rooster wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 9:48 am

altiplano wrote: ↑Sun Aug 03, 2025 11:58 pm

rooster wrote: ↑Sun Aug 03, 2025 3:56 pm

What is DOT?

What does it stand for?

Duty Overtime

we need 5:30 in the next contract and we need full paid DHs. Watch the DHing and unpaid sits evaporate. We need better rigs on THG and DPG too. Maybe 3.5:1 and 1.75:1 or duty -4hrs, FAs have it, should be an easy achievement. And get rid of DPG and replace it with CDG - calendar day guarantee - lik...

From Google's AI bot: Yes, the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) can modify seniority lists, but typically only under specific circumstances. The CIRB's power to alter seniority lists is generally limited to situations where it is exercising its review powers, such as in cases of reconsiderat...

If 5 pilots were let go it’s likely for a valid reason. I find AC is very accommodating as far as employers go. People that need extra help and training generally always get it and more. If one is genuine and honest and making the effort you have nothing to worry about as a new hire or pilot on pro...

AC mainline uses the AQP system for pilot training, which in a lot of respects is better than the traditional PPC system however for your first recurrent sim as a new hire you can basically be thrown right into what's known as the MTV which is basically like a PPC except you're allowed as many repea...

Any ideas on when there could be more vacancies at YVR? It seems like there's very few positions there at the moment. That'll change, when is anyone's guess but the 220 base will almost certainly grow and probably 787 and 320 as well closer to the new airplanes arriving. Unsure about 737 and 777 or...

Not a vendetta at all. Severe cost overruns and paid trips to Hawaii by their exec chairman. Office and Car? Do we have a car? Trying to get information which apparently is stonewalled. Also a rumour that we will not engage with their Chairman since our chair resigned? 🤷 Keep this irrelevant garbag...

I don't know if drop with no credit is much of a commuting policy. It's just a promise not to get you in trouble for trying to get to work. Reading this thread makes it seem like it's not even that if people are saying things like 'I wouldn't risk it'. Literally no airline in the world drops with c...

Maybe there was after all some kind of seniority arrangement for the ex-Jazz pilots thrown on the table? Which obviously would result in numerous current AC pilots (OTS hires) adversely affected, hence ACA MEC freaking out. Just my wild guess.

In 2014 I flew Sunwing from YQR-VRA. Sched departure time was around 1900 in YQR, and the plane went mechanical. After several hours of a rolling delay they eventually flew in a replacement aircraft from YEG, with a YYC based flight crew (presumably on overnight reserve) which arrived in YQR at 0100...

How much did every pilot lose with this concession then? An avg payout in 2024 was around $15k. Multiply that by 5000 pilots and it makes it a $75 million concession. New wages was around $250 million. So take $75m divided by $250m and you get roughly 30%. 30% of new wages came from money members g...

Hopefully there are no further delays for 787-10 and XLR orders. If we’re schedule to receive them starting Q1 2026 then Feb bid or 25-02 should have some of those positions. New seniority numbers just came out, nothing too drastic. Averaging around a 100 retirees a year. Will the XLR be a separate...

It’s a meeting with the cirb. This should be the final step. Can’t wait CIRB Officer was satisfied progress was being made, and next meeting with the company is scheduled for Feb 2024 Do you when in Feb? and why this hasn't moved onto the next step in the CIRB process? Claude doesn’t give a F about...

Wouldn't waste your time with Aerkavo...he is a proven shill who just regurgitates what he has heard to rationalize selling out new hires. Every comparison is a non comparable if it shows how preposterous the current situation for young pilots at AC is. Pilots are literally spending their pitiful n...

Sounds like someone enjoying their shiny new boat. Too bad it’s winter now I suppose, oh well can’t win em all I guess Did you ever work at a place where there's that one old employee who is angry and twisted - hates the boss, hates the company, hates the job? They spend their days muttering, glari...

Have you thought about commuting to YYZ? It's a lot further with a bit less frequency, but seniority wise, you would be way ahead. I know guys who are stuck on reserve in YVR and their classmates from PIT on the same plane are mid level block holders with Christmas and their choice of days off. Bei...

The deal is done, it is what it is. What is the argument here? You still don’t like it? We don’t care, get over it.

Thanks for all the replies guys. I currently am at AC and the commuting is pretty brutal. Financially and mentally. My costs are around $3000 a month with a modest crash pad (split a 2 bedroom downtown) and Ubers/transit/flights. Currently taking home about $4500, with some modest raises on the hor...

2003 wages adjusted for inflation (which isn't really a "gain" in the true sense). And at the very least 100k/yr starting. How we accepted a contract where yr 1-3 still make less than Flair is ridiculous. How much is 2003 first year pay inflation adjusted to 2024? About 91k Incorrect, Y1 flat effec...

I agree. There has always been an air of superiority with AC. Wonderfully exampled by their union’s ’we’re not WestJet’ video. Nope, they’re certainly not. 5% higher top end captain pay with worse QOL. That didn’t age well. It's not an air of superiority, at least not that I've ever seen. Speaking ...

Westjet has way better lifestyle than AC both on NB and WB and they’re only on their second contract, the first one was arbitrated and the second one they didn’t make the money gains they could have because of Swoop and Sunwing consolidation under 1 AOC. AC had none of these factors and should have...

Am I hearing this right?? Is this true? Forwarded from AC internal resource. This is the draft email which will be sent out in 48 hours after confirmation from ALPA legal. Hello World Class Pilots, As the vote opened, in just a matter of 6 hours, company requested to check the percentage of pilots ...

I hate to flip-flop. I'm voting NO. I was waiting to see what would fall our way this week to sway the vote. Answer. NOT MUCH. The company left too many "low to no cost items" on the table. Profit share jacked out of reach is just a nasty move akin to stripping us of our B1's. They haven't been ret...

This will go down as the most epic surrender and capitulation in the entire history of Canadian aviation. Now we have a fractured Membership, useless ACPA era legal team, split MEC, and a Union leader who just threw her arms in the air with a huge "Fukit". No kidding. Of all the possible scenarios,...

Sooooo, Apparently, captains made big gains and are potentially buying second homes(comment from earlier post). I thought that the movement was so fast now that almost all of you will be doing fairly well, fairly soon. Is it the ones refusing to bid a captain position for lifestyle that are most up...