Turbulent economic times are challenging for a firm that places pilots, flight department managers, flight attendants, schedulers/dispatchers, maintenance technicians and other aviation professionals. Founded by two pilots in 1983, Jet Professionals Inc. (JPI) is now located at Jet Aviation’s Teterboro, N.J. facility after nearly two decades at its original Shelton, Conn. location. Vice president Linda Herzog, a California native in the human resources field, hosted an open house recently to introduce clients on both sides of the hiring fence to the new offices.
Sampling the hors d’ouveres were a wide selection of independent contract pilots, flight attendants and others who had dropped in to see the new offices. A PowerPoint display on the complexities of insurance coverage made the strong case for becoming an “employee” of Jet Professionals, rather than going it alone as a temporary contract service provider. Chief among the concerns for contract and temporary personnel, according to the presentation, is the need for workman’s compensation insurance. Coverage is all but unaffordable for an individual, said the presentation, but included in the contract when one signs on with JPI.
