Atlas Air Hiring
08-07-2014, 04:55 AM
#9151
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: 757 FO
Posts: 87
LAX is a 747 base. The flying is almost exclusively DHL flying to Asia. The frequency of departures from LAX has greatly reduced over the past few years. This has led to the base shrinking to a little less than 40 FO's. It's quite senior except for a few more junior crew members sitting at the bottom of the base list. Those junior guys were able to make it in when the base in Seattle opened this month. Going forward, unless something changes, I don't think LAX will grow.
08-07-2014, 01:30 PM
#9154
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2012
Position: 747
Posts: 117
Originally Posted by hoover
I have been applying every 6 months for 3 years and nothing. Now there is a base where I live so I will change that to applying every month. 8000+ TT 5000+ TPIC.
Any more ideas?
Any more ideas?
08-07-2014, 04:23 PM
#9157
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Joined APC: Mar 2011
Posts: 249
The only thing I campaign for is us getting paid what we are worth and stop taking it with no lube from the company for fun. No time to fit in anything on my off days like union work when I'm gone as much as I am. 13 days off is hard to fit in all the beer I like to drink already with nothing else to do! Good luck to you if you're running though.
08-07-2014, 04:26 PM
#9158
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Joined APC: May 2010
Position: B767 CA
Posts: 1,100
Originally Posted by DC8 Driver
I agree that the Atlas business model is a more long term sustainable plan. I even understand the need for flexibility and the nature of the ACMI world. We just have nothing in our current contract that compensates us for our flexibility. I perhaps should have approached my original post a little more tact; but, after a day with 6 schedule changes in an hour, 4 rolling delays, bad catering and the preceding 7 days having to defend myself every day from illegal schedule changes, defending my basic rights under my CBA, threatened with chief pilot calls just for demanding what is provided for me in my CBA, it's really hard to have a good attitude and walk around drinking the Atlas cool aid (not saying you guys are). Things need to change here big time; I'm confident they will.
The issue that I have with the current discussions on the line, on our private forum, etc is that this CBA made no improvements.
That is simply not true...
1. Former Polar pilots got significant hourly rate increases,
2. Former Atlas pilots got some work-rule improvements,
3. And other improvements for both groups.
All during a process that was actually supposed to be the merging on two CBAs that were in place at the individual carriers.
Some of our junior folks (lovingly referred to as NKOTB!!) refuse to accept that the last Negotiating Committee was able to make progress (such as it is admittedly) during a process that was NOT a "Section 6" negotiation...sorry, but that is a fact. I am not gonna get into that discussion here...some of you have my personal contact info and can reach out to me for a more meaningful (and private) discussion.
08-07-2014, 04:32 PM
#9159
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2008
Posts: 617
Originally Posted by 744driver
DC8...sorry for the late response...but the beaches in Waikiki were a higher priority for the last week or so!!
The issue that I have with the current discussions on the line, on our private forum, etc is that this CBA made no improvements.
That is simply not true...
1. Former Polar pilots got significant hourly rate increases,
2. Former Atlas pilots got some work-rule improvements.
All during a process that was actually supposed to be the merging on two CBAs that were in place at the individual carriers.
Some of our junior folks (lovingly referred to as NKOTB!!) refuse to understand that...sorry, that is a fact. I am not gonna get into that discussion here...some of you have my personal contact info and can reach out to me for a more meaningful (and private) discussion.
The issue that I have with the current discussions on the line, on our private forum, etc is that this CBA made no improvements.
That is simply not true...
1. Former Polar pilots got significant hourly rate increases,
2. Former Atlas pilots got some work-rule improvements.
All during a process that was actually supposed to be the merging on two CBAs that were in place at the individual carriers.
Some of our junior folks (lovingly referred to as NKOTB!!) refuse to understand that...sorry, that is a fact. I am not gonna get into that discussion here...some of you have my personal contact info and can reach out to me for a more meaningful (and private) discussion.
08-07-2014, 06:31 PM
#9160
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2007
Position: Capt
Posts: 3,215
On the grass is greener subject: A poster on a thread about leaving FedEx for the majors was at a job fair lately. UAL/AA/DAL all had lines over 1.5 hours of pilots wanting to talk to the recruiters. FedEx and UPS had no lines at all.
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