US Airways Reviews

Pros

Flight benefits are a wonderfull thing to have as a job perk flying anywhere for free and getting time off to do so is easy

Cons

The work is very physically damanding and there can be stressfull you have peoples lives in your hands and have to know what your doing

Advice to Senior Management

To work on getting the paymeasygoing little more fair for the kind of work we do it's hard stuff and you have to know a lot about a lot of different planes and policies

Pros

The health plan is good. There are many activities you can engage in to help others in your community. The fellow employees are great.

Cons

When I started the company wanted to be the world class carrier of choice. Then they wanted to merge with anyone who wanted to dance. Now they want to be a down sized, low class commuter airline with a few international destinations.

Advice to Senior Management

Decide what is best for US Airways as a stand alone company and work to achieve it, instead of trying to downsize to merge the airline. Compensate your employees with the same company comparisons you used to obtain your salary.

Pros

Early on some of the people I flew with were so much fun and made the job feel like a vacation as oppose to work....

Cons

Id say being on reserve for over 10 yrs was a bummer but still better than anything else out there

Advice to Senior Management

Look at things from a Flight Attendant point of view

Pros

The only reason to stay at US Airways is to protect your seniority.

Cons

Severe employee friction and unrest. Airline merged America West and the bankrupt US Airways in 2003. Employee groups have not been merged. Management establishes a work environment of fear and mistrust. The only valid reason to remain an employee is airline seniority; you cannot transfer pilot seniority to any other airline.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut CEO and senior management compensation packages to industry standard. The fact Mr. Parker is the highest compensated airline CEO in the USA is outrageous. Merge the two pilot groups; work a single East/West contract. Replace the environment of fear and mistrust with a trust-trust management to employee structure. Trust your line employees; if you make them feel safe and valued they're your window into all aspects of the company.

Pros

The benefits overall are good, although the flight benefits will never make up for what you lose in wages. The culture is very good as are the people that work there.

Cons

Cheap is the theme, old equipment, etc. Pay will be 20-30% lower than the average for your position, this is a given. In my area, a lot of micro managing exists and this is where they could actually save some money if attention was paid to where it should be.

There is a lot of turn over and the reasons are probably all of the above.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay a decent salary, develop people and quit over complicating simple tasks (some departments replicate work). If you would invest in some of your employees, I'm sure they would invest in a career with US Airways. However, the way things are now, it is simply not the case.

Pros

Frontline employees are terrific, and you would be fortunate to work with them.

Cons

Company spends too much money trying to save money. Audits. Analysts.

Pros

+ Flight benefits.
+ Other benefits decent.
+ Competitive industry, exciting and dynamic.

Cons

+ Overall depressed mood from most employees, including management.
+ Little to no training. Expected to learn on the job. Difficult in such a technical industry.
+ Management focuses on the negatives, rather than the positives. Not very motivating.
+ Terminations are blindsided. No discussions, no warning. Very impersonal.

Advice to Senior Management

+ Invest in the success of the employees through training. Otherwise, growth curve is slow.
+ Increase the morale through acknowledgment of positive performances rather than reprimands for negative performance. You don't teach a whale to jump by poking it. It learns by being rewarded each time it performs well. People are motivated when they see their successful impact and are proud to act productively, not because they are criticized for mistakes.

Pros

Individual will have lots of downtime which could be use toward their personal reason such as study or other work.

Cons

There are not many cons at this job. The main cons would be how quickly individual can be fired because not being on time.

Pros

Flight benefits and bonuses. They take care of their employees.

Cons

Bonuses are not often. Would be nice to increase benefit age for dependents from 23 to 25

Pros

Travel benefits, good medical insurance, good communication from senior
Management.

Cons

Lowest pay in industry for a contractual group, very poor employee morale,
Incompetent heavy handed control freak middle managers, not enough money to survive on.
Below poverty line.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to, take care of and finally PAY your people.
Stop trying to recruit and entrap top talent and then pay them
Nothing and treat them poorly.