Hey everyone, can someone that is at Atlas give me a quick run down on how this company operates and what the work schedule is like. I'm currently with a regional and thinking about applying, so any good info would greatly help. Thank you for your time.
This can be done quickly.
Executive Summary:
Atlas is 100% charter, so they do their best to do whatever the customer asks them to do. Trips last between 1 day and about 19 days. You can do 30 plus days in a row if you like. Min 5 days off between trips if you ask for it. Fly anywhere except Antarctica. Fly anything: people to porcupines. Fly a lot, or sit in a hotel a lot, or sit at home a lot. Sometimes land once a month or less.
Train in Miami. Deadhead as an airline or Atlas passenger all over, sometimes with more deadhead legs than operating legs. Usually stay in nice hotels...more great than crappy. Have your schedule changed like it was litter paper for 1000 rabbits. Learn how to check your phone to find out where you are. Develop a map in your head for a bunch of major cities and their subway systems.
Xtra Details On Destinations:
Fly cold to places you, and sometimes Atlas, have never been before (Chelyabinsk, Tblisi, Malta, Colombo, Taranto, Avalon, Lilongwe, Recife, Cape Verde, Luanda, Venice, Constanta, Nuremberg, Bishkek, Baku, DWC, Dhaka, Karachi, Hanoi, Jakarta, Auckland, Cebu, Djerba, Zhengzhou)...those are SOME of the places I have been to for the first time since I started at Atlas. Sometimes no one in the whole crew, including the loadmaster and the engineer, have ever been to the location you are going. That happened to me on OE going into Kazakhstan, among other places. One time I flew into Philly with a senior captain and senior FO. Neither one of them had ever been into PHL!!! Sometimes its a crazy world!