a news release, Frontier’s vice president of flight operations, Brad Lambert, said, “As many pilots across the aviation industry approach retirement age, Frontier expects to hire hundreds if not thousands of aviators during the next […]

When the original Midway Airlines closed its doors a few decades ago, they took away one of the best flying jobs I’d ever had up to that point. Luckily, the opportunity to fly right seat on a business jet appeared, though I knew next to nothing about business aviation at the time. The chief pilot […]

The US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued their 2020 Occupational Outlook Handbook showing that “airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers” had a median annual wage of $160,970, nearly four times the median wage for all US workers, who earned $41,950 on average. It is worth noting that in the handbook data, […]

Thirty-three aspiring US Air Force pilots with previous civilian flight experience have joined a new program that may allow them to jump ahead in training according to a recent story at Military.com. The USAF’s “Civil Path to Wings program has approved pilot candidates from active-duty, Air National Guard and Reserve units; graduates from the Reserve […]

On a sunny August afternoon in New York City, an Airbus A330 landed on Runway 31R at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It appeared to be a perfectly normal flight, noteworthy only in the era of COVID-19 for having been one of relatively few airplanes to come across the North Atlantic tracks from Europe that […]

From preparing for an airline interview to learning how to pitch to donors for your non-profit organization’s fundraiser, Women in Aviation’s annual conference has always been about professional development for all of those who attend. Just because attendees have joined the conference virtually this year doesn’t mean the collaboration, networking, and advancement have diminished. If […]

Readers of this publication are more intimate than most with the circumstances surrounding the tragedy of the Boeing 737 Max, but just as a review, the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 five months later are all attributed to the malfunction of the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system. […]