Any info on Transwest Air

[Zyxt]

What's the salary like for a navajo captain?

$2000 per month and $30 per flight duty day was what I was offered (and declined). Maybe could have negotiated more, but didn't feel like bothering since I wasn't planning on accepting anyway.

[Cisbour]

wowww worst Ho salary in the entire country eh? 24-30k per year flying out of wollaston lake or stony rapids? no thanks..

[897]

Can't recommed Transwest anymore.

Things have gone downhill lately. Seems the concern is more for the bottom line lately then keeping employees happy.

[andy.air]

@897

I was wondering if you can elaborate more on how things are going downhill? What are they doing to their employees?

[oldncold]

cp cant be bothered to return calls after hr spends hours time to interview lack of courtesy

[P180]

@897

I was wondering if you can elaborate more on how things are going downhill? What are they doing to their employees?

To start they don,t pay much . A ATR 42 Captain at west wind is making 20k more then a Saab captain at transwest and they fly the same routes

[letsfly]

I believe Transwest has some great Pilots and I also met some of the ground personnel last summer that were excellent. I see the short comings of Transwest being in the management. Had a friend fly from Saskatoon to LaRonge in August and there was a delay in Saskatoon for 2.5 hours, and not a word was said to the people waiting for that flight. They sat in the terminal. It just so happened that a rampie from Stony Rapids was on that flight and he too was surprised nothing was said. A business like Transwest to be successful must be run from the top down. I have heard they are a great training site for others!!

[Sidebar]

A business like Transwest to be successful must be run from the top down.

Jim Glass died earlier this year. Who is running the show now?

[DanWEC]

Pat Campling Jr., et al.
Jim's tragic loss was a really tough blow to the company.

[+TSRAGR]

Dan,

Not to defend management at TWA, because I don't work there, but you make it sound like you were Jim's best friend and you are very familiar with the other players,

Didn't you last about a week on the dock/ramp prior to quitting for greener pastures?

[DanWEC]

Dan,

Not to defend management at TWA, because I don't work there, but you make it sound like you were Jim's best friend and you are very familiar with the other players,

Didn't you last about a week on the dock/ramp prior to quitting for greener pastures?

I don't understand your angle here.
Though it's irrelevant, I wasn't on the ramp, and definitely not just a week, however it certainly wasn't a long term gig.
I still keep in contact with, on a regular basis, a number of good people there I had the pleasure of meeting.

Never met Jim, but heard he was a terrific guy, and wish I had the chance.

Anyhow, My post was very simple-

Pat Campling Jr., et al.
Jim's tragic loss was a really tough blow to the company.

From what those associated with TWA has said, his passing has been a huge loss to the company, and the SK aviation industry in general.

Are you somehow disputing that?? How are you extrapolating so much more from my statement?

[+TSRAGR]

Dan,

How long did you work there?

[Indanao]

A business like Transwest to be successful must be run from the top down.

Jim Glass died earlier this year. Who is running the show now?

Jim Glass died ? Man, he was one of my students. What happened to him, he wasn't that old? Bob died very early too, but, that was an Aircraft accident.

[Indanao]

+TSRAGR, Dan is quite right. What is YOUR angle ?

[+TSRAGR]

My "angle" is this.

I do not know Dan but I am sure he is a nice fellow.

It drives me nuts when novice aviators catch the AVCANADA fever and start giving advice to others and passing on second hand info.

Dan probably will not answer the question and thats OK.

It is not a crime to be a new guy but some new guys blame the system or the operator or the economy or............
whenever things don't work out.

I will make an educated guess that Dan worked at TWA this spring for less than 1 month in a ground position. Probably at La Ronge and/or Prince Albert. It wasn't his thing and he left for whatever reason. No problem. Every job is not for everyone.

I have a fair amount of experience in Northern Saskatchewan and I have my own opinions about TWA both good and bad. I also know the people that are referred to as "Pat Campling Jr. et al". Some are OK and some are not so OK, just like any other group of people.

I guess my angle is that I don't feel that every Tom Dick and Harry is qualified to comment on everything. Why does everyone need to be an expert?

[DanWEC]

Mr. bad Wx: I am confused, as I'm sure others are as well, as to how you are intepreting my collective recent posts on this thread, which consist of:
A) Naming the other well known managing partner of TWA- Pat. And,
B) Saying it was a tragedy that Jim passed.

Nowhere in those 2 lines, have I criticized the company, passed judgement, or acted as a career counsellor.
Having worked for several months in the same office as Pat I certainly have some perspective and information about the TWA environment and expectations that I gladly pass on to prospective employees if someone asks me privately.

I left, grudgingly, and on good terms, because my fiancé could no longer move to SK with me due to her own circumstances. Nothing to hide here.

I suggest you might want to focus on some of the other more inflammatory comments people have actually made about TWA, as mine were completely innocuous, Non?

This thread has nothing to do with me.

Indanao- Sent you a PM re Jim.

Cheers.

P.S. TSRAGR Are you still working in Northern SK?

[+TSRAGR]

Yes. Still here.

This will be my final post on the subject.

You may have missed my point. It's not just this thread it's the whole salty aviator thing. Read your own posts.

By the way, you posted on March 24 that you had been at a Saskatchewan regional for about a week. You posted on May 5 that you were leaving and hitting the road west. No problem with that but why do you have to turn that into "several months"? My math says that was seven weeks.

[DanWEC]

Sheesh. I'll certainly admit I'm clamoring to find a point here. You're right, looks like I was there for about 2 months. In my mind and this past crazy year that I've had all across Canada, a few months is a few months. I didn't count the days. But the fact that you're so focused on such an irrelevant point as the number of days I spent at a company confuses me more. It doesn't change the info and contacts I have.

From here on out, I'll be sure to berate anyone younger than I that gives a simple answer to a question. That's just dandy.

Sounds like you just have a general axe to grind, please move onto something else instead of singling me out. I don't remember pissing in your corn flakes.

Anyhow, I can think of far better ways to spend our time instead of arguing on the Internet. If you're done with this then I am too, and I'm going for a beer anyways.

Cheers.

[peakbagger]

I have to agree with +TSRAGR on this one. Having more posts than hours seems a bit silly.

[lost in the north]

I never thought much of Jim at all,or pat for that matter.been in the industry for 30 years all in Saskatchewan,worked for Jim for 3 months and found them to be the worst company I ever worked for.

[DanWEC]

Hey there PB, by that arbitrary yardstick you just collectively insulted many forum members that aren't lucky enough to flying enough, but enjoy being involved in the conversation.
I get what you're trying to say man, but that's pretty inappropriate.

I'm not flying today... so there's another one.

(Regardless, my contribution to this thread is now way off track, so I'm punching out. Cheers.)

[Indanao]

for anyone that did not like Jim Glass.

[digitydodger]

I have worked at TWA, and it works for some and not others.. First off if you are offered the Prince Albert terminal your best bet is to run, they never hire off the ground for flight spots there and they will treat you like a piece of ****, especially the last standing owner. Saskatoon and La Ronge will get spots though.. They will dangle airplanes in front of your face to make you work over time, in which you will never see a dime of pay for... unless you quit and go to the labor board which i have heard people getting $2500 of their scammed money back.. sound like something your interested in? Take my word for it, you can do much better!

[PositiveRate27]

Man I love this forum so much!!!

If the general flying public could see what their so called professional pilots talk about in their down time they'd force us to change the name from "College of Pilots" to "High School of pilots"

I seriously wonder if the whole industry is like this place or if its just the aviation short bus equivalent...

[xsbank]

Thing is, some of us on this site think the so-called ramp process is merely slave labour all wrapped up in a cute little package with coloured bows and stuff my wife would love, yet the reality is its actually the stinky pile of kitchen garbage left over from the last meal that nobody wants anything to do with. Ramp workers are underpaid, overworked, live in sh*t conditions and have this carrot dangled, the get-an-airplane-take-a-pay-cut-get-the-hell-out-of-this-sh*thole incentive all the while they are set against each other's throats all for a chance to sit right-seat in a 'jo that they can't log and have nothing to do while they're in there anyway.

I did menial jobs when I started but I was actively being checked out. I did not wait ages for my first flight, losing any edge I might have brought with me from school. The secret to the ramp/dispatch stuff is the active check-out.

Doctors don't make beds or clean the operating room; lawyers get exploited until they are called but they are always doing law work, not washing the boss' car or cleaning toilets. Why do "pilots" do it?