Republic Abuses Flight Crews

[Tarzan]

Pinnacle, Compass, Comair, ASA, ect. All of us are treated as cost units not people....

Don't know about the ASA part. I wish we had some more flying but other than that, I don't have much to complain about in regards to the company.

 

[erikgigem]

This is just the begining of some of the things we deal with here at Republic Airlines. This is a warning to all. When and if this place ever starts hiring again, please think about your decision. I dont know many people here that are happy. There are other companies out there that would treat you much better for your hard work.

Classy. Very professional to post this on Flightinfo. If you are that miserable, leave RJET and let one of the furloughed pilots that would be grateful to work again take your place. In the meantime, we can all work together with our union to get a better contract and be a part of the solution, not another whiner.

 

[Airline Driver]

There are many flight crew abuses going on at Republic. I dont think people realize that this place isn't much better than Mesa airlines when it comes to employee treatment.
Here are some of the unethical things that go on here:

3-5 hours sits during a trip. On a four day trip you could possibly have three of these. Sitting around the food court in PHL of CLT for up to five hours. Then we continue with our 14hr duty day.

Subpar hotels. Not all are bad, but most are. The company considers a gas station or a McDonalds next door quality food. Some of these hotels are in pretty bad shape or in bad parts of town.

The company refuses to follow the contract. This happens on a daily basis. The company says, "just do what we say and greive it".

We have many 3 or 4 day trips that start at 5am day 1, then finish at 11pm on the last day. So, the first 3 days of our trip we get up at 430am then the last day we don't start until later morning then fly until midnight. This of couse is after a 4 hour sit in PHL food court.
Obviously the company could care less about pilot rest, comfort, and safety.

Our crew room in PHL is a 5x8 bag room. This room has two roach infested chairs and is full of bags. The company calls this the "quite room" I guess this is were we are supposed to rest on our 5 hours sits?

Our CEO is continuously posting letters with his religious based propoganda. I am not talking about a reference or two about the Lord. These things look like they are written by the Pope. He has pushed his religious and political views on us many times. There needs to be some separation of religion and politics here at work. We have people from many different backgrounds.

This is just the begining of some of the things we deal with here at Republic Airlines. This is a warning to all. When and if this place ever starts hiring again, please think about your decision. I dont know many people here that are happy. There are other companies out there that would treat you much better for your hard work.

Your an Idiot!!!!!!!!!!!uke: Mainline has the same sits as we do at RAH as well lots of other airlines. If you can't Handel the lifestyle then get the ************************* out and let someone who's on the street back on-line. Our contract needs tweeking but that will come in time. Every company has their 10% knuckleheads, I guess I now know what percentile you belong to.

 

[WSurf]

2 for 1 duty rigs would make those long sits worth it.

 

[Tarzan]

Your an Idiot!!!!!!!!!!

I can't help myself!

 

[Airline Driver]

:beer:

I can't help myself!

 

[regionaltard]

The company refuses to follow the contract. This happens on a daily basis. The company says, "just do what we say and greive it".

Maybe the fact that the gal who used to answer the phones at the Local is now your Business Agent has something to do with that. I mean really, why wouldn't they abuse you?

 

[EngineOut]

Since nobody's said it...

Republic Sucks!!!!
....and Mesa, too.

Just kidding.

In reality, we all suck

 

[RobCat]

BigBird, How many different airlines have you worked at, and how long have you been in this industry?

 

[Salukipilot4590]

Regional airlines abuse flight crews/employees?

NO WAI?1!??!?!?11/1?1?1?1/

 

[Beech_boy]

Commutair

Welcome to every day at CommutAir when I was there. When I was called regarding late departures because we needed to get something to eat, I was told there was plenty of time on the multi-hour sit for breakfast and lunch. (The sit started around 11am, 6+ hours into my duty day.)

Try the "food court" (ha) in Syracuse or Portland, ME, for 4 hours. And I had plenty of 16-hour duty days.

Sounds like pretty much every regional. Mine never even had food as a consideration. When a newhire dared to ask why we couldn't get breakfast included with more of our hotels, he was given a less-than-warm reception, by both management and his fellow pilots. Nice.


I'm jealous! :laugh: Ours in Boston was four chairs behind the gate podium, with a little Tensa-barrier around it that said "CommutAir Crew Area." Just before I left, we were upgraded to a windowless concrete 5x5 room with no heat and no chairs, though it did have a giant electrical transformer to keep it above freezing in there.


With very few exceptions, welcome to Regional world. Hope you get out quicker than I did.

Wow, I was just going to post this exact same thing about commutair. The only difference between when you were here and now is that it is way worse now. Many people, myself included, are only getting 8 days off a bid. They are bending every rule to make you fly longer and longer days. If you have a stand up that ends at 7AM that day is considered an "Off" day.

I have a hard time when I hear someone crying about how bad it is at republic.....the original posters should come fly for us

 

[Wanderlust]

Maybe the fact that the gal who used to answer the phones at the Local is now your Business Agent has something to do with that. I mean really, why wouldn't they abuse you?

Whozzat? Deanna?

 

[saab fixr]

atleast rev b shares the weath or do you fly for another reason stop whinning and go back to work!!
Republic as a group isnt perfect but in these times atleast you have a Job. Heres an idea if you dont like the rules LEAVE!! Im sure there are a lot of crew members that would love to keep that seat warm in your place.

 

[8HourPilot]

Just the truth here chief. I've been here long enough to see that goods and the bads...and for the record...I don't drink the cool aid....I just stress personal responsibility.

We find ourselves in situations of our own choosing.

Soooo how the koolaid tasting?

 

[Boatdrinks554]

think of scheduling like the family dog, if you let him up on the couch once, he will be there every morning. Fly the contract !

 

[CFI2766]

Seriously, why dump on this guy/gal for posting this? Does it make you feel better? Superior to the original poster?

We are airline pilots; no one is going to look out for us but ourselves.

 

[aewanabe]

Classy. Very professional to post this on Flightinfo. If you are that miserable, leave RJET and let one of the furloughed pilots that would be grateful to work again take your place. In the meantime, we can all work together with our union to get a better contract and be a part of the solution, not another whiner.

Why the hell would anyone leave their job right now because they're miserable? You only want kool-aid drinkers in your pilot group? That has got to be the number one BS cop-out response to rear its ugly, recurring head here on Flightinfo. Are you just that much in love with the Reverend since you got a 2-year upgrade on the 170?

The OP's post sounds like a grain of truth expanded with a healthy dose of exaggeration. My time at RAH included stays at Days Inns, Ramadas, Hiltons and Sheratons. I saw the nice joint crewroom in Philly's E gates, and walked past the nice COEX crewroom in CLE on my way to the broom closet. RAH definitely did NOT go out of its way to provide luxurious crew accomodations for the multiple 4-hour sits (LGA anyone??). If you want to fix it, fight for trip and duty rigs in this contract; if the mult-hour sits start costing the company serious money, you're going to see a lot less of them.

All of that having been said, being at JetBlue I have seen the following: 3-hour sits in PWM and AUS, rooms in Hiltons, Marriotts, Holiday Inns and Ramadas.... Some things never seem to change.

 

[knewhigher]

My worst day at Republic is still better than my best day at Mesa.

 

[100-1/2]

Um...wasn't republic one of the first alter ego's by schiitaqua to circumvent alpa and scope?

[Geico gecko voice] "A bottom feeder behaving like a bottom feeder...Brilliant!"

100-1/2

 

[olympus593]

Um...wasn't republic one of the first alter ego's by schiitaqua to circumvent alpa and scope?

[Geico gecko voice] "A bottom feeder behaving like a bottom feeder...Brilliant!"

100-1/2

That pretty funny!