Pilot Career Development, Aviation Consulting, and Expert Witness Services
Pilot Career Development, Aviation Consulting, and Expert Witness Services
Our Philosophy
Kit Darby Aviation Consulting is backed by over 30 years of experience in the aviation industry. We’re dedicated to providing complete, timely, and accurate information about pilot hiring, forecasts, and industry trends. We also help pilots make informed decisions throughout their job search and assist them in their career development as an airline pilot.
The Consulting Group has helped governments agencies, public and private corporations, and lawyers answer questions like these:
Expert Witness
If you are working on a case and find yourself asking any of the following or similar questions, Kit Darby can help.
My client has been permanently injured or involved in a fatal accident, what is the value of my client’s professional pilot career (airline, corporate and military)?
Can you provide reports and earnings models, depositions and expert witness trial testimony?
My client has been delayed in his career, What is it worth?
What compensation and seniority has my client lost due to this temporary disability?
Consulting
What are the projected pilot hiring and retirement trends?
How does my company’s pay, retirement, and benefits compare with the rest of the industry?
Can you help me fill in the statistical blanks in my business proposal?
Can you help me validate my business or career assumptions?
Is this a trend or a fad?
Can you provide the most up-to-date pilot demographic information for my company’s strategic planning?
Pilot contract, Pilot seniority list, detailed staffing info available.
Consulting
What are the projected pilot hiring and retirement trends?
How does my company’s pay, retirement, and benefits compare with the rest of the industry?
Can you help me fill in the statistical blanks in my business proposal?
Can you help me validate my business or career assumptions?
Is this a trend or a fad?
Can you provide the most up-to-date pilot demographic information for my company’s strategic planning?
Pilot contract, Pilot seniority list, detailed staffing info available.
Pilot Career Development
Do you have information and experience to guide me through this aviation career decision?
How do I handle a termination, asked to resign, failed to check rides or training, driving record, criminal record, alcohol, credit problems, and career development planning on my résumé/application and in the interview?
What is the most direct path to my goal?
The Consulting Group’s industry experts not only provide answers and statistical data but also guidance through the constantly changing aviation industry.
If you have any consulting or pilot expert witness question, contact us. Be sure to include your name, company name, phone number, and your questions for a free initial consultation.
Career counseling calls start at $90 for 30 minutes, and are prorated after the first half hour.
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Is Peter Weber Rich? The New Bachelor Is a Pilot and Makes Good Money
By Laura Rizzo, Life & Style magazine, JAN 1, 2020 3:00 PM While watching clips of him fly in a private plane and travel around the world you may wonder: Is Peter Weber rich? The newest Bachelor star actually does have a job as a pilot for Delta in the ~real world,~ and it seems […]
Over 120,000 airline workers want raises as profits rise for 10th year
By Leslie Josephs, CNBC, Thu, December 26 2019, 3:44 PM EST U.S. airlines are headed for their 10th consecutive year of profitability and their employees, from pilots to catering workers, are demanding higher wages and better benefits. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/26/airline-labor-unions-for-pilots-flight-attendants-want-raises-in-2020.html
Pilot shortage affects mainline financial performance
By payloadblogger, Pay Load Connector, December 15, 2019, 12:12pm Many suggest the pilot shortage only impacts the regional airline industry, but its effect extends to mainlines, LCCs and ULCCs and goes far beyond putting qualified bodies on the flight deck of passenger and cargo carriers.