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- Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:32 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Chilean C-130 Bound for Antarctica Goes Missing
- Replies: 0
- Views: 428
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 10:17 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Air Canada Pay
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9537
Re: Air Canada Pay
Raises for senior pilots become harder to achieve as disparity grows with the junior pilots. In negotiations the company will always compare pay to the lowest common denominator. Therefore it becomes increasingly harder to substantiate a raise for the $200+/year pilot when guys coming in off the str...
Re: One List
Cloak, plenty of people in this thread and in others have proven you wrong time and again. Yet you continue along in some weird alternate reality of distorted facts and half truths. I don't really care personally but others with less understanding should know your posts are complete BS.
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:40 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Fatal floatplane crash west of Red Lake
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3078
Re: Fatal floatplane crash west of Red Lake
http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2019/a19c0053/a19c0053.html Pilots should consider their abilities, experience, and the aircraft's capabilities when planning and conducting flights, especially when gusty surface winds and moderate turbulence are forecast along the route of flight...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:20 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Recession incoming
- Replies: 134
- Views: 12632
Re: Recession incoming
The weakness of western democracies could not be more evident than this election. No substance or fresh ideas. Nothing but manufactured politically correct bullshit. A polarising mainstream media bereft of any real journalism, driven by clicks and sensationalism. But who cares when no one reads beyo...
Re: One List
This thread is chalk FULL of misinformation and people trying to rewrite history. I'm not going to pick through all the BS and correct everything (I thank JBI for that) but I will say I am absolutely disgusted with how everything surrounding the one list played out although I can't say I'm all that ...
- Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:46 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: The Air Canada OTS thread
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 368611
Re: The Air Canada OTS thread
I highly doubt Transat will have any effect on hiring for some time. If I had to take an educated guess from the comfort of my Chesterfield I would suggest AC's training capacity is the limiting factor. The biggest bid in decades closed last month which saw a ton of people move around. So courses an...
- Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:43 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Pension
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4702
Re: Pension
Not everyone wants to be put on the DB. I personally prefer the security and independence of CWIP. It keeps the company from using the pension as a bargaining chip. And for many of the young pilots joining I'd argue they will make more with CWIP.
- Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:24 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Who will represent us?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2724
Re: Who will represent us?
You guys who think DOH is not an option are out to lunch....it is very much an option.......there will be fences, most likely grouped in with Rouge for several years before being allowed to move mainline.... but still integrated into same pilot list, and most likely DOH. Also all TS crew or at leas...
- Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:54 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: The Air Canada OTS thread
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 368611
Re: The Air Canada OTS thread
Equipment assignments are usually done within the last couple days of the PIT course (which is 2 weeks long). So the Sept. 9th class won't know what they've been assigned until Sept. 18-20.
- Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:47 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: BA Strike, Canada pay attention
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4814
Re: BA Strike, Canada pay attention
BA just took away the pilot's employee flight benefits for the next 3 years. That would seriously suck if you are a commuter. If they want them back they'll have to negotiate it along with their salary demands. I'm not sure what the commuter ratio is for BA (I suspect it's large) but for the two ma...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:33 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: MPIC time or move on? What's next?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2514
Re: MPIC time or move on? What's next?
If AC is your main objective and time is of the essence, go to Jazz and get it over with. However it's worth noting that a large swath of Canadian aviation is being bypassed by people on the direct-to-AC. Excellent jobs across the country that used to be highly sought-after are going to whoever walk...
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 5:29 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Fatal floatplane crash west of Red Lake
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3078
Re: Fatal floatplane crash west of Red Lake
Anyone know anything else about this incident? I was informed today that it was a prominent Red Lake businessman and new owner of Viking Outposts.
- Sun Jun 09, 2019 11:29 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: New TC Cannabis rules
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6607
Re: New TC Cannabis rules
Let's broaden our perspectives here for a moment and consider what's actually happening. We're less than a year into legalisation and TC has gone from zero tolerance (medical revoked & licence suspended), to 28 days. That's a remarkable change of stance. I find it interesting to watch TC (among othe...
Re: One list
"This was one of the main reasons for creating it separate." What world do you live in? The reason they made Encore seperate was to reset labour costs! Not for some hypothetical merger ten years after the fact. You give the c-suite far too much credit. They have been hanging on by the seat of their ...
- Sat May 25, 2019 11:11 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: The Air Canada OTS thread
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 368611
Re: The Air Canada OTS thread
Wasn't all that long ago guys were waiting in the pool for 2+ years! A couple of months is nothing.
Re: One list
Couldn't have said it better myself JBI. Anyone with a casual interest let alone someone who has "studied the TA immensely" would know that one bargaining unit cannot negotiate seniority onto a seperate bargaining unit. That was never a part of the equation and to suggest otherwise merely demonstrat...
Re: One list
GATRKGA get off your high horse!! Who gives a fiddlers f*ck what the industry was like 6 years ago! It doesn't matter who or in what way people climbed seniority in the past. Categorising Encore pilots as 5 bar Instagram warriors flies in the face of all the high time, older professionals working he...
Re: BETRAYAL!
Tell that to the 500+ Encore pilots who agreed to work under those terms, and whom are now SOL! As a former Encore pilot, this is a betrayal in every sense of the word.
Good luck with your Onex restructuring!
BETRAYAL!
To think the One List survived certification, negotiations, and arbitration only to meet it's end at the hands WJ PILOTS!! How incredibly ironic if it wasn't so disgusting!! Encore pilots have been the most loyal supporters of mainline pilots since their inception. I couldn't think of a more importa...
Re: One list
Perhaps it's because people with less topical knowledge insist on arguing endlessly like yourself.
Re: One list
Firstly, Encore has grown to be a sizeable airline with its own advantages compelling some to consider it for the long haul. Secondly, the great majority of the initial experienced group that established Encore has already flowed to WestJet or left for other greener pastures. The majority of new re...
Re: One list
This thread is rife with entitlement and cynicism. I find it extremely disappointing (although not surprising) that some pilots here cannot look out onto the horizon beyond their own narrow self interest. For generations the career of a pilot has been defined by years of toil and sweat, rare hiring ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 1:32 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Twin otter on the ice
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6610
Re: Twin otter on the ice
Sounds like a Station 60 to me. The one significant weakness to an otherwise extremely robust bush plane. Not sure if it was a factor in this case but as others have mentioned, landing on unproven snow or ice in flat light is not without considerable risk. Overcast conditions make recognizing the si...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 4:21 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: WestJet is in trouble. Is becoming more like Air Canada the fix?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4531
WestJet is in trouble. Is becoming more like Air Canada the fix?
https://outline.com/BtWJvB
Accurate and concise article regarding WestJet's recent turmoil and the challenges it faces going forward.
TL/DR: WestJet is trying to do too much all at once.
Accurate and concise article regarding WestJet's recent turmoil and the challenges it faces going forward.
TL/DR: WestJet is trying to do too much all at once.