ha ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'm glad any information I can add is deemed useful. I've been doing some reading around on various sites discussing your TA. I have to say, some of the conspiracy talk, while somewhat shocking, it's not much of a surprise, or really new, when it comes to Jeff Crippen.

I make no accusations, just stating facts. Ryan, when under leadership of Jeff Crippen, ratified a horrible first contract under a threat of being shut down. Within months of that vote, our MEC chairman no longer worked at Ryan and opened his own GM franschise car dealership in a small town in Kansas.

Now, I'm not saying anything inappropriate happened, I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm just stating the facts of our situation. We voted in the POS contract, the company threw a party at HQ, and we suffered over 6 years until we were able to right those wrongs. One of them being the new owners of the airline terminated Mr. Crippen!

Let me be clear, I know nothing of the situation at Omni, nor do I make any accusations towards your union leadership, or do I know anything more than what I've read about this alleged "inappropriate" meeting in Hawaii. I just find it interesting, conspiracy seems to follow Jeff Crippen everywhere he goes.

 

Thread has died of late just wanted to post the obligatory "Any update on Omni Interviewing/hiring/TA?" question.

 

Interviewing, hiring and attrition are all still very high.

Not much new operationally. The second 777 is up and running from what I hear. We are down to one 757 and the first 767-200 is up and running doing our Vegas flying.

The TA with the new language should be out today or tomorrow with voting beginning shortly after. From the brief given from the EXCO about this new TA work rules will relatively remain the same with a minor pay raise still below industry standards from the most profitable company of all of our competitors. I give it a 50/50 shot of passing, only time will tell.

Hope this helps.

 

What are the competitive miniums of guys being picked up at Omni and do they pay you during training and put you up as well?

 

Pay during training is $250/week plus per diem. They put you up in a hotel, like a Springhill Suites or Residence Inn.

Not sure on competitive mins, it's all about internal recommendations. Our new-hire class ranged from 3,000hrs to 8,000hrs with varying backgrounds.

 

Wow... $250 a week.!! How on earth do they expect to hire the best of the best...with those kinda of incentives. Thats a mockery to the industry. How are the employee benefits and how long is the training??

 

You also get approx. $36/day of per diem. So all in all, it works out to about $2000/month while in training.

Training is about 2 months long (including indoc, systems, sims, and down time). I had about a month off after training before I started IOE.

The benefits aren't great as far as insurance is concerned (at least, as compared to my last airline). We have relatively high premiums.

 

Anyone know when they will be interviewing next?

 

LIOG41,
He set you up for that one. Jet, how long have you been waiting to saying that?