Joining Air Atlanta?
Air Atlanta is not for everyone.
Air Atlanta has been a jumping for many people to companies such as Virgin, Cargolux, SIA Cargo and Cathay.
It depends what you are looking for.
If you are looking for jet time and widebody experience it might be ok for some time to stay with AAI. When and if you leave do not burn any bridges and then you might be welcome back if they need you, like so many people have done.
If you are looking for a family life and stable lifestyle AAI is not for you.
Lots of people compare their pay and conditions to major carriers.
Like I said above AAI can be a jumping stone to better jobs.
Airborne personell is probably the worst in the industry and they do not look out for your rights and conditions
They don't care if you leave or stay because they do not pay for training new personell.
Actually the people running Airborne are not Icelandic but Brit's and Irish.
Do not expect any fairness from crewplanning. They are always firefighting and just want to get the job done wether its fair or not.
They themselfes are not working in perfect conditions.
They do not get the resources they need and are being treated unfairly themselfes. Also keep in mind that lots of them work for airborne.
However when sitting down in the crewrooms you hear very much about other people problems and then the ball gets rolling and you become a very unhappy person.
We have people who are retired from major carriers and are not used to AAI and some are always comparing to their old lifestyles and still stay.
(Note: some of them still keep benefits and fly home regularly between flights)
You will hear dont trust the Icelandics like in the above BIG STATEMENT. Anywhere you go there are people you cant trust and not trust.
Just join on you own terms and see for yourself. If you dont like you can always go somwhere else with your experience.
Unfortunately I cannot give you advise on interviews and checks since they are changing all the process at the moment.
Good Luck
Last edited by 747flyby; 30th Mar 2007 at 11:04.
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