What is the best company you have worked for, why?

[magyar]

you don't have to state the name of the place, i am just more interested in what made it a good place to work.

[cyeg66]

Nav Canada.

You can be as useless an individual as me and still make it.
OK, there's a little work involved but the payoff is good. For the record, I realize you're likely inquiring about flying jobs...

[ScudRunner]

Up North, why? simple, beginning of the season boss says.

Here's a log book/gas key/ and a sat phone see you in six months.

Six months later return with a righteous beard (ok light scruff) 700 hours more , Never had someone tell me I had to do something just go a set of coordinates in the GPS and if you can do it giver if not no worries ill be on my boat if you need me. Got paid to fish had nice bank statement (not to mention stocks), you get to know what companies are up to pump and dump you fly the guys in and out so you are on the sat phone selling before they are in the cab.

[DanWEC]

Up North, why? simple, beginning of the season boss says.

Here's a log book/gas key/ and a sat phone see you in six months.

Six months later return with a righteous beard (ok light scruff) 700 hours more , Never had someone tell me I had to do something just go a set of coordinates in the GPS and if you can do it giver if not no worries ill be on my boat if you need me. Got paid to fish had nice bank statement (not to mention stocks), you get to know what companies are up to pump and dump you fly the guys in and out so you are on the sat phone selling before they are in the cab.

Sounds like paradise. Can you PM me with any enlightenment?

[Hedley]

What kind of aircraft doesn't need maintenance for 700 hrs?!

What is the best company you have worked for

I have worked for many large and small companies, and I can tell you that the best person to work for ... is yourself!

I know, I know .... some wit here is now going to tell me not to do that, unless I want to have an @sshole for a boss

[iflyforpie]

What kind of aircraft doesn't need maintenance for 700 hrs?!

Oh come on Hedley, you're the one always telling us about the real plane and the paper plane.

I remember seeing a 206 come back to our shop from a summer in Cambridge Bay. Broke a flying wire fitting so they bastardized one from 1/4" steel plate and lots of bolts. Worked for the rest of the season and back to the Okanagan, all without the need for a pesky AME.




The best company I work for is the current one. I'm not much for north of the Trans Canada Highway or east of the Rockies. Glad I found a place that pays reasonable (and consistently through the year, even though the work is seasonal), and I don't get told much what to do anyways. I know what needs to be done.

The scenery isn't too bad either....

[OceansEdge]

The best company I ever worked for:

Hired me to do a job
Trained me to do it well
Let me do the job I was hired to do

Respect, expect nothing more, accept nothing less.

[1000 HP]

The present oil company I work for. Why? Home every night, lots of money, good working conditions, all the overtime I want, and a nice juicy $10000 Christmas Bonus. Plus work 9 days, get 5 off. (Sadly, they don't have an airplane yet )

[mattedfred]

Jazz Aviation Inc

Dash8 100/300 Captain

safety, security/stability, schedule, wages and working conditions, travel benefits

Jazz is the safest operation that I have ever worked for. I have worked for 6 different companies.

Jazz provides job security and stability compared to other companies that I have worked for.

monthly schedules, seniority based bid system, minimum 12 guaranteed days off per month, 6 weeks vacation/STAT, pension, health benefits and disability coverage

I earned 6 figures last year without a single hour of involuntary overtime.

Jazz pilots belong to ALPA and have a Collective Agreement.

I have traveled to New Zealand, Greece, Paris, London, Mexico, the Caribbean and all over Canada and the US because of the travel benefits.

Jazz currently operates Dash 8 100/300, CRJ 100/200/705, B757 and will operate the Q400.

[LisaS]

wow...all that and Westjet is still better.

[Black Cat]

Jazz Aviation Inc

Dash8 100/300 Captain

safety, security/stability, schedule, wages and working conditions, travel benefits

Jazz is the safest operation that I have ever worked for. I have worked for 6 different companies.

Jazz provides job security and stability compared to other companies that I have worked for.

monthly schedules, seniority based bid system, minimum 12 guaranteed days off per month, 6 weeks vacation/STAT, pension, health benefits and disability coverage

I earned 6 figures last year without a single hour of involuntary overtime.

Jazz pilots belong to ALPA and have a Collective Agreement.


I have traveled to New Zealand, Greece, Paris, London, Mexico, the Caribbean and all over Canada and the US because of the travel benefits.

Jazz currently operates Dash 8 100/300, CRJ 100/200/705, B757 and will operate the Q400.

+1. By far one of the best employers in the country.

A big one for me is the safety culture, absolutely no pressure to put profit over the safety of our passengers.

[TG]

Don't you get bored of doing the same destinations over and over ?

(genuine question, no pot steering)

[Johnny#5]

I care-antee it.

[Blakey]

I'm not much for north of the Trans Canada Highway or east of the Rockies.

Holy crap! West of the Rockies and South of the Trans-Canada is pretty limiting geographically! That leaves about 400 square miles.

[warbirdpilot7]

The one that has not hired me yet!!! Because it was not the last one, and it's not this one.

[cdnpilot77]

wow...all that and Westjet is still better.

Wow.....someone has a complex

[KAG]

wow...all that and Westjet is still better.

Wow.....someone has a complex

I was just thinking the same thing.

I'll throw my vote for WJ as well, it's nice to have a job that affords you the ability to go home and not eat, sleep, breath Aviation.

My Favorite Job was Kenn Borek Airways. Although I enjoy the perks of the airline lifestyle, I also enjoyed actually flying and the physical aspects of an honest days work.

[Old fella]

"Freedom 55" is my best gig. Just have to deal with three people - me,myself and I and got no issues with any of'em.

[Black Cat]

Don't you get bored of doing the same destinations over and over ?

(genuine question, no pot steering)

I personally do not get tired of the same destinations (jazz with 88 destinations). I try to bid my schedule for lifestyle which usually means I get the same routine airports each months but that is my choice. At this stage it is all about my life outside work. I love and enjoy my job but it is just that, a job.

I suppose another nice thing about Jazz would be that at the end of a flight we go home, no bs with engine tents, wing covers etc. Its nice to have other people who are employed to clean the planes at the end of the day (and the bosses house) so I can leave once the park brake is set. I have found this is not always the culture at other employers in this country.

[ScudRunner]

What kind of aircraft doesn't need maintenance for 700 hrs?!

What is the best company you have worked for

I have worked for many large and small companies, and I can tell you that the best person to work for ... is yourself!

I know, I know .... some wit here is now going to tell me not to do that, unless I want to have an @sshole for a boss

Hedley you ignorant slut.

Its quiet common that air taxis don't have their own maintenance and that was the case here. Our base or where the boss was did not have maintenance we would have to ferry it to get maintenance done, or if it was something other than a 50 or 100 hour they would come out. my situation I would be where the work is and I would coordinate the maintenance myself. I recall a couple times when the boss would be down there picking up supplies or have taken another plane in for an inspection and I would show up and he would say "what are you doing here?" "another 50 hours in the book you want the wad of cash now or later". Basically I was working for myself, even looked at taken over the operation but I was young and wanted to explore the world.

[superiorwhore]

Hands down Superior Air outta Red Lake.

I loved that job,

Nothing beats waking up at 5 am to go to the airport while its -35 out to uncover the plane from its cozy wing tents(if they were put on) and engine covers. Hoping into that sweet leather seat to due the run up while your breathing the crisp air you from ice crystals on the windscreen. Cranking over those tired engines, once everything is good to go you load up with your pop and chips and blast off into that big open blue abyss, props a howling with the performance of a caravan.

We got to due this all the time. Some time we'd come back, get asked to due an extra flight and say sure why not, This is the greatest gig ever. I mean we just worked a 14 hour day, but we get to due more. Hells yeah, I can get that last YPM in, i'm a company man.

Best part is I got paid big for this man, Huge I mean serious coin, 36K. I was living the high life.

[Nark]

Towing banners in San Diego.
Flew a Super Cub with the door open the whole flight. Not having to deal with passenger questions, wing and engine covers, pre-heating etc...

Didn't pay much tho. If I could go back and have the same quality of life now, I'd jump on it like a fat kid on a smartie.

[Vnwheeee!]

Lisa S;

With all due respect, Mattfred answered the question, and you did not. There are lots of reasons to love working at Westjet, I'm sure, and others have listed them. You chose not to speak of what you were for, and why, but rather what you are against. That speaks volumes. How long before you're unhappy there, too?

You were at Jazz, and now you're at Westjet. We get it, and it's boring.

[Vnwheeee!]

Hehe! After all of that, I didn't answer the question either!

Jazz - so far, maybe forever.

Excellent training, safety culture, lifestyle, welcoming atmosphere with good crews, and a union that seems to be genuinely concerned with the mutual well being of it's labour group and the continued growth of the company.

3 yrs in now, and never felt better.

All that being said, pay as an F/O has improved quite a bit, but of course would like to see more. This, however, has alot to do with the state of our industry (we're an undervalued lot in general), and can't all be fixed in one bargaining session. We'll continue to work on that one!

[FlaplessDork]

Best job I had I didn't have to show up until noon, and then got payed to play poker for a few hours then if it was guaranteed that there would be no flying that day, we all went to the bar. Awesome summer.