Great Lakes Aviation Reviews

Pros

pay better then small airlines, but no way to get a raise, free flight benefits

Cons

no training, no consistancy, no full time postions available, no health benefits, station operation manual were obsolete

Advice to Senior Management

no company guidelines made sense

Pros

There are great coworkers depending on which shift you end up working. If you're into the aviation industry it's a good place to start.

Cons

Management doesn't respect their employees very much unless said employees work on the management side of the building. Poor communication. Company is very reactive instead of proactive.

Advice to Senior Management

Talk to your employees and treat them with respect. Don't treat them like they're expendable and don;t offer anything to the company.

Pros

Co-workers and flight crews and the ability to do TDY in other locations is awesome. The flight benifits are good as well depending on location. Defently have made some friends for life working here.

Cons

This is a company were promotion and the amount of people on a flight don't matter. This company is completly dependent on the federal subsidized EAS program which is likely to go away almost entirely by Oct 2013.

Advice to Senior Management

Give a better benifits package that's cheeper, better and with a company we've all heard of and know of. Sketchy when it costs a family 800 bucks a month to a similar sounding name as the airline.

Pros

The job itself was interesting, to me, and challenging. I enjoyed everything from learning the computer systems to driving a tractor on the tarmac to parking a plane.

Cons

Local management was poorly trained. Turnover of 80% common. Local management was reminiscent of being (or not being) in a high school clique — you were in, or you were out. Regardless of your skills or desire to work well.

Advice to Senior Management

In this instance, I would be very wary of your upper management at this station. Look at your turnover and your costs associated with the training needed to become a senior agent. You might want to try outreach to employees below the level of management to discover what is wrong with this station.