Flight options questions

[matti5]

Is there anyone who has anything good to say about this company?
What are the rules for aiports bases or locations you can star/end your trip?
Anyone who works there have an update on the future of this company?

Thanks

 

[jetwash]

Is there anyone who has anything good to say about this company?
What are the rules for aiports bases or locations you can star/end your trip?
Anyone who works there have an update on the future of this company?

Thanks

Good thing to say about the company???????

You don't need to look for sex since you are always being Fu**ed while at work.



Airports?????

Where you are hired into is where you start your week and where you are sent after your tour. If you don't live in that city you must find your own way there since thats where your airlines are going to be starting and finishing from.
( we DON'T have any jump seat agreements)


Future of the company??????


Not looking good. Even with a contract I think management put us into a spin that we might not be able to recover from.

 

[matti5]

Thanks for the info.

Do you have to pay for parking at the airport?

Is this the same for all fractionals?

 

[jetwash]

Paying for parking depends on where you live and where you park. Many FBO's let our pilots park for free since we buy fuel from them. There are other that don't and the guys are forced to pay 8 or 9 dollars a day on parking. So calculate 16 days a month per parking rate and then add that to your monthly expenses. It is not uncommon for guys to spend $144 per month on parking.
The company does not pay for that.

 

[1po'dpilot]

Matti,
I mean no disrespect... but you can't be serious!? Do a search of Flight Options and read and absorb everything you can and make an informed decision. Good Luck.

 

[learflyer]

You can't put perfume on a pig and make it pretty.

 

[matti5]

Read a lot of bad things this is why I am asking if there is anything good to say?

 

[Galaxy]

Is there anyone who has anything good to say about this company?
What are the rules for aiports bases or locations you can star/end your trip?
Anyone who works there have an update on the future of this company?

Thanks

Good huh?
Let me dig....

Ok-
It will make your last job seem not so crappy-no matter where you came from.

It will make your next job seem so much better.

Please don't fall for it-FLOPS mgt is out there lurking trying to find anyone willing to come work for peanuts. You can do better.

 

[GerryG]

Read a lot of bad things this is why I am asking if there is anything good to say?

All you need to know is that in January Flops hired 8 pilots, after a 4 month search. One quit before the class started and 2 were fired in initial indoc, prior to Simuflight. You wanna roll the dice with those odds?

The only good thing I have to say is at least you are getting informed now, before you make a big mistake. I bet the two fired new-hire pilots wish the did the research before coming here. Best of luck.

 

[skyismyoffice]

Read a lot of bad things this is why I am asking if there is anything good to say?

They might hire you if you have a felony conviction:laugh:. Oh no wait...you won't be able to get your CANPASS.

Nope, nothing good to say.

 

[nomore]

One good thing

Matt I disagree with all the replies you've received concerning your post. There is one good thing at Options. Your fellow pilots would be the greatest! And I mean that sincerely. There are many men and women here that I'm proud to call my friends and co-workers. So yes Matt there is ONE good thing about options.

 

[On Your Six]

I have heard there is another good thing that results from working at FLOPS: you will appreciate all future jobs so much more...

 

[VA Buckeye]

I agree, the one positive thing about FLOPS, the only thing that has kept FLOPS moving forward at all are the superb group professional pilots grossly underappreciated by the failed FLOPS management.

 

[gutshotdraw]

Matti,

Keep one thing in mind as you consider your next move. When you go to interview for your next job (and you will, probably soon), which companies you agreed to work for in the past will say a lot about you to a prospective employer. If there are pilots on the hiring board and they have any kind of a clue about the industry, they might see your working for Flight Options as a capitulation to the worst this industry has to offer and a failure on your part to value your own skills adequately. That alone may result in a rejection letter. Galaxy is right: you can do better.

 

[glasspilot]

So let me get this straight:

There are hundreds and hundreds of posts on flightinfo and other boards from current pilots stating that FLOPS is a place to stay away from.

They speak of pilots getting fired for trivial things, pilots getting called during rest, intimidated to fly, and beaten down in general.

They speak of management going out of their way to not follow their own rules to the pilots detriment.

They speak of very long hours followed by minimum rest at not so nice hotels to be repeated day after day.

They speak of Mx issues that the company pressures to to go fly with.

They speak of moral being so low that senior Captains leave for places like Chitaqua.



All this and I'm sure a bunch more that I can't even remember...

And you want to know if they pay for PARKING!!!!!
What if they did, would that make it an okay job?


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