View Poll Results: Please make choice
Atlas
148
91.93%
Omni
13
8.07%
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Atlas or Omni
01-21-2013, 11:02 PM
#33
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Joined APC: Jan 2006
Posts: 2,838
Originally Posted by MaroonBaboon
Thank you.
If not FedEx: Atlas or Omni?
Please choose in poll.
I add you to friends.
May life have much meaning for you.
If not FedEx: Atlas or Omni?
Please choose in poll.
I add you to friends.
May life have much meaning for you.
Sorry No need for a Poll
As I said before, if I really needed a Pilot Job and I had applied to both Atlas or Omni, I would take a job from the first one who offered me a Job.
01-22-2013, 01:17 AM
#34
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Position: FO
Posts: 87
Originally Posted by ultradrvr
Ditto!!!! There are still a bunch of good pilots there. I will say this....Omni is the reason they hired me at Atlas....well that and my hair.
01-22-2013, 04:14 AM
#35
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Joined APC: Apr 2007
Position: 747
Posts: 1,290
Originally Posted by ImperialxRat
Would you leave a Major for Atlas?
Seems to me like the flying at Atlas would be way more interesting, and I like my days off in a large block.
Thoughts from current Atlas employees?
Seems to me like the flying at Atlas would be way more interesting, and I like my days off in a large block.
Thoughts from current Atlas employees?
Schedules are bid in either 30 or 60 day blocks and you can usually get large blocks of time off.
Leaving the major is a personal decision that I couldn't balance for you. Although the pay is on par with the majors, look closely at retirement and benefits as both are much less at Atlas than at most major airlines.
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01-22-2013, 07:39 AM
#37
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Joined APC: May 2010
Position: B767 CA
Posts: 1,100
Originally Posted by ImperialxRat
Would you leave a Major for Atlas?
Seems to me like the flying at Atlas would be way more interesting, and I like my days off in a large block.
Thoughts from current Atlas employees?
Seems to me like the flying at Atlas would be way more interesting, and I like my days off in a large block.
Thoughts from current Atlas employees?
We do have lots of guys that got furloughed from the "legacy" airlines during their many rounds of layoffs, and most of them have NOT accepted any recall offers. Obviously, by now, they have exhausted recall rights they might have had, because they feel the Atlas works better for them.
And likely more important...the alternatives are worse, meaning going back to UA, US, AA, etc and commuting to sit reserve across the country, and flying a narrow-body aircraft from ORD to MSP, etc is not something they want to do anymore...
That said, we did have a guy that was furloughed from UA and left Atlas to accept a job at Continental, and will get his rightful seniority back at UA when they are fully merge.
Good luck.
01-22-2013, 08:45 AM
#38
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Joined APC: Nov 2010
Posts: 548
I don't know of anyone who quit a major to go to work at Atlas, however many have gone the other way. My guess is that there are probably 12-20 more that will eventually accept recall to AA or UA. DO NOT be blinded by the airplane (747), after a month or so flying it, it is what it is. Just another airplane, there is nothing special or magical about it. Then it is just a job and don't get me wrong, I enjoy it. If you are contemplating coming to work here, do your homework and make sure you (more importantly, your family) will enjoy the lifestyle.
01-22-2013, 10:00 AM
#39
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Joined APC: May 2010
Position: B767 CA
Posts: 1,100
I agree with you about the 747 (and other widebodies), however, the point I should have made more clearly was that several of the legacy furloughed pilots at Atlas did not accept a recall because they do not want to go back to that kind of flying...it is a choice they made, and they seem happy to have made it.
01-22-2013, 10:19 AM
#40
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Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: 744 CA
Posts: 4,772
We (K4, aka Kalitta) have about 20 furloughed TWA/AA guys on our property, and another handful of UAL guys/gals. Some have already decided to go back.... after looking at the equity payout for the AA guys several have decided to go back immediately and I believe others will follow. FWI... the equity payout for a recalled guy at AA could be from low 5 figures... to as much as 150,000 for some of the guys. OH...they have to be on property by the end of 2013 to get that money...along with a few other restrictions. I dont know of any of our AA guys who have exhausted their recall rights....they have 3 years from when the most junior guy has been offered recall...and that still hasnt happened as of yet. It will be interesting to see who goes back over the next year or so that is for sure.
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