Hello!
I’m a little new here but i was trying to find the right flight school to attend to be on the fast track to a major airlines. When the biggest issues I’m facing is being able to pay for the school. I know i can get a loan but I’ve been hearing how difficult it can be just to be living off of Instructor jobs before even getting into a regional. I like how ATP has reimbursement partnerships with certain regional airlines, but I was a little confused on how a few of them worked more specifically endeavor airlines. From what I could understand was that you sign up with them from the very beginning and as long as you keep in contact with them and participated in events, then you can get hired on. But they mentioned something on the website that I have to be accepted into a new class? Does that mean there is more classwork i have to take before i can even work with them?
Jakob,
Welcome to the forum, I think your biggest concern is a lot of other individuals fear or concern. I would say more than 75% students finance if not some, all of their flight training through their preferred credit lender. I recommend checking out ATP’s finance page and reaching out to the team, they have all the answers when it comes to financial questions.
What we do know is tuition reimbursement and flow programs are advertised everywhere these days. ATP has 38 airline hiring partners of which most have some sort of tuition reimbursement. Frontier just announced a $50,000 sign-on bonus for new-hires, American’s wholly owned subsidiaries have their tuition reimbursement and sign-on bonus. Frontier also has their cadet program they just started late last year… all these new avenues have become more popular in recent years.
It is common for most regional airlines to have a minimum 2-year commitment if you accept a CJO and accept any monetary value.
Brady