I have a few questions for current employees. When did Morningstar move their ATR to YYC? Is this new? Are they moving Boeing flying to the ATR or picked up new routes for it? Also, are they moving the YMX airplane out west, or picked up another one? Lastly, what is the current pay scale on the ATR ...

Turbine doesn't seem to understand what a resolution is. Please do not take his word for fact. Maybe this will go to a pilot group vote. Maybe it won't. The MEC will decide CB, you are correct, absolutely yes. And so is JBI, mind you he is an extremely sharp dude. It is just a resolution. the first...

citizenbanana wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:05 pm The mainline pilots aren't voting on anything as of right now.

Then you will be soon.

I just think it sets a bad precedent for the MEC to go out and go against a voted in result of its members , regardless what the results of the polling were. My understanding of the polling it was done by a 3rd party, they called random mainline pilots and got feedback. Mainline pilots were not ask...

Actually he is right. I personally know 3 people that were screwed because someone somewhere at WJ didnt think they were cool or whatever. I think that's changed now but I don't know. This was 4-5 years ago. One guy was placed in the pool for the full year at encore and was just timed out in the po...

You folks need to stop using the max getting back to service as a plan for future growth. It is not. We were staffed for the max before they went out of service. October 73 initial class is not going to be huge. The rest of the year and foreseeable future is all OTS hiring for mainline. Until the on...

Isn’t there a mandatory flow percentage per class that Westjet has to follow? If there is,and Westjet just chooses not to follow it, there should be money paid to the pilots who should have gone over to mainline. But I’m sure your new union is all over this? I don’t understand what you guys are doi...

How do you figure 5 years to flow to mainline? 600 pilots at Encore. That would involve Encore flowing 120 a year. At the current 50% flow that means WJ would have to hire 240 pilots a year for the next 5 years. I'm not trying to sound pessimistic, but I don't think that type of growth is on the ho...

As an Encore pilot I'd say Jazz is the way to go. It seems like it's a lot easier now to get over to AC from there, unless you mess up the interview. Yes, Encore has guaranteed flow and (at the moment anyway) the "one list" for seniority. But please think about how long you'll be spending at Encore...

As someone who has been in this industry just over 30 years, you have a very naive understanding of your fellow pilots For the latest Swoop bid, a grand total of 6 of the 550 or so Encore pilots bid on the position. Of those 6, only 1 actually met the company's requirement of having been at Encore ...

If you want any sort of life outside of work - I would avoid Encore entirely. The guys that left there have ZERO positive things to say about the place. You will be worked to the max almost all the time, and your duty days will almost always be unnecessarily high in hours (not flight time). Encore’...

If you want any sort of life outside of work - I would avoid Encore entirely. The guys that left there have ZERO positive things to say about the place. You will be worked to the max almost all the time, and your duty days will almost always be unnecessarily high in hours (not flight time). Encore’...

Anybody have insight as to when WJE will turn the training taps back on? No ground schools for Feb/Mar. Hiring likely to get going again in April. Last year was 10 pilots every 2 weeks or so. Not sure if that is going to stay the new standard. You can pretty much bank on at least 10 people a month....

Pretty much anyone can make it a Jazz training program. Is it right? No, but it's reality. What do you mean?! That the reality is the most of the new hires are young and inexperienced. I was responding to someone who said "Just curious how they can prefer people with no commercial experience vs som...

I assume the pause is for current negotiating and things will pickup. Anyone want to comment how staffing is on the line? Is Encore short and needing fellas soon? Encore will need people this year, but not as much as last year. We still need to figure out a few things post Kaplan award (new mainlin...

RatMan wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:56 am I heard Encore is thinking of reducing min PIC time to 150. Can anyone confirm, with an associated implementation timeline?

Thanks!

Yes. Should be updated on the ad already.

Wow! Nice! That’s a great way to talk about your fellow coworkers. I have friends who work, their wives work, they have kids. They tried to carve out time to watch the videos bit would have liked to attend a roadshow in person. Or they had other things to do ..What’s the problem with that? What’s t...

I think the jazz guys and gals are getting the sh$& end of the stick. If you think Aviation is the only industry getting squeezed by ruthless CEO’s think again. It’s a societal problem .. not just an aviation problem. TC, ATAC etc etc are entities perpetuating the cycle of BS. Alpa is looking out f...

The shit opportunities I'm referring to are the opportunity to make poverty wages and still need to buy pic time so you're even eligible for upgrade. I couldn't care less if it leads to Air Canada, their starting pay sucks too. When I had 500-1000 hours I was making more than a first year Jazz FO a...

Given the recent happenings at both sides, pretty sad options. AC and Jazz with lifestyle and movement is better than Swoop and stagnation with a management team that hates pilots. But that's like picking the smaller bucket of poop. It's still all shit. So with a 1000 hours the pilot will get to be...