I barely post on PPRuNe, but when I see drivel like some of what is posted in this thread ragging on this company I am drawn to the keyboard....
I've got my take on skytrans - having worked there for almost 5 years.
They are a progressive, expansive, go-getter firm with a heap of excellent people working for them.
They appear to have a nack for picking the right people (mostly) and maintaining pretty high morale within the troops. You don't acheive this from consistently screwing people over and giving nothing in return to your employees.
Someone made a comment regarding the company being a non-familiy friendly environment. Well, from one pilot's perspective, I can't say I've come across previous management that is more considerate to their employees (in my flying career and from others' that I know).
They have had some growing pains (it continues) and rostering reshuffling, however employees can look at the flexibility demanded due to tight scheduling of limited airframes against the sheer volume of work that they are managing to pick up, see this as a positive toward employment stability and (for some more importantly) progression, they can feel satisfied with their (well appreciated) contribution.
Training standards are stabilising after a termultuous period up until about 18 months ago. The checking and training standard is good and for some time they have started to really spend extra money on it whilst improving it all the time.
Pay and conditions are reasonable with good remuneration for roster changes, DTA, working on RDOs, etc.
The roster gets changed a fair bit, but individual peoples' lines are not disturbed from the plan too frequently.
I would very much like to recommend this company to anyone with an appreciation of a crowd of people trying to make the place a real contender in regional RPT and FIFO ops, who have a good work ethic, are willing to learn and adapt.
Maybe Skytrans is 'protected' on this forum due to them actually being pretty popular amongst their employees (shock horror).