Honest words.
pros: from good to better
- Pay is ok.
- Most Pilots and crews are great.
- Chief pilot is very good person.
- Free heath insurance for individuals.
- During summer lots of days off.
- Flight crews are home based.
cons: from bad to worse
-per diem is a joke (35$ a day).
-Annual pay raise was never paid.. reason is ever there was a pay increase. so basically they pay u one thing and take the the other.
- Family heath insurance is outrageous.
-401 plan is useless.
- Crew schedulers are flight attendants that were made schedulers they basically have no clue of what they are doing. they have their favorites which they take all the good trips and the rest got the crappy stuff and its very obvious and no one does any thing about it. ( worse department in company and maybe in the whole industry) . so much company is wasted because of this department.
- No schedule ( The program was cancelled after the only good professional scheduler was fired because she was fair and established a just schedule system)
- Not even hard days to bid for( also cancelled because schedulers are too lazy to set it)
- No future plans for growth , most existing CRJ 200s are broken with plans to fix them only 1 operational. the 57s seems like a huge myth.
advice to management
1- Take care of the pilot group and know time has changed the pilots you are losing left and right are very valuable asset .
2- change the schedulers and hire professionals they are one of the main reasons u are loosing pilots.
3- Adjust your pay system including perdeim , give the pilots there well deserved annual pay.
4- consider few bonuses to bring new pilots and keep the existing ones.