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 ...

I would suggest that plan text would apply - if included - with the caveat that it cannot contravene the law, statute, or subsequent prevailing ruling. My plan states the following: “ Upon retirement, you can elect to receive your pension benefit in one of the following ways : ” So it makes clear, ...

The collective agreement may have changed on this point since I was forced to retire at age 60, but to my knowledge there is nothing in any of the collective agreements of Air Canada with any of its unions that requires an individual to retire in order to receive the pension. Did some digging...thi...

The longshoremen have an agreement that allows for double dipping, i.e. you can start collecting a pension but aren't required to terminate employment and leave the bargaining unit. Looks like they can even retain their seniority. Air Canada doesn't allow double dipping of this sort in their pilots ...

The last bid shows 7 resignations so 0.13% have left. Not necessarily leaving to go south but resigned one way or another. So, 99.87% are choosing to stay at least for now. Keep in mind that when you see 'resignation' on the bid list, this sometimes means that a new hire was not making it through t...

What seems to be missing from the equation is the rate of decay on the 319/320 fleet. The investor day presentation alluded to the ability to ‘flex’ on these fleet types for capacity as many fins are owned aircraft. However, most of the slides seem to indicate that these aircraft are not part of th...

The above is true but the quick upgrades won’t last forever. Hard to keep track, but with yesterday's announcement (Dec 20) of an additional 5 x A220, the firm orders for the next 5 years are now at about 95 aircraft. 75 NB and 20 WB, and most of that is growth. That's close to 1000 pilots required...

Striking has for been demonstrated time and time again for 150 plus years to improve working conditions for workers. The idea this isn't true completely goes against the history of the labour movement. When looking at how unions have fared after going on strike in this country, I'm more inclined to...

I'd add: - Posties have been on strike for nearly a month. Somehow Air Canada pilots were going to get FOS It's true that the posties were allowed to go on strike. Also true is that after five weeks it looks like they're going to be legislated back to work in a roundabout way via the CIRB. Just lik...

rudder wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2024 7:49 am
Is there a commuted value option with CWIPP?

Yes, to a certain age. Believe it's age 55.

Here is a question - how does the CWIPP work around the RCT DB Benefit Limit (1/9 the money purchase limit). One of the reasons for the MPU’s associated with the DB Plan is to create a de facto SERP to offer an earned annual benefit that exceeds the RCT Limit. The DB is considered ‘registered’ and ...

I see what you mean here but saying DB doesn't get guaranteed company contributions is a bit misleading. They are required to keep it funded to a certain level. So yes that means they can take holidays on funding but on the flip side if the market ends up in the toilet they are required to cough up...

CWIPP is better than nothing but I don't get how people get so excited about it. There are absolutely no guarantees despite any glossy brochure. The plan was started by meat cutters and I'm not sure how it will work out in the long term for a higher pay profession like pilots. Let's just say I'm ha...

The DB pension went from pension crisis in to massive over funding in a flick of switch. The government changed the calculation of the valuation of DB pensions December 2020. They introduced new standards for calculating commuted values with changes to the interest rate assumption and the pension c...

You do realize junior pilots don't have a DB pension? That is the largest concession there is. Anyone who knows anything about pensions wants a defined benefit pension over a target benefit pension. It's literally in the words - "target" instead of "defined" And not sure how junior pilots benefited...

If you look at the current CWIPP benefit formula (1.40/1.75/1.90%) it isn’t that difficult to come up with a reasonable estimate on the back of a napkin. Here is a very rough example: average annual earnings of 275k for 20 years x 0.190 = $104500. It would likely be marginally less due to the reduc...

That’s actually not correct. Historically, the company released partial blocks, as they were completed. ALPA suspended that practice, about a year ago, in the interests of “unity”, while negotiations were under way. That was the word ALPA relied on then,.. unity. A. 27 was amended within the curren...

Doesn’t affect much at Jazz. They can fly the RJ out west doing YQR turns or whatever. Can also fly the Q400 since it’s mostly all domestic. Also a very limited number of positions available on the RJ. The problem at AC is any longer flights out west or east tend to cross the US airspace . I suppos...