Asa ?

[chucknorris]

I have an Interview with ASA soon, currently on an RJ for another regional. This company any good to work for , quality of life, etc. Also is ATL a pretty stable base

Thanks

Chuck Norris doesnt need thrust reversers

 

[Stifler's Mom]

What other company do you work for? What kinds of issues are important to you referring to QOL issues? ATL is about as stable as can be for us, it's probably going to be the only base soon.

 

[Crash Pad]

Double post

 

[Crash Pad]

Sweet let me be the first one to do it. ASA is hell. Hell is acutally better than ASA. Scheduling will kill your young and ensure a divorce. You will hate your life and blow your head off... And now the list...

Strike now
4 years is long enough for a fair contract
all I want for christmas is a fair contract
SKYW is lowering the bar flying the 50 for 70 wages
WHIPSAW!!!!

One for the General
50.1% of Delta pilots will vote NO without scope!

 

[crash41]

Sweet let me be the first one to do it. ASA is hell. Hell is acutally better than ASA. Scheduling will kill your young and ensure a divorce. You will hate your life and blow your head off... And now the list...

Strike now
4 years is long enough for a fair contract
all I want for christmas is a fair contract
SKYW is lowering the bar flying the 50 for 70 wages
WHIPSAW!!!!

One for the General
50.1% of Delta pilots will vote NO without scope!

100% coreect.

 

[atlcrjdriver]

Relax crash pad, sit back and pop a pill or something. If ASA has been that bad to you then go find the highest bridge you can and jump off-head first please.

CN-like SM said ASA is just like any other regional. No better and now worse, with the exception of maybe Mesa and Mesaba. Been here just over 3 years and can think of many worse places to be. QOL should be the the primary question for you to answer. If you live in ATL and don't have to commute, life won't be as bad especially being on reserve. The money isn't great but after the first year you can at least survive ~$34 an hour 2nd year. We are in the fourth year of negotiations and they are almost half way through. Also, since we only feed DL, who knows how the new TA will work out.

The good, the bad and the ugly
Take it all with a grain of salt...

Fly Safe..

 

[BCpilot81]

I have been around the block for a while. I personally am the last of my buddies who have been hired with many different carriers from Skyway to Southwest Airlines. What I have learned is this, that ASA may not always be the best place to be employment wise. I wish like heck that I did not commute from Chicago to show up to work. But, at least I know that I have a job that does not pay so well first year ($19.02/hr); but you are not gonna see that much better anywhere else. As previously stated $34-/hr. second year is good enough for a more realistic sense of lifestyle, and that is even if you were on reserve that whole year. What I am trying to say, is that I have no complaints. My buddy is a BE-1900 Cpt. at Skyway, starting wage $32/hr. Upgrade in Dec, he has flown only 90 hours since. Shortly (Mgmt. claims) there will be very little sitting around. To summarize my finger happy behavior, not at all a bad place to be. At least it is a job that enables you to do what you love. We all need to remember that.
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[av8er2]

It has a lot of problems. If you can handle a management that can't run a company and is very inefficient. Our ramp is really bad but they want us to take paycuts to fix it.

You will also just be a number, you will never get recoginized or complimented. You will only be called in if you do something wrong or follow the FARS and call in sick too many times in 6 or 12 months.

You will never get rewarded for a job well done. You will never receive any kind of bonus, this is only for mgt and they don't even do a good job.

The pilot group is great and there are a lot of fun people to fly with.

There will probably be a lot of movement since the company does not care about the pilots and they are making everyone very unhappy. I predict there will be a lot of pilots leave this year.

Training is very good.

There are worse airlines of course. The problem is no airline is good right now.

Some may say that ASA does care but until everyone stops complaining and is happy I say mgt. has a lot of work to do.

 

[FL990]

It really depends on where you are coming from. If you are coming from say transtates or something, you will probably be pretty happy...that is until everyone else convinces you to be pissed off.

It isn't that bad here. The QOL is better than the majority of flying jobs (when considering corporate/135/etc) I usually work 4 days, off three, sometimes work 3days, off 4. Its pretty much easy money...show up, fly, go home. No extra bull to worry about like you get in the GA or 135.

Its all relative is what I am trying to say. If you come from a great mainline carrier, this is going to be crappy to you.

The uncertainty of delta and our contract does add stress. There is a lot of cloud distorting the future here right now. Whipsaw is definitly a problem and it can be frustrating. All in all though, when compared to where I have worked in the past, I like it here...but thats not to say that it is perfect.