Originally Posted by
UNDGUY
Hey Michelle,
I will try to give you an unbiased opinion. I donīt work for GoJet but I do have furloughed friends that went there. I speak to them often about it since I am also furloughed and have an open invite from HR to interview there. GoJet is a terrible company. Management is constantly ignoring the contract and fires guys that they don't want as union reps and treats the pilots awful by ANY standards. The equipment is newer than most CRJ-200s and is barely maintained. There is about to be a bunch of movement at every regional, but GoJet pilots have been promised growth for years that has never materialized, and a few of their current pilots are United furloughees that will be returning to United probably about the time that every other major is hiring and thus every regional will be hiring. Still many more of their pilots are furloughees from other places and anyone furloughed from an ALPA carrier did not have to resign from those positions because GOJet isnīt an ALPA carrier because it was created to circumvent an ALPA contract. So that is the "good". The bad can not be understated though. While the bad reputation isnīt what it was when they first started up they are still talked about badly in the industry. My friends tell me they have never had anyone say anything to them directly. They also say they have never had an issue on a jumpseat. But I have heard that on a rare occasion there may be issues with other pilots when requesting a jump. BUT GoJet peoples are still talked about amongst pilots from other airlines. Mainly Union guys and TSA guys who are still bitter. I have not gone there because the meer fact that you have to ask what about GoJet tells me that people still have that negative conotation in their heads and I donīt want to be associated with it. The industry is openig back up. Recalls are happening. Airlines are hiring. There are and will continue to be better places to go if you have some patience.
There, I fixed it fer ya! This is a much more
realistic depiction of what it is actually like there. Most of it is like TSA except some parts are worse. MX is the exact same guys, so most of the time you will have multiple MELs. Upgrades are relatively non-existant. The huge difference is who you pay your dues to. At TSA and Compass, we pay our dues to a Union. For all the bad, they have your back when mgmt tries to fire you for a bogus reason. At GoJet, you'll pay your dues to a group of mgmt cronies that call themselves a union so that their pilots can say "we're union now!" In reality, you have no protection because 618 doesn't care. With all the other options out there right now and soon to be out there, you'd have to be pretty dumb to go there.