Air Canada Reviews

Pros

Travel benefits, Buddy Passes, Group Insurance
Time Off To Travel Able to exchange shifts
Fun Workplace

Cons

Increasing Cuts
Lack Of Job Security
Employyes always last to know
Increasing bad airline business, losing out to cross border airports offering flights at a quater of the price.
When a flight is 878 from Montreal to LA or 329 from Burlington to LA folks are going to drive two hours to burlington.
Air Canada needs to get more competive.

Advice to Senior Management

Work with the employyes and make them partners
They are your front line persoanle with knowledge you may not have

Pros

The time off that is given with the position of Cabin Crew. The amount of vacation and benefits given by the company. The compensation for our jobs. Many cabin crew are well educated individuals from diverse backgrounds that have chosen the lifestyle at Air Canada. The pay is decent but with goes even further is the fact that we work to live, rather than live to work. My family and I personally will go on over 10 vacations a year.

Cons

The lack of support of management. Long hours. Little or no recognition. No room for advancement past Service Director position.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend the time and money to thank the employees as opposed to the shareholders. For every dollar you put into an employee you will get back a $100 in return.

Pros

benefits - health, dental, travel. flexible work schedule. Vacation time. Being able to choose when you work, and where you go, what kind of flying you do.

Cons

low pay starting off. you feel like a number. employees are intimidated to the point where taking a sick day can often be scrutinized. many of the rules governing our work are weak. We've had to struggle for our working conditions, and even then they are not at a satisfactory standard in may areas.

Advice to Senior Management

there needs to be better labour relations, better communication between management and our bargaining unit. Management and CUPE need to learn to work together for the benefit of the workers. Both sides are always struggling to get one up on the other. this is not how it should be.

Pros

I work as a flight attendant. I dislike the company, but enjoy the work. It allows you to travel, it's never the same (flexible hours, location), it's as far as anything can be from office work. It even allows to have a second carreer on the side (I work as a journalist). When compared to other low-cost carriers, the working conditions and benefits (the work is unionized are excellent, although it's important to point out that they are fast eroding.

Cons

The company is very big. Employees are just numbers, seen as expendable. Management is incompetent. The aviation industry is very unstable, and often gives the impression it could collapse at any moment, and the job could disapear.

Advice to Senior Management

Talk to employees on the ground, understand that satisfied employees offer better service.

Pros

travel passes,retirement pension,shift trades, health benefits,friendships,....the first reason most people works for airlines is for the travel priviledge,the management is so incompetent at keeping employees happy and loyal that they hired at my location over 125 new employees and after the probation period ended,they only had 6 people still working for the airline,most just pass the probation and use the travel passes for a big trip and quit and went to work somewhere else where the pay was better, and less stress, we almost have to put our hand up to go to the bathroom.and they time your bathroom break

Cons

management,airline ups and downs,shift work

Advice to Senior Management

listen to frontline employees

Pros

cheap flights, a good work out lifting bags, seeing celebrities

Cons

management , is not very worker friendly!
we have a thing where, instead of hiring full time managers , we upgrade workers to be managers for 90 days, then they renew them , after they come back down for a day. these managers are basically trying to impress the guys upstairs and will give letters to show that they are doing something, it's become almost impossible to get things done. they won't the flights out on time, but are nit picking about little things.
we also have a thing called forced overtime(it's supposed to be used wheneveer there is bad weather, management uses it almost every time it rains. if you don't stay , you get a step one letter.

Advice to Senior Management

leave us alone and let us do our jobs. you are basically in the way.