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by thepoors
Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:45 am
Forum: WestJet
Topic: AR program Did I read that right?
Replies: 42
Views: 6199

Re: AR program Did I read that right?

Lol, another pissy Jazz pilot. Here's a suggestion. If you believe your livelihood and success is dependant on other people giving you something, maybe try another job. You have free will, no? How are things at Transat? Lol You guys must be lowest paid widebody operators on the NAT tracks. Must be ...
by thepoors
Sun Jun 01, 2025 5:14 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 64
Views: 19207

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

I can’t see how someone on an approved leave of absence for reasons such as compassionate care, parental, etc, gets a ‘phone call’ about being in trouble… seems like a far reach to create speculation and rumours. Even training failures on probation have a process in our contract… if by the time tho...
by thepoors
Fri May 23, 2025 7:56 am
Forum: Corporate
Topic: Chartright
Replies: 31
Views: 34939

Re: Chartright

older post but if anyone has info on the last comment regarding the Challenger 300 pay, overnights and typical schedule that would be great to know. My data is about 2yrs old but starting FO 70-100k, CA 160-190k. "Schedule" and overnights completely depends on the specific airplane and owner - i.e....
by thepoors
Thu May 15, 2025 6:01 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 64
Views: 19207

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

Wonder if this is all part of the $150m cost reduction initiative the company is well under way with? It was spoken about in the earnings call last week. Call your pilots and intimidate them lol Still have a hard time processing this happening, I honestly don’t want to believe it. Do you know of sp...
by thepoors
Wed May 14, 2025 11:59 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 64
Views: 19207

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

I can’t see how someone on an approved leave of absence for reasons such as compassionate care, parental, etc, gets a ‘phone call’ about being in trouble… seems like a far reach to create speculation and rumours. Even training failures on probation have a process in our contract… if by the time tho...
by thepoors
Tue May 13, 2025 2:39 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 64
Views: 19207

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

I’ll add that it takes quite a bit for a company to cut their losses on training, obviously the future training problems were taken into account! Training failures the company will typically go quite a ways with... eventually the writing is in the wall though and experience levels coming in have ne...
by thepoors
Fri May 09, 2025 7:17 am
Forum: Corporate
Topic: Jetport
Replies: 29
Views: 20257

Re: Jetport

Much like roaches, they have and will continue to. Nothing's changed. Like schnitzel described, they pass all costs and then some onto owners while squeezing most aspects of flight ops down to the bone (i.e. crew and maintenance). Broker, training, fuel, catering, payroll etc bills go unpaid as long...
by thepoors
Sat May 03, 2025 3:30 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?
Replies: 36
Views: 7751

Re: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?

Right, and that's the number that is guaranteed. Anything beyond that is not. So telling people the pay is $100k is misleading. I still don't understand why you are so intent on inflating the numbers to make it seem like the pay is higher than it is. As mentioned, this mentality is why we stall in ...
by thepoors
Fri May 02, 2025 7:59 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?
Replies: 36
Views: 7751

Re: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?

$94.81/hr x 900 = $85,329. That is the salary. Sure, you can top it with all sorts of thing like unused per diems, SIM sessions if applicable and other means (short call, draft, VO etc.) but the salary alone is $85,329. In September this year, year 2 is $98.60/hr, which x 900 hours = $88,740. In Se...
by thepoors
Thu May 01, 2025 2:42 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?
Replies: 36
Views: 7751

Re: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?

What do you base your 88k on, just curious $94.81/hr x 900 = $85,329. That is the salary. Sure, you can top it with all sorts of thing like unused per diems, SIM sessions if applicable and other means (short call, draft, VO etc.) but the salary alone is $85,329. In September this year, year 2 is $9...
by thepoors
Thu May 01, 2025 12:50 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?
Replies: 36
Views: 7751

Re: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?

Year 2 is 6 digit already.. If you can’t afford to live on 100k, the wage isn’t the issue. Lol year 2 is 88k bud, wtf are you on about Year 2 is 94.81 Min guarenteed is 900 Credit top it with 7-10 sim session paid cash cleared on top of that. Perdiem average is 1300$ a month, and before you comment...
by thepoors
Thu May 01, 2025 11:41 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?
Replies: 36
Views: 7751

Re: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?

Man_in_the_sky wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 10:35 am
thepoors wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 6:22 am
CaptDukeNukem wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 5:09 am

What if your home country is Canada?
Then the advice is generally: "don't come to AC if you can't afford it" :roll:
Year 2 is 6 digit already..

If you can’t afford to live on 100k, the wage isn’t the issue.
Lol year 2 is 88k bud, wtf are you on about
by thepoors
Thu May 01, 2025 6:22 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?
Replies: 36
Views: 7751

Re: Has Air Canada Suspended All Upcoming Ground School Sessions?

CaptDukeNukem wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 5:09 am
Dry Guy wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 11:53 am They have slowed to once per month. I'd suggest going back to your home country as it likely has a better chance of doing well economically in the short to medium term.
What if your home country is Canada?
Then the advice is generally: "don't come to AC if you can't afford it" :roll:
by thepoors
Mon Apr 21, 2025 8:09 am
Forum: WestJet Encore
Topic: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??
Replies: 74
Views: 14193

Re: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??

As a turbine captain at a 703 operation with never having worked at a 705 operation, why aren’t First Officers being upgraded or upgrading at Encore? Every First Officer at my 703 operator can’t wait to get the hours and upgrade, we also have more captains than first officers due to captains can be...
by thepoors
Fri Apr 18, 2025 12:44 pm
Forum: WestJet Encore
Topic: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??
Replies: 74
Views: 14193

Re: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??

As a turbine captain at a 703 operation with never having worked at a 705 operation, why aren’t First Officers being upgraded or upgrading at Encore? Every First Officer at my 703 operator can’t wait to get the hours and upgrade, we also have more captains than first officers due to captains can be...
by thepoors
Fri Apr 18, 2025 12:37 pm
Forum: WestJet Encore
Topic: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??
Replies: 74
Views: 14193

Re: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??

Fellow pilots, For the last several weeks, ALPA Canada, along with the WestJet and WestJet Encore MEC’s have prioritized efforts towards halting WestJet managements bid to hire pilots through the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program. As pilots, we know this issue goes beyond WestJet Encore, it im...
by thepoors
Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:40 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Grievance update for the 285ish former Jazz pilots affected by Flow
Replies: 484
Views: 120542

Re: Grievance update for the 285ish former Jazz pilots affected by Flow

How DARE you talk that way towards our generation's gift to unionism and labour negotiations!!! Why if thepoors had any time or effort to spare over the last 2 years, he would have heroically led a full recall of the MEC, assumed control and marched us all out onto the picket line. After a few shor...
by thepoors
Sat Apr 12, 2025 5:52 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Grievance update for the 285ish former Jazz pilots affected by Flow
Replies: 484
Views: 120542

Re: Grievance update for the 285ish former Jazz pilots affected by Flow

You're missing the point, which myself and 3rdWorldClassPilot have made over and over again: the MEC surrendered all of our leverage way before that needed to happen. Everyone here keeps skipping ahead to arbitration... We still had 3 DAYS before the strike when these traitors agreed to a dogwater ...
by thepoors
Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:55 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Grievance update for the 285ish former Jazz pilots affected by Flow
Replies: 484
Views: 120542

Re: Grievance update for the 285ish former Jazz pilots affected by Flow

Can you be honest, take a step back and acknoledge that if it was voted down, with the actual climate and treats of our MEC chair stepping down. The actual economical climate would now be against us. If we're going to play that game... Can you be honest, take a step back and acknowledge that had th...
by thepoors
Wed Mar 26, 2025 7:09 am
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: Upgrade time at Encore
Replies: 4
Views: 3227

Re: Upgrade time at Encore

I have 2000TT. Just missing the total night time for my ATPL. Based in YYC and would like to move to an airline. Been working rotational jobs for my career thus far. Wondering what the upgrade time would be if I went to Encore, got my night time there and got the license signed off? Any info is gre...
by thepoors
Tue Mar 25, 2025 7:30 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Fleet offers
Replies: 39
Views: 18711

Re: Fleet offers

PittBoss wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 9:32 pm Upcoming GS for 31st have

5 A220 First Officers- YYZ
1 L-319 First Officer - YYZ
3 A320 First Officers - YYZ
3 B737 First Officer - YUL
2 B787 First Officer - YYZ
1 B787 First Officer - YVR
I'm assuming the 787 spots are RP not FO? There's no way they're offering WB FO spots in pit.
by thepoors
Mon Mar 24, 2025 6:53 am
Forum: WestJet Encore
Topic: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??
Replies: 74
Views: 14193

Re: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??

Yeah...lots of "concern" and coulda, shoulda, woulda so far. Let's see if this union can actually accomplish something in favour of its membership for once. Like securing a bunch of ratified collective agreements with record improvements? This is the ALPA Simp we all know. Welcome back Bede! Cheers...
by thepoors
Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:45 am
Forum: WestJet Encore
Topic: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??
Replies: 74
Views: 14193

Re: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??

Are you not an ALPA member? Did you not get the memo from Canada Board? Of course ALPA will fight this. It's ridiculous. Fellow Pilots, ALPA Canada was recently informed that WestJet Inc. received approval from the government to move ahead with its plan to hire pilots through the Temporary Foreign ...
by thepoors
Sat Mar 22, 2025 6:41 am
Forum: WestJet Encore
Topic: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??
Replies: 74
Views: 14193

Re: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??

Didn't stop you from being an ALPA apologist on every other thread... Now you're distancing yourself. Are you sure you don't actually work for ALPA? "You can't lose any battle if you never fight" - Bede I'm pretty sure you dumbasses are being trolled. ESDC administers the TFW program. I got the jok...
by thepoors
Fri Mar 21, 2025 4:59 pm
Forum: WestJet Encore
Topic: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??
Replies: 74
Views: 14193

Re: Encore hiring Foreign Workers??

Where is JBI & Bede on this? Too busy pushing yes votes & shilling for WJ? Can you imagine ALPA allowing Delta to hire foreign workers on visas?? LOL I don't work for WJ anymore. Haven't for some time. I work for Employment and Social Development Canada now. Didn't stop you from being an ALPA apolo...

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