Atlas Air Hiring
02-28-2018, 04:32 AM
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Originally Posted by ROCKETM8
Ok Paywise, I'll check and see if that included previous employer. I really want to know.
People are asking on this thread why would anyone come here (Atlas) and fly a 747 to exotic places around the world? The answer is in the question. How many peole have flown a Dash or an RJ 8 legs in a day for poverty wages before commuting home for two days to kiss the wife and start another 5 day trip? 80 bucks an hour? That's multi-year captain pay (and years away) at pick-your-regional. Reserve for months. Crash pad. Away from family? That is a day in the life of the regionals. That first year bonus goes fast at Generic Regional. And there are really creative ways of the company getting it Back.
At least at Atlas you get your time off in a chunk. Maybe Bring back some cool things for the family from China and Aussie. Either way it's more of an adventure than Special Assists at SLC all day for 40 bucks an hour.
People are asking on this thread why would anyone come here (Atlas) and fly a 747 to exotic places around the world? The answer is in the question. How many peole have flown a Dash or an RJ 8 legs in a day for poverty wages before commuting home for two days to kiss the wife and start another 5 day trip? 80 bucks an hour? That's multi-year captain pay (and years away) at pick-your-regional. Reserve for months. Crash pad. Away from family? That is a day in the life of the regionals. That first year bonus goes fast at Generic Regional. And there are really creative ways of the company getting it Back.
At least at Atlas you get your time off in a chunk. Maybe Bring back some cool things for the family from China and Aussie. Either way it's more of an adventure than Special Assists at SLC all day for 40 bucks an hour.
You will commute 2 sometimes 3 days prior to work if your ANC base. No way around it. The same goes for going home.
And don't think you can Jumpseat on company metal and sneak up prior to show.
Flights are always packed, and subject to massive delays. You will most always do a 17 day trip from ANC- factor in your commute, and a possible extension- is very easy to be gone for 21 days at a time. Count on it
02-28-2018, 05:50 PM
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I really am not a pessimist. In fact, I came to atlas with the plan that it would be my career airline.
That being said, we are, at a minimum, likely 2 years away from a contract. And the likelihood that it will be a contract through amalgamation, which means that the pilot group will have no vote and no say in the matter, is extremely high.
Add on top of that the fact that there are a very large number of people coming through training who are being failed and fired. More than I thought that we’d ever see. Do you really want to have to explain a 121 pink slip at your next interview?
Every single person I know who has been here for more than 6 months is doing everything that they possibly can to leave (and that’s because it will be 4 month from date of hire until you start OE, all the while earning $1,600/month). The guys who came here before they got 1,000 hours of TPIC are absolutely kicking themselves because that means that they are stuck here. And even when you eventually upgrade you will log, at most, 300 hours a year.
Don’t dig yourself into a hole that you can’t get out of by coming here.
This place could have been a great airline, but it isn’t. And it won’t be.
That being said, we are, at a minimum, likely 2 years away from a contract. And the likelihood that it will be a contract through amalgamation, which means that the pilot group will have no vote and no say in the matter, is extremely high.
Add on top of that the fact that there are a very large number of people coming through training who are being failed and fired. More than I thought that we’d ever see. Do you really want to have to explain a 121 pink slip at your next interview?
Every single person I know who has been here for more than 6 months is doing everything that they possibly can to leave (and that’s because it will be 4 month from date of hire until you start OE, all the while earning $1,600/month). The guys who came here before they got 1,000 hours of TPIC are absolutely kicking themselves because that means that they are stuck here. And even when you eventually upgrade you will log, at most, 300 hours a year.
Don’t dig yourself into a hole that you can’t get out of by coming here.
This place could have been a great airline, but it isn’t. And it won’t be.
02-28-2018, 08:24 PM
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So im assuming the ~2/2 is for 747 fleet.
Do you guys think it’s a wise move to do 1 year as a regional FO and apply to ATLAS. It’s fastest way into a widebody for few years and see what the options from there
Do you guys think it’s a wise move to do 1 year as a regional FO and apply to ATLAS. It’s fastest way into a widebody for few years and see what the options from there
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