What's it like in other ops dept's?
 

I'm curious to find what it's like in other airlines's ops departments. I've only ever seen ours.

Not sure what i want to know really?

Same problems? Low pay?

Give us all a brief run-down of your Ops Dept and we'll let you know our comparison's.
Let us know which sector of the business you are in Charter/Low-Cost etc etc

007

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007, ours has got 4 walls, 3 windows, nice view of the ramp, a few PC's..can you remember that far back?

Bondy,

You cheeky monkey !!!!

See you later,
007

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007, not on shift and posting at 0505 !!!!

Bondy

JB007, what are u doing that time in the morning? are the books keeping u up?
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Christmas was a waste, and I can't remember New Year..

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Pp,
Yep...exams in a few days !!!

In Essex on Friday if your around ?

007

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DVR8M - ask Kelly Aviation. They know everything http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/cool.gif

Ah JSR - back from the sands of Dubai then :)
Brought any camel dung back with you.

DVR8M check http://www.aviationjobsearch.co.uk if not done so already, or drop me your CV via e-mail as might, only might be some ops positions in the very near future.

Lala - it was Jeddah actually, but close enough. Whats your opinion on Kelly then ??

Same **** as your Ops Dept, but a different view out of the window...

-lalapanzi-
Thanks for your consideration, but i'm very happy where i am at the moment. I work for a good company.

Thanks for the web-site info as well, hopefully should'nt be needing it for long time.

I personally think that each Ops room is dependent upon your Ops manager/Director and if your computerised or not......
Dark Ages....Stone Age....again this is dependent on your Manager/Director
I've used R.M and now Acrobat as Rostering and Ops/Flight Watch systems and Air Data and Jeppesen for planning/weather.
Anyway how about an Ops/Crewing Union?

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JSR - ummmm, now didn't we discuss this before http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/guus/drunk.gif on the forum about kelly.
Anyway keep partying

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DVR8M,
in response to your question, whats it like in other ops depts?
well I work for HeavyLift Ops at STN and can safely say its pretty good - obviously you get the blame for most things and as im sure other guys from other airlines will say ' its just the nature of the job'
Shifts are good - loadz of time off
12 hour jobs - rolling 24 roster ( example below)
2days, 2 nights 5 off
3days 2nights 5 off
2days 3 nights 4 off
work is certainly varied and you learn a lot.
Pay could be improved - not great & not too bad.
hope that partially answers you question

SNOOPY 22
HHHmmmmmmm Ive been looking at your threads.. I take it you didn’t take the job in the portacabin for 23K + grief did ya.

That is if you are who I think you are...


[This message has been edited by Albert Slong (edited 17 January 2001).]

Albert Slong,

in response to 'atke it you did'nt take the job in the shed for 23k a year & grief'


well yes I did but now im off very shortly - back to happylift -
it's funny - u dont reallly realize a good ops dept until your gone

Just got bored of the grief and the shifts at 'the shed'

Italy here:
1) low pay;
2) many troubles ("the chairman's doughter missed that flight in Australia...can you do something?" at 3am friday with a couple of AOG's in progress in nice and fully assisted places like RockSound, Bahamas and CayoLargo, Cuba);
3) flight planning system outage when pilots report in the office;
4) same vhf call "we missed the slot 30min ago, can you arrange a better one?...";
I love it! I swear

Yea we've all been there and I bet it was the crew complaining of a 10min slot delay

As one Ops director I knew kept doing in stressful times - was to lie flat out on the floor shouting f*** it....numerous times

He says he felt much better afterwards

Keep em flying.

snoopy22

How are doing your Belfasts these days?
I remember an interesting jumpseat on Fox Tango while working at TNT...

Rgds from GVA busy ops.