PSA Airlines - October 2024 Thread

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PSA Airlines is hiring for dispatchers. Good luck to those who apply. The job link is posted here:

careers-psaairlines.icims.com

PSA Airlines, Inc.

PSA Airlines, Inc.
careers-psaairlines.icims.com

In terms of this regional, how is PSA Airlines as the first regional to work for as a dispatcher? What's good about the company and what needs improvement?

And on a personal note, I am ramper for the mainline that PSA is wholly owned by. What are odds of getting picked up by their mainline as a current employee of this airline?
 
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realanimatedpilot said:
PSA Airlines is hiring for dispatchers. Good luck to those who apply. The job link is posted here:

careers-psaairlines.icims.com

PSA Airlines, Inc.

PSA Airlines, Inc.
careers-psaairlines.icims.com

In terms of this regional, how is PSA Airlines as the first regional to work for as a dispatcher? What's good about the company and what needs improvement?

And on a personal note, I am ramper for the mainline that PSA is wholly owned by. What are odds of getting picked up by their mainline as a current employee of this airline?
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First regional:
a) You will get pretty solid training as a dispatcher.

b) The ground school is going to be a little different now as they have a new Ground guy but expect a good introduction to actual dispatching. The OJT and Comp check are fairly thorough.


c) You'll get the chance to cut your teeth on high volume passenger flying


d) You'll will learn the pros and cons of being able to accept and give a good passdown

Good about the company:
Your fellow line dispatchers. They will take the time to actually help you improve your knowledge as a dispatcher and are exceedingly patient with you. (Although, sometimes this does involve a kind of verbal "thump" if you do something your peers consider to be stupid. But it's meant to help you be better at your job, so take it in stride and be a better dispatcher.) Stay a dispatcher for a year and you'll be well prepared for the next step in your career.

Needs improvement:
Every regional has things that can be improved upon. The dispatcher union contract is currently under negotiation and hopefully this will see some of the "needs improvement" items addressed.

Odds of being picked up by mainline:
I do not know of anyone in the last three years that has gone from dispatching at PSA to dispatching at "AA." YMMV
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Some candid advice from one dispatcher to another about choosing how you present yourself and work at PSA:

Find a way to work there without asking too many questions or engaging with people that aren't currently actively dispatching flights with you until you really know the landscape and various personalities. In other words do not be a Peter Pan and more importantly try to avoid asking a coordinator questions until you know who they are and how everyone knows each other...if you think Dispatch and aviation are a small world, the IOC at PSA is even smaller. If you work on the ramp, I'm sure you'll be fine...you're used to navigating the various personalities in aviation. Just...really focus on keeping your head down for the first few months there. I wish I had done this myself.

Best of luck to you in your application there. I learned some hard lessons at PSA, and I have some residual anger with two individuals that currently still work there, but I learned a lot and I earned some good friends at PSA. I hope you get hired.
 
AA hired a few from PSA at the end of 21 and beginning of 22 (including me) but none since then. PSA had complained to AA that nobody wanted to go there because they didn't hire many if at all from PSA. So in the big hiring blitz, AA wanted several from PSA, but PSA told them they couldn't have them all. I suspect that will affect future hiring from PSA.
 
I was an Envoy ramper and left for PSA. Right after I got there AAL interviewed 3 of my coworkers so I was excited. I quickly found out that being wholly owned did not mean anything if you weren’t at Envoy and I regretted going to PSA.

If you’re at Envoy or Piedmont you might be able to keep some benefits by changing positions in the company, Ramp-Dispatch it’ll depend on their contract but keep that in mind.

If AAL is your goal I’d just try to get hired at Envoy honestly. A guy I know, hired with me, left PSA to go to Envoy so he could get hired at AAL.
 
I noticed that the job ID# is the exact same as the one posted over the summer which IIRC was slated to begin late Sept/early Oct. so did they somehow defer that class to later and open it again? Or is this a new class? It says on their site that I can't apply because I'm already submitted for that job. The status says "talent pool/not selected".
 
DeltaJulietTango said:
First regional:
a) You will get pretty solid training as a dispatcher.

b) The ground school is going to be a little different now as they have a new Ground guy but expect a good introduction to actual dispatching. The OJT and Comp check are fairly thorough.


c) You'll get the chance to cut your teeth on high volume passenger flying


d) You'll will learn the pros and cons of being able to accept and give a good passdown

Good about the company:
Your fellow line dispatchers. They will take the time to actually help you improve your knowledge as a dispatcher and are exceedingly patient with you. (Although, sometimes this does involve a kind of verbal "thump" if you do something your peers consider to be stupid. But it's meant to help you be better at your job, so take it in stride and be a better dispatcher.) Stay a dispatcher for a year and you'll be well prepared for the next step in your career.

Needs improvement:
Every regional has things that can be improved upon. The dispatcher union contract is currently under negotiation and hopefully this will see some of the "needs improvement" items addressed.

Odds of being picked up by mainline:
I do not know of anyone in the last three years that has gone from dispatching at PSA to dispatching at "AA." YMMV
--------------------------

Some candid advice from one dispatcher to another about choosing how you present yourself and work at PSA:

Find a way to work there without asking too many questions or engaging with people that aren't currently actively dispatching flights with you until you really know the landscape and various personalities. In other words do not be a Peter Pan and more importantly try to avoid asking a coordinator questions until you know who they are and how everyone knows each other...if you think Dispatch and aviation are a small world, the IOC at PSA is even smaller. If you work on the ramp, I'm sure you'll be fine...you're used to navigating the various personalities in aviation. Just...really focus on keeping your head down for the first few months there. I wish I had done this myself.

Best of luck to you in your application there. I learned some hard lessons at PSA, and I have some residual anger with two individuals that currently still work there, but I learned a lot and I earned some good friends at PSA. I hope you get hired.
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I'd say this pretty much sums up how PSA works. The one change I would make since I have had a rather different experience with PSA is to argue that you don't necessarily have to avoid asking too many questions, you just need to know who is willing to answer questions and who has time to answer questions.

I'd be willing to answer any further questions you or anyone else has either in this thread or in DM (within reason of course)
 
They really need to pay their dispatchers a liveable wage! What they pay now is not liveable unless you want to live in a shack! It's shamefull to be honest!
 
I have no idea what goes on either on the management or the union side of these types of negotiations since this is my first union job but considering Air Whiskey and Piedmont both start out in the 24-25 an hour range now I have a good feeling we may see something in that general area. It may be a FOOLISH good feeling, but I intend to keep positive until my foolishness comes back to haunt me.

And for the record, I'm living in a 2 bedroom apartment, not a shack.
 
There are no interviews. I was told that the job posting was not a real posting, they were doing some IT type work on the system which required them to post a live job. The job was open in August, and the person or persons who were selected were to have started around the beginning of this month. I do not know what will happen to the applications of anyone who applied this time...
 
BRUSR_ONE said:
There are no interviews. I was told that the job posting was not a real posting, they were doing some IT type work on the system which required them to post a live job. The job was open in August, and the person or persons who were selected were to have started around the beginning of this month. I do not know what will happen to the applications of anyone who applied this time...
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Sounds like PSA to me...
 
Interview invitations appear to be going out. I declined since I already started somewhere else but they did reach out to me for a virtual.
 
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