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- Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:39 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: CBC News story / no-fly ban
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6350
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:38 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: CBC News story / no-fly ban
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6350
Re: CBC News story / no-fly ban
It seems to me there is more to this story that what CBC told us. If the hairs dont stand up on the back of your neck from wording like "employee discount" or "50% off airline tickets " or the fact you found this "service" on a chat app, then you deserve to get ripped off for the rest of your life b...
- Tue May 21, 2019 10:23 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Future 797 single pilot?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 7692
Re: Future 797 single pilot?
Its going to happen. Just a matter of when.
- Fri May 17, 2019 10:50 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: AC offer AT $13 per share
- Replies: 160
- Views: 30796
Re: AC offer AT $13 per share
YEAH OKAY. No, AC got the shaft. Canadian guys got the consolation prize, the "sorry we bought out your mismanaged airline" prize of an extra few years.
Back in my ramp days I worked with a guy who claimed he had 40 years of seniority. That meant he started when he was 14.
Back in my ramp days I worked with a guy who claimed he had 40 years of seniority. That meant he started when he was 14.
- Fri May 17, 2019 8:41 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
- Replies: 130
- Views: 29734
Re: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
Half of the companies on that list dont exist anymore.brooks wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 5:51 am https://www.onex.com/portfolio
I’ll just leave that here too.
- Fri May 17, 2019 2:05 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
- Replies: 130
- Views: 29734
- Thu May 16, 2019 11:24 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Air Canada Buys Air Transat
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5713
- Thu May 16, 2019 9:15 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Working at Air Canada if you don't drink
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4973
Re: Working at Air Canada if you don't drink
Just tell whoever is offering you a drink that youre a friend of Bill W's, thatll put an end to it.
- Thu May 16, 2019 7:39 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Air Canada Buys Air Transat
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5713
Re: Air Canada Buys Air Transat
Can we all acknowledge how smart this is on ACs part from a predatory/protectionist perspective? TS has gates, slots, etc at airports all over Europe and the Caribbean. Just imagine if WS got ahold of that?
- Thu May 16, 2019 7:26 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Time for Transat pilot future poll
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8106
Re: Time for Transat pilot future poll
OR here is a wildcard, AC goes to a B list scale, Transat to top of list as a consolation prize. Its not like that hasnt happened before.
- Thu May 16, 2019 7:14 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: AC offer AT $13 per share
- Replies: 160
- Views: 30796
Re: AC offer AT $13 per share
Rouge and TS merge and abandon the B list scale a create a C list scale.
- Thu May 16, 2019 6:56 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Air Canada Buys Air Transat
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5713
Re: Air Canada Buys Air Transat
TS has some 330s that AC have been looking for.
- Wed May 15, 2019 4:07 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: What is it like being an aviation tech?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2048
Re: What is it like being an aviation tech?
Air handlers are a lot more comfortable than laying on your gut in the avionics bay of a Dash-8 for an hour or two. Air handlers are a lot more comfortable than crawling through the man holes in a fuel tank of a 767. Think about it, seats are where the money is made on a plane and they take up space...
- Wed May 15, 2019 1:00 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
- Replies: 130
- Views: 29734
Re: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
Wishful thinking... just like you were going to show everyone how to do the Atlantic when you got the 767s. HAHAHA this comment wins the Comment Of the Year Award. I love how cocky brooks gets about WS, like he himself is sucking the blue koolaid out of the tip of CBs wang. Just remember brooks, th...
- Tue May 14, 2019 6:21 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
- Replies: 130
- Views: 29734
Re: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
Conversely, why does Alaska own Horizon? Why does American own Envoy, Piedmont, and PSA? Why does Delta own Endeavor? Why did AC buy a chunk of Chorus? The trend in North American regionals is the opposite of what you're claiming: the majors are buying their feeders to have more control over them a...
- Mon May 13, 2019 1:19 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
- Replies: 130
- Views: 29734
Re: WestJet to be Acquired by Onex
No, there's a huge difference between changing management and finding new customers, and selling off components of the business. I'd like to know what, if any, companies they've chopped up and sold off. Are you aware of what a "private equity" firm does? While changing management and creating an IP...
- Mon May 13, 2019 10:18 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
- Replies: 130
- Views: 29734
Re: WestJet to be Acquired by Onex
I'd like to see some support for this statement, because I can't find any history of them stripping companies down. You gave yourself the support you were looking for. I said stripping, you said reorganizing. Same thing, just one of them is a management buzz word. But if you really want to do the r...
- Mon May 13, 2019 9:35 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: WestJet to be sold in friendly deal to Onex Corp. for $5 billion
- Replies: 130
- Views: 29734
Re: WestJet to be Acquired by Onex
ONEX buys companies, fixes them up and sells them for a profit. Westjet has been trying to be everything to everybody. If i was a betting man I'd say ONEX takes Westjet back to it's core profitability model and sells off the extras like Swoop, Encore, 767's etc. Going to be an interesting next few ...
- Sun May 12, 2019 8:17 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Boeing Systemic Problems Continue
- Replies: 294
- Views: 53316
Re: Boeing Systemic Problems Continue
L39 guy... Almost any airplane with powered stab tim...ie all Airbus and the B777, 787, can be trimmed "manually" at any airspeed from any trim position. The problem with the 737 stab manual trim is that it is just the pilot winding on a wheel connected by hundreds of feet of cable to the stab jack...
- Sun May 12, 2019 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Cargo Jet Drake's Privat Jet (Air Drake)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4245
Re: Cargo Jet Drake's Privat Jet (Air Drake)
I guess Air Canada isn't sending them all to the desert. :D A fool and his money are easily parted. Kind of sad to see the old girl get pimped out though. This plane is a -200 with GEs, I didnt think AC had any -200s with GE engines. Im sure all the AC -200s both ER and non ER were all JT9D Pratts....