Amazon Air pilots are paid around 40% less than FedEx or UPS pilots.
to Atlas' board. Atlas' other major customers include Asiana, DHL Express, and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
"You know, Bob, this is the highest I've ever been as a pilot in any airplane at all," the first officer said, according to Kirchner. "Atlas and ATSG are having a hard time finding experienced pilots," Aimer, an aviation-consulting expert with 53 years in the industry, told Business Insider."They're not getting the right talent as fast as they're expanding."
ABX has received at least two warnings from the Federal Aviation Administration for"a disruptive and confrontational atmosphere" during pilot-training sessions. One ABX pilot told Business Insider that ABX president David Soaper regularly came to training to"just babble and berate and try to scare the hell out of everybody."
"It was like he was flying his father's Cessna around the cabbage patch," Page told Business Insider."Everyone who knows anything about swept-wing jets, you don't do that. You fly that aircraft to the runway; otherwise, you can have really catastrophic results."
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