Omni Air
#1151
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Posts: 132
I just had an Omni Pilot on my Jumpseat...What this guy had to say about working at Omni had to be exaggerated...
This guy said a pilot had a family emergency at home while he was overseas flying and they wouldn't let him go home...he had to find his own way back home from the other side of the planet...No way that could be true!
Can anyone verify this?
This guy said a pilot had a family emergency at home while he was overseas flying and they wouldn't let him go home...he had to find his own way back home from the other side of the planet...No way that could be true!
Can anyone verify this?
They leave you in places for whatever reasons all the time. Your spouse could be in a medical emergency, your kids in trouble, your parents dead, and you BETTER cover that flight still or your canned.
Well maybe that's an exaggeration, we'll let you burn sick days but you're on your own to get home. Doesn't matter if you're in Nashville, or Kuwait. Good luck.
Not counting things like taking vacation on the TDY and then being left in Spain to find your own way back since that's your "base"...
#1152
Completely true. I've heard of this happening a couple times.
They leave you in places for whatever reasons all the time. Your spouse could be in a medical emergency, your kids in trouble, your parents dead, and you BETTER cover that flight still or your canned.
Well maybe that's an exaggeration, we'll let you burn sick days but you're on your own to get home. Doesn't matter if you're in Nashville, or Kuwait. Good luck.
Not counting things like taking vacation on the TDY and then being left in Spain to find your own way back since that's your "base"...
They leave you in places for whatever reasons all the time. Your spouse could be in a medical emergency, your kids in trouble, your parents dead, and you BETTER cover that flight still or your canned.
Well maybe that's an exaggeration, we'll let you burn sick days but you're on your own to get home. Doesn't matter if you're in Nashville, or Kuwait. Good luck.
Not counting things like taking vacation on the TDY and then being left in Spain to find your own way back since that's your "base"...
Hope the best for all you pilots at Omni...Sounds like you need it with that type of management attitude.
#1153
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Posts: 132
Thanks for the info...I just removed Omni from my list. If a company doesn't care about it's people and turns its back on you when you need them the most...They don't deserve good workers...
Hope the best for all you pilots at Omni...Sounds like you need it with that type of management attitude.
Hope the best for all you pilots at Omni...Sounds like you need it with that type of management attitude.
#1155
One step further. I have zero PIC turbine. I'm one of the few here that do. But like perviously said having 6000 TT and 3000 TPIC might not get you a job. We have several captains here that unfortunately fall in the "you have too much PIC time." I don't agree with that excuse from airlines. But, lets face it, they use it. I think they call it "untrainable." Heck look at UPS they want\require (not in the resume part but they do require it) HEAVY time, either SIC or PIC. So if you're a regional captain wanting a change something like Omni might be the place for you. Maybe not Omni, maybe Atlas, National, or Kalitta. But one of those places could get you over the hump.
I've commuted as a regional pilot and I've lived in base as a regional pilot, Omni isn't that bad. As regional pilots we *****ed about pay, trips, commuting, and seniority. Guess what, no airline is different, we do that at Omni too. It's not the perfect airline but what airline is? If you want to fly heavy planes around the world, be home based, get a pay check twice a month no questions asked, and still ***** about your job; apply to the big O. Maybe you could join us in our fight
Last edited by blackbox; 08-25-2015 at 09:50 PM.
#1156
Banned
Joined APC: Nov 2013
Position: 7th green
Posts: 4,378
Where did those pilots go if no one was hiring? World, North American, Omni, Kalitta...places like that. Then a big hiring wave starts (Today) and those guys are too old or too experienced to get a look from the current Majors.
Your comment is pretty typical of someone who is relatively inexperienced in the airline business and reflects "major airline hubris." The majors aren't the be all and end all for everyone. Lots of people are perfectly happy flying freight, corporate, fractional. Granted the Majors are the golden ring for pay, but there are a whole lot of guys who don't worship at the altar of the almighty buck.
#1157
On Reserve
Joined APC: Sep 2013
Position: B-767 Captain
Posts: 18
Very well said Blackbox, and Packrat! I've been at Omni 6 years now. Sure I'd like to go elsewhere, but it is what it is until I get a call. Omni has been very good to me, and I'm grateful for them rescuing me from unemployment due to furlough when nobody else was hiring. Some folks have no gratitude for what they do have, and can't take their eyes off of what others don't have.
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#1158
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jul 2011
Posts: 49
Pretty tough Gunner, I will give you the first part. Lets change the second part to Omni is a place you end up. Lots of good guys here through no fault of their own had a great job and it tanked. Now I do find the Omni supporters that came to the rescue, very amusing. The only good thing that we can say about Omni is the paycheck does not bounce and we are home base (at least for now).
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