Originally Posted by winniethepig

Stay away from TransAir.

Pay to play 15k. Unionized through teamsters, but they union hasn't renegotiated a contract since 2005 (could be earlier, but I can't 100% remember). FO's start out about 20k a year. You pay half of your January paycheck to Teamster's every year with a percentage of each paycheck after that. You aren't protected by the union until you have been with the company for 12 calendar months, but you still have to pay full due's the entire time.

The owner likes to fire people he can't push over right before their one year anniversary. It's how he has kept the union at bay for so long. Dude pays cash for all of his airplanes and has a new car every 3/4 months but refuses to pay more. There are line guys (box throwers) that make more than FO's. He gives a $25 Christmas bonus to everyone every year.

Didn't hear about the gear up with the chief. In the recent ad (7/23) the same CP(Dave Mcintosh) email from when I worked there is there, so I'm not sure if it was someone else who was fired. Doesn't surprise me that they didn't refund any money. They fired someone during training with no refund for letting their 2nd class medical expire by 2 days. They paid for the PIC type for captains when I was there. They made the CP pay for his PIC type to become CP right when I was leaving.

I got fired just before my one year (I was young and stupid. No one told me to stay away from these type's of companies). Company car broke on an outer island and caused us to be late getting back to HNL. My fault. Fired. I laughed and walked out. It's a joke of a company. You'd do better flying for Great Lakes, Sun Air, Air Choice One, etc.

Stay away at all costs(pun intended). SD-360 is a heckuva fun plane to fly, though. It's the only consolation.

One more fun story to leave you with. One of the captains got a divorce early on while he was there and needed to pay child support to his ex for their daughter. TA took that money out of his paycheck to pay his ex. They did if for a couple months and then stopped paying her. They kept taking the money out, though. He got slapped with a lawsuit a year and a half later. TA refused to pay him back for that back child support that they took and didn't pay and he got his passport revoked for 3 years because he hadn't been paying.