I had the misfortune of being one of the flight departments aquired by Northrop Grumman in 2002 and flew for them for 1 year during the transition. I can say without a doubt that the management team in Hawthorne(of which the current manager of flight ops was a part of) was the worst I have ever seen in corporate aviation. The executives, line pilots(full time not including the weekend warrior contract pilots), mechanics, and entire team at KBWI were some of the best people I have ever had the opportunity to work with and did an incredible job with the idiots they reported to. It was the posterchild for halfa$$ed 135 charter management and treated the crews as such. It would have been better to get absorbed by Flight Options than to let the former Dir of Flt Ops and C.P. have our Flight Department. The top notch executive of NG, when they found out how badly they were treating the aquired departments, moved up our extremely generous severances and we were all able to go about our merry way. The article mentions sereval times that there are Improved labor relations. This means they treated people like $hit and are getting better. Their new Dir of Flt Ops must have done an incredible job and I truley congratulate him on what I thought would be an impossible mission. But there are hundreds of great flight departments out there that don't have the history of pilot abuse that NG has and while they might be the most improved they don't even rank among the great flight departments out there! I can't stress enough how great the executives, line pilots, mechanics, and entire team(mgt and crew) @ KBWI were and it only took R.P. and T.R. to run it into the ground. I am far from bitter because it was the best thing financialy and professionaly that has ever happened in my career but answering to KHHR management during the transition was by far the low point. Grant McLaren either needs to get out more or research more to not now of NGAI's past! Where is R.P. and why is he gone would be a good lace to start!
