100 flights cancelled one day this week because of no controllers.

https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver ... nav-canada

Does anyone with an FA personal connection know what the strike pay situation is? I can't help but wonder if the juniors are making more while on strike pay than while working.

Now this is peak leverage.

I bet they are raging at the politicians they bought off right now because no FAs are showing up to work.

Some people voted in Carney as they thought he would be the faster option to dissolve Canada.
Trudeau told everyone that "Canada is a post-national state" for a decade and schools raised children on it.

TalkingPie wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 2:23 pm The strike vote results are in.

Percentage of YES votes: 99.7%

Participation rate: 94.6%

Thank you. That shows great resolve.

The new equipment bid is a nothing burger. Very little changes.

I would never feel "safe" being at a hard cap altitude.

A346Dude wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 7:00 pm The helicopter being above above max altitude is such a red herring.

If the difference between 200 and 300 feet is death, it was never a viable helicopter route.

It's not a cruising altitude of 200'. It's a hard cap altitude.

Does the pension estimator take future aircraft into account or only what's operating now?

They were scrambled out of McChord Field near Tacoma. Either way NORAD was supposed to be mutual yet we hide our defense aircraft in the middle of the country. We have no intent to defend any airspace. Our major cities are also left defenseless from foreign attack, or the "messenger of Allah" hijack...

That's a Victoria Flying Club aircraft. I wonder if he was a student or how he got the keys. It reminds me of this incident a couple years ago:
https://www.globalair.com/articles/stud ... ny?id=6555

Students don't ask permission first in my experience. I nearly got smoked by another student during our first formation flying attempt. I never did it again. That said, there's no evidence that they weren't just unlucky. VFR flying relies a lot on the big sky principle. The principle doesn't really ...

It's so fortunate these engine/propeller failures keep happening close to the runway.

People are working like 22 days a month.

The truck carrying the tail section drove under a large tree branch and smashed into it with the tail.

DHC-1 Jockey wrote: ↑Thu Jun 19, 2025 5:15 am At NavCanada we can't strike.

How did we get to the point where no labour group in the air travel industry can strike?

Which airline is GS5 again?

Don't be in too much of a hurry to join. Low time new hires are failing out of training. After that happens I'd be surprised if you get another chance in the future.

So much misinformation. Units are so short that even if no one books off sick there still isn't enough people willing to come in and work the overtime to try and fill every slot because they are tired and already overworked. This is where those delays are coming from. You seem like an insider. In y...

cdnavater wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 8:27 pm we get our big cheque on the 10th, the cheque on the 25th is a “mid month advance” which is the smaller cheque

We do?

I also find it interesting how quiet this subject has been. There is hardly any news about this, and no commentary from other airline CEO's. When the Trudeau Liberals gave Bombardier a $372.5 million repayable loan, it was all over the news. Transat gets $380 million in debt taken off its balance s...

AC pay and pay system is the most Fd up compensation system I have ever experienced in my career… Yeah why is like that? My PIT started near the end of the month and I didn't receive any payment until like 6 weeks later. Make sure you have enough saved for rent for the first couple of months or you...

They are laying off pilots because they secured a new charter contract? Is the contract for dry leases?

Once per month.
First Wednesday of the month.
Currently around 1 year and 4 months.