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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Where did you move onto to?

 

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.

 

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 took an interesting path!

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

 

the grass ain't always greener - and yes it did sound like you were bashing Omni but good luck hope it works out

 

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.

 

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.

 

I could be wrong as I haven no affiliation with Omni but their first year pay is $70 hour based on a 60 hour guarantee. With that said and Perdiem added in I imagine you can count on $2000 every two weeks after taxes but thats just my guess. Best of luck if you do apply!