United Airlines Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

healthcare, wage, pension, and travel benefits, schedule flexibility, the variety and number of coworkers, working outdoors in beautiful Colorado weather

Cons

An ongoing regime of uncommunicative, disinterested, Machiavellian, and apathetic managers - anyone who should know what the future of the Denver hub is either doesn't know or isn't saying. Over 50% of peers in Ramp Service job classification are part time while peers in other hubs with less seniority are full time - this is contactually allowed but we have never been given the courtesy of an explanation for the business reason for this arrangement. Local management refuses to create additional money making opportunities for UAL at Denver hub - limited ground service and de/anti icing for United Express and Star Alliance carriers. A steady march towards line station status.

Advice to Senior Management

Just tell us what the future will be in Denver - give us time to find other jobs instead of stringing us along as you have been for the last three years.

Pros

Compensation
Flight Benefits
Complexity and Scope of responsibility within IT

Cons

Seniority based employee benefits and privileges

Advice to Senior Management

Need to rotate Leadership positions more frequently to keep Top Talent fresh and cultivate next generation of leadership.

Pros

Location of training center in Denver

Cons

Shifting goal, poor leadership and poor performance

Pros

The employees in all work groups are the best people I have ever worked with. Employee groups continue to try their best to work together, despite pay-cuts, layoffs, and news of senior management bonuses (while we are taking pay-cuts). I am proud to work with "My United Family" and am inspired by my co-workers, of course I do not consider senior management part of this family. The merger with Continental is also inspiring, as the new CEO also looks at his company as an inter-related group (family). The pride is still there, under the muck of the past couple years. With the right leadership, the new United/Continental could be a great place to work, providing the best airline service in the world. Last, but not least, the medical/dental and flight benefits are fantastic.

Cons

As stated above, it is very dispiriting to take a pay-cut as senior management is giving itself raises and bonuses. You get the idea that senior management considers themselves above the rest of the company. Shouldn't everyone participate in compromises to help support our company? I have also witnessed many actions that seem to hurt morale, when the workers actually need more action to promote morale and show support for the hardships that they have had to endure (pay-cuts, lay-offs, hours cut, or relocation to maintain full-time employment).

Advice to Senior Management

Get out as soon as possible and give a successful management team a chance (Continental's). If you treat the workers as second class employees, you are going to get second class work.

Pros

The overall compensation package is as good or better than most airlines and there are still some very experienced preople working in customer service

Cons

An unbelievable adversarial management style! In Denver the situation is just plain ridiculous. The average experience in years in den customer service is 20 plus years but the average management experience is about 6 years

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to the core business of running a customer service based transportation service and thin the "leadership" ranks back to be commensurate with the actual working staff

Pros

I enjoy being a pilot. United's incompetence aside I find being a pilot rewarding. There is a high level of satisfaction knowing you got a few hundred passengers safely to there destination.

Cons

United has the worse management of any airline. The treat there employees with disrespect and have little interest in changing their ways. Upper management have no idea how to manage employees, the airlines assets or money.

Advice to Senior Management

United management should listen to their employees. The ceo should leave his office once in a while and actually show up at the airport or on an airplane.

Pros

United has great, dedicated, professional employees.

Cons

United's great, dedicated, professional employees have been ground down by greedy, aloof, incompetent management. There's no apparent silver lining at the end of this tunnel--just more employee sacrifice to support the pocketbooks of the senior managers. Very difficult to watch this proud company turned into a shell of itself while the board of directors does nothing. United is dying....

Advice to Senior Management

LEAVE! GO AWAY! You've been an unmitigated disaster for this company. Fire yourselves and the board of directors--find someone who's interested in running an airliine for the benefit of all the stakeholders.

Pros

United senior management has successfully stripped any reason to work for United... flight rivileges are a joke, benefits are decreasing and we are being asked to do more with less....

Cons

Almost everything, reduced benefits, stripped retirement pay and benefits, stress to put planes in the sky when all work is not completed. Lousy service which makes unhappy customers which makes the job that much the worse...

Advice to Senior Management

They haven't been listening for years. They have one master and that is the share holders and the share holders only. They don't care about the employees or the customers. As a matter of fact, I believe every negative review makes them think they are doing their job. They have been successful at nothing, look at the share price, look at the employee moral, look at the customers.........

Pros

Medical benefits are still good!

Cons

Terrible Upper Management - loss of retirement(more than once) - unfair treatment of employee groups - no future - no ability to take pride in your work - no consistency

Advice to Senior Management

Happy employees make productive ones! Contented, respected employees would be measured by increased profits and more customers. YOU GUYS ARE BAD LEADERS!!!!