If you are looking at the aircraft dispatcher certificate, the…

Mei-Lin Chao · Dispatcher at Bluegrass Freight Systems · Memphis, TN

If you are looking at the aircraft dispatcher certificate, the honest pitch is this. Five to seven weeks of school, no medical, no flight time, and you will know more about how an airline actually works in year one than most people learn in five. The pay starts low. It does not stay low.

2 comments

Tom Brennan

No medical is the part that sells it to people who got a surprise on a first class exam and thought aviation was over.

Harriet Nakano

And it is a real career with a ceiling. I know dispatchers running an airline operations centre at 35.