Atlas Air Hiring
02-22-2018 | 09:54 PM
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Upgrade times are about 2.5 years for the 767 and it will probably go to about 2 years by the end of the year. Of course at the end of the year we will have all 20 Amazon 767's and then upgrade will start to go back up
As for the 747, it was 3.5 years about a year ago. But we have not upgraded to the 747 for over 8 months and we probably won't upgrade for several more. Plus the seat locks for 767 Capts have been expiring AND alot of pilots have bypassed the 767 upgrade. The expectation is the 747 upgrade is probably on its way back up to over 5 years
If you are coming on board soon, you probably will be looking at 3 plus years for the 767 and 5 years plus for the 747. Once the last 8 767 are on board at the end of the year, upgrade times will go back to normal
As for the 747, it was 3.5 years about a year ago. But we have not upgraded to the 747 for over 8 months and we probably won't upgrade for several more. Plus the seat locks for 767 Capts have been expiring AND alot of pilots have bypassed the 767 upgrade. The expectation is the 747 upgrade is probably on its way back up to over 5 years
If you are coming on board soon, you probably will be looking at 3 plus years for the 767 and 5 years plus for the 747. Once the last 8 767 are on board at the end of the year, upgrade times will go back to normal
02-23-2018 | 01:48 AM
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We'd have to win a few law suits too since management is attempting to force us to merge contracts where we wouldn't be allowed to vote on a contract. We'd be forced to Arbitration where the Union and company couldn't agree. Getting released means you end up at impasses and probably no votes on TAs and then you're released. I think maybe 1 airline has been released in the last 10 years... For reference Kalitta went 6 years without a new contract and had voted yes to strike but wasn't released. Putting it simply.... Probably more than 6 years would go by before we'd be released and even then there'd be no guarantee of that. You'd be better off at a different airline by then should you end up at Atlas.
02-23-2018 | 06:16 AM
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02-23-2018 | 07:34 AM
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Management is absolutely right.
There is no "dumpster fire" as the union claims. The place is not in a hopeless free fall. Far from it in fact, as is evidenced by the 2017 earnings and 2018 predictions.
This thread will continue to get the idiotically myopic questions such as "oh boy will I get a lot of time in Hong Kong?" from the "it's marginally better than my last sweatshop gulag" crowd of potential new hires.
Simply, incoming new hires means no problem, means no contract.
Reading into discussion on the latest earnings call, management clearly is projecting that they can sustain this modus operandi at least through the end of 2018.
There is no "dumpster fire" as the union claims. The place is not in a hopeless free fall. Far from it in fact, as is evidenced by the 2017 earnings and 2018 predictions.
This thread will continue to get the idiotically myopic questions such as "oh boy will I get a lot of time in Hong Kong?" from the "it's marginally better than my last sweatshop gulag" crowd of potential new hires.
Simply, incoming new hires means no problem, means no contract.
Reading into discussion on the latest earnings call, management clearly is projecting that they can sustain this modus operandi at least through the end of 2018.
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