US Airways Reviews

Pros

I was able to use the Flight benefits

Cons

No vacation, no holidays, horrid workdays, management not responsive, poor salary, poor morale. In short, the Headquarters was a terrible place to work.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn how your employees are doing in their workplace. Help employees to develop and grow and come into the 21st century!

Pros

Great flight benefits, you can fly anywhere for free, and international flights only pay taxes.

Cons

Bad corporate culture. Very low salaries in comparison to an average job. They say when they hire you that flight benefits more than compensates for a low salary. You only get 10 days off per year and cant actually use your flight benefits that much. Pretty much you are stuck on a 9 to 5 unflexible schedule work week without the advantage of using your privileges.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase days off from 10 to 20. If employees cost a low salary then give them the chance to take a good vacation by making use of their benefits. It is bitterseet to have the ability to travel around the world but not the time to do so.

Pros

Very laid-back environment; IT buildings have a dress-down code; Depending on your manager, you might be able to telecommute one day a week.

Cons

The flight benefit is an illusion. The company has cut down on so many flights you will only be able to fly to places nobody wants to and you will probably end up buying a ticket on the way back because the flight will certainly get oversold. If you live on the west coast is even worse because you have to get either to Philly or Charlotte for flights to Europe, Caribbean Islands, and Central and South America. Tuition reimbursement is ridiculus - $1200/year. No mentoring whatsoever. Health benefits are weak as well. Very immature IT shop with no prospect of getting any better soon. Just sad!

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up and fire all of "resource" managers that spend their days checking the stock market instead of doing what they are being paid for.

Pros

Free Flying
Interesting Business
Some dedicated long-term employees

Cons

poor Managers
Good Ole' Boy atomosphere
inconsistent application of basic policies
poor compensation
unstability
Senior Leaders Brash, Cocky and Disrepectful
Senior Management Fraternity environment
Unethical

Advice to Senior Management

Young white males that have talent are fast tracked into the fraternity
They do award competent employees by overworking them and under paying them

Pros

Amazing Benefits, better than most employers.

Cons

Low pay, usually 20 to 30% below the industry average. (I know I see everyones pay at the company)

Advice to Senior Management

Better pay insensitive. First take care of your people, then the company will follow and because of it you will have a stronger and more profitable business. (Look at SWA)

Pros

professional workplace with mostly competent peers. Willing to spend the extra money to provide a safe, reliable product.

Cons

Management is unwilling to deal with less than competent employees, willing to accept "the bad apple" in the barrel.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to you're employees.

Pros

The flight benefits are very good. Many people with the company have travelled all over the world. Sometimes it can seem hard to use the flight benefits because of full planes, though if you're creative with route planning and your schedule, you'll probably get to where you want to go.

Cons

The strategic forecast analyst group is divided into pricing analysts and yield management analysts. I think pricing is the same, but in YM only about 4 people out of 40 have been here for more than 8 months. Every day a new person gets burned out and leaves. Management doesn't know what to do. There is no mentorship or employee development. I regret coming to work here (as do very many of my frustrated coworkers). Even the brand new people are scared.

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up!

Pros

Flight benefits and compassionate environment of teamwork, provided by the junior and middle management teams, though this varies significantly based on where you are located

Cons

Lack of recognition, Incentives are sometimes hard to acheive without everyones effort being up to par. Lack of compensation for work done.

Advice to Senior Management

When improvements are needed, appreciate and initiate action on feedback from front line employees. We feel left out of alot of key decisions being made. And the unions doesn't represent the whole of your workforces perspective

Pros

Flight benefits
Working with the public

Cons

Poor management
Many supervisors had little to no previous management experience
Zero leadership from mid-level management
Incompetent managers viewed knowledgeable workers as a threat

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees like assets, not enemies

Pros

Very friendly staff in the corporate office, with a good number of social activities and events where employees can mingle between departments. Able to do some traveling that I wouldn't have done otherwise, and parents were able to take a trip overseas that they had wanted to take all their lives. Many managers are very flexible with work hours and working from home.

Cons

Informal, but very strict hierarchy means a lack of direct communications between employees and their supervisors' manager, and playing broken telephone when working on projects. A major lack of direction, resulting from the senior management team not prioritizing initiatives, and not providing enough funding to ensure that projects are completed successfully. Company has never integrated all of the component airlines, making data analysis extremely difficult in many cases. Company has a lot of analysts who can't even use Excel, and has a lot of data that is completely useless but is missing some items of extreme value. Certain departments are valued much more highly than others, as evidenced by higher quality equipment and salaries for comparable positions. Too many attempts to reorganize departments leave managers in the position of laying off full-time employees, who had expected long careers, after employing them for only a few months.

Advice to Senior Management

There are a lot of ways to improve your organization, and they can be found and worked on, if you have the right analysts looking at your data and telling you what else you should be collecting. Listen to your analysts, they're bright people who see 10 interesting trends in their data for every 1 that gets your attention. Nine small things can save a lot of money, even though the one big thing is what gets all of the attention. Focus on fixing the things that are wrong with the company and you won't have to lay off your front line employees.