Seaport Airlines hiring 500hr mins

av8tr1 said:
Oh good grief. Trick83 is most likely Noel McDemont the former chief pilot and now director of operations of Seapot.
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Nope, not even close. It really isn't relevant who I am. This is a forum about the company. You put your opinion out there, and I came back with mine. Given your history and reputation within the company, it seems easier to leave personal out of it.
 
Roger Roger said:
False. The best QOL I've ever had was flying a Caravan on (at least partly) EAS routes. You just have to staff the operation adequately.
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It also doesn't hurt that the company charges fares based on the actual unsubsidized cost of doing business so they can afford to pay the bills plus and pay a wage that retains employees.
 
Capt. Chaos said:
It also doesn't hurt that the company charges fares based on the actual unsubsidized cost of doing business so they can afford to pay the bills plus and pay a wage that retains employees.
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Yeah. Show up at 0430, check the paperwork, sump the gas, load the mail, fly 3 trips, done just after noon. Best job I've ever had.
 
So have you cleared out all the problem children in dispatch as well? The ones assigning the illegal flying? Sure its our responsibility to say no, and most of us got pretty tired of having to say it every day. The fact that it kept happening though was completely inexcusable.
 
av8tr1 said:
Do not move to PDX or MEM for this company. You will likely find yourself out of a job soon and have to move again. If you get based at MEM which you will most like be. Get a crash pad for a while until you see where the company is going. Do not under any circumstances go to PDX. They will be down to one single flight in 2 weeks (PDX to PDT). While they have plans for expanding the west coast it is very unlikely. They do not have the resources and the three routes they planned to add have now been taken by competitors.

If you are a FO you will likely not fly much and probably not for a long time. You should make minimum guarantee pay, which is 70 hours. But you will not see those flight hours just get paid for them. If you are trying to build hours for the airlines this isn't the place to do it.

People are leaving the company in droves. They just laid off their head of security because they could no longer afford him. Company is in the middle of a bankruptcy and is unlikely to recover. There have been a number of issues with payroll as of late and recently had a considerable amount of their money seized by the Feds for back taxes or fines. Quoting from a email sent by their new CEO, "we expected to receive EAS subsidy payments of approximately $690,000 for flights that SeaPort operated during January 2016. Those payments were not received, having been "intercepted" by the IRS because the Company did not pay Federal Excise Tax on tickets flown during the second, third, and fourth quarters of 2015."

I'll be honest I enjoyed "most" of my time there but things have definitely taken a turn for the worst (see my previous positive posts about the company). The company had a lot of potential but its all gone now. If anyone thought the management was bad before now its considerably worse. If I can go from being as positive as I was about the company to recommending anyone go anywhere else that should say a lot.
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Is that because they fired you,,,, or?
 
RB said:
Is that because they fired you,,,, or?
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Nope wasn't fired. I left on my own terms. Actually I quit twice and the CEO asked me to come back. Second time was the charm.

But thanks for playing.
 
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Trick83 said:
There are no secrets about SeaPorts recent downfalls. The management that caused much of it are all gone (and apparently one is now the CEO of Mokulele, and has magically ended up with two of the old SeaPort SoCal routes already.....headscratcher). PDX pilots are, from what I hear, on short-time lines, MEM pilots are getting good time. The new management seems to finally be understanding what was ignored before. There are still some kinks in the system, but contrary to all that chatter on here, there is no reason this company won't bounce back. Fast growth piggybacking on sudden success has been the fall of many airlines, and this is no different. That mixed with not treating pilots well is a combination that dug a hole right down the bankruptcy pipeline, but that hole was not so deep that it isn't reversible, and the way things are looking currently it seems that an upward trend is just around the corner.
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Trick83 said:
There are no secrets about SeaPorts recent downfalls. The management that caused much of it are all gone (and apparently one is now the CEO of Mokulele, and has magically ended up with two of the old SeaPort SoCal routes already.....headscratcher). PDX pilots are, from what I hear, on short-time lines, MEM pilots are getting good time. The new management seems to finally be understanding what was ignored before. There are still some kinks in the system, but contrary to all that chatter on here, there is no reason this company won't bounce back. Fast growth piggybacking on sudden success has been the fall of many airlines, and this is no different. That mixed with not treating pilots well is a combination that dug a hole right down the bankruptcy pipeline, but that hole was not so deep that it isn't reversible, and the way things are looking currently it seems that an upward trend is just around the corner.
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I like your honesty Trick83, unlike other av8tr's here, there is not a single pilot at SeaPort that was harmed by gaining hours there. Those who feel they were will probably never be given a fair shake at anyone they work for. They will always be the victim. Very few will be honest about where they are now, having to do with SeaPort and will begin to complain soon about their new airline and how bad it is.
 
RB said:
I like your honesty Trick83, unlike other av8tr's here, there is not a single pilot at SeaPort that was harmed by gaining hours there. Those who feel they were will probably never be given a fair shake at anyone they work for. They will always be the victim. Very few will be honest about where they are now, having to do with SeaPort and will begin to complain soon about their new airline and how bad it is.
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So what I'm gathering you're saying is that any company that gives you hours deserves the upmost respect? Who's to say that the other posts here are not honest?

Maybe it's just the fact that you want to believe one poster.... And then blame the negative posts as being negative people who will complain everywhere they go? Interesting.
 
RB said:
I like your honesty Trick83, unlike other av8tr's here, there is not a single pilot at SeaPort that was harmed by gaining hours there. Those who feel they were will probably never be given a fair shake at anyone they work for. They will always be the victim. Very few will be honest about where they are now, having to do with SeaPort and will begin to complain soon about their new airline and how bad it is.
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Maybe not harmed but, not given a fairly large safety bonus because of their environment they created along with another pilots isolated accident.

Oh and operating in that environment. I just got a nice little email saying they are under investigation for not complying with an AD that could prevent the turbine blades from causing engine failure. I wasn't harmed though...
 
T-Swift said:
Maybe not harmed but, not given a fairly large safety bonus because of their environment they created along with another pilots isolated accident.

Oh and operating in that environment. I just got a nice little email saying they are under investigation for not complying with an AD that could prevent the turbine blades from causing engine failure. I wasn't harmed though...
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I wonder if it's the same scenario that brought that 208 down off Kauai. Cheap operators and "oh no we don't have to do that anymore, look right here!"
 
z987k said:
I wonder if it's the same scenario that brought that 208 down off Kauai. Cheap operators and "oh no we don't have to do that anymore, look right here!"
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We were talking about that the other day and while skipping the blade DT obviously played a hand, one sort of wonders how many other caravans out there have had similar overflights and didn't have any issues. Then the question becomes, did those guys just win the lottery of "stupid games, stupid prizes" or was there something else going on like an unreported overtemp/hot start? Same thing with the shop that was using the wrong blasting media. Sure, they were in the wrong and it contributed, but certainly they processed other engines that didn't come apart, so was it just bad luck for that operator, or were there operational issues that pushed it past the tipping point?
 
I can't believe this is the first time I've hoped into this thread.

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