Originally Posted by
lowbalance
Seems, like short staffing and unstable/changing schedules are a common theme for complaints from what i've gathered in the previous posts of past or current guys.... What has the company, upper management, DO or Chief Pilot done to remedy it? Is the Chief Pilot and DO a company Guy or do they really look out for the pilots? Is it really true that the longest pilot employed there only 2years? Why such a revolving door? How many airlines can you jumpseat on, it says Via is part of cass? Also why home-basing if part of cass? What kind of hotels do the home-based pilots stay in?
They take 3 steps forward, and 2 steps back.
They definately have their issues, but they also treat their pilots better than most regionals.
They currently can JS with: Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant, Air21, Western Global, Seaborne, Mountain Air and a few others. AA & Jetblue were in process when I left. Don’t know the current status.
Home basing is great. You never have to jumpseat to/from work. You get a real ticket and don’t waste time looking at flights or loads. You keep the air miles also. There is no short call without a hotel, unless you live in the base, so you never need a crashpad.
Once they get their scheduling issues resolved this will be a good regional to be at. Their plans for larger planes go in hand with their desire to be like a sun country, but with better than Jetblue service.
The owner actually cares, and even comes and flys every once in a while. He’s been known to take new hire classes over to the MX hanger and practice flows with them in the real plane.
Are they perfect? Far from it. But they are great compared to some of the places that are outright hostile and abusive towards their pilots.
Note. I’m no longer there. However, if I hadn’t fallen into an unbelievable job, I’d still be there. I liked the management (mostly) and the crews and staff were great.