Pros

Awesome flight benefits
Low stress atmosphere

Cons

It appears that this company has given up on becoming profitable again and is now content for management to just hand out promotions to their friends.

Advice to Senior Management

Doesn't matter... this ship is sinking

Pros

If you are incredibly spontaneous and like to travel, the flight benefits can be a huge perk. The size of the company also attributes to a lot of other perks in addition to decent benefit options. Coworkers are mostly friendly and respectful.

Cons

Lack of career opportunities. Lack of professional growth. Lack of feedback from management. Lack of any positive HR oversight in management practices. Uncoordinated project communication structure. Lack of communication between internal teams.

Advice to Senior Management

Take better care of your employees and they will produce better results. Communicate goals and expectations, create a vision to work towards, and monitor the progress towards the accomplishment of goals.

Pros

Not the absolute worst company to work for, but is far from the best. I will give them this, I needed a day off for a wedding, and the chief pilot worked it our for me.

Cons

Very little future. Just a matter of time before the company is sold off, with the west operation and the east operation being sold off to different carriers. Or the whole operation is doomed.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to gain market share using their most money-making aircraft, the E190. Oh, wait...they just started selling off those aircraft, to a carrier that will, most likely use them against US Airways! Smooth move Doug.

Pros

Using newer technologies and open to change. Very casual work environment. Coworkers easy to get along with.

Cons

No career path, there is a line a mile long for every promotion. Promotions based on who's butt you've stuck your nose up and not competency.

Advice to Senior Management

Have a better understanding of your employees' work performances and don't give promotions to those who consistently show how incompetent they are but talk a good game.

Pros

Good corporate environment. Good people and fair treatment. Very flexible. Great corporate location.

Cons

Very weak pay. Delayed annual review/raise. Terrible promotion scale - a 5 year manager that worked his way up can make less than an analyst off the street and both are less than other airlines.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring employee pay up to par or lose your best to the competition.

Pros

Good medical and flight benefits

Cons

This is a cut-throat environment. If the new boss don't like you, they will do anything to get rid-off you even as far as to lie about your performance. Even if you receive an excellent review, HR don't look out for your best interest and listen to your side of the story. New manager will come into the department changing things that you are not trained for, then to tell you that they don't have time to sit and trainned you how they want things done is totally asinine.

Advice to Senior Management

Having the patient and investing on your employee that has been loyal to you will save you more time and money than hiring someone new. Wouldn't you still have to train that new employee? Train your managers in "Conflict Management" and hire someone who can take the management job and help train their employees to excel in their job. The managers are not the one who drives and makes money for the company, its the little people in the bottom. The employees that are in front of line who deals with customers, vendors, clients and co-workers on daily basis. The ones that are loyal and sticks to their job for better or worse no matter how little the company pays you. Also the people that has the drive to learn and excel in their work. These are the employees you should listen to... This is the reason why companies are loosing good people, cause they hire wrong managers for the job who doesn't know how to work with their employees. .

Pros

the flight benefits are great.

Cons

management not taking an interest in its employees. pay is low comapred to other major ailines.

Advice to Senior Management

stop thinking short term and think long term about the desicions you make regarding the quality of life of the front line employees.

Pros

Can't beat the flight benefits! There's a lot of great co-workers, and a kind and considerate personal culture. The health plans are well administered, 401K gets an automatic 3% company contribution. As airlines go, the merged airline that America West created has been a stable employer, with less turmoil through cycles of layoff's and hiring.

Cons

There's a lack of a comprehensive vision for employee relations, and no 360-degree feedback, i.e. little or no input is requested or considered from the field. it's seems that the company just chugs along without really considering middle management and their input. Company policies and internal procedures can be reactive rather than methodical.

Advice to Senior Management

While the financial leadership is appreciated and probably most important, there is no leadership regarding the kind of employer LCC seeks to be. What is that vision?

Pros

Benefits are great and the people are great. This is a good job for people just graduating high school and are looking for jobs with good benefits and a strong future. I joined the company straight out of high school and I love it. The pay is great and they benefits are great as well. I have been able to travel all over the country for free. I was even able to bring friends along with me. When my first son was born I was able to work all the overtime I wanted which really helped out with bills.

Cons

Working in the elements are all ways tough.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember where you started.

Pros

I like the job that I have. I enjoy going to work

Cons

Management seems unsure. Also they seem to think the employee's and public are ignorant.

Advice to Senior Management

Honor God in all you do. Help people to develop, give to those that have given too you. Listen to the people that know the job. Listen to all your customers. Maybe your model is outdated.