There are a few here who think BOTL is a possibility. It isn't. ACPA won't even propose it as an opening move as they know it will damage our position in front of an Arbitrator down the road. There will be ONE seniority list. There will not be a separate list for pilots who do Transat flying, or Rou...

It must be a human characteristic to blame your fellow co-worker. It's happening even today at AC. We recently had a former Rouge FA come over to Mainline, they weren't on the crew bus with us, but the original Mainline FA's were up at arms as to how someone could come from Rouge and "take" a senior...

Hi o, hi o, it’s off to fly 777 I go!! Great news dis morning my friend, the acquisition has ‘append! We will all be flying de mighty 777 soon! Our Unions are ‘ard at de work, making us winners in de coming years....while I will miss dis beautiful tree turdy, it is times I take de control of the Bo...

The best way to deal with it is to make suggestions to your Union. Tell them what you would like to see. They will represent you. Their proposal to the Arbitrator will be the --only thing-- that will forward or impede your merger case. If you feel "slighted" with the result, have a personal chat wit...

Who cares really.

ACPA will defend the position of its members. ALPA will defend those of Transat. An Arbitrator will make the final decision, and we will all live with the result.

Make it personal if you want, or waste as much energy on it as you like. Won't change the outcome one bit.

DP.

Why would Justin allow a fairly well paid, non-professional group to exit the country with their tax dollars? He knows that someone has to pay for all his "low-income social programs". It would also create an immediate staffing problem for our larger carriers. We already know that CR has significant...

Instead of congrats I’ll offer my sympathy to all the TS folks who avoided AC for good reason and chose TS. Lol. Got the PFO letter from AC did you? Plenty of people in Canada that wouldn't touch AC with a barge pole. It's not the end all for everyone. And no, I never applied, for me my current job...

75..76....80.....certainly less than 100, which Transat nor AC has any of, nor are ever getting.

I think I made my point.....I admit a hair can be split, if you need to split it.

What point are you guys trying to make?

DP.

ACPA is not going to allow a seperate pilot group to operate on behalf of AC. Allowing that is the beggning of the end. No major airline in North America allows it. The contract prevents it. You are right and the same for Air Canada CUPE back end . The only way it's going to work is keep it separat...

Calin says he will integrate Transat into Air Canada. There is no way -any- pilot will fly AC code on aircraft above 75 seats without being on the ACPA pilot seniority list. Keeping the Transat "identity" will not be allowed without it being enshrined in an entirely new Collective Agreement. LOU 74 ...

Hi o, hi o, it’s off to fly 777 I go!! Great news dis morning my friend, the acquisition has ‘append! We will all be flying de mighty 777 soon! Our Unions are ‘ard at de work, making us winners in de coming years....while I will miss dis beautiful tree turdy, it is times I take de control of the Bo...

Absolutely ridiculous. MCAS events are "low speed" issues. They left Spain headed for Scandanavia, likely entering French airspace at .79 Mach....safe as can be. The authorities forced them into the "slow speed" supposed "danger-zone" phase for an approach in France. If they were really concerned ab...

That's insane. There is no way one can predict the political climate 30-50 years down the road. Spending billions on F-35's today won't make any difference then as they will be 20 years obsolete by then. Why don't we wait until there is a clear "need" before we go off spending billions. The Crimea ...

FYI…..No country will be invading Canada......and -any- "serious incursion" ( if there ever is one....EVER) will be dealt with on the political stage. Saying Canada will never before threatened by an invasion of any merit is kinda shortsighted. What if a significant amount of oil is discovered in t...

Glad to know I am a hothead. Have you ever met and interracted with a fighter pilot for more than 5 minutes? Where's your evidence that we are "hotheads"? It's not about dogfighting. It's about asserting sovereignty. No, they aren't ALL "hotheads".....I didn't say that. It only takes one, and an ar...

Politics would be lop sided if there's no physical deterrent. Russia wants the arctic, so sends planes to poke into the airspace, challenge sovereignty. Canada sees it on RADAR, and phones the Russians. Russia says "what are you going to do about it? Send a 737 (P8)?" Fighter jets are political too...

reactivate the VooDoo's from all our museums and put a couple of new engines on em…. DONE. Everything else is a HUGE waste of tax dollars that ---- I and you ---- could spend elsewhere. Pretty much the dumbest idea I've heard yet. Nice try though. :lol: Our convoluted fighter procurement program is...

How about deploying about a few sophisticated, heat sensitive geostationary satellites with high resolution optical capability as well??? A computer algorithm could filter out fauna, and send out alerts on the rest. Have a guy monitoring near a phone with a hotline to Ottawa. We don't need to send a...

The 737 could be down far longer than some guess, and the "spool up" time will be longer still. I think if the MOA is expanded to include all 737 pilots still "current" on their old type, you'll see more jumping ship. Some guys got into flying because they love it. They like the lifestyle, they like...

Fighter procurement in Canada is a political joke. Accept that it is the "Canadian way"...……..we haven't been serious about the subject since 1958. Why bother now. There is no "dogfight" that will occur over high arctic Canadian airspace......that's delusional. The U.S. would never stand idly by, an...