I believe the plan is to have them all painted, cabins standardized and equipped with the Starlink/Telus wifi within 18 months. That is to say, interior standardized fleet wide, old Swoop, Lynx and Sunwing tails painted in WJ livery, and the balance of the fleet with the old WJ livery probably paint...

I think the answer is a mixed bag, but a bunch work at WestJet and AC. I understand your questions regarding Flair although I hope to be wrong and wish all the best for everyone working there. I don't know where you're coming from with Transat, though? Pandemic was rough, and then AC's purchase of ...

I think the answer is a mixed bag, but a bunch work at WestJet and AC. I understand your questions regarding Flair although I hope to be wrong and wish all the best for everyone working there. I don't know where you're coming from with Transat, though? Pandemic was rough, and then AC's purchase of T...

Soaringwings wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 3:14 am Sad to see.
But not surprised. When the group is so top heavy this is expected.

Hopefully it doesnt get ratified.

Change the negot committee.

I wont hold my breath though.

So who wants to tell us what this means?

Flat pay?
Year 1?
Top scale?
Commuting policy?
Reserve?

Wingfield is in pretty rough shape to begin with. Maybe they just leave the plane in the bunker and introduce it as a new super hazard!

Pressure brings results. JT caved, Not Onex, BTW. FFS give it a rest already. Your constant attempt to connect this to your hatred of Trudeau is so pathetic. Onex caved because they were the other side to the equation in this dispute. Keep your sights on the gross failures of Westjets Management th...

And I don't think there's any amount of money that would change that for 90% of Encore pilots. Very few people go there for a career; it's a stepping stone. The only thing that will keep people at Encore are flow guarantees and some type of years of service, or common employer. I'm out of my depth i...

Just want to push back on the whole.. nobody has had the guts to go all the way in Canada lately. Former Encore pilot/current WJ pilot here. Pepperidge farm remembers: WJ announcing Swoop the very day that WJ pilots certified with ALPA (and Encore shortly thereafter). CA1 being arbitrated. Encore CA...

I’ve been doing some reading that BA’s focus on meeting DEI targets, to the exclusion of proper management hiring and oversight is the cause of some of their problems. I believe it. No different than at Harvard except Harvard’s disgrace isn’t likely to kill anyone. Its infected the FAA. Today, the ...

RIP to this brave soul's pension. Copy and pasted from: https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installation-inspection-procedure-at-boeing/#comment-509962 ^ poster name: throwawayboeingN704AL " Current Boeing employee here – I will save you waiting two years for the NTSB report to come ...

With no airline experience and no maximum hours on the job posting I thought applying would be appropriate. I’m not understanding the “Something doesn’t add up”. I think the implication is, the something that doesn’t add up is, what’s wrong with your application? With that kind of time you can find...

Interesting time for sure. I can echo what others have said about flights being fuller than I can remember going into the shoulder season; not to mention how busy the entire summer was. Pent up demand? Continuation of previous growth estimates inline with population and economic growth? Combination ...

All unconfirmed rumour mill: - taxi package came out after the incident. - crew queried ground multiple times prior to taxiing that route - a military wing walker was in place Questions about vantage point from flight deck to wingtip: You can see the wingtips, but depth perception can be difficult i...

In the same call: - Proudly promoted the MAX order as the largest in Canada; a growth story. - Discussed increases in executive compensation plainly, observing that there is market competition for talent that must be factored in. - States that they'd rather fly less planes than pay pilots more (mark...

Westjet pilots will fold like every other time, they'll go to arbitration and lose what they've achieved. Canadian pilots are scared, we are not the Americans, we are just nice Canadians. There'll be no strike, and the company is piling up money for the lockout. How long they'll be on lockout depen...

I always find that argument perplexing. Humans are part of nature not outside of it so by definition anything we do is a natural process, one wouldn't say a beaver building a dam to alter its environment is unnatural so why when humans do it, is it unnatural? I suspect it is just our species arroga...

Yikes. My guess is that none of the ULCC's in Canada (Lynx, Swoop, Flair, Jetlines) have had a profitable quarter. If that's the case, there's a competition of who has the lowest cash burn rate/who can stay solvent for the longest, before consolidation occurs and they can increase prices without sig...

Hey everyone, Just going to be lazy and ask for help from the collective knowledge out there: My current setup is the QC25 and uflymike. Works fine, getting a little tired/in need of refurbishment. I'd like to upgrade to the QC35 or 45 so I can use it for deadheading without wires and with a recharg...

What humans have done, and will continue to do, is interrupt the natural processes by rapidly dumping carbon in the atmosphere, which causes the planet to warm. I always find that argument perplexing. Humans are part of nature not outside of it so by definition anything we do is a natural process, ...

As a "for instance", thermohaline circulation (think of jetstreams in the oceans; rivers of relatively high temperature, high salinity water which flow from the equator to the poles, then cool, sink, and flow back to the equator) is a significant driver of regional climates, as it is a large global ...

To be very clear, we don't know all details of the company's plans yet, nor do we know if they will succeed in execution. ^ Disclaimer out of the way now... IF the Max purchase is for expansion and not replacement, and IF the Sunwing merger increases business and there's a fair settlement in terms o...

Yikes. Are people actually calling in sick more? Or is the effect of people calling in sick just bigger due to staffing issues? My educated guess is that it's both. As the give a f*** factor (the group towards the company, and the company towards the group) goes down, bookoffs go up, and as they ar...

I'm not as pessimistic, but definitely watching closely. It's true that the company has been beating the cost reduction drum pretty hard lately, but I'm not aware of them saying they're actually trying to compete with Flair (100% off base fare, for instance) on the WJ side, and if I'm not mistaken S...

I've seen a few posts on PPrune that suggest there are always 3 pilots in the flight deck of Chinese majors; can anybody confirm or deny this? If so, the Silkair/Germanwings cause strikes me as more unlikely.

Fingers crossed for good news about CVR/FDR memory soon.

To clarify some of the comments about flow: Prior to Covid, hundreds of Pilots flowed from Encore to WestJet, and that is very much the stated plan going forward. All pilots on the WPSL will be recalled by this summer, meaning that any additional pilots needed will come from a combination of flow an...