How much do part time airline pilots make a month?

Answer 1

georock and ted are correct.

Top flight crews for the major carriers are earning in the range of $150-300 per hour of flight time, but that doesn't include all the travelling, duty time, and training time a professional pilot goes through.

Sorry doggzilla, the question specified AIRLINE pilots, and that doesn't include flight instructors and small charter outfits. The minimum experience to fly a transport category passenger jet for any of the major airlines is 2-3000 hours. Most F/O's and captains have well over that, especially if they are flying anything bigger than an A320/737. I am not aware of any airlines engaging part time pilots - the type-specific training and certification process is too expensive! I've never heard of a "seperate (sic) license" for a part time airline pilot, please fill me in!

So if you mean the main-stream airlines operating +100 seat passenger jets, there's no such thing as a part time pilot. Even the training pilots and simulator instructors are full time, as they can't afford to be anything less than 100% current!

Answer 2

There's no such thing as a part time airline pilot.

All major airlines have "currency" requirements that can only be maintained by full time crew duty on an airplane and a simulator. The cost of keeping a pilot current is so high that there is no benefit - financial or otherwise - of having part-time flight crew. In fact, it is the opposite - only a full time pilot that is current both on an aircraft and on a simulator will be employed by the airline.

I am assuming you mean an airline that operates transport category aircraft, such as a Boeing 737 or Airbus A330. The cost to keep a pilot legally and safely current is usually much higher than his/her wages. In general, a pilot who is not current will not be able to handle the aircraft as well as a pilot who has regularly flown and taken recurrency training on a simulator - especially in an emergency situation. All the major airlines invest a lot of money in training programs and therefore can't afford to have their full time training investment work only part time.

Smaller less complex aircraft like a Beech 1900 can sometimes be flown by part-time flight crew, and their pay would then be by the hour of flight time without a minimum guarantee. But that is the exception not the rule.

There is not enough information in your question to give a good answer - is the part time pilot expected to perform any other duties, what are his/her qualifications, what type of aircraft, IFR/VFR, how part time is part time, etc.?

Answer 3

1st. There is no official airline part time job. However, some airlines will allow you to drop some of your trips so that you can get more time off. At United, we can drop down to 50 hours/month. That is flight time. You average around 5 hours flight time per work day. It's not easy to get that much time off right now because we are so shot staffed.

2nd. Pay. It varies lots. For the 737, a 3 year Miami Air first officer makes $47/hour. A 3 year 737 for Southwest makes $94/hour. Every airline is different, and have different rules for how much you can fly and how much time off you get.

Regional pilots don't make as much as that. At Chautauqua, the starting pay is $22/hour. That is close to min wage if you take into account all the duty time you put in.

Answer 4

Wow guys, thanks for all that worthless crap.

The truth is that there are such things as part time pilots. they are usually new pilots with under 1000 hours who have jobs in other aircraft related work, such as being a flight instructor.

A part time job pays about $1500 a month for less than 75 hours of work, though you are always paid for 75 hours. If you happen to go over, your pay will increase.

Starting pay is about $18 an hour. As first officer, you can make up to about $45 an hour after a few years.
Captains start at about $ 45-50 up to $65, and yes, there are part time captains.

You will never be allowed to fly a jet before you get at least 1000 hours, and then it will be a small jet. the above figures are for turboprops and even smaller passenger aircraft.

There are currently tens of thousand of part time commercial pilots, some for airliners, some for cargo.
They even have a seperate license for pilots that allows them to fill in for sick or late pilots, but never to be sceduled pilot.
You need a full ATP license to be able to fly schedules flights.

Good luck

Answer 5

For many professional pilots, the ultimate job is to be an airline captain. The pay can be very good; top salary at some of the higher paying major airlines is around $200,000 a year, for about 80 to 85 hours of flying per month. And benefits for pilots, as well as many other airline employees, include travel passes. But remember, the top salary level is reached only after many years of service and only at a few of the major airlines. Most airline pilots start out as first officer (co-pilot) with a regional carrier; initially they earn about $15,000 to $20,000 a year. And when they join a major airline, their first position may not be as a pilot, but as a flight engineer. Considerable training is necessary for any type of pilot job, and most airline pilots have to "pay their dues" by first gaining a good deal of experience either in the military or in other types of civilian piloting. In addition to airline pilot, pilot jobs include flight instructor, corporate pilot, charter pilot, test pilot, and agricultural pilot. Many people enjoy these kinds of flying - each with its own set of challenges and rewards - and wouldn't think of trading their jobs for that of airline pilot.

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