Comair Reviews

Pros

People, Flying benefits, Medical benefits

Cons

Pay, No job advancement, upper management micro managing

Advice to Senior Management

Keep listening to the people that actually do the work for the airline

Pros

Flight Benefits, Medical Insurance, good people to work with, maintenance does a great job maintaining the aircraft.

Been great working all these years with you guys.

Cons

Delta is liquidating the company. The only thing they want to keep is the 70/90 seat aircraft, and they will be sold as soon as most of the 50 seats are removed from service. Delta doesn't want us to exist as Comair anymore. They just want the aircraft somewhere else, flying flights for them. They don't want a fully owned regional airline on the "Delta" property. It is easier to whipsaw the regionals if they are owned by someone else (to get the cheapest prices for their service). Comair won't exist as Comair much longer. Delta's decision, not Comair management's.

I think as soon as the agreed upon number of 50 seats are parked, the remainder of the operation will be sold. Hopefully to SkyWest (ASA/ExpressJet).

Advice to Senior Management

I know you are just puppets for mainline. They give you very little to work with, so your job is just damage control until they finally shut the doors. The operations are running surprisingly smooth considering everyone knows that we will not exist soon, and moral is the lowest it has ever been.

Advice: Don't remove the infrastructure of the airline too fast, or you could have a major catastrophe on your hands. We need schedulers, dispatchers, and MX. We need HR (to be focused on HR and less on overworking people and downsizing everything).

If it is your goal to make everyone miserable, you are doing an excellent job.

Pros

The line employees are wonderful to work with. Comair does offer a desirable medical/dental benefit package. Sadly that is the only positive I can think of about the company.

Cons

Management is always seeking wage concessions from employees. Continually asking employees to do more for less. DELTA has consistently proved to be a company with extremely poor management ethics.

Advice to Senior Management

Please realize that employees are an asset and not a liability. If you treat the employees with respect and appreciation they would generally go above and beyond to support the business/industry. Look to Southwest and Jet Blue as a positive example.

Pros

A great place to work and a great company! I made lots of friends.

Cons

It is sad to see it changing from what it once was, prior to September 11th. Most Airlines were impacted in a negative way.

Advice to Senior Management

I think Comair can be what it once was if everyone can work better as a team focused on the same goal.

Pros

Training was great. Office is a cockpit. Love to fly.

Cons

Delta ruining company. Restricted growth. Salary is compromised. Job security is gone.

Advice to Senior Management

Feed the rest of the pilots into Delta and gain some respect with the industry as Comair is liquified by Delta. Make a deal with Delta as they have all the power or else sell us to Skywest or the highest bidder. Let's just get it over with.

Pros

Work at a field station, it will help you become well rounded in the aviation field and open more doors for you in the future

Cons

The airline industry is 24/7 its not the airlines fault but be prepared for anything

Pros

Flight Benefits were beneficial if pay was better

Cons

Dead end job with no end in sight

Pros

Great benefits, although not free, but comprehensive. The people you work with are the biggest asset. Flight benefits were great while they lasted, now Comair people have no seniority over ANY of Delta's employees.

Cons

The leadership is garbage. No forward thinking, defeatist attitude. Airlines are a commodity industry going to the lowest bidder. At its heyday (2000) Comair had 6000 employees who cared and were proud of the company. Now it is a mere shadow of its former self. The employees could have branched into any of 100 sub-businesses, but with no leadership, nothing happened.

Advice to Senior Management

When an employee comes to you with ideas, don't discard them as garbage straight away. Have a program to evaluate them.

Pros

- Great flight privileges
- Great health benefits
- Co-workers are friendly
- Ample paid time off
- Plenty of opportunities to gain experience
- Decent salary

Cons

- It's an airline, they offset the slightly lower salary by providing flight privileges
- Constant infighting between groups. Persistent attitude that "everyone is out to get us" from certain union groups
- Small staffing, expect to work. In the office environment, that means expect to have to work from home on weekends and nights to get everything done. If you put in the time and effort and make some sacrifices, you will be rewarded.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the open communication flowing. Look to further the careers and aid those providing services to your employees by offering reimbursement for tuition or certifications (e.g. PHR/SPHR, CEBS, Office, PMP, etc.)

Pros

it was a great place to work until DL bought us

Cons

everything. they treat you like second class citizens

Advice to Senior Management

find a new profession