Chastings

I received my confirmation to interview this coming Monday. The ticket is on you but hotel and transportation to/from interview are provided by Omni. I interviewed in 2019 but had to decline to help with family issues. I consider myself fortunate to be offered another crack at it! Best of luck, guys!

4dalulz

So has ATSG managed to turn it around and grow Omni or is it still stagnating and hiring for attrition?

Cujo665

Define turn it around?
20% growth on the 767 side over the past four years, and practically doubling the pilot group size…..

skypilot35

The guy is a troll (read multiple posts in multiple threads). Don't waste your time.
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4dalulz

Actually, no... Other airlines in the ACMI world have doubled their fleets in the last four years and are hiring for growth, not attrition. Call me whatever you liked but the upcoming ATSG earnings call on November 4th piqued my interest.

Cujo665

You’re right. Looked at his post history. He’s just an agitator trolling.

tsimmns927

Been in Guam TDY for a few week, seen a lot of Omni guys get onto the crew bus from the hotel I’m at. These guys must have some fun times in Guam while overnight I imagine.

Cujo665

It's a good stop, so is HNL and a few others. You finish your PPL yet?

tsimmns927

Haven't even started yet honestly. This TDY set me back, but I have learned I can get basically all training for free with the post 9/11 GI Bill through Liberty and a degree to boot. I know it’s not the fastest way or the recommended way if paying out of pocket, but getting all ratings for basically 0 dollars is huge for me. On top of that I have all the required classes needed for the degree outside of the aviation portion, so hopefully that will knock some time off the projected finish time they have on their site.

4dalulz

Well I assume you'll be calling me a troll, but from what I've gathered through "non-forum" means; your negotiations are going poorly (though that can be expected from ATSG eg. ABX - trying to take away the home/gateway basing benefit?), hiring is generally for attrition/expected attrition with a lot of guys getting calls from LCCs/Majors/Brown (good for them), and ATSG is interested in possibly placing the coming A330s with Omni as PAX airplanes before they get holes cut in them (interesting proposal since that is a good fit between the 767 and 777 in terms of capability). Would that be added frames or replacements for the 76/77?.

All second/third hand info so if one of the "non-easily offended" Omni folks can chime in that might validate some of this?

Curious to see how much it actually pans out or is brought up at the earnings call. The main driver of my interest in Omni specifically has been whether 777Fs will be making their way to the certificate, and for whatever reason ATSG (or Omni management?) has intentionally chosen to pass by that money printer for the better part of three years, while airlines like K4 and Swift (and even Eastern 3.1; which somehow has more lives than the original Eastern - even when all they do is misfire) have grown nearly on a y=x^2 curve, with their customer base being much more diversified than ATSGs (at least at first glance).