aircraft mechanic

scheduler

controller

maintenance manager

senior controller

Atlas Air, Inc.

Atlas Aircraft Center is a relaxing environment full of great people. Gone are the pressures of commercial type maintenance that is a much faster pace. They give good medical and dental benefits. With a fleet of 35 PC-12's and counting, Job security doesn't seem to be an issue. 

   However, this is a privately owned company that is ran by one person. Including the owner, management is concerned about the ever ending expansion of the company without taking much notice to advancements in employee pay/position/benefits. There are people in this company, that I work with, that have been there for six years and have yet to receive a raise. These are competent people. The company knows they competent because they continually give them more responsibilities. 

   If a company gives you more responsibilities, that means they have faith in you. That also means the your task lists become quite longer. Raises show how much the company is interested in investing in your skills; that you are worth it so they want to keep you around. Management fails in this aspect.

   Atlas is a great place to work if you already have a retirement package and you just want a convenient job in the Portsmouth area to give you the bit of money that you need to go on your fishing trips, and to stay out of the house or else you'll end up divorced. As far as young mechanics go, this place is a good way to enter aviation but there is no future here. The seniors have been established and there is no more room for anyone else. 
   
   With that in mind, if you just focus on getting experience while keeping an eye out for better opportunities, you'll be just fine.

Great potential to be the great airline in the industry, management unwilling to do the steps that will get it there. The employees-management relation is sore. Manager are very and I cannot stress Very enough, separated from reality. They think the company is doing great when in reality it is not. The organization managerial structure is very unclean, we don't know who to report to in case of a problem. Managers are willing to throw their team members under the bus at the first chance they get. Departments around the company don't work with each other, and compete to meet the upper management expectation by deflecting and blaming others for their short sided managements. The pilots in the company are the most underpaid in the airline industry, and the company is using the cheap labor to add more work and stress to their lives. The company for 6 years been holding unfair negotiation meetings and using harmful techniques to the employees morale to force a low underpaid and concessionary contract. Career advancement are only achievable if you are part of a small cult that would agree with management decisions, and would not voice any concern to their plans. Essentially there are no career advancements
 I WOULD NOT recommend this place at all for pilots, flight attendants, or mechanics. I can also say for dispatchers, schedulers, and station manager. 


Overall I would say that Atlas Air, Inc is a good company.  And like any organization it's only as good as the people in it.  I prefer not to be micro managed. I prefer to be given instruction and proper training on a task. Yet while I did not have any experience in this area of finance I was given the opportunity to exposed to the department in function.  So I'm thankful that they were open to taking a chance on me to bring some enhancement to the department in regards to organizational/project support. I learned I learned how to tie out and reference balance sheets and income statements. I also learned to prepare supporting documentation to determine taxes to be paid.  And to be processed as bill backs. What I liked the most about the job was being given my own task to be responsible for and being successful at meeting objectives.  The most difficult thing at times was being the administrative support for a staff of 8 people.  That's a lot of different personalities to deal with.  Then once I have the hang of it allow me to take ownership of the task and be fully responsible for completing the task and meeting deadlines.They could do better providing more management training for those that are promoted to manager.  It would be nice if they promoted more from the staff level.

Prior employee and started my own consulting company regarding high density/unusual cargo, shoring and restraint, carriage on B747F. 
Have worked in operations for 3 airlines in over 40 years. Atlas Air was indeed the best by far. Certainly every company has problems, but you make it for what it is. Take the bad with the good, since no company is perfect by any individuals account. 
If there was a major concern, I went to the responsible person and it was corrected to my satisfaction or at least told, why now. 
Atlas Air's number one priority was and is 'safety for air crew and aircraft  regardless of cost."
They employ some of the most experienced and professional airline individuals in the airline business - by far.
For Loadmaster's, one of the best training courses I have had ever had. Instructors excellent in every respect. As always, some know more than some other's, 
Feel more importance should be given to restraint and angles involved, side and floor, for maximum restraint of tie-down straps, ratchet straps being the best., not latch.This applies to 'free floating' 20 ft pallets center loaded on main deck.

I will be honest and upfront - Atlas Air Crew Scheduling is a stressful affair. With the number of flights, customers and crews involved in the 24 hour operation, there will always be a multitude of things to take care of. A normal day for a Crew Scheduler will involve working with numerous other departments in order to ensure that our flights are moving withing a timely fashion. Once one issue has been taken care of, there will be 3-5 more to take care of.

Crew Scheduling management has been re-designed and expanded. Additionally, a slew of new procedures and systems are being implemented and experimented with, by the new management. That being said, the one thing that has remained constant is the inter-department camaraderie that develops within. If you are able to handle the workload, you will find a supportive group of highly talented individuals working with you. The people you work with are the best thing about this job.

Coincidentally, the management restructuring has created the worst/hardest part of the job right now. There are many things in flux right now and it is hard to get a proper handle on things with the near-constant procedural changes.

I have been with the company since the very beginning.  I have seen all the changes in real time. Not many of them have been good.
 If you want a short term opportunity to see the world, this may be for you; not many people get to see Germany, Kuwait, Crete, Qatar, Australia, Bahrain, Poland.... the list goes on.... these will be everyday destinations for you.  But if you are looking for a long term Flight Attendant career, look elsewhere like UA, AA, DL, SWA etc 

 Management is friendly to your face, but has no interest in your well being. Morale tends to be low.  
 There is a lot of favoritism, if you are going to be one of the 'in crowd'  to get on and advance, then prepare to spend a lot of time brown nosing with management in the office.   
On the upside, most of your passengers will be US military, it IS a great feeling to bring them home.

Atlas is a great place to work for someone wanting 12 hour shifts and rotating 3 on 4 off and 4 on 3 off schedule. Starting out you can make a total of around $50k a year if you work 4 days a week (48 hours). If you work days it is a lot busier, nights is very easy and laid back because the operation just isn't booming like it does during the day. Benefits and time off are some of the best I have seen from a company starting out. Management is friendly, although sometimes the operation can stress everyone out. This would be a fantastic work from home position and offer a lot better work life balance.

Only complaint is the 12 hour shifts can drag on slow days and the scheduling department hires a lot of dispatch college grads that are hoping to get in with a big airline through scheduling, but they leave when they realize they're not getting a dispatch job there without experience, so staffing can be a bit short at times and stressful.

I have been been with this company for 7 years , it is very unfortunate how south this company has gone since the merger with Apollo . Everything is about profits , feels like they are just squeezing the life out of atlas . Everything we worked on and developed is not existent . The company is growing fast and we are receiving 0 support from upper management . Workloads are increasing with no support or compensation . Salary doesn't match cost of living and no acknowledgement towards that as much as we have stressed the issue . Sad that new hires are making more starting then our tenured employees. Are best employees are leaving do to no appreciation or acknowledgement towards there work . The company doesn't realize that cutting corners might make the numbers look good short term but losing all the quality workers with hurt the pockets of the company massively . Its one of those things where you don't know what you have until its all gone . Wish this company the best but its time to move on 

Atlas is an Air Cargo company partially owned by amazon.  Previous attempts to build a portal were not successful.  Our team was a collocated scrum team that completed more work in 3 sprints then the prior offshore team completed in 9 months.
I was the scrum master responsible for assembling a new team and guiding them to produce quality software adhering to agile principles.  Each day the team had a standup to discuss progress and we conducted planning sessions and reviews every two weeks.  Close engagement of the Product Owner.  Reported to leadership on progress and any impediments.We were a close family in a short time.  I enjoyed serving the team and the team looking to me for guidance and support. The hardest part of the job was keeping leadership focused on the benefits of agile and not allowing them to fall into a waterfall model which previously was not successful.

ATLAS TODAY IS A FAR DIFFERENT COMPANY FROM THE ATLAS I WORKED FOR.  TODAY THERE IS AN ALPA CONTRACT, GOOD PAY AND BENEFITS, AND UNION PROTECTION FOR PILOTS.

WHEN I WAS THERE IT WAS OFTEN DIFFICULT TO COMMUNICATE WITH DISPATCH FROM DOWNRANGE STATIONS, BECAUSE DISPATCH WAS SEVERELY UNDERMANNED.  NOW THINGS ARE BETTER.

WHEN I WAS THERE, WE SELDOM HAD CONTACT WITH MANAGEMENT.  MANAGEMENT WAS ABLE TO PROCURE A STEADY STREAM OF BUSINESS.

CO-WORKERS;  MOSTLY GREAT

HARDEST PART: DISORGANIZED SUPPORT FOR CREWS IN FAR-OFF PARTS OF THE WORLD (HOTELS, TRANSPORT, ETC.)

MOST ENJOYABLE PART: FELLOW CREWMEMBERS AND THE CHANCE TO GAIN EXPERIENCE ON THE B747.

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