CGFCK wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2026 5:11 pm
I think youre right about the 4:25. So 8 days X 4:25 without lifting a finger to start the month.

"...without lifting a finger..."

Geez...

Can I guess, spoken by someone who's never volunteered for a union committee or taken on an elected position?

They beat AC on new hire pay: $113 vs $94 Beat top end 737 as well: $338 vs $337 Hopefully we at WJ can get this even higher. Flair has done well for themselves, especially when you consider this is only their second CA since joining ALPA. Please quote carefully, your new hire numbers should be usi...

Most pilots that I know in non-indexed DB plans have taken commuted value option if available. These are Jazz pilots retiring off the DB plan? It's extremely rare with Air Canada pilots, less than 1% take this option. Are you certain that commuted value is an option for AC pilots in the DB Plan? My...

rudder wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2026 7:11 pm
Most pilots that I know in non-indexed DB plans have taken commuted value option if available.

These are Jazz pilots retiring off the DB plan?

It's extremely rare with Air Canada pilots, less than 1% take this option.

PointNine, I looked at your CWIPP vs RRSP comparator. You put a lot of effort into this, well done. I think we’ll have to fundamentally disagree on the purpose of a pension plan. I remember the roadshow back in 2017 when the membership was introduced to CWIPP. The question about ‘leaving it to my ki...

I have flown with him and now I am even more excited to fly together more as I can agree with most of what he said. One thing though I hope pilots will realize: CWIPP is a scam and we should eb able to opt out and do normal RRSP, cash clear the difference as salary for those salaries above the 18% ...

I've found it a bit difficult interacting with the flight attendants sometimes. Maybe I'm too sensitive but negative experiences with people tend to stay with me afterwards. I'm often left wondering what I did to offend them or cause them to act passive-aggressively towards me. Sometimes it feels l...

They did secure themselves 90 hrs of pay per month. Anyone know if they are "going for more" for themselves next round? Maybe bump up their $2k per month stipend aka bonus. Shame we lost ours. yawn. like 5 members of the union who get paid this. you know, the ones who work their asses off for us. w...

altiplano wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2026 2:33 pm Company trolls sewing disunity.

You guys are making things up.

Supporting your association = supporting yourself.

Whining gets you nowhere.

100% agree

I noticed recently my pension estimate on the ALPA website estimator dropped around 4% for the CWIPP plan. Does anyone know what changed? You control the inputs (monthly hours, career path, benefit increases), so most of the time it's on the user end. But if you've changed nothing and the estimate ...

Good to have this discussion but shocking we have to do this... Quick explainer on EBITDA vs. EBITDAR for airlines: **EBITDA** = Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation & amortization. **EBITDAR** = EBITDA **plus Rent** (aircraft operating leases). For airlines, that “R” matters. Example: Let...

I'm not following you at all. EBITDAR is lower than EBITDA, not the other way around. Air Canada switched its reporting from EBITDAR to EBITDA in 2019. If you look up the annual report from 2019 and compare it to the previous year, you get that one chance to see both metrics in the same year. You ca...

The ALPA incentive bonus would have been maxed out the last two years. The trigger is 16.5% EBITDAR, not EBITDA. Those are not interchangeable metrics, and the company cleared that threshold comfortably. That's easily $30k per pilot of concessions. I think you're making stuff up. The difference bet...

So looks like we would have gotten profit sharing AGAIN this year if we didn't give it away? https://www.tipranks.com/news/company-announcements/air-canada-posts-record-2025-revenues-and-maps-cautious-growth-for-2026 Yup... 2 Years of max payout for the pilot group given away...to get WJ plus 2% pa...

One thing that nobody has factored into their retirement plans is the pension Share Trust has been settled and the first offers for packages are expected this year. How many will be offered and what the package looks like are yet to be determined but it will accelerate those senior guys that want a...

Well, I don't know what to tell you, but it's off by about 200 #s by my calculations. Perhaps they are using a factor for expected early retirements. Or maybe and probably most likely, whoever built the calculator input the mandatory retirements per year into the calculator at some earlier point an...

regarding the pension calculator to determine upgrade times: “ Career Progression: The career planner uses your seniority number, date of birth, date of hire, planned retirements, and published fleet plan to project the positions available to you at any point in your future career. Fleet plans can ...

Air Transat says it will begin suspending flights on Monday, followed by a "complete suspension" on Tuesday. It will also begin repatriating passengers "to prevent them from being stranded abroad if the strike occurs. The goal is to bring back everyone to their point of origin," the airline said. ht...

For those thinking about coming to Air Canada, another angle to consider, this was just published in our ACA MEC ALPA FastRead: "CWIPP Buy-In Transfer for WestJet New Hires Since 2021, CWIPP has offered a buy-in transfer of previous aviation service for members of qualifying plans. Examples of eligi...

The LTD/STD deductions are a hotbutton topic right now. It's excellent, premium-class coverage, (I'm personally thankful for it.) but too much of the funding is encumbered by the employees. It's a small funding pool with high salaries to pay out, so we've ended up with the current premiums. The emp...

Once again you don't get it. A11 pilots do a bunch of unpaid work, just one example: the entire ATO process is completely unpaid. Where are you getting this? Instructors, check pilots and seat fill volunteers for an ATO event are all paid. It's the candidate requiring extra training that is unpaid....

Don't shoot the messenger. I think retiring as early as you can is the way to go, but... Those numbers seem...unbelievable. Average life expectancy one year if you retire at age 65? Yikes. This 'study' has been circulating for decades, and has become an urban myth. Forbes magazine looked into it a f...

[ For the record, I do welcome any opportunity to give Mikey a chop to the throat. :lol: Some career advice for you…I would take down that post ASAP. Google the SkyRegional pilot who included similar comments in an email. Or the AC pilot who posted about Gaza last year. You’re not as anonymous as y...

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 ...

The math is simple... 42% raise on an industry worst legacy contract is still the worst contract for legacy airlines. 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 ...