Trans States Reviews

Pros

Nice benefits
Between average to good learning opportunities
Depending on your position, you get to do some traveling for training and work

Cons

Better treatment of younger employees
PTO is very short for first year employees: This reduces the possibility to enjoy some of the travel benefits except on the weekends

Advice to Senior Management

More money should be spent of the improvement of facility and infrastructure to promote a happy and better working environment.

Pros

The majority of crew-members are enjoyable to work with.
Flight benefits (same at any 121 carrier).

Cons

Terrible quality of life (low-pay, inflexible schedules, spend 350 hrs away from home and 160 hrs of duty per month for 85-90 hrs of pay)
Management is intimidating and dishonest, as is scheduling.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees as assets as opposed to nuisances. Follow the work-model of Southwest and similar results will follow.

Pros

If you like to travel and be gone on the weekends or if you have someone to help you with your bills this may be a good job for you.
Travel benefits

Cons

It takes years before your off reserve
Always work weekends
Never have a set schedule
Pay is horrible
Uniform is cheap but very expensive to buy
Manager is rude and fake
They lie in interview and training about how the job really is
Most people that work there hate especially the pilots

Advice to Senior Management

Have more respect and caring for your employees. Be honest from the beginning about how things work so your not surprised when we quit because of things we didnt know

Pros

Your fellow employees are great, everyone has the same experiences so there is always someone to complain with.

Cons

Poor management/employee relations. Terrible scheduling, maintenance is frightening, below average pay, and no job stability.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat the employees as important members of the company

Pros

with seniority you'll get 15 days off a month, but thats the same as any flight attendant job. in terms of the this specific company... you're better off trying somewhere else

Cons

incompetence all around. also they don't care.

Advice to Senior Management

be nice and think about more than just the bottom line.

Pros

Trans States employees who fly for United Express get United flight benefits.

Cons

1. Low, low, low pay.
2. Management gives very little indication of the company's prospects for the future.
3. Work days can just drag on and on and on, sometimes we work as many as seven flights in one day.
4. Morale here is the lowest of anywhere I have ever worked.
5. There doesn't seem to be enough flying to go around.

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest about the company's situation! No one likes nasty surprises in the form of waves of furloughs and forced transfers.

Pros

The fellow crewmembers are among the best in the regionals.

Cons

Management has no respect for the employee groups which is why it has both unionized groups in negotiations currently.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop trying to nickel and dime us on tedious rules that only people who carry around a rule book care about and give some recognition once in a while how good of a job we do when we can keep it all together while chaos constantly ensues all around us. Overall, passengers love us and isn't that the bottom line? The feds seem to like us quite a bit too.

Pros

Help you build time to get experiance to get another job with a better company. There really aren't very many positives. The only thing I can say is that I have a job and get a pay check. Anything beyond that is just a bonus when working for Trans States. We are just above Mesa in terms of how good our company is. I mean Mesa is the floor and we are just off of that.

Cons

Everything. Overworked, underpaid and treated like crap. The company only matches our 401k by 1%. The company makes money offf of our health care. The labor group pays for poor managment decisions. If the managment makes a mistake that cost the company money, they don't lose their job, but they are more than willing to fire pilots to pay for their mistakes. The owner and CEO would sell their mother's soul to the devil to make a penny. Its like a company run by a used car salesman.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop a good relationship with the labor force. Kinda like Southwest or Jet Blue. Managment and labor don't have to be at odds by nature.