Air Canada Reviews

Pros

One of the leading companies in the airline industries, has a very good name and reputation in the public sector. Some flight benifits and good medical benifits.

Cons

No pay raises in 10 years and shift preminums/vacation/sick time keep getting reduced. No respect from the company, your just a number!

Advice to Senior Management

The company has too many high paid middle managers trying to control less and less blue collar employees that don't need the job direction to keep the airline running. The employees who deal with the plubic are the people responisible for the high praise Air Canada receives.

Pros

Travel perks (although, they become increasingly difficult to use).
Brand recognition.

Cons

- Salary is hardly competitive and no bonuses awarded mean that your salary can remain stagnant (inflation isn't offset either).
- Promotions are often based on seniority rather than merit.

Advice to Senior Management

- The younger generation is the airline's future; train them, motivate them, support them to keep them. Otherwise, they'll leave and the Company will keep running on old ideas.
- Perform exit interviews. I can't believe that a Company of our size wouldn't do such a thing. You can gain valuable insight as to WHY people leave....
- I realize that compensation is a function of performance, so perhaps you can reward employees with additional vacation instead of cash (during a weak financial year). The vacation allotment as it is now is very weak and sub-standard.

Pros

Prestigious company. Great flight attendant family.

Cons

You feel like a number in the company. Problems with the collective agreement.

Pros

Co-worker are great
benefit not bad..could be better
overall good company.
values of the company is a good thing if everyone respected it would be great

Cons

the rug is being pulled under our feet
at time no consideration to what we face on a daily basis

Advice to Senior Management

recognize our hard work, we are the face of the company.
If we compromise , you should too....if you make profit your employee should too

Pros

no more than 83hrs per month as regulation by ministry of transport canada.
Although 2 weeks of time off every month might seems fantastic to some ,,,You actually need the time off to recup from constant time zone change and from breathing recycled air from the aircraft generator pack's.
Very demanding for the body ,must be in excellent health condition.

Cons

constant war between unionised employees and management,,more chiefs than indians,,less than average relations with management.
Heavy constant pressure from management.

Advice to Senior Management

Unfortunately they just wont listen,,

Pros

travel , pension , flexibility in shift trades pertaining to work schedules .

Cons

Bad management be it low , middle , high . Too many managers , not enough workers . Just like in an ant colony !

Advice to Senior Management

Pour your hearts out to employees and be truthful , appreciative . Cut the hypocrisy !

Pros

Chorus Aviation is more stable than the rest of the aviation industry. Aviation is very cyclical and profit margins are very narrow. Chorus is stable and big.

Cons

There is a lot of large-scale politics as evidenced by Labour Minister wading in to our contract talks and threatening us that she would legislate us back to work if we tried to go out on strike!

Advice to Senior Management

My one main bit of advice to management would be to think of the big picture when it comes to cost savings.

Good employee morale will save more money than you know

Pros

Good compensation both monetarily and benefits. Add in the travel benefits and it was very good from that perspective. In a family crisis they were very understanding but that was driven more by the local director as opposed to corporate policy.

Cons

Once they promoted someone into a position and they didn't fit, they would take forever to fix it. They are more apt to go outside of the company for senior positions which demotivated current employees. They don't appear ready to embrace newer technologies.

Advice to Senior Management

Embrace newer technologies, may cost in the short term but in the long run you will be better off. Yes man/woman in director positions is hurting you. Listen to the people they do understand the customer better than senior management thinks they do.

Pros

- Airline industry
- Passionate colleagues
- Interesting work

Cons

Infighting rampant among senior managers
Too much concentration of decision making and budget management among senior managers

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure you don't tolerate infighting and empire building within the company. Discipline or remove those who do it

Pros

experience people, quality of work and great professionalism of inflight and on ground employes.
leader in Canada with routes to all major cities.

Cons

no more help from components shop in case of emergency.
no salary raise in the last 10 years.
problems with employes pension plan.

Advice to Senior Management

It will be harder to get aircrafts components with the split with maintenance you are about to implement. Management should be more respectfull to workers like it use to be in the past.