Piedmont Airlines Reviews

Pros

Travel benefits - of course!

Cons

Airline industry is very unstable.

Pros

Flight benefits are the main reason many people choose to work for airlines. Employees are allowed to fly standby at no cost.
Working outdoors might by considered a pro by some.

Cons

Incompetent management
Inadequate equipment maintenance
Often short-staffed, which resulted in a higher likelihood of aircraft delays, misrouted baggage and employee injuries.

Advice to Senior Management

Increased pay for management would benefit the company. I never knew how much the station manager's salary was, but I do know that supervisors only received a $2/hour pay bump. This is not enough to attract quality management. The average turnover rate for supervisors was very short during my tenure and they were often incompetent. I would also suggest being more selective in the hiring of station managers.

Pros

Senior management do a very good job.

Cons

Local management could be much better.

Pros

Flight Benefits (if you are able to use them)

Cons

Feel unappreciated, we are always told what is wrong and how we're "failing" but never praised for the good things we do. Never hear a "Thank You" or "Good Job".

Pros

It has travel benefits like other airlines

Cons

Hostile management who do not do the right thing, ever, unless mandated in a contract or the law.

Advice to Senior Management

Do to others as you would have them do to you

Pros

People are friendly and travel perks are very worth while if you have the time available to you to actually travel.

Cons

There are very few opportunities to advance in your position with the airline, and the hours aren't always flexible with your schedule.

Advice to Senior Management

Flexibility is an important thing to employees and it very important to remember that a happy worker works harder. If an employee is frustrated at work it is surely going to affect their performance.

Pros

Fly for free (space available)
Flexiable- for part-time

Cons

bad management, seems to not care about employees or passengers. When we were voting for the union, management was nice, trying to persuade our vote. After we won, things were back to normal. We have managers without leadership and knowledge of what it takes to be a manager. Seems the only way to get promoted is to be friends with management

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees, we are smarter that you think.

Pros

Flight benefits on US Airways, some opportunities for transfers to other Piedmont stations, generally good management on a local level.

Cons

Little to no job security, upper management seems to care only about the bottom line, airline is in "crisis and money saving mode," therefore not many real perks from working here except flight benefits and full-time benefits.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember that your employees are your greatest asset. Please quit treating them like they are expendable. We enjoy our jobs and are happy in them, so please quit treating us like we are trying to cheat you. We know that profitability is an issue in this business, but remember that we are the ones who keep you afloat. Without us there would be no money.

Pros

there are many opportunities at this time within company

Cons

industry is changing constantly with economy of today and fuel prices

Advice to Senior Management

none at this time with todays economy they are doing overall great job

Pros

Piedmont has one of the best pay scales for entry-level first officers, mainly due to being an ALPA shop. And you are part of a wholly-owned carrier of US Airways, which gives preference when jumpseating...

Cons

The training department has no idea what they are talking about. While in training as a first officer, I learned more from the captain upgrades than from the designated ground instructor, who was not a pilot on the DHC-8 aircraft.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire a certain director of AQP, who makes baseless accusations of cheating on a standardized test to people who had previously performed very well on previous tests.