Air Wisconsin Airlines Reviews

Pros

*ability to learn industry
*great people to work with

Cons

*seniority based assignments
*sitting on reserve call for a long time

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Travel benefits, great teamwork, fun training, interesting issues confronting the airline industry and unique ways it is dealt with, fun to be a part of security and travel

Cons

Potentially working on holidays, rainy days, snowy days, blizzards, hail, all sort of crazy weather. Not always working with educated coworkers

Advice to Senior Management

The most important things for Air Wisconsin to consider is its perception to employees and increasing a feeling of everyone being responsible and making concessions for future job security and contracts.

Pros

Good benefits package which comes at our own cost.

Cons

Tons. No salary increase for East cost, despite the outrageous taxes. Huge turnover due to management unwilling to pay higher wages, as a result they get bad performance and jeopardize safety. Morale is so low that no one wants to be at work and people turn into wolfs. Majority of people are looking for a way to escape.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay your employees better and hire some competent supervisors.

Pros

Health Insurance that is provided under union contract
Staff in Appleton are friendly to work with
Have always been paid ontime

Cons

Future
Aging aircraft fleet
Aligned with USAirways
Company constantly blaming labor for lack of growth
privately held company with no insight to future
much better regionals to fly for

Advice to Senior Management

Stop blaming employees as the issue for not being able to obtain new flying business. Use your employees to help grow the company.

Pros

Travel Privileges, Family Environment, and always new opportunities to grow. The company has a great corporate training department for salaried employees.

Cons

Compensation is an area of concern. If you work at headquarters in WI, then maybe it's enough but all other cities system wide are almost always below poverty level when it comes to pay.

Advice to Senior Management

We need to be consistently compensated with the local areas where we work. I make a little less than half of what the same position would make at other organizations for the same, if not more, work.

Pros

Stepping stone to other airlines. People I work with.. Crews, not Management.

Cons

Management all the way down the board. (With the exception of one, the Norfolk Regional Chief Pilot). The Management has decided all the employees are more of an irritation, than an integral part of the company. They have put money and savings before the moral, health, well being, and safety of their employees. They have zero communication with the daily line operations. The schedules are getting dangerous as they have become more cost affective. 14 and 16 hour days at least twice a 4 day trip are the norm. They lie directly to your face about how much you cost the company. Getting barraged daily from them saying how much we cost them and that we are not worth that money.. I could go on and on...

Advice to Senior Management

Would not know where to start. They need to start looking at their employees as assets to the company. They have to start running this airline better. The chief financial officer is destroying the company, moral, and safety of this airline.

Pros

Flying to Chicago for training meet a lot of cool people from all over the country.

Cons

Flight Benefits(NO FLIGHT BENEFITS) They are the worse since you only get Zed Fares which are cheap but still a lot more money then Regional Elite or American Eagle.
Union is worthless you pay to much for something you don't use.
Forget about advancing in the airline you will always be Part-Time because theres usually 3-4 Full-Time slots compared to 12 Part-Time slots.

Advice to Senior Management

This is the easiest airline to get hire by once your in just work a couple of months, and become really good friends with other airlines. I would suggest if your in a regional airport to join American Eagle Airlines(American Airlines), Regional Elite Airlines(Delta), or Skywest Airlines(United Airlines).

Pros

The travel for training. Training is extensive and it requires a lot of travelling which I enjoyed. Other than that, I don't even know how they can even retain one employee outside of corporate

Cons

Everything, pay, lack of benefits, hours, forced to be in a union, why pay union dues when you have no benefits for them to protect, its ridiculous and on top of that the company doesn't even pay you a livable wage, you have to work 20 years just to make a decent salary, pitiful

Advice to Senior Management

Your employees deserve better, if it were not for them, you wouldn't be in business.

Pros

Great benefits
Comparably good pay within the regional airline
Good group of pilots and flight attendants I work with
Schedules are bid through flica and are not Preferential Bidding (yet)

Cons

Schedule - So many of the schedules start early in the morning on day 1 of a trip and end late at night on the last day of the trip (not good for commuting, or enjoying time with your family).

Sick calls may require a doctors note, especially on holiday weekends.

Animosity between pilot group and management

Advice to Senior Management

I wish we could trust you guys to the point of getting rid of the union. The union only serves to make your life more difficult with the constant bickering over stuff, but you've shown us that we really can't trust you (Example: Bob Frisch avoiding dues while claiming union member status).

Pros

The only good thing to work in this place is that the co workers are good in Baggage unlike Ramp. The job is fairly fun especially if you want to exercise.

Cons

There are so many negative things about working for this company. Some places have no safety kits. The company wants you to purchase certain things for yourself out of your pocket. Also, flight benefits (which is not a flight benefit) are only for economy class which is more likely for you to end up buying your own ticket. Since economy classes are likely to be occupied. Secondly, you pay money out of your paycheck to remain on healthcare plan and yet the insurance does not cover 100% of your medical bill. In addition, you cannot cancel medical until November. Finally, the union is fake.

Advice to Senior Management

All managers please make sure that there are better raincoats in the cage. Also the ear plugs should always be available. Let your superiors know that medical benefits should cover 100% and travel benefits should offer first and business class that your employee always has chance to get a seat on the place so they don't have to buy their own ticket.