PSA Airlines reviews

Well. Let's see here....The company refuses to pay its employees industry standards. The union has tried on multiple occasions to negotiate higher pay scales to meet the industry "status quo". The company has since rejected to accepted any negotiations for greater pay scales. First year pay as an First Officer on reserve is near poverty, figuring understandable cost of living necessities, i.e Rent, Car loan, Student loans, and food. On top of that, the money the company does rightfully owe to its employees is often "Miscalculated" (In the companies favor.) Management and payroll also often "Read between the lines" in the union contract to commit obvious violations in pay, and quality of life for crew members. There is a major Arbitration ruling supposedly being announced later this month or next that has cost hundreds of pilots thousands of dollars. Instead of fixing contractual violations and bringing pay up to industry standards the company focuses on false advertisement in the recruitment field, falsely advertising our AA flow agreement, profit sharing and many others that are boasted up by management to create smoke and mirrors in order to reel in new pilots. The Flow is only at 5 a month which puts a new hire pilot on the backside of a 1200 pilot group at 18+ years to flow....not exactly what they are advertising. They speak of a growing airline but yet our attrition is exceeding our hiring capabilities for pilots.

Where should I start. About a year ago, the management started taking away the ability for our pilots to make extra money per the contract. In doing so, it made most of our pilots lose THOUSANDS of dollars. This issue is still ongoing and has resulted in an incredibly infectious, and negative morale towards our management. This same morale has been continued because of the lack of efficient schedules that started around the same time. We have pilots going to work for 4 days and receiving ~10 hours of pay for those 4 days. In other companies, the minimum amount of time you would get paid for for a 4 day trip would be 16 hours minimum. Ours can get as low as 10 hours of pay. The contract used to be one of the better ones or at least very competitive, but unfortunately it is now not even close to others as far as compensation goes. With that being said, the worst part about the company is the lack of engagement between the management and its employees. We as pilots, RARELY hear anything from management. Good or bad. In this industry there needs to be an understanding and a support from the pilots to management and vise versa. Unfortunately, at this company, there is none. There are roughly 1,200 pilots at this company and most of them are upset with the way they are treated. Management acts as the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain and never shows their face. On top of all of this, we are not properly staffed for our operation as is. We have been having line check airmen (captains) fly as first officers to staff flights. We have delayed the transfer of aircraft from envoy in order to try to catch up with our staffing issues. We have seized captain upgrades for the near future. Our flow numbers are currently at 5 but will most likely be shrinking and we will hold people back because they will be unable to staff the flying if they are to allow pilots to leave the company. We have had multiple First Officers leave to other airlines because of better opportunities at various different airlines. Our pay is among some of the lowest in the industry (even with the 10k dollar sign on bonus because of how much you will see from that bonus, which also requires a 2 year contract signed) All in all, when I came here, it was the place to be. People were getting paid appropriately, upgrades were abundant, and the increase of aircraft was fantastic. Now, we aren't getting paid properly, we never hear from management, planes aren't being transferred, upgrades are stagnant, and the specifics within the contract (and the first year pay) are some of the worst in the industry.