Originally Posted by Cujo665

He’s definately way better than most. He’s smart enough to know he doesn’t know everything aviation and will listen to rational reasons why a policy or procedure should be changed. That said, he is a mega millionaire and occasionally the behavior and actions can match the best stupidity of any airline CEO. I enjoyed working for him. He’s more interested in enabling his employees to produce a great product than in micromanaging everything.

Honestly, their biggest weakness is the pilot schedules. They’re always late handing out the next months schedule. If you can get your day off requests in a month ahead, they were good at getting you the requested days off. Other than that schedules were always late. They schedule 18 days a month, at least 2 of which are always long call from home, and nobody has ever been called from long call. So, realistically it 16 days at worst. You can get that broken up in two three or all at once. Tell them and they’ll try to do it your way. They like the all at once since they don’t have to buy extra airline tickets for your home basing, but doing two or three blocks works too.
You’ll eventually get your schedule which will have at least 2 long call days, scheduled flying days, short call days in a hotel, and 30 hour days off in hotels as needed. You’re salary, so,it really doesn’t matter if your at a hotel, or out flying... the pay is the same. I’ve gone to work for a ten day block and flown two days due to mechanicals and weather... it happens. Pay stays the same.

Keeping the hotel points and all the air miles is great, you’ll be executive platinum and racking up free tickets pretty quickly. When family vacation comes around, it will be on real free award tickets and free hotel awards. There are definately worse places to work.