Originally Posted by Margaritaville

More like USAir 1988-2004.



Another management troll? If only you guys spent as much time running this "airline" (travel company), as you spend trolling this site and lowering expectations.





Systemic contract violations. Abuse of fly now, grieve later. Openly violating every section of the CBA and laughing in our faces about it. Suing arbitrators who rule against them. 1000s of grievances filed, scores awaiting arbitration. They are tying to run the union out of money.

Laying off 20% of our pilots (40% of FOs), creating a massive understaffing situation. Furloughees being used as a political football by the company. Requiring the remaining pilots to work 90+ hour lines. Widespread junior manning in a traditionally slow flying month.

Creating a new term they call "vacancy reductions" that's unheard of in the industry. Using this new term instead of the traditional "displacement" to realign the bases. Those whose "vacancy is reduced" will get bumped out of their domicile, and will not get bump/flush displacement rights to displace to a base they want. Instead, they will be forced to bid vacancies that the company stipulates. This will cause seniority inversions across the system. Senior people will get bumped out of southern bases where they live, and forced to commute to places like Des Moines, Grand Rapids, Allentown, Indianapolis, or Pittsburgh in January. Worse, they announced this with a disclaimer that if the union starts playing ball with them in the next 10 days, all of this horror may go away.

Abuse of reserves:
4 hour "limo" (2003 Saturn) rides to remote bases at 50% deadhead pay.
Taking away "golden days" (immovable per the CBA), and assigning trips or even reserve shifts. Chief pilots agree it's wrong but have no power to stop it.
Reserves being given rental cars and told to drive 4 hours then fly an 8 hour trip. Threat of "no show" if they refuse.
Calling reserves at 3AM when shift starts, to notify of an 11AM show "because they can".
Calling reserves late into a shift to "release" them, attempting to trap them into a "no contact", because they can.

All of this because the union refuses to give them contract concessions. The company's last proposal, which the union rightfully shot down, was a 60% pay cut for the bottom 275 pilots, which would have put them on a B Scale. They would have been making close to minimum wage on 1st year pay. Other proposals have included the ability to place pilots on reduced or even zero hour lines, irrespective of seniority. It's worth noting that the company has steadily increased their cash position throughout the pandemic, while reducing their daily cash burn. They keep bragging to their investors what great shape the company is in, and even talk about all the opportunities the pandemic is creating. The executive in charge of the mothballed resort project got $15 million dollars in total compensation. We are currently the lowest paid airbus pilots in the USA.

So yeah, this company has rewritten the book on union busting. The work environment here makes the bottom feeder regionals look good. This is the worst it's been since 2014. When times are good and things are growing this place is fine to work at, but as soon as they get bad, management turns on the employees. It comes all the way down from the top. It's a totally toxic management culture. They truly hate us. This has been a huge wake up call for all the pilots hired post contract, who thought everything was great here. Unfortunately, this is the real Allegiant Air.

I hope those in the future think twice before coming to work here, when they look back at this time capsule. Browse the posts from 2014-2015 as well. This is this company's true culture. Consider yourself warned. Sleeping in your own bed every night is useless when they ship you all over the country on reserve or bump/TDY you out of your home base for months on end.