USA Jet - Hiring
#21
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Joined APC: Apr 2007
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Will be interesting to see if in this cycle USA needs people through the downturn.
Obviously there is a pilot shortage, but in the past Road Runner has been the ultimate 'hire 'till you fire' carrier, cutting people loose who just signed a training contract and finished IOE. Tough to say this time, as there really is a reluctance within the hallowed halls of the C-Suite to cut any valuable employee free (valuable to them, as in difficult to retrain or rehire).
Get your popcorn ready. The smartest guys in the room are waiting for the shoe to drop on the global economy.
Obviously there is a pilot shortage, but in the past Road Runner has been the ultimate 'hire 'till you fire' carrier, cutting people loose who just signed a training contract and finished IOE. Tough to say this time, as there really is a reluctance within the hallowed halls of the C-Suite to cut any valuable employee free (valuable to them, as in difficult to retrain or rehire).
Get your popcorn ready. The smartest guys in the room are waiting for the shoe to drop on the global economy.
#26
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Joined APC: Mar 2018
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It's possible a lot of this has changed and if it did it would be even better pay than explained above.
The main downside in pay was 401k was meh and like I said, if there's a downturn in the manufacturing industry there will be a downturn in the company and your paycheck.
My main complaint which was the main reason I decided to take another opportunity that came along was the inability to know what side of the clock you would be flying. With 1 hour callout around the clock sometimes you flew in the middle of the night, sometimes the day, and with how busy the company became the fatigue started compounding in the chronic sense. My new job offer came the morning after I was beat up a few days in row. The company has a great fatigue management program for the acute fatigue, and they would always support pilots without question from what I saw, but they didn't seem to have either the ability or the interest in scheduling pilots so they would at least know whether they could sleep at night or day for their duty periods and stick to that through the periods. I also didn't like the company getting involved in pushing some divisive political/ideological issues in the workplace and in its communications. Other than those issues I felt the company was a great place to fly and earn more income than most of the other options out there. Being a smaller growing company was also a nice bonus.
BTW someone on this thread earlier in the year commented about "Roadrunner". That is obsolete and incorrect info. The company is no longer part of Roadrunner. It is part of Ascent Global Logistics now and the CEO who came in was great to work with and he and the whole team in my view really did a lot to clean up some of the Roadrunner issues. I actually had a lot of respect for him and he did a lot to learn about our operations and talk with the pilots one-on-one after coming back from trips in the middle of the night to learn or even just say "thank you." Ascent seems to be a positive change for the airline. Still a lot that can be improved (like not rushing a plane out to a location and waiting for hours on end when the cargo isn't even *made* yet when the pilots could have got a few more hours of sleep), but overall the company felt like it was going in a good direction.
Hope that all helped! Others who are still in can probably answer better but I hope this was a good start and happy to answer whatever I can.
#29
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