Company Vibe
 

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone could give me some insight to the company culture, pilot group, contract (start of negotiations and when does the contract end), QOL, what bases run junior, do you like the company and would you recommend it to a new hire, future if the company, basically everything and anything.

I live in South Florida so regardless of which regional I choose, I’ll have to commute for a bit.

Dead forum.

It’s a dead forum because TSA is a dying regional. Everyone who could answer OP’s questions is too busy filling out applications trying to get out of the dumpster fire.

This was extremely disappointing

Welcome to the regional industry...

The pilot group is great, only a select few who aren’t. Contract negotiations are underway but the company is already dragging their feet. QOL is nonexistent due to how short staffed we are. You will be used and abused as an FO here. Junior assignments, extensions, and reroutes are the norm. The IAD/DCA co-domicile is the junior base, expect to be based there for quite a while. Would I recommend the company to a potential new-hire? Absolutely not.

If you live in south Florida I would recommend going somewhere with a MIA base. Hope that’s more helpful.

You wont be in IAD/DCA for a really long time. After around 6 months people are getting out to the base they want excluding RDU. It's a stagnant base.

Go somewhere else

Most junior FO in DEN is a 07/05/17 DOH. Stop lying to new hires.

That’s a bit better lol I’m all seriousness, thanks for the info. Probably gonna scratch TSA off my list

It is a little disconcerting that this forum gets so little interaction. Don't know what to make of that. Either the pilots are all too busy or they are content that they don't bother to come here and *****, or like the previous poster said, they are all trying to find another regional!

The company vibe is very good. Company really cares about you and you're totally not just a number to make a schedule legal. The planes are in tip top shape. Schedules are really good. People you fly with rarely talk about their current applications with other airlines, that's how I know it's a good place. You generally feel like you're making a difference and there's lots of incentives to help the company out. In short come on over you'll be glad you did.

Now that’s funny right there..!

Most of our *****ing gets done on our Facebook page. Most seem to be trying to get to an LCC or ACMI instead of another regional. I know I’d rather sit at somewhere like Spirit waiting for the call from mainline than at TSA.

Please call scheduling upon arrival to arrange your 2-hour extension

My greatest memory from TSA was submitting my 2 week notice. That and the fact they couldn't do anything to my schedule on the last day.

But hey....we got a flow to Frontier :D

You can flow straight to the picket line and take a huge pay cut to go along with it!

There’s no way they’ll strike. We all know spirit does just fine and they pay way more than Frontier does. I think they’ll get plenty of takers. Better to wait at Frontier than a sinking ship, dumpster fire, etc etc..

You obviously missed the sarcasm....but I bet they get their paychecks right LOL...this place is a raging dumpster fire since KS left, and I bet you are going to see guys punching out left and right for this if they can't get anything else.

I got the sarcasm. I was just pointing out how worthless the flow is until F9 gets an industry standard contract. And agreed on the KS statement, it seems he was the glue holding this whole operation together.

Agreed. I appreciate the efforts LS put into this, and I'm glad we are getting this opportunity, but this in no way is going to compare to what is being offered at the AA carriers, unfortunately. And until they give a financial incentive to keep Junior Captains and FOs here, more and more are going to jump on the payrates, bonus, and flows at other carriers.

Any word at TransStates about your Fleet Plan? On American side?

Losing planes to Piedmont.

Just a few, right?

None of the United ones.

Probably all of them at some point or another

I heard the aa contract was for 5 years. I believe we started flying them in 2014/15. American can pull those planes at any time.

Come on man. American can't pull them at any time. That isn't how contracts work. That is how any of this works.

Plan as I heard it is a “slow transfer” of 145s from TSA to PDT.

With PDT opening a CLT base I think they could easIly cover all the current TSA routes between the PHL and CLT bases. American has all ready said they’re willing to give PDT more then 53 planes if they are able to staff them.

The AA Connection planes Tsa had back in the day were taken away almost overnight and sent back to Eagle. I wouldn't get too comfortable on the current American Eagle planes.

Piedmont has all ready gotten a few TSA planes. Don’t know what would keep them from getting more.

Staffing.....

Classes are full and the training bottle neck will soon be fixed

This is true. My opinion is that it was always the plan to "slow trickle" the planes back once PDT could staff them. I'm sure it was part of the original understanding. It was never in the cards to operate them forever. The money was just too good for us NOT to do the AA flying. The AA flying wasn't even on the radar back in early 2015 when we were focused on doubling down on UA flying and "doubling our size" with that flying alone... didn't really work out that way.

According to a recent company call-in about our new Frontier Flow Agreement this actually helps TSA's profits because we can operate flights using the airplanes we own rather than keeping them parked over at the hangar in STL.

Oh I can’t wait to fly more of the wonderful HK planes that have been sitting around for years.

I’m wondering how long it will take to get those planes back up and flying. They’ve been robbing parts off of them for a while now

You work for the PDT training department?

Lol I don’t know if you’ve take a stroll by the hangar lately but those planes literally look like they’re rusted over.