Great opportunity for learning/ hands on solution driven team - Recensione dipendente - Executive Director presso Susi Air

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Management shows a consistent lack of transparency, with commitments around contracts, career progression, and working conditions frequently not being honored. This has created a strong sense of distrust among staff. Decision-making appears highly subjective. Promotions, command upgrades, and role assignments do not follow clear merit-based criteria and seem influenced by personal relationships, which undermines confidence in the system. There is a broader culture of low respect toward employees, with limited consideration for operational feedback. Morale is low and turnover is high. Career progression lacks transparency, and there is a widespread perception that local pilots (Indonesian nationals) are at a disadvantage compared to others with similar qualifications. Significant concerns exist around maintenance standards, particularly under the current maintenance management. Decisions appear heavily cost-driven, with limited emphasis on long-term reliability, and this has resulted in recurring concerns among pilots about aircraft condition. In incident or defect discussions, the maintenance manager is perceived to attribute responsibility to flight crew without a consistently balanced technical assessment. This dynamic creates friction between departments and discourages open reporting, which weakens overall safety culture.

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The company is currently run by two extremely under qualified people that have no aviation background or what it takes to run an aviation company. The company is based on distrust, and is resistant, allergic to change. Suggestions from the previous Chief Pilots and Senior management to change and evolve for the better, for both company and employees, fell on deaf ears. Disciplinary action and formal warnings are used as threats and means of control. Professionalism and work life balance is non-existent in the company. Management intimidates crew and pilots through threats and abuse of power, to do their bidding. We all see through it. From pilots to ground crew, everyone is treated like they are company property that can be discarded at any moment. The fleet of C208Bs are aged and constantly have problems. If there is nobody leading the company in the right direction, corners keep getting cut and pilots will continue to be forced to land on a runway while there’s a stranded aircraft still on the runway. Genuine advice keeps getting ignored and there is heavy pushback to change for the better. It’s only a matter of time before a serious incident takes place. The Directing Managers of a sinking ship and if they don’t steer it in the right direction this ship is going DOWN! Do better!