Flight Options Flight Attendant QOL

[Lear70]

One of our Flight Attendants at Pinnacle has been offerred an interview with Flight Options as a G-IV / Legacy F/A and was curious about quality of life. The schedule (7/7) has been covered on here (ran a search), but she had the following questions:

Her initial packet stated pay was $35 an hour, but gave no minimum guarantee. One of the threads listed a monthly pay of $3,500, so does that mean they are guaranteed 100 hours a month and paid above that, or is it salaried?

As far as actual job satisfaction and corporate culture, do most of the F/A's there like their job?

Do most of them stick around or is it a revolving door?

Does the company treat them well as far as schedule flexibility?

How does the 7/7 work? Is it a sliding biddable monthly schedule or is it fixed from your first day at work?

She just wants to make an informed decision. She's making crap here (typical regional F/A - somewhere around $16k a year) but will hold 14-16 days off and has travel bennies on the Northwest system (but doesn't make enough $$ to really use them - catch 22).

Thanks in advance!

 

[Frac Daddy]

It think their schedule, like the pilot's, is 8 on/7 off, fixed. F/A's, like the pilots are salaried. I think they start somewhere around $3000/mo. No travel bennies per se, but you get to keep all the airline miles you accrue. I get 4 or 5 free tickets a year from it. No commuting on your days off. You commercial deadhead to and from work on company time. Flight attendents seem to like their job. Any more questions?

 

[tarmac7]

Link to thread

Give your friend the following link, which is a thread on the Corporate Flight Attendant Community website, which discusses Flight Options. Salaries are low, the work is hard, but the benefits good:

http://pub169.ezboard.com/fcorporateflightattendantcommunity73313frm2.showMessage?topicID=357.topic

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

He'll like it there.

 

[OldCrow]

FA's

You can also tell her/him that FA's, per our current pay scale, if they are certified (which I'm sure they are), make more than a first year FO.

 

[993_Pilot]

My understanding was that Flight Options doesn't have any more flight attendants, and they had all been move to Onesky/Flexjet, and had their 401k match restored, etc. Can anyone confirm?

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

I can't confirm or deny.

 

[BE40Driver]

Fa

All FA at Flightoptions have a Onesky ID badge. Everything at Flightoptions is now Onesky except for Pilot ID badges. Flightoptions is a store front in name but we are now Onesky!