Space Monkey

I just had a few curiousity questions for the World guys out there...

1. How are the trip and duty rigs?

2. How are the schedules? (min days off, what the lines look like, ect.)

3. How does the home basing work?

4. How are the travel benefits? (what benefits would ones family and parents get) and how they compare to the benefits of flying for another carrier such as NWA, CO or UA

5. How is the pay? do you usually make gaurntee or more?

6. How is the overall QOL?

Thanks.
7. Does World have any plans of joining CASS?

WhiskyPilot

1. No duty rig, trip rig is 4.8 hours pay per 24 hours away from base.
2. Min 12 days off. With the new contract lines will consist of regular scheduled lines which vary from 12-21 days off, with most in the 13-16 days off range. In addition open lines will be 12 days off with the rest of the days being available days in which you have 16 hours before your flight departure from the time you are notified.
The "LAX" base flying consists primarily of freight runs from ANC to LAX, TPE, and PVG (Shanghai). Layovers are typically 20-40 hours with the occaisional 3+ day layover. "IAD" flying is primarily military flying from the states through Shannon, Ireland to Kuwait, with most of the overnights in those two cities. Other fairly common overnights include Ramstein, Germany, and Adana, Turkey.
Open flying could send you just about anywhere.
3. You pick a designated airport closest to you. Must be in the lower 48 and I believe requires two seperate airlines with regular service. You pay $125 per month deducted from your check and all airline tickets and hotels from your base are covered. If you start your trip in your "base" your pay and per diem starts when you get to that base. For example, you live in PHX and are awarded a line that starts with an LAX-ANC freight run, the company pays for your ticket from PHX-LAX and your hotel in LAX. Your pay starts when you show up at the airplane to take it up to ANC. If your line started in ANC, your pay starts when you show at the airport in PHX for a commercial flight to ANC.
4. Practically no travel bennies other than jumpseat privledges. You do get FF miles on some flights (depending if the company paid full fare).
5. Pay scales on this site are pretty accurate. Monthly hours vary from guarentee to some open flyers who will be gone for 18+ days with corresponding rig that adds up.
6. QOL is good. Just about all the pilots here are top notch, fantastic people to fly with - you won't have to pay for your beer your first year!Mostly nice overnight hotels, decent catering on flights, etc.
7. No plans that I know of for CASS.

The one negative I would have to mention here is the deteriorating state of relations with management. Things have only gotten worse since the TA was signed. An FO was recently fired for merely complaining about the way drug testing is handling here. This place is by no means Southwest, so don't expect any warm fuzzies!

Space Monkey

Thanks for the response whiskey.... Just wondering does World still do a lot of flying out of IAD?
Also I saw you said practically no travel bene's, are there any at all? does WO still get ZED's or ID90's?
Thanks for the info

Joel Payne

As far as I know, there are NO reciprocal pass privileges[ID-90, or ortherwise] with Delta. Sorry!!

Space Monkey

Ya I was looking at the World Airways website and I went to the employment portion and looked that the benefits sections.. This is what I found:

These are some of the benefits our crew team members enjoy

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

401(k) savings plan

Pension plan

Profit sharing plan

Basic life insurance coverage

Supplemental life insurance coverage

Long-term disability coverage

Paid vacation

Flexible Spending Accounts (dependent day care and health care)

Employee Assistance program

Worldwide travel assistance program

Travel benefits


I noticed the last bullet point so I was wondering what that meant?...?
Also anyone know how the med and dental is any good??

WhiskyPilot

I looked it up on our website and we do have some limited travel bennies for employee, spouse, and children. These are on AirTran, ATA, DAL, and SWA and are limited to 2 or 4 passes per year depending on the airline. Cost is a service charge of anywhere from $15 (ATA) to $50 (DAL) each way.

Medical was free until now (with new TA) and is now something like $50 for employee only per month. We recently switched from Cigna to UnitedHealthCare which the pilots aren't too crazy about, but I haven't had to use either yet so can't speak first hand.

World does not fly out of IAD, but BWI is considered a common base and we do have flights from there to Ramstein, Deutschland.

jrmyl

This is all good info. I am in the process of looking for other places of employment and the home basing is a definate plus. I was worried about the travel benfits since I have a wife from Brasil. That would be good to be able to still use the DAL flights to go to Sao Paulo.

As far as the healthcare, we used to have UHC and were switched to Anthem. UHC was a much better company and program. We have had nothing but trouble with Anthem.

Are there plans to start hiring again? I see that they are going to be at the ATL AirInc fair.

Thanks
Jeremy

B757200ER

Yeah, but they based in ATL---that's where their HQ is.

WhiskyPilot

The latest on hiring is that they are waiting to see how things work out with the new contract and its numerous scheduling changes. A new base realignment is due out soon, with LAX being downsized slightly. Also, AC 279 is going to be down for conversion to freighter, which may slow things a bit.
My best guess (and it's purely speculation) is that we will hire sometime late summer, early fall - but I'm usually wrong.

I would definitely go to the ATL job fair and at least get your resume in, they've hired quite a few people at the fairs in the past.

rickair7777

What are the competetive numbers for getting hired?