Pacific Wings HI,NM now GA?

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New airline offers flights from Middle Georgia Regional

By Matt Barnwell - mbarnwell@macon.com

Middle Georgia has a new passenger airline.
The U.S. Department of Transportation picked Pacific Wings to take over service from Atlantic Southeast Airlines at Middle Georgia Regional Airport. Pacific Wings, which is based in Hawaii but will create a subsidiary to do business here as Georgia Skies, was also the choice of Macon officials.
The airline will provide 26 roundtrip flights from Macon to Atlanta per week on a Cessna Grand Caravan C-208B - a nine-passenger single-engine turboprop aircraft. Pacific Wings will receive an annual subsidy of $1.386 million from the federal government for the next two years of service.
Pacific Wings also is taking over passenger air service in Athens, whose regional carrier announced its departure last August a month after ASA said it was leaving Macon.
 
God help those pilots who get suckered in there as well. It is sad that the only airline expanding is the one who really believes their pilots are their personal property.
 
So what's the deal with "Georgia Skies" (aka, Pacific Wings)? I got an email from them asking if I'd be interested in a Captain/Check Airman position with them. I've tried investigating their story, but haven't much. I know they're looking for around 6 pilots for their Georgia Operation, and for ticket/gate space at ATL. Any information would be greatly appreciated, I'm "scheduled" to go to Maui on wednesday to interview, but if it's not worth it...thanks ya'll!
 
For one, as a Pacwings pilot you're pretty much on a permanent reserve. They make the airline's schedule the night before and release your show time by telephone at their leisure as well as email you the schedule. You have NO IDEA when you will fly any given day as they will even rearrange passenger flights at will. On your "weekend" you had better check the schedule anyway as if they feel like using you they will and you will get fired for not showing up. This sucks as if they don't call you the first day of your weekend you can't plan for the next day as they might call you then. Also, they will work you right up to your duty limit so unless you have a duty restriction the next morning anything is possible for your start time. Even when you get home they can and will call you back if you have any duty time left and they feel like doing do. Finally, if after the schedule is created, their management hears your scheduled something for your time off they have been known to rearrange the whole thing to make damn sure you work during the time you scheduled for your doctor's appointment or wherever else you need to be. You're basically on hot reserve 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Stay away, stay FAR away.

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