Omni Air
08-15-2020, 08:51 PM
#2911
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Originally Posted by jdmorg13
With regards to home basing, is a snowbirding lifestyle possible at OmniI? I live on a sailboat and would be interested in something like a SAN winter domicile and SEA summer.
08-16-2020, 10:49 AM
#2912
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Originally Posted by jdmorg13
With regards to home basing, is a snowbirding lifestyle possible at OmniI? I live on a sailboat and would be interested in something like a SAN winter domicile and SEA summer.
Most lines will be reserve lines, there are a few lines of actual rescheduled known flying, with several from SEA. Holding them is an issue of seniority as they do not seem to go junior. The LAS goes junior on the FO side.
everything else, including most of this, has been discussed in the two Omni threads. It has not changed much except for the hiring process, so spending some time reading the threads is highly advisable.
Its a great place to work
To answer your specific question. You can change your “Home Airport” for home basing every bid cycle. You can also do alternate travel in most cases. Basically, if the ticket your asking for is cheaper than your home base airport, you’ll typically get the ALT travel as long as it won’t impede any duty time.
08-16-2020, 06:40 PM
#2913
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Joined APC: Jul 2010
Posts: 160
Originally Posted by Cujo665
You are either home based, or in one of two smaller special programs with bases in LAS and IAD.
Most lines will be reserve lines, there are a few lines of actual rescheduled known flying, with several from SEA. Holding them is an issue of seniority as they do not seem to go junior. The LAS goes junior on the FO side.
everything else, including most of this, has been discussed in the two Omni threads. It has not changed much except for the hiring process, so spending some time reading the threads is highly advisable.
Its a great place to work
To answer your specific question. You can change your “Home Airport” for home basing every bid cycle. You can also do alternate travel in most cases. Basically, if the ticket your asking for is cheaper than your home base airport, you’ll typically get the ALT travel as long as it won’t impede any duty time.
Most lines will be reserve lines, there are a few lines of actual rescheduled known flying, with several from SEA. Holding them is an issue of seniority as they do not seem to go junior. The LAS goes junior on the FO side.
everything else, including most of this, has been discussed in the two Omni threads. It has not changed much except for the hiring process, so spending some time reading the threads is highly advisable.
Its a great place to work
To answer your specific question. You can change your “Home Airport” for home basing every bid cycle. You can also do alternate travel in most cases. Basically, if the ticket your asking for is cheaper than your home base airport, you’ll typically get the ALT travel as long as it won’t impede any duty time.
08-16-2020, 10:27 PM
#2915
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Joined APC: Mar 2020
Posts: 218
Originally Posted by Cujo665
You are either home based, or in one of two smaller special programs with bases in LAS and IAD.
Most lines will be reserve lines, there are a few lines of actual rescheduled known flying, with several from SEA. Holding them is an issue of seniority as they do not seem to go junior. The LAS goes junior on the FO side.
everything else, including most of this, has been discussed in the two Omni threads. It has not changed much except for the hiring process, so spending some time reading the threads is highly advisable.
Its a great place to work
To answer your specific question. You can change your “Home Airport” for home basing every bid cycle. You can also do alternate travel in most cases. Basically, if the ticket your asking for is cheaper than your home base airport, you’ll typically get the ALT travel as long as it won’t impede any duty time.
Most lines will be reserve lines, there are a few lines of actual rescheduled known flying, with several from SEA. Holding them is an issue of seniority as they do not seem to go junior. The LAS goes junior on the FO side.
everything else, including most of this, has been discussed in the two Omni threads. It has not changed much except for the hiring process, so spending some time reading the threads is highly advisable.
Its a great place to work
To answer your specific question. You can change your “Home Airport” for home basing every bid cycle. You can also do alternate travel in most cases. Basically, if the ticket your asking for is cheaper than your home base airport, you’ll typically get the ALT travel as long as it won’t impede any duty time.
08-17-2020, 04:19 AM
#2916
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Position: B-767 right side.
Posts: 110
Originally Posted by ObadiahDogberry
Is the LAS operation one of the ones that provides an 80 hour guarantee? Is it back up and running again? When i interviewed in June, they said it was temporarily suspended.
08-17-2020, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by USMCpilot
IAD is home base gateway. Company provides travel to and from along with per diem
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(Edit - re-reading it, I can see how that was poorly worded.)
They can still be an IAD program pilot, yet be home based doing it. IAD is the "program" base, not the "pilot" base. The IAD program pilots are Home Based. It is a separate pilot group with special sim training, and their own bid packs.
The LAS program pilots are the only ones not Home Based, they do it like other airlines and jumpseat to/from the program base in LAS. It's also a separate pilot group with it's own bid packs. Once there, they get hotels in base unlike other airlines. Basically, Omni pilots never need crashpads and aren't buying their own hotels.
Since somebody asked, it is the IAD program that has the higher minimum monthly guarantee of 80 hours instead of the 64 hour hour guarantee everybody else has.
It's still a great place to work. It has it's issues like all airlines do, but overall the place is a very good career. The management/labor relations are well above average. That doesn't mean there aren't issues, but by and large the management here is much more reasonable to work with than most.
08-20-2020, 09:11 AM
#2919
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Joined APC: Aug 2020
Posts: 3
If Biden wins, then what?
Based on what one can read in the news, ATSG (Omni’s parent company) was a big and public supporter of the Trump campaign in 2016 and got rewarded nicely with deportation flights and Covid-19 bailout money, even as revenue of the ATSG group increased during the pandemic. Some left leaning media even got into the habit of calling Omni now “The Deportation Airline”.
There is quite some critique in the news and the political left about this, which I personally find not justified. In particular, the claim is that Omni has now pretty much a monopoly on a lot of “high risk” flights with the current government and that contracts are given without sufficient oversight and are being “overpaid”.
No matter if that critique is justified or not, I wonder what happens if Biden wins and the immigration policy makes a 180 turn (no more deportations) and the contracts to fly military personal get shaken up and rewarded and/or paid differently. Based on what ATSG management already said on the last investor call, they already expect a relevant reduction in passenger flights in the second half of 2020.
Does anyone have any insight on this, in particular how diversified Omni is in order stomach expected radical changes under a democratic presidency?
ATSG is much more optimistic about its cargo operation of their other “airlines” ABX and ATI. The natural question to ask is if the pilot groups are completely separate, or is it reasonable to assume that in a worst case scenario some Omni pilots would get “transferred” to the cargo operations?
There is quite some critique in the news and the political left about this, which I personally find not justified. In particular, the claim is that Omni has now pretty much a monopoly on a lot of “high risk” flights with the current government and that contracts are given without sufficient oversight and are being “overpaid”.
No matter if that critique is justified or not, I wonder what happens if Biden wins and the immigration policy makes a 180 turn (no more deportations) and the contracts to fly military personal get shaken up and rewarded and/or paid differently. Based on what ATSG management already said on the last investor call, they already expect a relevant reduction in passenger flights in the second half of 2020.
Does anyone have any insight on this, in particular how diversified Omni is in order stomach expected radical changes under a democratic presidency?
ATSG is much more optimistic about its cargo operation of their other “airlines” ABX and ATI. The natural question to ask is if the pilot groups are completely separate, or is it reasonable to assume that in a worst case scenario some Omni pilots would get “transferred” to the cargo operations?
08-20-2020, 09:29 AM
#2920
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Originally Posted by NeverShytoAsk
Based on what one can read in the news, ATSG (Omni’s parent company) was a big and public supporter of the Trump campaign in 2016 and got rewarded nicely with deportation flights and Covid-19 bailout money, even as revenue of the ATSG group increased during the pandemic. Some left leaning media even got into the habit of calling Omni now “The Deportation Airline”.
There is quite some critique in the news and the political left about this, which I personally find not justified. In particular, the claim is that Omni has now pretty much a monopoly on a lot of “high risk” flights with the current government and that contracts are given without sufficient oversight and are being “overpaid”.
No matter if that critique is justified or not, I wonder what happens if Biden wins and the immigration policy makes a 180 turn (no more deportations) and the contracts to fly military personal get shaken up and rewarded and/or paid differently. Based on what ATSG management already said on the last investor call, they already expect a relevant reduction in passenger flights in the second half of 2020.
Does anyone have any insight on this, in particular how diversified Omni is in order stomach expected radical changes under a democratic presidency?
ATSG is much more optimistic about its cargo operation of their other “airlines” ABX and ATI. The natural question to ask is if the pilot groups are completely separate, or is it reasonable to assume that in a worst case scenario some Omni pilots would get “transferred” to the cargo operations?
There is quite some critique in the news and the political left about this, which I personally find not justified. In particular, the claim is that Omni has now pretty much a monopoly on a lot of “high risk” flights with the current government and that contracts are given without sufficient oversight and are being “overpaid”.
No matter if that critique is justified or not, I wonder what happens if Biden wins and the immigration policy makes a 180 turn (no more deportations) and the contracts to fly military personal get shaken up and rewarded and/or paid differently. Based on what ATSG management already said on the last investor call, they already expect a relevant reduction in passenger flights in the second half of 2020.
Does anyone have any insight on this, in particular how diversified Omni is in order stomach expected radical changes under a democratic presidency?
ATSG is much more optimistic about its cargo operation of their other “airlines” ABX and ATI. The natural question to ask is if the pilot groups are completely separate, or is it reasonable to assume that in a worst case scenario some Omni pilots would get “transferred” to the cargo operations?
Company seems to have done very well under the 8 years of Clinton and the 8 Years of Obama. I think they're blowing smoke up your butt. Omni will be fine. Their stockholders report was very optimistic for all their owned carriers, not just ATI and ABX.
Great first post by the way........
Oh, three separate pilot groups to answer your question.
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