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SoCalPilotGuy · May 2nd, 2008, 21:53

Our FBO was on the west coast at a Class D airport that was fairly busy. It was a high end FBO with quite a bit of private jets going in and out. Our shift were 8 hours of work time with the first starting at 5:30-14:00, the second 13:30-22:00, and graveyard from 21:30-6:00. I think this a fairly standard schedule for 24 hour operations as we were.

I would recommend a medium size airport for the best connections. If you are at a small airport, you will probably be fueling the local flight school planes and not get much other traffic. At a large airport, the FBO may be in charge of fueling the airliners. We did for a little bit and then a competitor FBO outbid us for the contracts. With airlines also come ground equipment (belt loaders, stair carts, baggage tugs, GPUs). We had a truck that pumped auto gas and diesel and were contracted to fuel the airline's ground equipment for some time. That was an interesting aspect of the line job. As for a medium size airport, you will probably get the most corporate jets (the type I wanted to make connections with).

You didn't specify what type of connections you want to get, but I hope this information is useful for you. Good luck!

May 2nd, 2008, 21:53	#2
SoCalPilotGuy Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 52	Re: Big airport vs small airport. Our FBO was on the west coast at a Class D airport that was fairly busy. It was a high end FBO with quite a bit of private jets going in and out. Our shift were 8 hours of work time with the first starting at 5:30-14:00, the second 13:30-22:00, and graveyard from 21:30-6:00. I think this a fairly standard schedule for 24 hour operations as we were. I would recommend a medium size airport for the best connections. If you are at a small airport, you will probably be fueling the local flight school planes and not get much other traffic. At a large airport, the FBO may be in charge of fueling the airliners. We did for a little bit and then a competitor FBO outbid us for the contracts. With airlines also come ground equipment (belt loaders, stair carts, baggage tugs, GPUs). We had a truck that pumped auto gas and diesel and were contracted to fuel the airline's ground equipment for some time. That was an interesting aspect of the line job. As for a medium size airport, you will probably get the most corporate jets (the type I wanted to make connections with). You didn't specify what type of connections you want to get, but I hope this information is useful for you. Good luck!