ASTAR Air Cargo Reviews

Pros

Working environment and the people.

Cons

Did not see the big picture

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up.

Pros

Excellent people in lower management and at the line maintenance and flying positions. Once a proud organization, a leader in the overnight transport business. Now a shell of its former self in the US.

Cons

Senior management has been unable to correctly plan for the future issues the company faces in the industry. As a result competitors have taken away business and now the company has been reduced to the point of insignificance.

Advice to Senior Management

Plan for the future by investing some of the money they make from guaranteed contracts in newer and more efficient equipment. View your people as assets and communicate with them about the future and include them in mapping out a plan.

Pros

Good pay and benefits. It was a place to have a career. not anymore.

Cons

DHL is Astar Air Cargo's primary customer and is going with other air cargo companies to move their product.

Advice to Senior Management

It is too bad you did not try to get other cargo business.

Pros

Being a Pilot for a overnight express airline is very clean and clear cut when compared to flying for a passenger carrier. You are flying the same equipment with different loads behind the cockpit door. Pay was good and schedule was good also.

Cons

Working nights can take its toll on you health if you do not take good care of yourself. Upper management made no effort to modernize the fleet to remain competitive. This has caused the work to go to other competitors and the airline been downsized to just a fraction of is original size.

Advice to Senior Management

You can not expect a company to remain competitive or thrive if all you want is to skim off profits and not reinvest in a the future with a plan.

Pros

Pay better than most airlines.

Cons

We're going out of business.

Advice to Senior Management

Own up to mistakes from 5-10 years ago, and decide to move on and grow smartly.