355 positive cases result in 1900 contacts, what multiple would you use to get the real percentage of people who ignore public health orders and perpetuate the situation we’re in? "So plenty of people have died because people were unwilling to make changes to their lifestyle and have therefore contr...

Any updates on recalls or increased flying?

And on top of that your taxes will pay his salary while he quarantines for 14 days when he returns to Ontario. All the while gyms, ski hills and other small businesses were ordered to shutdown. I guess the rules only apply to the constituents and not the people in power, but hey we need to trust th...

We faithfully follow SOPs in our flying career even when we might disagree with parts of that SOP. No. I don’t go out except for groceries. I haven’t seen my children or grand children for 10 months. No, I don’t go to Costco. No, I don’t shop online. No, I don’t order food for delivery. These are j...

What we're seeing is the evolution of cancel culture. Everyone latching on just loves to be part of the "in" crowd clique mindset and shit on anyone with a different view, even a fairly reasoned one. It's a fucking clown world. Drive by Christmas lights cancelled? Drive in movies cancelled? How doe...

Nope, 500 doll hairs

I’ll be first, 500

Hey Mbav8r, Merry Christmas to you too. Honest discussions are good and I like them. Unfortunately, the article posted doesn’t convince me more. With one exception, (the GDP point) there are no studies or data to back up the claims made. It is mostly an opinion piece. Let me be clear about my posit...

My Conservative voting family say they will vote for Ford again. I'm thinking to my self wtf... The guy who's not even conservative, closed ski hills to stop covid... And tells people they have to wear snotty masks over their faces to "stop the spread" meanwhile cases are at all time highs.... The ...

One last thing before I sign off for a bit :rolleyes: Here is the problem with the type of argument laid out in the lancet article. Without demonstrating the link between covid policies and deaths and simply arguing from gut feeling/or even loose numbers. Looking at deaths per million here are some...

How's that working out in Sweden now? Seems that their lack of lockdown didn’t make too much of a difference. They are doing better then some that did a lockdown and worse then others. And their trends are downwards now. Below are the covid deaths data, uncorrected for demographics and also data fo...

Called back to fly where? The UK just imposed lockdown again, as one example. We are already paying people to do nothing, which is all we can do, as far as I can see. Having them "back at work" doesn't solve the problem of LACK OF PAYING CUSTOMERS and LACK OF DESTINATIONS. How many jobs are indirec...

I think what we here as pilots are more pissed about is the fact that EVERY G7 country with a major airline got help, where as we got nothing and continue to get nothing. But did that save any jobs in those other countries? I'm assuming from your point of view, that's what ultimately matters? Notic...

So in the US, 15B more to come, Canada, crickets! Of note, they are giving 15 Billion to bring back 32,000 employees, we have about the same amount on furlough here, clearly they see the economic benefits of strong airlines. https://simpleflying.com/us-covid-aid-vote/ How will the package affect the...

[quote=mbav8r post_id=<a href="tel:1137784">1137784</a> time=<a href="tel:1608304145">1608304145</a> user_id=8159] [quote=seriousflyer post_id=<a href="tel:1137720">1137720</a> time=<a href="tel:1608271636">1608271636</a> user_id=31302] So is there a system wide bid in January or not ? Historically...

So is there a system wide bid in January or not ? Historically, we don’t usually find out until just before or even after the date required in the contract, I believe it is January 15. Edit: January 15 is the date, caveat being, *if* a bid is required, the company will post it by... This year could...

If there is a bid, it will very likely include further downgrades. Currently running 2 to 1 Captain to FO ratio, but an earlier agreement prevented further downgrades for now. The old awarded upgrades were cancelled, a new bid would be just that, so unless there is a significant increase in flying I...

Curious? The article above mentioned 3500+ flights of passenger aircraft with seats removed for all cargo flights. Does the LOU cover these aircraft?

I wonder why one group is targeted for the cuts. Because we have demonstrated our willingness. The other groups would laugh at the idea. No different than when AC wanted to start a different specialty company that eventually was named Rouge. No one else was asked to take cuts. There was no point in...

Scientists must get the same twitch when they see people writing and talking "because of science" as that pilots get when the media report about airline incidents and write "the pilot". And so, like scientists, we simply ask that people trust us, and let us do our jobs. Reading some of this forum o...