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Again with all due respect Gilles your agenda is anti-competion. Your arguments have evolved to include the issues you mention above but that certainly is not the original intent. while I see you are online and in the interest of consistency within the contexts of your body or argument, would you ca...

With all due respect FUCI that is not Gilles agenda.

Preliminary report indicate a mental illness. This has absolutely nothing to do with TFW pilots, Canadian taxation, pay to work or anything else that canjet and sunwing are doing. Stick to fact and stop grasping at straws to make a point. I find it interesting that there were two unfortunate acciden...

What do you figure is the savings to have a foreign pilot over a seasonal or full time cdn pilot? Say for the first year including initial training and then also for consecutive years where you could amortize the the initial training over multiple years. What is the cost to train and pay a full time...

My cousin was hired by a European carrier after only 100 hours. He paid for the first 100 hours but nothing else. was hired as a cadet, given a type rating and is now very involved in training and checking. I guess then, at the time he first flew commercially in an airliner (after only 200 hours) he...

I'm getting so ****ing sick of people crapping on Gilles. He is an Air Transat captain and has already "made it" in this industry. What he does is selfless and for the greater good of his colleagues and Canadian pilots in general. If you don't want to support his efforts, thats fine, but don't disc...

Yes, the Sunwing pilots were detained and it's my understanding that one of the pilots was refused entry to work in the UK! Obviously, proper paperwork wasn't filed or given to the pilots! Can someone elaborate on this? You are probably right. If one pilot is returned to Canada, obviously the compa...

Loops,

If you are on that side of security clearly you passed the screening and are no threat to the public or yourself. You should be allowed to eat a steak with ninja stars if you want.

You need an FAA medical to qualify or you need to maintain an FAA medical to be insured? i.e. Can I submit for an FAA medical and be granted insurance then not get any further FAA medical and still keep the insurance?

indieadventurer wrote:Was wondering about interviewing beginning again, not the next ground school. Also, current size of the pool.

You're right, there is no correlation between ground schools and pool size/interviews. Oxi was way out of line with his/her reply.

I'm pretty sure he ordered a 7-up and was served a sprite.

Where is Air Canada going to get the money to buy Transat?

How many people are left in the pool? Wondering when interviewing will begin again.

How about the foreign pilots, could Sun wing operate without the core pilot group given the massive influx of seasonal workers?

When was your first interview?

YWGGuy wrote:Heard through the grape vine that Calm Air may be laying a few people off? Any truth to that?

From what you've said, I can in fact confirm that you have heard this through the grape vine.

"However, 280,000 options granted to him over the past two years were cancelled at his request."

There is only one reason to cancel options...he sees no value in them, i.e. he doesn't think the stock value will increase. That is somewhat telling of his mid to long term view of air Canada.

I was hired last year (EMB FO). I just ran through my bank deposits for the last year for you, and here's what I got: - My after-tax TAKE HOME for the first year was right around $36,000, or roughly (depending on how much flying I did) $3000/month. To put it in perspective, I work for a company as ...