Airshare Reviews

3.8

78% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)
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John Owen

81% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Airshare has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 56 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Airshare employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation and logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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56 reviews
3.0
8 Mar 2013

Honest, accurate review (for pilots)

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The equipment is newer and well maintained. You can be hired into the left seat. You can earn extra pay by volunteering to fly some of your days off or flying more than 20 days a month. Flight days include training and layover days. Flight crews are very friendly. You can earn multiple type ratings. In whole, this is a company that is moving in a positive direction that still has room for improvement.

Cons

The schedule is 12 days on followed by 3 days off. You will fly most of the days you are available and many pilots are routinely asked to work one or more of the days they are scheduled off. The days off are either moved or payed at a daily rate. Using rental cars to travel from one base to another (Wichita, Kansas City, Dallas, and Tulsa) is mandatory in certain circumstances. Pilots are hired into openings rather than upgrading from with in.

1.0
19 Sept 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They didn't lay off staff during the pandemic. If you're a pilot, they'll devote a disproportionate amount of resources to you; if you're not - good luck.

Cons

1) Read the 4 or 5 star reviews. Almost all are the same, and almost all are posted by HR/Management. Don't believe me? I watched HR do this while I was an employee. They've done this to hide the fact that their workplace is toxic, poor at communicating, and full of nepotism. 2) If you're not a white, decently well off male who went to the right schools in KC, you have no future for advancement at Airshare. 3) During the pandemic, the CEO announced that everyone would get a 25% pay cut, no 401K contributions, but should take the opportunity to invest in the stock market. -_- saying this to people making 45k that you just gave a 25% pay cut to... so out of touch. 4) Don't you dare have an opinion. Unless you're upper management, then you can dictate anything you desire. Push back on a bad idea? That's a sure way to get demoted/end your career. Management only wants an echo chamber. 5) I still have bad dreams of my time here. Being constantly micromanaged, told I was doing things wrong without my manager actually listening to me, not being communicated clearly or effectively to from ANY level of management... 6) During my employment, I informed management of a medical condition (something I was not legally required to do regardless of what the condition is). During the pandemic, I requested a reasonable accommodation due to the medical condition to remain working from home (this is May 2020 btw). Not only did the company tell me no (and make no offer of compromise), they took 4 weeks to respond and only after repeated prompts. Had I not quit, I would have sued the company. They got lucky - I quit instead. 7) Before you apply, watch what postings are always up. Flight Control & Customer Service... gee... I wonder what part of the company it cares about the least... 8) Before anyone says things have changed, read the actual reviews here. When multiple people post the exact same type of review (even when obscured by fake reviews) - take it as a warning. I wish I had. 9) If management doesn't like you (no fault of your own) you have no future here. While this seems like a "duh" moment, I worked for this company for several years. The person who ended up becoming COO was my supervisor for most of those years. When I quit, I don't think he even knew my last name. If he knew my first, it would have surprised me. Yet this was the person in charge of if I move up or not... Before you go saying "well it's a big company" it's not. Office staff total ~50 people, the rest are crew and maintenance at other locations. The staff supervised was 14-20. 2 years - can't say hi to me by name let alone acknowledge me when walking in the hall. What a boss. 9) So you're probably thinking at this point "why hasn't the leadership done anything about this? Maybe they don't know?". They know. They've been told numerous times (from the owner Wiley Curran to the CEO John Owen to management level staff). They don't care. They view the job as a privilege, an honor to have, and you should shut up and work. 10) You have to deal with rich az holes both as customers and bosses. Both the customers and management are so wealthy they're out of touch with how normal people live. Nothing more.

1.0
24 Feb 2021

Not recommended

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice planes and that’s it

Cons

Gone 16-20 days a month. Fatigued almost every day. They refuse to hire pilots so we are working 14 hour days. Pilots are severely underpaid (56k for SICs- 50k less than industry standards). Company prides themself on safety but half the flights are single pilot into mountainous terrain after driving 4 plus hours to the plane. Management is terrible. Schedule changes about 50 times a day since they won’t hire pilots. Meal budget sucks. $70 a day but split up so you use it or lose it. Go to another company where you can get an 8/6 schedule and get paid double. They say you’ll be home often but I don’t know any pilot that sleeps in their own bed more than once per rotation.

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Airshare Response
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While we welcome all feedback regarding employment at Airshare, two points mentioned in this post are factually incorrect. Over the last two years, our pilots have been gone an average of 7.2 days, with the highest number being 18 days in just one month during that period. Secondly, regarding single pilot flights into mountainous airports, those represented only 2% of nearly 1000 flights occurring over the previous two years.
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