Absolutely it is detrimental. The type rating is useless and you aren't flying anymore and building your piloting skill set. As you mentioned it makes you much less marketable to other airlines too. Wow…really?! I guess if Air Canada is only a stepping stone for another job (which is usually pretty...

Calm air. Generally high FO turnover, but captains mostly staying out cuz they like being home in winnipeg and the flying is decent. And as far as I’m aware they still make you sign a training agreement. I may be wrong but $25000k, first year 25% of it is erased on a month to month, second year is ...

You apply to several companies. They have different timelines. You would like to get as many offers as possible to be able to compare them. How do you delay answering an offer that comes earlier than the others? Is it acceptable to say "Thank you for the offer, I will give you a response in 1/2/4 w...

Wasn’t jazz supposed to be the sole service provider under the air canada express tag? Wasn’t that one of the pillars of the deal that was signed for 17 YEARS? What is Jazz ALPA doing about this? Why is the Jazz pilots accepting that meh MOS? Seriously grow fn backbone but all I see is shrugged sho...

ALPA should adopt a national standard against training bonds. Great idea so in the future it's just not even on the table. If you were a Jazz pilot, wouldn't you be upset that your same union which you paid dues to for 20 years, signed off on allowing bonds at your competitor airline PAL where the ...

Wasn’t jazz supposed to be the sole service provider under the air canada express tag? Wasn’t that one of the pillars of the deal that was signed for 17 YEARS? What is Jazz ALPA doing about this? Why is the Jazz pilots accepting that meh MOS? Seriously grow fn backbone but all I see is shrugged shou...

Some of you are wasting your business skills flying airplanes. Please go into management and show them how to run an airline. Or go and show the union how it’s done, get elected and make us all rich! TS flight attendants are in bargaining right now, we will not get anything until they are done. Wit...

Also as someone that went corporate, here are my thoughts, 1) On a midsize jet, industry standard salary is 80-100K, if they are offering under industry standard this may be telling of the job. 2) 30 hours of flight time is relatively high for a corporate machine, this may be overstating the averag...

Can anyone post what the upgrade times are for the 220, 319, and the 737 are?

This is why a signing bonus is such a sneaky tactic. Last time we got $10,000. Nice, right? 9 years later it’s hardly remembered and it certainly didn’t change anyone’s life. Doesn’t compound. The other side knows this. A bonus is a bonus. Extra. As for how the public thinks about anything, AC will...

co-joe wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2023 4:47 am Didn't the Air Canada CEO just finish saying they had no problems attracting pilots, and now there's a pilot shortage? Which is it?

Decide which is the harsh truth AC management wants to hide more and that will be the truth.

While I agree that I hope and expect a sizeable increase, I'm not holding my breath. This union vs AC fight will become very public just like the WJ one. How will it look to the regular CBC watching public when something gets leaked about captains wanting 400/hr while the economy enters a slow down...

233% should be the war cry!

This reply would fit in well in a grade 10 English assignment regarding fallacies. Just because some companies that require bonds are using bonds to try to fix retention issues does not mean that a company that requires a bond has retention issues. Logically you're right. However my claim is that t...

These guys get it. How its done. https://financialpost.com/news/metro-strike-union-blocks-warehouses-major-escalation Rookie, you realize we don’t have the ability to strike or even negotiate, we are locked in a contract so what these workers do or don’t do is irrelevant to our situation. Well, tha...

M.Caribou wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 3:47 pm RP position is not guaranteed J on a deadhead, which I'd imagine would be quite aggravating when you're getting sent over to Asia on a 12+hr flight.

FO deadhead is then?

P.S. is the initial training the same PPC? TIA

Is the initial training for an RP and an FO the same PPC? If one is an RP and decides later on to go FO, what is the process, is it more training, does one have to wait until an FO spot opens up? Basically how easy is it to transfer from RP to FO? Also how is one’s flying time logged, I assume you l...

Unfortunately I think you’re absolutely correct. I think that’s why didn’t truly have our own country until 1983, 207 years after our American brothers.

Vote on the conditions of today, not an imaginary future that MAY NOT even happen. To all the yes voters out there, if you were guaranteed sunshine and roses in the economy for the next ten years would you still vote yes on this MOS? Think about it like that and see how you would feel about it [/qu...

What I don’t understand is this: why does this program cost $145k?!?! I could maybe understand if this cost included the 737 type rating, BUT IT DOESN’T!! The Genesis website specifically says that the 737 type rating is not included in this cost (because Flair pays for it once you become an employ...