onspeed wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 5:24 pm so not a swoop 2.0 and another massive alpa over promise, under deliver.

Indeed, especially considering ALPA supposedly charged extra dues!

Oh boy, if you thought an innocuous statement like that was an insult, maybe you should change your username to snowflake. You can say that again. No the plan is not to insult people, it is to provide facts to quash rumours that individuals such as he continue to spread without any evidence to back...

Dash.Trash wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:39 pm ...
Educate yourself before making wild and baseless claims.

So your plan is to insult people into agreeing with you Dash guy?! Good luck!!

Thanks for your post, but I'm still staring at that elephant in the room which you ignored! If ALPA so easily walked away from over 600 C3 pilots, what's stopping them from doing it again? What kind of union is it that abandons its members when dues stop coming in? C3 senior management made some ho...

To state the obvious, in case of a strike by WestJet pilots, Sunwing, not to mention Encore will continue flying in accordance with their contracts and carry the load, which would be quite ironic given the bargaining capital WestJet MEC has put in negotiating for Encore!! Even if that were the case...

I have to admit I haven't read the whole thread, but the title is enough for me to have concerns! Remembering how ALPA abandoned Canada 3000 pilots, I'd be in no rush to sign over the dotted line! Why is it that Canadians ask an American corporation to "come and fix their problems"?! It's like Pale...

Well, that's better!! Honestly though, this should be number one, because by eliminating the four years of flat pay, the entire scale is lifted. I believe going forward the scale gets flatter, with smaller gains between steps. This is what's been happening in the U.S as well.

I have to admit I haven't read the whole thread, but the title is enough for me to have concerns! Remembering how ALPA abandoned Canada 3000 pilots, I'd be in no rush to sign over the dotted line! Why is it that Canadians ask an American corporation to "come and fix their problems"?! It's like Pales...

Naturally to fix the pay problem at Air Canada and improve its pay, FOUR LOOONNNG years of flat pay have to disappear! That's where it starts! At the very least, that will raise the scale by four years. Everyone seems to focus so much on US pay, but they forget that the starting pay there is around...

I heard Sunwing is deploying tails to Europe this summer? If that's the case it'll be pretty hard to cover any flying if WS are on strike. Also, I know full well if I was a SWG pilot asked to cover WS flying during a strike I wouldn't be showing up. Sick/Personal days/Call it whatever you want. Not...

Naturally to fix the pay problem at Air Canada and improve its pay, FOUR LOOONNNG years of flat pay have to disappear! That's where it starts! At the very least, that will raise the scale by four years. Everyone seems to focus so much on US pay, but they forget that the starting pay there is around ...

To state the obvious, in case of a strike by WestJet pilots, Sunwing, not to mention Encore will continue flying in accordance with their contracts and carry the load, which would be quite ironic given the bargaining capital WestJet MEC has put in negotiating for Encore!!

The Sunwing pay looks decent on the captain side but still looks a bit low on the FO side. In my opinion a mid sized jet (737, 320, etc) FO should be making $100/hour year one to survive the cost of living in major Canadian cities. For too long, carriers have institutionalized ‘probation pay’. That...

I don’t think your union would allow a Capt 10 years out of seniority, my guess would be a 737 rebid. All swoop pilots would be in a position they can actually hold. If you want to be on the “list” you must hold the position you can hold on the list. Well ace, that ain’t my union, but I’m sure you’...

Ostensibly some WestJet pilots are very critical of Flair’s contract as an example of “lowering the standard”. This doesn’t seem to be the case as there is a sizeable increase and also it would be expecting too much from a new ULCC to better the WOWCON of WestJet in its first real contract, not to m...

Rebid, sidebid, mybid or whatever else a few may fancy is another fantasy that cannot happen as it will be an arbitrary decision to the detriment of a group of members, not to mention there can be “no bump, no flush” during mergers.

It can never be good economics on the part of a government to “reward” those who work and contribute to the economy by taking more than half of their money in taxes!! Somehow it continues to elude the socialists/communists! It’s bizarre!!

That Flair is in breach of foreign ownership and control laws has already been presented by the CTA in its ruling, but instead of replying to it and taking concrete steps to bring itself into compliance, Flair has tried to request a year and half more advantage over its competitors from another gove...

Flair has received 11.3 millions government funding to date. 3 millions from federal economic development agency of southern Ontario in April 2021 and 8.3 from western economic diversification in August 2021. The funding from 777 was being advanced at the same time Flair was taking funding from the ...

That sums up exactly why the TRZ shares are trading at $4.60 today (market capitalization of C$175MM). Denial. Alternate reality. Hope. Recall this is a corporation with 2019 revenues of C$2.9B. AC shares were also worth more than zero the day it filed on April Fool’s Day 2003. TRZ has already been...

Some emotional arguments ostensibly from Flair crowd which is understandable, but in final analysis none of it matters. Imagine if it were United pumping billions into Air Canada, and controlling its board, you will likely feel differently. The issue is control of the airline and its board, not what...

The comments from Flair seem to indicate they have been in breach of the law for some time and they have known it too. It is ridiculous that they expect to have an additional year and half at the expense of every other airline to further expand and consolidate. Is Flair a real business that has to p...

Unless there is a national organization based on license numbers and with due consideration to all previous experience, seniority has to be for the individual company and bargaining unit and you have to be there to get it. Separate companies and bargaining units, separate lists.

And Encore too. They probably wouldn’t want to buy Porter because of its likely higher cost structure, but offer to sell Encore to Porter (or a third party that buys both) with a long term CPA will be appealing with its steady revenue stream. That will begin to unlock value for Onex sooner rather th...

The reason there have not been many DOH mergers recently has been mainly because of huge disparities, for instance Canadian with its own many previous (messy) mergers and the fact that it was being rescued by a company that had been thriving and hiring in its last years as opposed to being stagnant ...