Flight Centre Reviews

Pros

Great team work environment to work in.

Cons

In the general Canadian job market, Flight Centre is seen as a retail operation whereas its competitors such as Carlson Wagon, BCD or Amex Travel have a much stronger brand recognition and regard than F.C.

Advice to Senior Management

Strengthen brand awareness in the Canadian Market

Pros

You will receive discount on travel

Cons

Promotions are based on friendships

Advice to Senior Management

People should be hired based on qualification not friendships

Pros

Get to go to conferences once per year in different places such as Hawaii, Jamaica.
The company hosts a ball once a year as well for all employees.
Good incentives package.

Cons

Ugly uniforms are mandatory even for those working in head office.

Pros

Nice coworkers, pretty good work-life balance, decent potential for making money, decent benefits.

Cons

Too many business meetings, people all measured through numbers rather than their true qualities, company gatherings that no one wants to go to.

Advice to Senior Management

Look over the Excel sheets someone in order to get to know your staff. Not making the COS doesn't mean that someone sucks as a person

Pros

Young, fun people to work with. Travel perks. Environment conducive to meeting cool people. Locations in interesting areas around the Southern CA greater Los Angeles area. A meritocracy, as most sales related jobs tend to be.

Cons

Mandatory evening events. Lame uniforms as mandatory attire. Always a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Should have stuck to Australia, Europe, and Canada. Not working out for you guys here.

Pros

The people, the promote-from-within culture, and the fact that the company really lives by (most of) its philosophies. "What gets rewarded gets done" really is true at Flight Centre, and while base pay isn't exactly stellar, the bonus structure is really quite good. The travel perks aren't bad either, and if you like Australia, well, it's pretty easy to transfer Down Under.

Cons

Some of the people promoted from within may not be the best at what they do, and it's very challenging to persuade management to do things differently in North America. Flight Centre is a dominant market force in travel in Australia, but what works there doesn't always work the best within the USA or Canada.

Advice to Senior Management

Australia doesn't always have the best ways of doing things... sometimes people in the "provinces" have good ideas too!

Pros

Our Australian operation, winner for two years running of the Hewitt Associates " Best Employer to Work for in Australia" award has over 600 businesses in Australia.
Our New Zealand operation was also voted the Best Large Workplace for the 6th year in a row in the recent “Unlimited/JRA Best Places to Work” survey. FCNZ, National winner of the prestigious award of "Best Large Workplace" .
Flight Centre UK has been voted into the Sunday Times' "Top 100 Companies to Work For", for the 6th year in a row (the only travel company to achieve this).
Flight Centre South Africa was voted Best Company To Work For in Deloitte’s 2004 survey for the Tourism, Leisure and Entertainment sector, whilst taking 5th spot in the overall judging in 2007.
The Canadian operation was voted Best Employer to work for in 2001 & 2002 and has been voted in the Top 50 Best Employer awards for the past 7 years running.

Cons

Incentives,
Constant pressure to succeed,
Work life Balance

Advice to Senior Management

10. EGALITARIANISM AND UNITY
In our company, we believe that each individual should have equal privileges and rights. In Leisure and Corporate, in Australia and overseas, and in organically grown and acquired businesses, there should be no ‘them and us’.