Ex DC10 Driver wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:45 am

Yeah..they sure helped WestJet get a good contract

But we get to wear lanyards now.....and sit in airports for hours at a time....

Darkwing Duck wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:44 pm

What is Elizabeth May and Jagmet Sighn using to get around the country?

Canada Jetlines!!

Spam the poor HR person who controls nothing, but sorts applications and calls references? ...thereby hindering their application / hiring process. Yes. Imagine even a fraction of avcanada's finest writing them and asking to negotiate a higher starting salary and better working conditions. I don't ...

650 pilots coming to AC with 20 wide bodies and however many narrow bodies. 28 or so max on the way. 50 220’s. The myth of the stagnation is way over rated (at least to a NB left seat). But keep telling yourself that. Expansion looks great when you only list the new aircraft arriving at AC, and not...

YVR Centre.....

“Fly heading 070 for “traffic”....

Hi, I'm curious if emergency exit doors would open up if you pulled the handle while flying close to the ground. I can find a lot online about how it is impossible to do so while flying at altitude, and that it is possible this could happen on the ground / while taxiing, but I'm curious if it would...

C-GGGQ wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:00 am

Just meant so the cards said 800 as I assume the Max 8 say Max 8

The cards say “800/-8”, as I said, it’s the same card..

ToolShed wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:03 am

RVR6000 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:34 am

Daniel Cooper wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:19 am

If the MAX is out for a while and the A220 doesn't have ETOPS what would the logical choice be to do the Vancouver-Hawaii flying?

Mainline 767.

Isn’t Omni doing the flying for AC?

Wet lease until Sept for now.

Thought that might have been Boeing's "fix" just paint 737-800 on the side and swap out the safety cards :lol: There would be no swapping out the safety cards, they are the same card.... Scimitar winglets have been around for a long time, over 5 years at WS. They are the same blended winglet with a...

duke1000 wrote: ↑

Sun May 19, 2019 5:11 pm

Yes I agree. Hoping for some insight from a WestJet pilot about the transition process and how different to fly from a 737.

Many of the Capts actually came from the B763, some FOs were B737 Capts.

DanWEC wrote: ↑

Wed May 15, 2019 5:15 pm

Nobody in the flying public will ever get on anything remotely related to a 737 Max again. That's a much more delicate issue than fixing the physical issues.

Two flights from YYC to YYZ, one is an NG and one is a MAX, offer the MAX flight for $20 cheaper and the public will get on it!

But now we have a Catch 22. The airplane is not flying so now it is really a fuel saver. The public is educated and even an MCAS fix will still leave doubts in peoples minds. Another accident after the fix will probably kill off the airplane anyways. This should be interesting to see what happens w...

I must admit I didn’t look at the lay-off language. Totally a one way street. WJ pilots can’t take Encore jobs during layoffs. If their on the list and can stay, while senior guys get laid off (on the same list) that sucks. This is a new change to the previous language. Now I can see the NO side. ☝...

Another update. While WJ pilots have to wait an extra week this month for their schedule due to the MAX issues. All employee groups travelling for business are now eligible for an upgrade to business class. With the only excluded group from this being "deadheading Westjet pilots". FAs can be in Bus...

Looking at Flight aware this morning 16/3/19 shows 2 737 MAXs over the North American Skies...WJ 1857 OGG-YYC and WJ 2702 YYZ-MBJ. Other non North American Airlines with some 30 -737MAX aircraft showing up on Flight aware this morning flying over the Middle east, Asia and a few over Europe. Does Bo...

The Swoop bid closed on the 14th!

Yes I called. They swapped a B737 for the B767 on the LGW-YYZ flight. So they have to stop in Halifax for fuel. This makes the connection in Toronto close so instead of a 4pm flight to Vancouver it’s now a 10:15pm flight to Calgary. THAT arrives at 1am, and doesn’t leave for VIctoria until 7 am. Th...

Grooming by the crew or employees on travel privileges or business has never been done on the 767s, nor terminating flights or the longest 737 flights, the 787s won't be, either. Not entirely true. Longest 737 flights? Nope. I’ve flown Cancun-Vancouver, 6.5+ and got the “employee groom accompanied ...

Or 4 aircraft could’ve returned to lessor, 2 MAXs not leased and 0 aircraft added in 2020 and only 3 in 2021. Guess it depends how you look at it. Instead we have 4 aircraft coming next year, not including the ‘87s....don’t worry ALPA will make it all better though :goodman: YOS, on an extended pay ...

Check your procedures gentleman. The only time a pilot at WS is required to groom is when they are travelling under the employee standby promise which is the umbrella for the "assume you'll groom." NOWHERE in our COM / FOM etc does it require any grooming. It is also why our MEC has expected exactl...

Factually incorrect. This was the lie told to the staff at WJ by management. The newest -800's in the fleet were sent to Swoop, not one lease return went there. You need to read my comment again, as you obviously didn’t understand it the first time. I didn’t say the lease returns went to Swoop, the...

Your correct. But the company would have to apply first which would probably happen on the 7th then Kaplan decides ya or nay. Then company can appeal if Kaplan denies it. More time goes by. Well shall see this weekend how it goes. This formal process is foreign to me except what Alpa mec has said w...

All a first officer has to do now is bid captain at swoop today and get a nice fat pay check in the years to come until all of you are gone out of those left seats. Oh and btw the YEG base is all westjet Captains who I can’t wait for you guys to meet. You may have budded in line to the party swoops...

Which is worse?? Someone placing and removing ALPA orange labels or ALPA members removing stickers with serial numbers off the front cockpit windows???? Pretty low if you ask me, I think everyone needs to grow up!

2nd lowest??? NB Capt year 1 5th lowest among the majors and LCC/ULCC ahead of TS & SW NB FO year 1 is 10th, with AS, UA, DL, AA & SW ahead. WS is ahead of all Canadian carriers. Top Scale NB Capt is 5th from the bottom ahead of RV, WG, & TS NB FO is 4th ahead of TS and WG WB Capt is 3rd ahead of R...