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Airline Captain resume examples

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6 resume examples for Airline Captain roles in Aviation, in Achievement Led, Editorial and Executive Classic layouts. Each is a complete, formatted document — open it in Word, replace the content with your own, and export a PDF when you are done. Free to download.

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Bianca W. Rudd

Airline Captain, Boeing 737, High altitude mountain operations

Denver, CO · (303) 555 0121 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/biancawrudd

Key Qualifications

EXPERIENCE

Twenty two years of airline flying, seventeen as captain, 14,800 total hours and 7,600 hours pilot in command

AIRCRAFT

Boeing 737 type rating, previously Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet 200 and Cessna Citation

SPECIALTIES

High altitude and mountain operations, low visibility approaches, fuel efficiency, crew resource management

SYSTEMS

Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro, AeroData takeoff and landing performance, ForeFlight, company electronic flight bag

CREDENTIALS

Airline Transport Pilot certificate with multiengine land privileges, first class medical certificate, Boeing 737 type rating

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in aeronautical science, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Executive Summary

Boeing 737 captain with 14,800 total hours and 7,600 hours of pilot in command time. Twenty two years of Federal Aviation Regulations part 121 flying from a high altitude hub, seventeen of them in the left seat, with a clean check ride record.

Signature Achievements

  • Flew ten consecutive years of recurrent training and simulator check rides with no unsatisfactory event and no line check discrepancy.
  • Cut taxi fuel burn on his line by 41 pounds a departure through single engine taxi discipline the base later adopted.
  • Held a personal on time departure rate of 92 percent across 640 departures in a year at a hub averaging 87 percent.
  • Diverted a Boeing 737 with a failed generator into Colorado Springs, coordinated with dispatch and maintenance control, and returned the aircraft to service the same evening.
  • Mentored eighteen new first officers through their first two hundred hours on type, including four who upgraded to captain within four years.
  • Filed six Aviation Safety Action Program reports, one of which added a terrain briefing item to a mountain departure.

Professional Experience

Captain, Boeing 737

Front Range Air Lines, Denver, CO 2009 to present

Line captain on Boeing 737 aircraft flying domestic and Mexican routes from a hub with 480 daily departures.

  • Commands a crew of five to six, sets the tone at the preflight briefing and holds final authority for the safe operation of every flight.
  • Reviews the dispatch release, fuel plan, weather and minimum equipment list items before accepting the aircraft.
  • Flies category three low visibility approaches into the hub through winter and briefs the terrain escape for each mountain departure.

First Officer, Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet 200

Rocky Mountain Air Shuttle, Denver, CO 2004 to 2009

Regional first officer flying fifty seat aircraft into short mountain runways across the Rockies and the Great Plains.

  • Built 4,200 hours of turbine time on high density schedules with as many as eight legs a duty period.
  • Upgraded to captain in the sixth year and flew eighteen months in command before moving to the mainline.
  • Qualified as a line instructor pilot for new first officers on the type.

Certified Flight Instructor

Cimarron Flight Academy, Fort Collins, CO 2001 to 2004

Primary and instrument instruction at a school with sixteen aircraft.

  • Logged 1,100 hours of dual given and sent 22 students to check rides with a first attempt pass rate above 90 percent.

Licensure and Certification

Airline Transport Pilot certificate, airplane multiengine land, with Boeing 737 type rating

First class medical certificate, current

Certified Flight Instructor certificate with instrument and multiengine ratings

Member, Air Line Pilots Association

Education

Bachelor of Science in aeronautical science, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2001

Boeing 737 initial type rating course, Front Range Air Lines training center, 2009

Advanced Qualification Program recurrent training, completed every nine months since 2009

Core Skills

Pilot in command authority · Crew resource management · Mountain and high altitude operations · Low visibility approaches · Fuel efficiency practice · Threat and error management · Dispatch coordination · First officer mentoring · Winter operations · Safety reporting

Airline Captain resume examples — FAQs

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6 designs, covering Achievement, Editorial, Classic and Minimalist layouts. They all carry the same sections — the difference is the layout, so pick whichever suits how much experience you need to fit on the page.

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