Another Air Tahoma mass exodus

[Flying Illini]

I would like to make it known that in no way has Nick5600's comments swayed my opinions of ATI. My opinions have always been that they (the rudes and their company, not the pilots that work for them) are pond scum. That opinion came from hearing that ATI has sent letters to all current and former pilots threatening legal action if they don't stop talking about ATI. (see, you destroyed your own reputation, ATI. I (and probably no one else) don't want to work for a company that's going to threaten me with legal action, therefore, I will not be applying.) Any company that has to send that type of letter to ALL of it's employees needs to recognize that something is wrong with the management and the way the business is run.

For those of you who have shared your OPINIONS of ATI, thankyou for saving the lives of your fellow pilots.

 

[cargopod]

Who ever has one of those letters why dont you post it here for all to read??

 

[BTSOMT]

For those of you who have shared your OPINIONS of ATI, thankyou for saving the lives of your fellow pilots.

Amen!

 

[flyinyourShorts]

Person's names have been left off......

From Hockstad Law Office, LTD
471 E. Broad Street, Suite 800
Columbus, OH 43215

RE: Flightinfo.com/Cease and Desist

Dear Mr *******

I am counsel to Air Tahhoma, Inc. It has come to my attention that you are operating a web site and chat room wherein flase, defamatory information is being disseminated about my client and its officers, directors and employees. Use of your web-site for this purpose violates both state and federal law. As such, we hereby demand that you cease and desist allowing, condoning, or continuing the use of your site for such unlawful purposes.

The following individuals are believed to be involved in the smear campaign against my client on your web-site: ***** ******(Fly in your Shorts), ******** ********** (**** ****), **** * *****(*********), ***** ******(***** ***), and ***** *******(**** *****). Each of these individuals is a former employee of Air Tahoma and each is believed to have a personal vendetta against both the company and then individual officers and directors thereof.

Therefore, I ask that you or your counsel provide me with written assurance that you will cease use of your web-site with the purpose of effect of defaming my client or interfering with its current or prospective business relationships. Further, we require assurances that you will not use your website in violation of federal communications laws. Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.

Very Truly Yours,

Karen S. Hockstad
Counsel to Air Tahoma



If the above people want to indetify themselves, I will leave that to them.

The letter was dated February 28, 2005, and since then I have not been asked not to post about Air Tahoma from anybody at flightinfo.com, or has any post about them been deleted. Seems the 1st ammendent stands firm here!!

 

[English]

Was this sent to the webmaster, or to you?

 

[flyinyourShorts]

It was sent to the webmaster, but since it implicated our names they sent copies to us.

The funny thing is the names of the people named in the letter are only the ones they can indentify. There is no mention of people like Tahomos(who is my personal hero), because they have no idea who that poster is. There are people on here that have said ALOT more bad things about them than the ones listed on the letter. There was also nothing about DrRaptor, their former personal butt monkey, who kept spilling the company beans before they fired him too.

I don't want to post the screen names of the other guys, they might want to stay unidentified. I'm to the point I don't care anymore, Air Tahoma and the Rude family pushed me too far and I could care less what happenes to them or what they think of myself. Still, until they decide to leave me alone and forget me like I have them, I will continue to post my feelings about them on this board.

 

[Wang Chung]

If the above people want to indetify themselves, I will leave that to them.

The letter was dated February 28, 2005, and since then I have not been asked not to post about Air Tahoma from anybody at flightinfo.com, or has any post about them been deleted. Seems the 1st ammendent stands firm here!!

Apparently I am on that list, too. Haven't got the letter itself - this is the first time I've seen it. I googled this attorney, and it seems that she specializes in employment-related litigation among other things.

How ironic is THAT?!

Anyways, even if we are asked to stop posting about Air Tahoma by the flightinfo people, that's cool. Why? Because anybody with a little presence of mind who wants information about a company will use the SEARCH feature, and they will find out what posters have the information they need. Then they will send a PM. I receive PMs out of the blue periodically from people who do just that. I myself have sent unsolicited PMs to people on this site to get information and 99% of the time I get a helpful response.

There's no "smear campaigns" or "vendettas" going on, and most of us have simply moved on from this company and not looked back.

BTW, flyinyourShorts, I like how you posted the letter with an asterik carefully replacing each letter in our names! Good work.

See you in the Flight Levels, Shorts...

Wang

 

[Nick5600]

I am proud to be one of the mentioned people. We as pilots need to be standing up to illegally operated carriers! The fact is these shady operators like ATI kill people! So I have no problem trying council someone on why they shouldn't go there. I will continue to do so, and the only I thing I can say about the lawsuit threat.... BRING IT!! I would love to put that airline to be center stage with media! Atleast 50 pilots would testify against them! I have no fear of this! The bonus side I personally know Andrea Cambern"anchor of channel 4 news". She would love to get her hands on this stuff. Well perhaps I should just give her a link to this site! Its about time people really understand what shady operator is.

And to throw the name out there its Nick5600, and proud of my work

 

[English]

Want to have reason to file a countersuit?

www.allisontaylor.com

 

[BTSOMT]

If a former employer contacts your current employer or gives any false statements to potential employers, you are entitled to compensation under law for any damages this may cause (ie. not being offered the job, inability to promote in the future, etc.)

If you suspect any former employer of doing this you should contact an attorney immediately.

 

[cargopod]

WOW it just keeps getting better. It is hard to belive a company with world wide intrest would be so interested in a gosip board such as this.As to threaten and try to bully former workers .There must be a roaring fire as there is way to much smoke..This letter to me says all a person wanting a job there needs to know.. that is the company has A LOT to hide . It sounds like at this company there are former employees and former employees not yet hired..For all who go through the doors are as good as gone.
Also Is it true that the captain that crashed at CVG is back on line as a captian? If so????

 

[flyinyourShorts]

Infact the Captain of N586P passed his 44709 ride, and is flying the line again. Thta was one of the last things JZ did before he left. If that's not scary, I would like to know what is.

Pilots wanting to join Air Tahoma will also be comforted to know that when the DHL hub consolidates in October, there won't be alot for the 580's to do. I have it from a higher up at DHL that Air Tahoma "will be lucky to have one run, and it won't be in the cities they are in now". So looks like DHL is going to drop the Rudes like a bad habit!.....

 

[mudflap]

Here is a question for anybody on this board. Have you ever met anybody from Air Tahoma that has anything GOOD to say about the place?

What ever happened to the guy they were trying to get him on a training contract recently?

 

[smurflight]

Its a great place to learn down side of aviation. And a great help when your feeling down. All you have to do after leaving there is say to yourself " Well at least Im not at ATI anymore." and suddenly the whole world looks brighter, and your current job looks like a dream.

 

[1917Dr1]

"Air Trau-oma" Good bits

1)I got a raise when I quit (unemployment)
2)There really aren't any emergencies left for me to experience...
3)Nobody's ever heard of them, so future employers won't hold it against you.
but they are gonna get a bunch of DC9s and.........