How has PAL been doing with their Air Canada CPA arrangement? Are they going to build a hangar in Halifax? I expect they will be eating more of Jazzs cake if they do well. PAL has hangars, an FBO and an extensive foot print in YHZ that was there long before and goes well beyond their CPA. As far as...

Lots of inaccurate information posted here. The Chief Pilot did not leave for greener pastures and its not a 24/7 on call deal. There will be two pilots assigned to the plane. 604 flights will be flown either single pilot or two crew depending on schedule and all 704 flights will be two crew only. ...

I’m a little shocked the Porter/Jazz/Encore and others haven’t developed a robust basically live anywhere we fly system yet as a way of Pilot attraction and retention. Maybe it will come and it’s probably too early in Porters expansion that the frequencies on routes don’t support it yet. While Porte...

My last corporate gig, we all started at 4 weeks Likewise for me. Many operations (not all) that are not affiliated with management companies tend to treat their pilots a little more humanely. A management company without strong influence from an aircraft owner will treat you like a disposable, inc...

Unfortunately most if not all airlines require this. There is no good way around it.

Maybe instead of asking your Chief Pilot or Ops Manager you could ask an Asst. Chief or Lead Safety Pilot. Someone you could trust to keep it to themselves should you not end up leaving.

What is the max amount of days worked at TS? What gets lost a lot in comparing pay scales is the days worked. I believe Porter is 12 days off a month while other’s large airlines do max 16 days worked. So say you’re a reserve pilot in a 31 day month you could end up working up to 15% more at Porter ...

brokeflapoperator wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:51 pm On the pilot call earlier this month, Diederik said future eastern bases were being looked into after everything stabilizes. YUL and YHZ were specifically brought up. My guess is its possible after the dust settles with the Sunwing merger.

Pilot meet carrot.

Any updates/rumors regarding this with the reintroduction of Dublin, Edinburgh, and London out of YHZ? There was no YHZ base when all those flights were being operated and there was a strong presence on the East Coast. This time around Westjet has a significantly smaller presence on the East Coast ...

That has to be fake… right?

Is the reduction in flying being forced by lack of crews?? I have heard AC/Westjet/Porter have all had several Flair pilots (Captains & FO’s) in every single ground school they have been running recently. I’d also assume they don’t have a lineup of Pilots looking to join with Flair’s future outlook,...

Canadaflyer46 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:38 pm $200 an hour still wouldn’t be enough to fly a POS Dash in east coast weather with low time FOs.

It’s a dash, you’re not flying a Navajo at 100 feet between NDB’s in the middle of nowhere.

If you can’t handle the weather on the East Coast maybe you shouldn’t be flying at all.

That old fart will show up on their first day, squeeze themselves into the left seat of that cavernous Challenger cockpit and wonder why nothing is happening. You didn’t file the flight plans, arrange handling, do performance, order the catering, book the hotels, book the transportation, and do the...

Guaranteed they find one. Retired Airline dude who makes 80-100k a year retirement salary from the airline plus 130gs from this outfit. An old fart who can’t stay away from flying yet taking a job opportunity from a younger individual. That old fart will show up on their first day, squeeze themselv...

Any truth to the rumours of the mass exodus happening at Cargojet in recent months??? Hearing Westjet/AC/Porter etc have had several Cargojet pilots in every class recently.

My best guess is on housing being a lot more affordable than yyz, more desirable than yul with a better tax rate than the both of them. Younger guys want to stay in that area, they’ll do it for less. That being said, not many younger guys (or gals) with that kind of time that won’t already have the...

Must be a typo, should be 230,000$…….. right?…

Lipstick on a pig.

Maybe their skippers will now make 55% of what wide body skippers around the world make, up from the less than 50% they currently are.

Back in the day the golden rule we always used was if you were on an instrument flight put 30 or 40% of the time IFR. At the end of the day nobody can really verify nor will they care to in regards to your IFR time.

Cue the Transat pilots to be triggered. Will they snap at the bank as they do when anyone else says their business is underperforming?

As someone who did corporate before the airlines back in the day, if your goal is to make it to the majors and you only have 800 hours, corporate should be the last route you take. Say Air Canada would hire you at 3000 hours, that would take many years to achieve in corporate. Sure you may grow to l...

I left a $200k+ income last year for $58k at AC. I only did it because I'm single, have little to no debt, no kids, no other fiscal or other responsibilities. I live at my base and have a 25 minute commute on a train to the airport. I could manage the financial burden of being a flat payer. I'm als...

Funny when a year 2 united Fo makes almost 3x a year 1 67 captain. Are you comparing a +$45b company to a barely $250m one? I agree pay is low especially with no YOS credit but come on! While I am certainly not advocating for comparing Canadian pay Vs. American pay as it a waste of time. The compan...

I think the real question from the video is, who is the psycho that doesn’t cancel their iPhone alarm??

Who cares. One line says it all. Upto 4% rrsp with a 50% company match. Weird way to say 2% rrsp match.

Wow! 138k for a heavy jet skipper. Should be at least double that. What an absolute joke! Hey come on now, it's not like they're mainly flying at night or anything. Not like it's hard on the body or ... wait ... never mind... Good point, I was wrong the pay not be double the current rate…… it shoul...