Omni Air
#3041
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Well,
No planes are parked
No staffing has been reduced. A paid leave is not a staffing reduction anymore than guys going on military leave is.
Yeah, it was a great job by all putting it all together.
They did this because it benefited everybody, nothing more. They certainly didn't have to, or even need to do it. Nobody was forced to take a leave. I honestly hope they offer the paid leaves again in the future when it benefits everybody. Late November, December and January are usually slower months; I'd love paid leave over the holidays. They've laid the groundwork to be able to pull this LOA out, dust it off, and offer similar things in the future. That benefits us all.
The end result is 15 pilots were granted paid leave. Not everybody got all 3 months, or even 2 months; many were 1 month only. If you think savings of about $220k over 3 months was going to make/break the company then you're a fool.
No planes are parked
No staffing has been reduced. A paid leave is not a staffing reduction anymore than guys going on military leave is.
Yeah, it was a great job by all putting it all together.
They did this because it benefited everybody, nothing more. They certainly didn't have to, or even need to do it. Nobody was forced to take a leave. I honestly hope they offer the paid leaves again in the future when it benefits everybody. Late November, December and January are usually slower months; I'd love paid leave over the holidays. They've laid the groundwork to be able to pull this LOA out, dust it off, and offer similar things in the future. That benefits us all.
The end result is 15 pilots were granted paid leave. Not everybody got all 3 months, or even 2 months; many were 1 month only. If you think savings of about $220k over 3 months was going to make/break the company then you're a fool.
#3042
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Omni is not like other 121 pax carriers, everybody here knows that. You trying to apply inferences or lessons from events at other carriers simply emphasizes that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Your comments about obtaining new business are also factually incorrect since we’ve done exactly that, again emphasizing that you don’t understand Omni.
You literally joined APC on 5-19-21 and these Omni posts are your first and ONLY posts? You’re a burner account. What’s you’re real screen name?
at worst, it’s positioning for contract bargaining, nothing more.
go sell your doom and gloom elsewhere.... CommutAir or GoJets perhaps......
Originally Posted by 4dalulz
I don't think you guys are sinking
#3043
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Yet it is a lot like other carriers in the ACMI segment and is the team leader for the "Patriot" team - other carriers in this segment of the industry have grown, tremendously in many cases; Swift of all places has grown to exceed the Omni fleet drastically (though I don't believe they do much military or international trips), Dynamic has grown from an airline that was having airplanes repossessed to being awarded a multi-hundred-million dollar DOD flying contract. Both of these are not publicly traded so it's hard to ascertain their exact profitability, but Omni (via ATSG) is publicly traded and, while profitable, it is clear (IN YOUR BOARDS OWN WORDS) that there is no intention to (currently) significantly grow Omni, and as I have said before - the actions they have undertaken as a point of FACT directly correlate to their publicly shared strategy and sentiments.
Maybe because I only joined to share that ya'll were "furloughing" (yeah you have made abundantly clear that it's voluntary) then ya'll decided to, proverbially, claim "everything is fine", at any cost. AGAIN; this is not saying that Omni is a sinking ship - this all started with my statement that a guy in the pool will be waiting a while due to FACTS of what your airline has decided to do for the next few months. I find it hard to correlate voluntary leaves and fleet totals being reduced with someone being hired out of the pool next week.
If it's that - then at least most jobs would be safe - but it also wouldn't give me high hopes for reaching a TA anytime soon - good luck on the process by the way.
Reading comprehension much?
Maybe because I only joined to share that ya'll were "furloughing" (yeah you have made abundantly clear that it's voluntary) then ya'll decided to, proverbially, claim "everything is fine", at any cost. AGAIN; this is not saying that Omni is a sinking ship - this all started with my statement that a guy in the pool will be waiting a while due to FACTS of what your airline has decided to do for the next few months. I find it hard to correlate voluntary leaves and fleet totals being reduced with someone being hired out of the pool next week.
If it's that - then at least most jobs would be safe - but it also wouldn't give me high hopes for reaching a TA anytime soon - good luck on the process by the way.
Reading comprehension much?
#3044
In any case, It's very clear he has an ax to grind.
As for his "others are growing fast" mantra..... that's the tortoise and the hare.
Omni isn't going to run a flight, waste a cycle on the hull, to make $10 bucks. They leave the low hanging fruit to the 36th street operators. Omni has a very successful business model, and unlike all the ones he mentioned, Omni has not gone bankrupt, nor ceased flying to rebrand, nor been run into the ground by poor management.
We went from 10 767's to 13 767's in about a year and a half. That's 30% growth on that fleet. One plane was an oddball and required extra training, OE, recurrent, and was a scheduling headache. They got rid of it. That still leaves us at 20% growth on that fleet over 3 years compared to where we were in 2018.
Cargo did well during covid because the world ran on home deliveries during the pandemic. While every other PAX airline parked planes, we continued to operate our entire fleet.... albeit at reduced schedules, but nothing parked.
I think the management here has done very well keeping the company operating under very difficult conditions without furloughing anybody.
I expect we will be hiring much sooner than people think. They let far fewer people take paid leave than anybody expected, and very few got all three months. The handwriting is on the wall that they think the flying is coming back in a more V shaped recovery than the doom and gloomers predicted.
#3045
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Anyway, I finally figured out how to turn off email notifications; therefore won't really be tempted to waste any more time arguing with Chip Block over here (Chip that's your cue for some kind of "didn't want you here anyway" statement). Peace.
#3046
Not really, just started with a simple statement and blew up into this when some guys got super defensive about inconvenient facts.
I can see the chip on your shoulder from my house. Did you know you're not a living embodiment of your airline? The facts I have stated; such as not hiring for at least three months, "on the record statements" by your board, as well as strategic benefits and drawbacks are not something which should be making you so defensive; unless you're trying to skew them.
Anyway, I finally figured out how to turn off email notifications; therefore won't really be tempted to waste any more time arguing with Chip Block over here (Chip that's your cue for some kind of "didn't want you here anyway" statement). Peace.
I can see the chip on your shoulder from my house. Did you know you're not a living embodiment of your airline? The facts I have stated; such as not hiring for at least three months, "on the record statements" by your board, as well as strategic benefits and drawbacks are not something which should be making you so defensive; unless you're trying to skew them.
Anyway, I finally figured out how to turn off email notifications; therefore won't really be tempted to waste any more time arguing with Chip Block over here (Chip that's your cue for some kind of "didn't want you here anyway" statement). Peace.
agree to disagree
Stay safe
#3047
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Joined APC: Aug 2009
Posts: 578
I think 4dalulz is that street Captain that is always talking about the sky falling. He was at a large cargo carrier before Omni. Either that or he’s the guy that speaks English as his third language and decided to fly at 10000’ going across the pacific.
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