Originally Posted by YuppiePilot

Hey guys, a few questions for those of you working at 3M:

1) How much a part of the operation are the Saabs now? Over half?
2) Any in the BIL base and is it senior?
3) Are they opening an MSP base? Is this what I'm hearing?
4) What's the hiring outlook and financial health of the company?

Thanks a lot for your input.

Originally Posted by mexipilot84

The October class is canceled till November apparently. Looks like back ups still

Originally Posted by joethepilot

I disagree. There is a complete lack of respect here. They don't abide by the contract, and don't do simple things that are expect of an employer.

For example everyone in my class had issues getting enrolled in healthcare. You are required to turn your paperwork in 30 days before your eligible, but they waited until the day before we were supposed to be enrolled to turn it in to cigna, and then they screwed it up. The HR lady stood in our class and told us the company would contribute $1000 to the HSA plan, she said it several times. When I did finally get enrolled I only got a fraction of that. I emailed her about it and she said "oh, its prorated, sorry if I wasn't clear about that" (she wasn't not clear, she intentionally sandbagged us into that plan because its cheaper for the company.) I'm STILL not enrolled in my 401k, even though I've put in weekly calls to the provider as well as HR.

Scheduling doesn't honor seniority for reserve call outs. If you call scheduling you're lucky if they answer on the 2nd try. Once they do answer expect them to talk over you and say "let me call you back" just to get you off the line. If you call someone at HQ don't expect them to answer. If you leave a message don't expect them to call you back.

Don't expect them to honor seniority when they assign bases AFTER your training is done, they'll stick you where they've got a spot and where is convenient. Even if someone junior to you ends up getting the spot you wanted.

I have worked at 2 other regionals. If you are coming here as a street captain there is maybe some excuse to put up with this kind of stuff. But with everyone being at the same minimum requirements these days... if you're going in as an FO do yourself a favor and go to the Skywest/Horizon/Air Wisconsins of the world. Not only will you get treated with more respect but the time you earn will be more beneficial to your resume.

Originally Posted by sandrich

Right now there's only one spare Saab to share between FL and ATL. They postponed our class because they need those pilots to go to FL with the spare CLE 1900 to cover the slack. Once more Saabs get here, the class will continue, as will the monthly new hires.

Originally Posted by 200Driver

On a side note CrewTrac and FLICA are operational and up and running. Love me some FLICA!

Originally Posted by sandrich

1) How much a part of the operation are the Saabs now? Over half?
-more than half

2) Any in the BIL base and is it senior?
-billings is strictly 1900

3) Are they opening an MSP base? Is this what I'm hearing?
-haven't heard that, but I'll add it to the long list of rumored base openings (hou, sju, sea, eyw...)

4) What's the hiring outlook and financial health of the company?
-hiring will turn back on shortly. our owners have deep pockets. That being said, they are an investment firm. So they don't plan on being here long term.