Allegiant Bases
10-20-2018, 01:14 PM
#71
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2015
Position: A-320
Posts: 680
Stay optimistic. The airline just doubled in about 2 years and is still managing to grow revenue and asm over 10% during an aggressive transition. There is still going to be over 100 people in the school house until about March/April and it will take a bit to grow the airline into the excess. The hotel isn't taking away from any opportunities from growing the airline since the challenge is all on finding airframes. The 5 year plan was posted, it's about 10% growth of the total fleet each year give or take. While the balance sheet is nowhere near as strong as WN for example, the debt is still relatively conservative with a 6.6X EBIT over payments. Should the hotel fail it will not put the airline at any risk, the tax savings alone on the hotel financing is over 200m over the next 5 years. Wait until summer 2019 before getting disgruntled. Just my 2 cents.
10-20-2018, 06:07 PM
#72
Kabuki Kool
Joined APC: Jul 2016
Position: fu3king.airline@Furlough. DNA
Posts: 447
No first officer and/or anyone not holding a significant enough seniority number shouldn't be waiting for anything any longer. Waiting until summer and hoping g4 turns the corner and starts running an airline, instead of constantly battling the pilots. Allegiant management (my guess) just lost probably a little over ten million dollars in settlement to Captain Kinzer’s legal team. That’s how g4 management would rather spend their energies; Drudging swamps for hotels, go-karts and goofy-golf and picking fights with the pilots to convince us we are ‘Travel company’ employees. This isn’t going to change in 6 months.
10-28-2018, 10:18 PM
#73
Voice of Reason
Joined APC: Jul 2014
Position: Uncomfortable
Posts: 481
Originally Posted by disco inferno
The lack of any real long term plan is unsettling. Any one of us can literally go anywhere assuming you have a clean record. If the future of this "airline" is going to be go karts, laser tag, put put golf and condo's I think many of us would be well served to seek employment elsewhere. There are plenty of other airlines with better pay, more diverse flying, better equipment and a focus on running an actual airline.
The next year will be very telling in regards to Allegiants real plans. I'd get ahead of the game and get your apps now.
The next year will be very telling in regards to Allegiants real plans. I'd get ahead of the game and get your apps now.
Last rumor I heard was hiring in June (if it goes that long, I'll owe ecam a drink) and staffing target at just under 8/plane. However, that was based on attrition of 4-5 per month. My thought is that if they truly want to wait until summer to hire AND want to keep manning that low (preventing significant movement), attrition will be significantly higher than 4 or 5 per month. After the last two months of attrition, we are back under the number of pilots we had last November... I don't expect it will slow down if something positive on the hiring front isn't announced soon.
The question is, will they realize their mistake before they are significantly behind the curve? Not hiring for a few months in this environment is a giant negative, we might as well not exist as far as most guys (looking for jobs) see it. Another 6-8 months wait and running thin isn't going to help our cause any...
10-29-2018, 04:14 PM
#75
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Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 1,180
Originally Posted by tom11011
Town hall is tomorrow, should be interesting.
Why we have not struck, especially after the company changing everything about how SmartPref is supposed to work now, is unbelievably unacceptable on every level.
I will wait for "official" communications from said folks, but I'm seriously about done with this BS here.
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