Which Legacy/Major do you want to work at and why...
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Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
Allegiant and Spirit are no longer majors.......... hilarity from the ExpressJet Pilot Recruitment facebook page:
Looks like a Pokeball!
tcco94
Future GTA VI Pilot
Same with Frontier.I just realized even this poll doesn't have Allegiant and Spirit as choices
#LowCostCarrierLivesMatter
Stryker172
Well-Known Member
So long as it pays the bills and I can be home more than 30 hours a week I dont care what the paint on the outside says.
Max Power
Well-Known Member
I have no carrier that is "it" for me at this point, but I've started to aim for Southwest.
My Dad was a mechanic for Usairways starting back in the Allegheny days. I was an airplane cleaner (Line Maintenance Utility in Usair speak) for two years in the early 2000's until being laid-off. So I'd be lying if I said flying for USAmericanWesTWAys didn't hold some allure for me. There's a lot of opportunity in terms of equipment and routes. And Americans soon to be retired shiny airplanes have always been cool to me.
But it seems no one is happy there and I understand why to a degree. My Dad had his pay and more importantly, his pension slashed by the multiple bankruptcies at Airways. QOL took a nosedive for all parties during the multiple bankruptcies and realignments. When I was a lowly utility person in PIT, there were still people pissed about the late 80's Piedmont/USAir merger in every position. Add in the whole America West merger, American merger and there's probably a fair amount of animosity between groups. You can apply this to any legacy carrier, true, but the corporate culture at Airways was one of "everyone for themselves". I can't see how the changes that have occurred since I long left the company would have improved on this.
My regional flies for United only and has a CPP program with United. I'd love to fly for United, but I don't find them to be very customer friendly. And the CAL/UAL merger still hasn't worked out its bugs either, thanks in part to Jeff Smizeks "quest for cash" managment style. United has nearly the same offerings for fleet and routes as American.
Southwest, according to a friend who want there from my regional, is more like a regional airline, but with better pay,equipment, QOL and such. And I've jumpseated on Southwest as well as been a paying customer a few times. Southwest offers a decent product and I've never really witnessed any totally grumpy Southwest folks. Call it the Southwest effect or call it BS, people seem happy to be there. And as much as I would like to be paid to fly all over the world, I'll take the relative stability and level of happiness over that.
My Dad was a mechanic for Usairways starting back in the Allegheny days. I was an airplane cleaner (Line Maintenance Utility in Usair speak) for two years in the early 2000's until being laid-off. So I'd be lying if I said flying for USAmericanWesTWAys didn't hold some allure for me. There's a lot of opportunity in terms of equipment and routes. And Americans soon to be retired shiny airplanes have always been cool to me.
But it seems no one is happy there and I understand why to a degree. My Dad had his pay and more importantly, his pension slashed by the multiple bankruptcies at Airways. QOL took a nosedive for all parties during the multiple bankruptcies and realignments. When I was a lowly utility person in PIT, there were still people pissed about the late 80's Piedmont/USAir merger in every position. Add in the whole America West merger, American merger and there's probably a fair amount of animosity between groups. You can apply this to any legacy carrier, true, but the corporate culture at Airways was one of "everyone for themselves". I can't see how the changes that have occurred since I long left the company would have improved on this.
My regional flies for United only and has a CPP program with United. I'd love to fly for United, but I don't find them to be very customer friendly. And the CAL/UAL merger still hasn't worked out its bugs either, thanks in part to Jeff Smizeks "quest for cash" managment style. United has nearly the same offerings for fleet and routes as American.
Southwest, according to a friend who want there from my regional, is more like a regional airline, but with better pay,equipment, QOL and such. And I've jumpseated on Southwest as well as been a paying customer a few times. Southwest offers a decent product and I've never really witnessed any totally grumpy Southwest folks. Call it the Southwest effect or call it BS, people seem happy to be there. And as much as I would like to be paid to fly all over the world, I'll take the relative stability and level of happiness over that.
Shiggydiggydoo
Well-Known Member
Whatever bases me in PHX. Been commuting for years and would love to be PHX based. So I think SWA is at the top of my list. I like living here too much to leave.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
You know that someone who can still say that in mid July is serious about it. Much respect.
Shiggydiggydoo
Well-Known Member
Don't gotta shovel sunshine in January! Plus it gets hot everywhere in summer lol.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
I don't know, is it photoshopped? Seems to say New York Flight Operations. Is this really Delta?
B767
Well-Known Member
Could be AA. They have a New York base too. And they have that sign (or something VERY similar) over their sim center in DFW.I don't know, is it photoshopped? Seems to say New York Flight Operations. Is this really Delta?
Baronman
Well-Known Member
This has to be photoshopped right?I don't know, is it photoshopped? Seems to say New York Flight Operations. Is this really Delta?
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
Comair used to have that same sign overtop the door to the double wide trailer that they used for a crew room in Cincinnati
Baronman
Well-Known Member
It's just so awkward....So odd.
Cptnchia
Dissatisfied Customer
It's been there since they built that part of the terminal, 3-4 years ago. Nothing new. There's something similar over the door to the crew room in ATL. Been there years. Only noobs and OALs see it now. I tuned it out two weeks after it was put up.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
Any truth to the rumor, that if you want to work for a certain major, you have to work for regional X? Since the big airlines, have either flows or guaranteed interviews? Example: SKYW. According to another site, SJI, and UA, prefer to hire their pilots, verses pilots from other airlines. Or XJT, Delta really likes to hire their guys.