Re: Why does everyone want to work at Air Canada?
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:46 pm
Until the next recession....
I was johnnynotsohotrocksJohnnyHotRocks wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:08 pm Lots of you were not in the industry prior to 9-11 were you?
Yes how many times has the current airlines in Canada declared or about to declare bankruptcy in the past say 20 years? AC 2, everyone else 0. Until the next recession loser
How many Canadian airlines started between 1930 and now are still around?Alcoholism wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:26 pmI was johnnynotsohotrocksJohnnyHotRocks wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:08 pm Lots of you were not in the industry prior to 9-11 were you?
Yes how many times has the current airlines in Canada declared or about to declare bankruptcy in the past say 20 years? AC 2, everyone else 0. Until the next recession loser
I wonder if that’s what the low seniority guys who were laid off from Air Canada were saying? “Gee honey, I’ve been laid off, but my company has been around since 1930!”Tail-Chaser wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:13 amHow many Canadian airlines started between 1930 and now are still around?Alcoholism wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:26 pmI was johnnynotsohotrocksJohnnyHotRocks wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:08 pm Lots of you were not in the industry prior to 9-11 were you?
Yes how many times has the current airlines in Canada declared or about to declare bankruptcy in the past say 20 years? AC 2, everyone else 0. Until the next recession loser
That's kinda my point. I don't think it a was a good argument to say "Westjet, SW, or AT have never declared bankruptcy so they're better options" or something like that when tons of Airlines went under in the 2000s. The current ones might not have, but that doesn't mean they're immune.iflyforpie wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 10:24 amI wonder if that’s what the low seniority guys who were laid off from Air Canada were saying? “Gee honey, I’ve been laid off, but my company has been around since 1930!”Tail-Chaser wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:13 amHow many Canadian airlines started between 1930 and now are still around?Alcoholism wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:26 pm
I was johnnynotsohotrocks
Yes how many times has the current airlines in Canada declared or about to declare bankruptcy in the past say 20 years? AC 2, everyone else 0. Until the next recession loser
Meanwhile the guys who lost their jobs at C3, Jetsgo, Skyservice, etc went to Westjet when times were good or went overseas and lived happily ever after.
None. Altho the name 'Air Canada' is still painted on the sides of the airplanes, the company has been thru numerous corporate changes and restructures over time, including a bankruptcy that sent the old company down the tubes and spawned a new one that continues to paint 'Air Canada' on the side of the airplanes, but is in fact a completely different corporate entity vs the original Air Canada. That way it works, during liquidation the receiver will sell all of the assets with value, and one of the value assets in this case is the name, and the new corp rising out of the ashes purchases the name and the airplanes that already have that name painted on the side. But the same entity it is not, and never will be again. The Air Canada of the 30's is long gone.Tail-Chaser wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:13 am How many Canadian airlines started between 1930 and now are still around?
In the thirties it was called Trans Canada Airlines the name change to Air Canada did not come until 1964.The Air Canada of the 30's is long gone.
Safest airline job? Did you know that WestJet just got $5 billion infused into it?derateNO wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 4:51 pm Why?
Well from my perspective it's the "safest" airline job in Canada. I'm also not after the fastest way to a WB left seat and will likely ride up the lists on junior aircraft since lifestyle is more important to me than making $300k a year. I'll be happy to make $150k working 10 days a month for the rest of my life. I wish we got paid what the Americans do, but we don't. So I take what I can get.
I'm still 10x better off than virtually every single on of my peers who all have degrees and work 9-5 jobs for under 100k.
There were other options for lifestyle jobs, but at the end of the day I wanted a job I can more or less count on being there in 30 years.
And?notwhoyouthinkIam wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:08 amSafest airline job? Did you know that WestJet just got $5 billion infused into it?derateNO wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 4:51 pm Why?
Well from my perspective it's the "safest" airline job in Canada. I'm also not after the fastest way to a WB left seat and will likely ride up the lists on junior aircraft since lifestyle is more important to me than making $300k a year. I'll be happy to make $150k working 10 days a month for the rest of my life. I wish we got paid what the Americans do, but we don't. So I take what I can get.
I'm still 10x better off than virtually every single on of my peers who all have degrees and work 9-5 jobs for under 100k.
There were other options for lifestyle jobs, but at the end of the day I wanted a job I can more or less count on being there in 30 years.