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Old 03-01-2020, 03:53 AM
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Originally Posted by MNPS 50N50W View Post
The complete Flight Ops, MX, Sched, Payroll, Ground Ops, Safety are in Disarray. The FAA need to suspend this certification temporarily, and go through the entire operation with a fine tooth comb. There is a Structual problem here, not a one off here and there. Make iAero recertify the airline. This place has become an Imminent, Clear, and Present Danger to the Flying Public. Just go back and look at the incidents starting in Europe, EWR, ENV, emergency landings in MIA, the air turn back flights. The amount af ASAP's, alleged fraud from the flight crew duty time records. The amount of Pilots that have recently resigned out of frustration, the amount of Mechanics that complained, then quit.
This place is completely out of control, and needs a pause, a complete reboot. iAero needs to find competent people to fix these problems, and restore the flying public's trust.
FIRST TIME POST... YES, I STILL WORK AT SWIFT. I know I will be unemployed during that time. But it's about time that we as Pilots, and Mechanics, Flight followers, say somthing.
I am in total agreement with the above post. We have completely lost our way. We have problems with Customs ,can't get the GenDec right. TSA, with security. Can't get payroll right, the first time, the second time, per diem....Scheduling has long gone off the rails. Now their is a letter of investigation circulating with regard to someone changing records. MX is a complete mess, repeated writeups, pencil whips, emergency landings in the last six months, incidents. If you are in MIA, expect to be overloaded, to the point where the cargo smoke / fire detectors are rendered inop. Remember the smoking wheel chair in the aft cargo compartment. Folks, I can go on, and on. I am not here to bash anyone, but I am totally frustrated. I've filed safety reports, ASAP's called an complained. At one point the saying was that you had to file an ASAP, because the FAA gets to see it. Folks, this place is an accident waiting to happen. The FAA needs to step in at this point to stop it.... at least until they can recertify the entire operation.
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Old 03-01-2020, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff90 View Post
no 2 pilots agree at swift because that’s the ACMI mentality, they want to job done no matter what your “that guy” if you don’t extend at 11:00 pm for a ice departure the next day you get blamed for the 100 k fine, I do have a problem with them using the aircraft I was supposed to fly right out for 6 hours but they don’t want look for a new crew, another place would have already taken you off and put another crew on it. One guy will extend the other guy is tired and doesn’t want to but we get nothing for extending why should we?
Don't mean any disrespect, but I have no idea what you were trying to say. Just a little more grammar and punctuation please.
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Old 03-01-2020, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Miamitmster View Post
I wish the guys in these stories about all the terrible planes and being forced to fly illegally and in unsafe equipment would post about it. Instead of the same four or five guys that don’t work here spreading bs day after day.
i work here and no one has asked me to fly anything unsafe, no one has punished me for refusing a broken plane. I have had schedulers give illegal assignments but they were changed when it’s brought to there attention.
So why don’t you guys bashing swift with these story’s get the people you heard them from to post them
There's a reason why 'former pilots', disgruntled or not post on here. They can't post when still employed by iAero/Swift because of retaliation by management, every line pilot knows that. Anyone who disagrees with that is either part of management, i.e. not a line pilot or a management pilot wanna be. I have absolutely no doubt management is trolling APC looking for hints on who's posting negative comments, the CP outted himself to a group of us on who he suspected was posting negative stuff. If everythings hunky dory here, what's he afraid of? The number of pilots posting negative comments would be far more if they didn't fear retaliation.
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Old 03-01-2020, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by hav3atps View Post
Don't mean any disrespect, but I have no idea what you were trying to say. Just a little more grammar and punctuation please.
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No 2 pilots agree at swift because that’s the ACMI mentality. They want to job done no matter what. You are “that guy” if you don’t extend at 11:00 pm for a ice departure the next day you get blamed for the $100,000k fine. I do have a problem with them using the aircraft I was supposed to fly after our turn for 6 hours but they don’t want look for a new crew. another airline would have already taken you off the trip and put another crew on it. One pilot will extend the other guy is tired and doesn’t want to. You tell me why I should extend? I don’t get get paid any lore or any different to pull them out of a small fire?
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Old 03-01-2020, 08:30 AM
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You guys experience here must be much different than mine.
as I stated before I’ve never been asked to fly a broken plane or retaliated against for refusing

yes the hotel situation with SCHEDULEING sucks and hopefully it will improve

But I keep asking for some of you former Swifties 👨‍✈️ to tell us what actually happened not just what you heard someone say happened when you talk about all these horrible things the company made you do.
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Old 03-01-2020, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Miamitmster View Post
You guys experience here must be much different than mine.
as I stated before I’ve never been asked to fly a broken plane or retaliated against for refusing

yes the hotel situation with SCHEDULEING sucks and hopefully it will improve

But I keep asking for some of you former Swifties ��️ to tell us what actually happened not just what you heard someone say happened when you talk about all these horrible things the company made you do.
What do you want? Crew names, acft#, date, incident, logbook page number? You know we can't give that, were not going to 'Violate' ourselves. In the absence of us willing to martyr ourselves and have Mr/Mrs FAA show up it doesn't happen? Really? Nice trick, ain't gonna work anymore huckleberry. It happens, and your either the luckiest guy that ever lived or flew here, not being truthful, or.. MANAGEMENT

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Old 03-01-2020, 09:23 AM
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Kinda funny. Management pilots coming on here acting like line pilots, and accusing posters of being disgruntled former pilots. Or current pilots making stuff up. Kinda funny, but more pathetic than funny. Yeah, everyone else are idiots and can't figure out what y'all are up to. Anyone who claims they've never been asked to fly a broken airplane, and/or carry it for 'one more leg' and discover a year later it was never fixed, has ZERO credibility
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Old 03-01-2020, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by NORMALOPS View Post
I am not here to bash anyone, but I am totally frustrated. I've filed safety reports, ASAP's called an complained. At one point the saying was that you had to file an ASAP, because the FAA gets to see it. Folks, this place is an accident waiting to happen. The FAA needs to step in at this point to stop it.... at least until they can recertify the entire operation.
They not only get to see it, they get to act on it as a voting member of your ERC. They also have the option to act on it unilaterally as well.
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Old 03-01-2020, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Packrat View Post
They not only get to see it, they get to act on it as a voting member of your ERC. They also have the option to act on it unilaterally as well.
How is that working out. Obviously not good. Why have they been unable to get rid of the Speaks guy, the one referred to as the village idiot, the guy that gives 35 kt wind v1 cuts, the last DO that was trying to move them out, he himself was pushed out. Folks, I have been here long enough to know what this company was, as compared to what it is now. Right now, the foundation has rotted out. That why I am in agreement with the previous poster that this company needs to be recertified.
Only the FAA can make this happen. Just wish more people would speak up. Not only in Flt Ops, but all the other departments. The company can, and will be recertified.
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Old 03-01-2020, 02:28 PM
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I thought the last DO took a better job at PJS
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