Originally Posted by NightIP

They're no doubt hiring for attrition. Case in point: I was there 2.5 years, and was about 9 months junior to the junior CA. A little over a 3 year upgrade on a widebody should tell a story, especially due to the fact that they'd shrunk from 14 to 9 airplanes while I was there.

It's not the worst place to be (I was relatively happy there due to having decent seniority in my seat), but it's not a long-term gig at all, unless you like the abuse (not that there's anything wrong with that!). Heck, I'd probably still be there if they even made an attempt to treat you like a person, but they don't even try to make you feel like a valued employee. Instead, Omni is losing massive amounts of experience to companies who are better prepared to attract labor.

It's not even really the pay that drives most people away...it's the fact that they treat you like a piece of office furniture. I've sat 6 hours in the terminal after an operating flight without a hotel or VIP lounge, simply because it wasn't in our contract to provide one. They simply don't care.

Originally Posted by BigToe

I wonder if the new contract has helped improve on any of this ^^^

Also still curious about their longer term viability. Not much news about them outside this forum.

Originally Posted by NightIP

Most of the above was under the new contract. Things actually got worse under it, except for a couple items such as FO pay and long-call reserve. I only left Omni last month.

Originally Posted by johnso29

Where did you move onto to?

Originally Posted by NightIP

Atlas. Lots of Omni people over here, now.

Anyway, I don't want to sound like I'm sitting here bashing Omni left and right. I valued my time there. Great crews, and really interesting flying. It certainly gave my resume a boost, and I would still recommend going there to people who may want to break out of the regionals to add diversity to their resumes. They should just go there with eyes wide open.

Originally Posted by NightIP

Atlas. Lots of Omni people over here, now.

Anyway, I don't want to sound like I'm sitting here bashing Omni left and right. I valued my time there. Great crews, and really interesting flying. It certainly gave my resume a boost, and I would still recommend going there to people who may want to break out of the regionals to add diversity to their resumes. They should just go there with eyes wide open.

Originally Posted by johnso29

Nice! Congrats on Atlas! I always remember you by your South Park avatar. I am former XE as well. For those reasons your path to Atlas has stuck in my head. You've took an interesting path!

Will you be on the 747? Or the 767 AKA "light twin"?

Originally Posted by NightIP

Thanks! It's certainly been an interesting journey. About to finish training on the 767, which has been a very straightforward process after a couple years on it previously.

Originally Posted by rocketman3746

NightIP, what do the junior FO's there usually take home every month for pay? I love the C402 and all but I'm definitely getting itchy to move on. I tried to go straight for Atlas, even had a good internal rec, but never heard anything. As long as the pay isn't absolutely terrible, I figure I'd try for Omni again this month.