flight81

Anyone here work there that can answer a few questions?

Hiring?

Actual chance of getting hired?

Stability of the company?

Work rules and QOL?

pyroflyer

Yes they are hiring. They actually need people pretty bad. If you meet the requirements, have a pulse, and your not a total goone the chances are good! QOL is not the greatest considering Honolulu is extremely expensive, but if you can make ends meet and want to live in HI its not too bad of a gig. Your home every night and you work with the same bunch of people which for the most part is good.

fandango

deleted.....Island Air is fine....meant to reply to another thread....sorry...

Paid2fly

You wanna bail on OO for Island Air?

New Guy 007

Hi there pyroflyer, can you expand a little more on your previous reply? I know it is not cheap to live in Hi. Again, what about QOL, reserve time, schedules, up-grade time. Any talk about getting more ATR's. Any response would be great!

New Guy 007

Hello flight81, have you been able to obtain any more info on Island Air?

Beaver Hunter

I flew for Island Air from 90-96. For what it was it paid ok and provided very good benefits. In fact we had a defined pension and fully paid health insurance. Things that I never appreciated till later in life. Don't think it's like that now.
The problem with Island Air is that it's full of X Aloha managers. They seem to collectively believe in painting 20 year old airplanes and calling them new. They then stand around with their hands in their pockets and wonder what went wrong. They have 4 airplanes to basically fly a 2 airplane schedule. Their reliability is crap. Fortunately the new president seems to understand this and will hopefully make the needed changes. Basically if they don't get new ATR's they will probably drive themselves out of business.
Back to pilot life styles. You usually work half the day 4 days a week. As. FO plan to find a gig working bar or some other type of flexible job. Be prepared to pay through the nose for everything. I spent the first 32 years of my life in Hawaii. I would never move back if that tells you anything.
Good luck

pyroflyer

New guy 007 the QOL has gone down a bit from previously due to the aircraft change. When we had the Dash8-100 the turn times were 25 mins. Now with the awesome New/really old ATR's the turn time has been increased to 40-45 mins meaning you spend more days flying because your on the ground more than the air. Part 117 will probably mean more days flying as well. Typically a bid line holder is now close to 18 days of flying. Reserve gets their guaranteed 70 and any open flying is payed 1.5. If you get on now upgrade time shouldn't be more than a year but that's if their expansion plan continues. The company is still kicking the can as far as choosing between the ATR 500 or the Q400. Either way something has to change otherwise like Beaver Hunter said we will probably go out of business. Hope this info helps!

7AC2B60

appreciate the info update

company projection on fleet size & timing in 2014?

any chance of updates to APC....last was in 6/12/2012:

Island Air | AirlinePilotCentral.com

thanks!

Gjn290

Can any insiders confirm if WP is firm on the 500 hours of multi-engine time? Seems absolutely ridiculous to require that. Is there a reason for it?

Also I just saw they are hiring street captains. Does anyone know how many?