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Pinnacle Airlines

Acquired by Endeavor Air

Is this your company?

This is a bottom of the barrel airline. They work you until you quit if you can afford to do that. - Anonymous employee Pinnacle Airlines Employee Review

2.0
3 Apr 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You have flight benefits. If you do your job well you can do your job and not have management overseeing your day to day.

Cons

You have flight benefits but our seniority is awful. We are the last of the last to get a seat. We are below other company employees buddy passes and retirees. The company opted out of a better flight benefit package. We pay $50 a year to activate and there are no buddy passes. Parents can fly but they pay aprox .09 cents per mile. Other companies have buddy passes and parents fly with no fees. If I could I would go mainline. If I stayed regional I would choose SkyWest. I have met many of SkyWest flight crew and they are happy with the way they are treated. Ask any Pinnacle flight crew and I cannot say I am in the least bit confident you would get a complimentary response. Pay for first officers and flight attendants are very poor. Flight attendants and a first officer with any family qualify for food stamps, it is very shameful. People should be payed a living wage in this country.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
17 Dec 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1) work on commercial jets 2) flight benefits 3) not a bad place out of school 4) no union

Cons

1) pay not the greatest 2) speed over quality 3) high turnover 4) poor management 5) base managers and foreman treat the mechanics like crap 6) NO COMMUNICATION between any part of the company starting from the top and on down 7) terrible training company (learn as you go, then get written up for not knowing enough) 8) have to deal with the constant "hair on fire mentality" 9) as of 2012 no more pay raises 10) only incentives are "you got through the day without being written up", no bonuses (unless you work in Memphis HQ, then you do every quarter, at least 11) lack of inventory of parts required to do daily fuctions 12) "health benefits" *note sarcasm* 13) expected to do way more than time permits, LOTS of cutting corners and lack of safety equipment. 14) If you can't get a 3 hour job done in 1 we will replace you with someone that can 15) doing procedures by the book optional 16) Ramco computer system (logbook entries, inventory systems and etc.) is a nightmare at best I could continue but I'm getting sick of typing

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