Originally Posted by Cujo665
no, they're trying to start narrowbody cargo in A321's.
LMFAO - what on earth for? Probably because ATSG told them to and ATSG likes leasing planes out to people who will fly scraps with them.
Originally Posted by Cujo665
within the past 10 months:
Two 17 year+ APD's left to take jobs at regionals
a very good chief pilot left within a week or two of the new CEO coming in
a new assistant chief pilot transplant from a bottom feeder did a hatchet job on director of training and took his job. Has zero idea how to run a training department and check airmen and instructors started bailing left and right... in many cases they were career 12+ year Omni guys.
a new in-flight manager from - of all places - failed carrier Swift.
Oh noooo... you had a battle between two "boys clubs" - I'm sure that's the first time in aviation that has happened... the good news is this never really affects the airline, just the egos involved.
Originally Posted by Cujo665
new CEO ensuring nobody in any management position is smarter than him as a means to protect his job which he's way under suited for.
they've been losing flying ever since the former CEO retired (retired 4 star guy) that empowered people to go do their jobs instead of micromanaging.
Your "CEO" gets weekly marching orders from Wilmington - he's more of a caretaker than a CEO; the "problem" is ATSGs lack of desire or ambition (maybe both, who knows) to round it's airlines out into individually viable operations... the airlines are an extension of the leasing business.
Originally Posted by Cujo665
the ATSG method of fixing MEL's at the end of the repair limit as opposed to how Omni used to fix things right away was definitely noticed by the troops, and word eventually filters back when multiple seats recline are broke, lavs on 10 hour flights are MEL'd, and other stuff that in the past would have been fixed right away.
That's not the ATSG way - the ATSG way is to have a "fit" if the line on the graph doesn't go up year over year which leads to the people at the receiving end of the "fit" to start going into drastic money saving mode for fear of experiencing another fit or losing their own jobs - you're seeing a symptom, not a cause. That's why I mentioned better management at all levels.
Originally Posted by Cujo665
Oh, this all happened before they lost sentinel. The resulting way overstaffing right now will be used against them at the bargaining table. The place is 100% coming apart at the seams. Put another way, guys are leaving to accept street captain jobs at regionals rather than stay here. Others were getting on at AA/DL/UA/FX. Nobody is really planning Omni as a career anymore except the guys too old to start over.
yeah, it's a dumpster fire.
Your union is probably the biggest reason you'll be experiencing drastically lower pay for a while (were you guys getting "high on your own supply" thinking everybody was half way out the door and the company would crack any minute while the truth was more bodies were being added every month?), the second biggest (and a razor's width away) is the unimaginative thinking the company has put into it's market position - albeit this is driven by the handicap of ATSG wanting to "cut costs at all costs" (colloquially saying that - a more honest statement is they just think of airlines as financial instruments to achieve their investment goals vs. their core businesses) rather than any single individual. Omni isn't special now and never was special before - it's just another ACMI pax operator who happened to survive the "culling" in the late 2000s. It'll probably survive the next one - but what you really need to start thinking is "in what form?" will it still be worthy of being called "International", or does ILM have plans to supplant it's domestic business at the expense of traditionally lucrative international flying... all much more important questions to be asking than worrying about who the director of training is - who if able to tank the entire airline from his position at a desk next to a clasroom; means you've have intractable structural problems for the last 30 years. Honestly crying about how "change is happening and I don't like it" is not a winning strategy for an airline or a pilot group - get with the times or the times will get on (without you).