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1,0

Treat minimum wage employees like garbage

Customer Service Agent (Ancien employé) – Ottawa West, ON – 2 mai 2019

Upper management has no respect and does not speak to employees nicely. Middle management is AWESOME like coordinators are.

Call centre (reservations) shift work is based on a bidding system by seniority. As well as holidays. Pay is low. Not very much room for advancement.

Only get 2x 15min breaks or 1 30min break, they legally get around that by letting you off 30min early? So the shifts are 8h shifts instead of 8.5hours with an hour break or 30 min and 2x1im breaks. I really did not enjoy that.

In slow times (very few phone calls) you were not allowed to talk to one another. It was very much like cattle lined up unless the manager wanted to talk you were not allowed. It was really weird. Atmosphere was great when manager was not there and just the supervisors (coordinators)

Manager doesn’t seem to respect employees.

Mid management was fantastic though.

For the amount of training needed and information retained, the pay was not adequate. At all.

Not enough diversity in staff. It’s a northern company and not enough northerners represented at the head office in Kanata. Also cultural training should be provided to all employees as it’s hard for people who live in Ottawa to understand what living in the Northern communities first air serves is like.

Points positifs

Coordinators are awesome to work with, flight benefits after 3 months

Points négatifs

Hours, pay and bidding system

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5,0

Awesome workplace

Coordinator (Ancien employé) – Iqaluit, NU – 2 mai 2019

-My responsibilities at First Air Cargo included loading and unloading the baggage pits on small service aircraft as well as commercial airliners 7-10 times a day. I was responsible for locating and processing cargo orders for service aircraft, which included operation of electric and diesel forklifts. On certain occasions I was put into a manager/coordinator position to ensure daily tasks were delegated and completed on time throughout the day.

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4,0

Seasonal Worker for Front Counter

CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENT (Ancien employé) – Ottawa, ON – 1 avril 2019

Worker for winter charter season. I was contract work only. There was opportunities with other parts of the company, which was not what I was looking for.
Management was great.
Minimum wage job.

I worked for the front counter at the airport which was a really fun job and I loved it there!

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1,0

Terrible place to work for! Stay far away!!

Cargo Attendant (Ancien employé) – Ottawa, ON – 3 mars 2019

They hire you on as a Temp for a six month contract, treat you highly at the start than once you've been there for a while they start to stab you in the back and make a fool of yourself. I rather work for Air Canada then these guys!

Points positifs

Benefits, breaks, overtime

Points négatifs

Management, some employees, coordinators

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3,0

Fast environment, long hr days, team atmosphere,

Aircraft Painter/Aircraft Mechanic (Ancien employé) – Ottawa, ON – 4 novembre 2018

First Air is a Fast environment with lots of tasks on the go. Management is awesome and very helpful. Lots of work for over time but very hard to have family time.

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4,0

Very good work environment

Loadmaster (Ancien employé) – Yellowknife, NT – 6 octobre 2018

The position I had no longer exists as first air no longer has the C-130s. The job was full of excitement as i had a huge passion for the Hercules aircraft

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5,0

good benefit

Cargo and Ramp Attendant (Employé actuel) – Ottawa, ON – 22 août 2018

good place to work especially if you like to work around aircraft and like to travel you learn a lot of new thing especially from the north part of canada and how they live

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3,0

Good experience and benefits

Cargo services agent (Ancien employé) – Iqaluit, NU – 16 juillet 2018

great place to work gives the opportunity to work all over Canada and there are some great flight perks and health/dental benefits lots of positions available to move around Canada

Points positifs

experience

Points négatifs

managers

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4,0

Multi task

Customer Service Coordinator (part time) (Ancien employé) – Ottawa, ON – 10 mai 2018

Great Job, every day is different as we deal with all kind of people. Shift work, start time 0600-1000, one daily flight to Iqaluit departure 0915. My daily duties are as follow,

0600- clocked in then briefing about the flight details and specials.
0615- we make our way to the ticketing counters, start processing passengers to their final destination, making sure we collect all the applicable fees in regards of tickets and baggages.
0830- 45 minutes before departure we close checking.
0915 - departure time we always have an on time preformance.
0945- we have a debriefing about the flight.

Points positifs

Getting off early.

Points négatifs

Part time and shift work.

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2,0

Decent Job

Cargo Attendant (Ancien employé) – Ottawa, ON – 11 avril 2018

Management and work environment is sub par. A lot of strenuous work and a lot of people who do not put the work in. A lot of drama within the Ottawa office.

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4,0

sheet metal

Sheet Metal Technician (Ancien employé) – Ottawa, ON – 25 octobre 2017

This job entitled me to learn a lot about an aircraft structure. I got to work/repair on both the interior and structure of the aircraft, which included modifications.

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3,0

I enjoyed working for First Air

Station Manager (Ancien employé) – Kugluktuk, NU – 18 octobre 2017

Everyone's experiences are different and the company has undoubtedly changed since I worked there. I loved the daily challenges of working for a Northern airline.

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5,0

I think they were very professional

Supervisor/Coordinator QA (Employé actuel) – Ottawa, ON – 5 octobre 2017

I enjoyed working in all the above places
i found them very professional
A topical day job includes meetings of awareness and goal
The workplace culture is normal
the most enjoyable parts is team work

Points positifs

louch outside during summer months

Points négatifs

n/a

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4,0

Overall First Air is good place to work.

Buyer (Employé actuel) – Ottawa, ON – 18 septembre 2017

I buy for line maintenance, so this is very challenging. Everything that they need are urgent. The challenge and you are working independently is all very positive.

Points positifs

You will learn a lot if you are very resourceful.

Points négatifs

There's not a lot of opportunity and potential for internal career growth.

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5,0

Amazing place to work

Cargo Attendant (Employé actuel) – Iqaluit, NU – 28 juin 2017

All day you are surrounded by people who get along with each other and get the work done. It is a fairly fast paced environment that deals with extreme cold temperatures most of the year. But the good salary, amazing benefits, and the people you work with make it worth it.

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4,0

very friendly work environment, plenty of hours and overtime required, best airline service to the north, fun and fast paced work, physicaly demanding

Cargo Agent (Employé actuel) – Cambridge Bay, NU – 12 juin 2017

Very good patron and co-ordinator, respectful work place and organized, lots of potential for an honest reliable workers, good experience to carry once adapted to the job title, everybody respects one another.

Points positifs

cheap flights, very low rates for cargo shipping, benefits provided as part-time and full-time workers

Points négatifs

not much to do on some days but keeping the warehouse clean and neat keeps the work space organized.

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4,0

First Air

Aircraft Engineer, M1-M2 (Ancien employé) – Yellowknife, NT – 9 mars 2017

I have worked for First Air for 12 years as AME at two different times in my working life and appreciated the job stability and comradery amongst the employees. The company offers great benefits and a decent salary.

Points positifs

Salary, benefits

Points négatifs

many leadership changes n a short amount of time

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4,0

Great place to work

Ramp Attendant (Ancien employé) – Ottawa, ON – 1 mars 2017

Everyday was more or less the same. Everyone you work with is very friendly and you'll get to know them since there aren't many of them, especially if you work with the night crew. Very easy and fun place to work, I would recommend it to anyone.

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5,0

Great place to work

Cargo Attendant (Employé actuel) – Ottawa, ON – 23 février 2017

Great co-workers, great store manager, great customers and great location. Gave you the opportunity to learn and move ahead in the company. Thoroughly enjoyed the work place

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3,0

A great place if you want little work for lots of money

Aircraft Engineer, M1-M2 (Ancien employé) – Yellowknife, NT – 5 janvier 2017

Not a career choice for me. Lots of menial work for the education required to do it. Apply only if you are not looking for skills development.

Points positifs

money

Points négatifs

no room for personal development, all controlled by management

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