SouthEAST Airlines

[habubuaza]

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone works for or worked for Southeast airlines. Are they still in business, and what's it like to work for them if they are. Thanks very much any information is really appreciated.

 

[chperplt]

Didn't DAL buy an airline by that name 20+ years ago?

 

[fr8doggydog]

That was Southern.

 

[azpilot]

http://www.southeastairfares.com/

I don't know anything about them but this is the web site address.

- AZPilot

 

[Kaman]

Hello,
I cannot recall the name of the fellow, but a gentleman purchased the rights to the old National Airlines "Sun King" logo and it's on the tail of Southeast's aircraft.
About 10 days ago I worked a DC-9 charter that was flying gamblers from Roanoke to Atlantic City. They also fly a lot of charters down to Nassau, Freeport, etc...

Regards,

ex-Navy rotorhead

 

[fr8doggydog]

Flyseal.com works also. The company is linked to the old SunJet Int'l. I sent a resume to the Largo address with no reply. They operate several charters out of GPT to Florida and from the Midwest and Northeast to the Caribbean and Mexico with MD-80s and DC9-30s. They also run scheduled flights from PIE, SFB and FLL to the Northeast.

 

[habubuaza]

Great information. Thank you. It does look like they are still in business and actually have expanded. I wonder if they are positioning themselves to swallow up routes being abandoned by Pan Am now. I understand Pan Am is furloughing 10% of it's work force and abandoning some routes. Anybody know anything about that?

 

[taz]

The company is a low fare "public charter" company their schedules are erratic ..ie.your days off is on the road. i was partof the initial team in the training Dept.the owner is welloff but doesn'tplan to get into the public market unless its charter.
my advie is unless youknow some one there forget it, however ifyou must be employed by them then be prepared and buy a BIG jar of vasaline.

Southeast Airlines
A scare to remember

 

[JTrain]

I see them (Southeastern) in EWR all the time.

They fly old school DC-9s, engines look burnt to a crisp at the back. Heard 'em on clearance once picking up route to an exotic locale. White, black & yellowish paint job.

JTrain

 

[pilotyip]

Hiring Pilots

Rumor is from one of our former DC-9 pilots, he is in a "new hire" class of 45 DC-9/MD-80 pilots at Southeast

 

[habubuaza]

Well it seems that they are hiring for a modest fleet/route expansion. I understand that they only have one DC-9 left out of 10 airplanes the rest are MD82's and MD88's. I believe they do alot of flying for Apple vacations. Alot of Carribbean stuff.

 

[Ty Webb]

Typical crappy non-sked jet operator

I've got three friends there (well, 1 friend, two acquaintances). It is your garden-variety non-sked operator. Seniority means very little. No union, No contract. Hire street captains over you, fight for your pay, crappy schedules and treat you like a bad episode of the Springer show.

 

[bbrian1171]

I also see them alot at EWR

 

[RyanB727]

I normally fly cargo for Ryan International but we have one 727 that flies people out of St. Louis down to Cancun. I occasionally see Southeast MD-80s down there. The contract mechanic we use down there also does MX work for Southeast and he told us that Southeast was about to be cut off for not paying their maintenence/fuel/ground handling bill for like the previous six months. That was a couple of months ago that I heard that and, strangely enough, I haven't seen any Southeast planes down there lately. Sounds like your typical low budget operation...