Still in Tulsa! Nothing going on in Atlanta


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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.

 

Those are both gateway cities. You can change your "base" every 30 days if you want.

 

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.

 

I believe IAD guys are home based.

 

IAD is home base gateway. Company provides travel to and from along with per diem


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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.

 

Vacations is still suspended. It is the standard 64 hr guarantee.

 

Correct, I do not believe I said they weren't. If I implied that, I apologize.

(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.

 

They're hoping for October.