inventory associate

aircraft maintenance technician

first officer

ground support equipment mechanic

airline manager

Air Wisconsin Airlines

When I first started with the company I was told about our perks and benefits, and was very pleased to start out here.  What bothers me most is when my whole class was told to have a positive attitude if you need more training our instructors will help you any way you can to succeed.  I fell behind where i should be by about a day.  I studied hard with my classmate and improved my troubled areas day by day.  Halfway through my course my instructor told me i may need additional training it wasn't a bid deal ad not to worry about it.  I noticed afterwards he started losing focus on helping me get through class.  I could tell something was wrong but couldn't put my finger on it.  There was a negative attitude towards me,  I was only told about what i did wrong as if i never improved at all.  I went to take an evaluation on my progress, I was told i needed additional training I'm not quite there.  I was even given a week gap between my classes if I needed more training scheduled before my next class.  I went home and the next day i got a phone call asking to resign or be terminated.  I asked what the reason was for my termination and wasn't given an answer.  When i interviewed with the company one thing said was"  We would rather hire a moderately good pilot with the willingness to learn than a very experienced pilot thinking there's nothing new to learn."  I tried my hardest and while one person had ruined my experience.  There were also a lot of very good people working here too.  Another instructor would stay with me after class and helped me move on.  The office staff was very nice and helpful, they were slow on giving out schedules, training did drag out longer than it should have.  I wish things would have turned out better than they did but I cant change that now.  The only advice I can give is the moment you have a problem let the company know immediately.  If I had given a better notice to what was going on I might still be there.

One of the biggest issues at this company is the complete lack of communication. Management rarely informs employees about major decisions or changes until it's too late—or never at all. Layoffs occur frequently, often without explanation or warning, leaving people blindsided and uncertain about their future.

What’s worse is the misleading job offers. There have been several cases where individuals were told they were being promoted or offered new roles, only for the opportunity to be given to someone else, or worse, never followed up on at all. It creates a toxic atmosphere of mistrust and frustration.

Pay is not very competitive here, and the company tends to pay significantly more for outside hires rather than promoting or fairly compensating internal employees. This practice leaves loyal staff feeling undervalued and overlooked.

The company also fails to adapt to the changing market, stubbornly insisting that its CRJ200 aircraft is still in demand, despite the fact that all the major airlines are phasing them out. This refusal to evolve only adds to the instability and uncertainty about the company’s future.

Adding insult to injury, executives continue to receive retention and performance bonuses, even though the company isn’t performing well. This disconnect between leadership rewards and employee treatment is incredibly demoralizing.

Despite all this, it’s the coworkers who truly make this place better and do the real work. They are the backbone of the company, often working hard with little recognition.

The instability and lack of transparency make it very hard to feel secure or valued here. If you're looking for a place that treats its employees with respect, keeps them in the loop, and fairly compensates their efforts, this is not it.

This airline is located in beautiful country side, has great access to cheese, beer and good times. However; the work environment is less than accomodating.
I moved to Wisconsin over 1200 miles to do this job. Was conditionally promised overtime, and was told I would be accomodated due to my long travel.
I came from another airline, which posed problems with the trainer. "Express Jet is the enemy" I was told.
People here are all out for themselves, and are just happy to be in a position to have a job, are not passionate about the industry and dont care about anything except when their paycheck is coming, whether or not Mitt Romney will send them back to the kitchen, and when they can get a raise.
There is NO overtime, they over staff, and your hours are not garaunteed. The schedule is not set, it varies shift during the work week, you cannot plan anything on a regular basis like most airlines will allow you to do.

The compensation is decent, yet the hours again are inconsistent, variable, and not garaunteed according to the department supervisor, WHICH is not located on the floor, works a 9-5 m-f and rarely makes an appearance on the floor, which is why in my opinion the training is insufficient, and knowledge of airline business, and FARs is scarce. In fact "the oldest crew scheduler in America" works there, and I had to challenge her on whether or not an FA could fly on a part 91 repositioning flight. She argued that FAR wouldnt let you, for 30 minutes! I finally had to have a dispatcher tell her differently.

This is PODUNK airline, it is not a career stepping stone.. just keep that in mind. Unless you plan on moving up with this company, and no other, I wouldnt consider this as a viable move.

happy applying!

There is no typical day when one manages outsourced maintenece on 70 CRJ regional jet aircraft. With at least 3 major heavy maintenance visits going on 24/7, out of state and managing the projects, work hours, evaluations, budget and progress for a team of co-workers and managing a huge budget there is only trying to stay on top of everything, reaction to problems and a strong and consistant push to get a finished, quality aircraft, safe, on time and within buget so another one can go in for another maintenance visit and the cycle repeats. It is fast paced, never boring and always evolving. Air Wisconsin's senior leadership strives for their employees to work smarter, not harder and steamline each process. It was togh yet very rewarding and I wouldn't have traded the experience for anything. We had a highly dedicated management staff who could shift priorities at a moments notice and tackle another huge project while maintaining the "normal" duties of our appointed positions. When looking back from maintaining a fleet of 5 different type aircraft, huge parts inventories, as many as 86 aircraft with all the specialized MX on each, from repairing huge structural reairs and modidifications to re-painting all of the aircraft numerous times into a totally different paint scheme, it was great employment for many years and freindships with co workers that remain stable today.

You work alone on the planes. 1 FA per 50 pax. I didn’t hate that. It was nice to work unsupervised without someone watching you all the time or having any conflicts. However, the other flight attendants don’t understand that everyone works differently and has their own flow. They will report you purely because your galley setup isn’t the same as theirs. There are mainly short flights as well. The furthest west they go is Denver. 

The pay is horrible. YOU WILL NEED A SECOND JOB. You won’t be able to live off of this pay. Their crew scheduling isn’t any different from other companies. Every FA hates CS. BUT their CS people are really rude. They’re quick to leave you stranded or tell you to waive your contract. They will also change your schedule without notifying you. They will stretch and go against your contract as they see fit. The union is trying their best to change this, but Air Wisconsin Airlines doesn’t care nor pay them much mind. They just continue to hire poor unsuspecting people to replace those that leave. You won’t move up. It takes forever to gain and KEEP seniority with the amount of transfers FAs due trying to get more flying for more money. It’s sad. Their FAs move around a lot trying to find which base has more pay. None do tbh. You have hardly any social life because in order to make any sort of money you MUST pick up on your days off. Management just doesn’t care. It doesn’t get better as a lineholder either.

A typical work day at Air Wisconsin begins with a briefing  followed  with each agent preparing for his/her flight at his/her gate'
After completing our flights , we take a 30 minutes break and discuss issues encountered and goes back to our gate for the next bank of flight.
  I had the opportunity to meet all type of human characters, to interact solving customer issued , handling delays. oversold and cancellations situations.
 I leaned be multi-tasked, to be control my temper in a stressful situation and how to handle customer differently but always with the aim of given them satisfactory explanation on their flight situation.
 The management is not on my opinion pro-active enough. We have had situation whereby forseable events like mechanical failure had not been handled ahead of time causing great delay and even customer trip disruption  and losses to the company in term of accommodating the customer.
 Co workers seem to to be friendly , helpful  and co-orperative.
 The hardest part obviously is that one has to stay at the airport after regular shift when there is an irregular operations due to bad weather, mechanical issued.
The enjoyable part is when customer feel satisfied by your handling of critical and frustrating situations such as delays.

The pay is horrible especially for what is expected.  They hire knowing FAs will leave and they don't care (manager told me they expect them to only last a year).  They actually don't even last that long, the turnover says it all.  They through stupid tchotchkes at the FAs instead of substantial incentives. They only look at the benefit of not having longevity from a salary and benefits view.  They don't look at the wasted money on HR and training personnel to retain their staff.   If they took those dollars and invested them in the FA's they could afford to be more selective thereby providing better customer service and minimizing the negative impact to Captains, who are constantly dealing with new hires.  The union is ineffective, the atmosphere is contentious between them and the company, the company keeps postponing raises which only works in their favor and against the FAs.  I was a professional before taking this job, was supposed to be my second career with less responsibilities and stress which it was compared to my previous positions.  I have worked for a couple of organizations I would never return to BUT Air Wisconsin takes the prize worst company I have ever worked at, no respect or care for their flight attendants.  

This is an entry level job in the airline industry. Air Wisconsin doesn't pay much, but you can learn skills that can be used for another airline. If you don't have any experience, the company provides on-the-job training ramp agents, baggage handlers, and other support positions. I worked at IAD and most people were easy enough to get along with, though you will meet some jerks and employees who want to throw you under the bus. The job culture is cliquish. Management is threatening when it comes to following safety procedures, and sometimes harasses employees. Best advice is to get the job, learn  ramp and baggage departments, then apply to another airline. Employee turnover is high, and the company is not loyal to most employees. Employees have to join a union, which mans you have money taken out of your paycheck, and you get some representation when management tries to suspend you from work, or fire you. Your union representative will be one of your fellow employees. Schedules are bid for every 3 months, and the schedules are chosen by seniority, that means the employees that are there the longest get the best jobs or  get the day schedules.

I worked at Dulles Airport as a (PSA) or in full, Passenger Service Agent. They started us out training out on the RAMP. Out there you would bring in planes as you are assigned in groups to numbered gates where the planes would land. Depending on the aircraft, special safety measures when need to be addressed for docking the plane & also when it's ready to leave. They had different areas to one area had smaller planes and the others had bigger planes. My favorite position there though was for the Baggage Departments, or more specifically as a Bag Runner. At first I didn't like it cause it was confusing to me, but after a little while it became easy enough and it was pretty fun, you just had to be safe out there while your driving your TUG full of bags. There were a few other things I did there as well. Overall it's a pretty good position, but it's better if you live close enough to get there on time especially cause the traffic can get bad..

Typical day (trip) at AWAC started with an exterior prelight, followed with interior preflight duties; i.e. atis, pax count, performance, weight and balance.  We'd fly 1 to 7 legs in a day and go to the hotel for dinner and rest, ready to repeat the process 3 or 4 more days.  I learned a great deal about operating in a busy flight environment being based on the east coast, and a great deal about 121 operations and procedures, some of which I still use to this day.  The base managers were all former line captains and as such were very approachable and friendly.  My co-workers made coming into work worth the hassle of a 2 leg commute.  As I said, greatest group of people I've worked with.  As mentioned above the hardest part of the job was the commute and schedule.  Even after 3+ years I still didn't have the seniority to be able to bid a commutable schedule on a regular basis, this lead to having to leave a day early and usually return home a day late.  Not conducive to a healthy family life.  The most enjoyable part of the job was the flying.  The Captains I worked with were very knowledgable and great tutors.

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