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It seems quite relevant so I will share with you something that I wrote in one of our WJ WHY surveys a couple years back. This was supposed to be an anonymous and de-identified opportunity to speak our mind so the executive could better take the temperature of our group. It’s very evident they file 14’d my opinion. Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

I came to Westjet because I believe in the core values. I believe in them still.  I regret to say that I have lost faith in our CEO and in large part hold the Chairman of the board responsible.
Westjet was built by the people and it is those same people, namely the frontline operational staff, the troops in the trenches, who are now being wrung out like sponges to extract every last drop of goodwill.  We are tired. We are now showing major signs of fatigue.  Morale in the aircraft, where our guests are supposed to be getting a value added experience, is breaking down. The formula is simple and we've strayed from it.

We look after our people...our people look after our guests...our guests look after our business.

Please leave shareholders out of it...if you follow the above formula I believe that will look after itself.

Here are some suggestions for immediate steps
1. As an entire leadership team please humble yourselves and offer an apology for straying from this. We feel used and undervalued.
2. Approach the working groups and offer to restore & improve wages and working conditions willingly without restraint.
Take home pay...and I’m talking about the dollar amount which enters our bank accounts, MUST be increased.  The nuances of who what when where and why the executive get big compensation increases are lost on the frontline staff and the message received from the top is this..."We deserve MORE & You deserve LESS" all the while being asked to do more without the slightest HINT of dissent lest WE be cast out because WE can't "find our happiness".
3. Communicate, communicate, communicate in a respectful way and OFTEN.  At this point 5 minutes once a month WITH scripted talking points is not sufficient....it was promised and now I feel this needs to be treated like a relationship in restoration where one partner needs constant reassurance and the offending partner needs to be opened and honestly transparent at ALL times to restore the trust.
4. Lift up your people...and not in empty words but with actions of substance. Nothing says you appreciate us more than what you do because in time we will all forget what was said but we will never forget how we were made to feel...tread on this ground with humility and respect.

I have participated in and bore witness to many amazing acts of love and kindness towards our people and our guests in the past 6 years of working for westjet and the majority will never be known to the company, nor do they need to be, but I assure you of this... they have purchased you FAR more goodwill and brand building than advertising will EVER buy you...this can be harnessed by ensuring the troops are WELL FED and fed first.

Simon Sinek describes this far more articulately than I could but read his book “Leaders Eat Last”.

Your troops are ready willing and able to again fall on their swords for their Leaders, to give their all if only they felt valued as people and NOT commodities to be used and traded...people that have personal lives, families that count on them to provide money AND just as important, quality time.

In a day & age where people are being taxed monetarily into the ever loving ground to the tune of over HALF of what is earned and then used until they're too sick to work anymore, be the Westjet I believe it to be at the core...bring back the pride in its people....value THEM above all else. The accountants will never quantify what WE are willing to build for you...As Simon Sinek found troops are willing to give their lives for a Leader who eats last.

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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. In this case, WestJet's executives have decided the airline they want run is Air Canada under Robert Milton. We all saw it. Why anyone would want to go there is something I don't understand. Bankruptcy, penny stock prices, a demoralized workforce and a public who would do anything rather than fly on Air Canada... an attitude that opened the door for WestJet's very existence.
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CB has become the cranky grandpa at Christmas time and thinks we (the employees) have ruined the company. I'd like to ask him who's responsible for the decrease in both employee, AND guest satisfaction with his brand.

We are no longer "friendly". We no longer take care of our guests. We are stretched to the limits.

A bad weather day means our guests wait in line for HOURS to make new plans because we don't have enough airport staff yet we just hired FOUR new VP's?

The front line workers are the ones who have held on the longest to the "old" WestJet while everything changed around them.

Case in point: Satisfaction of guests on our 767 was low.... very low. So we send cabin crew members for more customer service training???? You don't think the problem was with oh say, the planes?

End of non-organized rambling thoughts. But you get the point.
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lostaviator wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:55 am
A bad weather day means our guests wait in line for HOURS to make new plans because we don't have enough airport staff yet we just hired FOUR new VP's?

End of non-organized rambling thoughts. But you get the point.
Ya, don't get carried away, I mean, I've only ever heard good things about the way Qatar and Etihad treat their employees.

Scott Groh joined WestJet, January 3, in the role of Vice-President, Crew Resources. Scott most recently worked for Qatar Airways as Senior Vice-President, Crew Resources, Flight Operations. Scott also held the position of Vice-President, Crew Resources for Etihad Airways for nine years and has more than 30 years of experience in crew planning, and crew scheduling operations.

http://westjet2.mediaroom.com

There is a job ad posted to replace pilots who respond with remarks about how they'd hate to do anything to hurt the share price. Westjet's pilots and FA's will get what they deserve, your executives have shown their hand. All the best, and I mean that sincerely, even you Brooks.
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infiniteregulus wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 9:02 am Unfortunately many employed there have vested interest in the company's performance, a la stocks. Not sure if kiboshing performance metrics in the interest of a political statement will be a thing. Doubt many Westjetters feel like "owners" anymore :roll: . Trust in business is a curiously fickle and interesting concept and business is much like war in that it can be ruthless with sacrifices and aims to achieve an ultimate supreme goal - money. Even the most philanthropic manager or CEO will not put an employee above a company unless it will directly feed into the corporate success. Companies are NOT in business to provide a workplace for people. They are in business to make money and that's the bottom line. Finding the right balance between corporate growth and employee relations, all the while maintaining a level of ethical practice however, is the key to any successful CEO. But trust me in saying that NEVER should the words of a corporation be taken in faith without questioning the underlying motive. As Sun Tzu is quoted from the Art of War, "All war is deception".
So, once again it's all about yourself(selves) because any action you take will affect your bottom line $$. So rather than say not grooming or whatever small actions, you choose to have a list to punish other pilots who may have good reason to go to Swoop, rather than use leverage and take a small hit to yourselves to further yours and everyones interest. I maybe wrong, but you sure make it sound like that.
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TheStig wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:15 pm
lostaviator wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:55 am
A bad weather day means our guests wait in line for HOURS to make new plans because we don't have enough airport staff yet we just hired FOUR new VP's?

End of non-organized rambling thoughts. But you get the point.
Ya, don't get carried away, I mean, I've only ever heard good things about the way Qatar and Etihad treat their employees.

Scott Groh joined WestJet, January 3, in the role of Vice-President, Crew Resources. Scott most recently worked for Qatar Airways as Senior Vice-President, Crew Resources, Flight Operations. Scott also held the position of Vice-President, Crew Resources for Etihad Airways for nine years and has more than 30 years of experience in crew planning, and crew scheduling operations.

http://westjet2.mediaroom.com

There is a job ad posted to replace pilots who respond with remarks about how they'd hate to do anything to hurt the share price. Westjet's pilots and FA's will get what they deserve, your executives have shown their hand. All the best, and I mean that sincerely, even you Brooks.
Fingers crossed he at least got a one page briefing on Canada labour law. :roll:
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Air.Field wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:17 pm
infiniteregulus wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 9:02 am Unfortunately many employed there have vested interest in the company's performance, a la stocks. Not sure if kiboshing performance metrics in the interest of a political statement will be a thing. Doubt many Westjetters feel like "owners" anymore :roll: . Trust in business is a curiously fickle and interesting concept and business is much like war in that it can be ruthless with sacrifices and aims to achieve an ultimate supreme goal - money. Even the most philanthropic manager or CEO will not put an employee above a company unless it will directly feed into the corporate success. Companies are NOT in business to provide a workplace for people. They are in business to make money and that's the bottom line. Finding the right balance between corporate growth and employee relations, all the while maintaining a level of ethical practice however, is the key to any successful CEO. But trust me in saying that NEVER should the words of a corporation be taken in faith without questioning the underlying motive. As Sun Tzu is quoted from the Art of War, "All war is deception".
So, once again it's all about yourself(selves) because any action you take will affect your bottom line $$. So rather than say not grooming or whatever small actions, you choose to have a list to punish other pilots who may have good reason to go to Swoop, rather than use leverage and take a small hit to yourselves to further yours and everyones interest. I maybe wrong, but you sure make it sound like that.
I thought the same thing when I read that. Not saying I necessarily agree with welcoming swoop pilots with open arms. But for the people on the inside already you need to do something as well and if it means taking a hit on your share prices then so be it. Can't have your cake and eat it to.
Not that I have any idea what the right thing to do is but the gloves need to come off.
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TheStig wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:15 pm I've only ever heard good things about the way Qatar and Etihad treat their employees.
lol there's a reason for that.
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From Raymond James’ latest report, The Scoop on Swoop.

Swoop is going to cause a lot of changes in the industry over the next 18 months. It’s going to be an interesting ride.

Here lies exposed the myth of the “free aircraft,” which we view as a commonly misunderstood component of the ULCC model. The secret to Allegiant’s low costs, for example, had often been linked to its old fleet, which the airline could afford to park for extended periods of time due to the low‐upfront acquisition cost of the planes. This, in our view, was an oversimplification of the company’s ULCC formula that ignored other efficiencies, cost savings, and flexibility the airline had built into its operations. It also proved to be unsustainable as poor reliability and very high maintenance costs eventually forced the company to effect a large modernization program which is currently underway as its replaces its aged MD80 aircraft with newer Airbus 320s.

Rouge subscribes to a similar theory that its fully‐depreciated aircraft are effectively “free.” However, with its fleet of 20 A319s boasting an average age of ~20 years, we see this as an equally misplaced and unsustainable formula, representing yet another key strategic difference between it and Swoop.

To be clear, the fleet analysis above is not meant to provide an estimate of Rouge’s costs, or to suggest that its CASM is near the 12.9¢ that our model has calculated (as outlined earlier, we think it is hard to determine exactly what Rouge’s costs are because it is effectively an extension of Air Canada). Rather we are simply showing what we think Swoop’s unit costs would be if it used an old fleet of A319s that resembled Rouge instead of the newer 737‐800s that it has selected.

The point is that these planes are, in our view, too small and too old—even after accounting for zero ownership costs—to drive CASM down to the rock bottom levels needed to make money at rock bottom fares. They are also not dense enough to be deployed effectively on a ULCC platform. The fact that all of the US peers in this market segment rely much more heavily on larger, newer, more‐densely configured narrow‐body aircraft for the majority of their capacity helps to substantiate this claim (see Exhibit 27*).

We draw a similar conclusion about Flair and its fleet of 737‐400s (an aircraft that no other ULCC has embraced). These planes are equally too old (average age ~25 years) and not dense enough (156 seats) to be an effective tool for Swoop. According to our model, when we toggle the same fleet assumptions for this type of plane, Swoop’s CASM with the 737‐800s increases >10% from 10.0¢ to 11.2¢ (refer back to Exhibit 26).

While it is beyond the scope of this report to assess the financial performance of Rouge/Flair with their respective narrow‐body aircraft, our model does a very compelling job of telling us that Swoop would likely be much less profitable (if not very unprofitable) if WestJet had selected either the A319 or 737‐400 frames, even with zero ownership costs.
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Thanks Realitychex.

Question for you. How does the posted pay rates compare to the figures you modelled?

Thanks!

For reference.

Capt
Step 1 - $103.57
Step 2 - $119.50
Step 3 - $131.46

FO
Step 1 - $55.83
Step 2 - $69.62
Step 3 - $76.58
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Could those 87's on order actually be swapped over to Swoop? Low cost transatlantic is just scary/gross. Look at WOW out of KEF. It's like flying Ryanair over the Atlantic.
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Air.Field wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:17 pm
infiniteregulus wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 9:02 am Unfortunately many employed there have vested interest in the company's performance, a la stocks. Not sure if kiboshing performance metrics in the interest of a political statement will be a thing. Doubt many Westjetters feel like "owners" anymore :roll: . Trust in business is a curiously fickle and interesting concept and business is much like war in that it can be ruthless with sacrifices and aims to achieve an ultimate supreme goal - money. Even the most philanthropic manager or CEO will not put an employee above a company unless it will directly feed into the corporate success. Companies are NOT in business to provide a workplace for people. They are in business to make money and that's the bottom line. Finding the right balance between corporate growth and employee relations, all the while maintaining a level of ethical practice however, is the key to any successful CEO. But trust me in saying that NEVER should the words of a corporation be taken in faith without questioning the underlying motive. As Sun Tzu is quoted from the Art of War, "All war is deception".
So, once again it's all about yourself(selves) because any action you take will affect your bottom line $$. So rather than say not grooming or whatever small actions, you choose to have a list to punish other pilots who may have good reason to go to Swoop, rather than use leverage and take a small hit to yourselves to further yours and everyones interest. I maybe wrong, but you sure make it sound like that.
I don't work for WestJet or have anything to do with ALPA. I'm only pondering that a big chunk of their employees are going to look at their stock prices as a motive for inaction.
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infiniteregulus wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:48 pm
Air.Field wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:17 pm
infiniteregulus wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 9:02 am Unfortunately many employed there have vested interest in the company's performance, a la stocks. Not sure if kiboshing performance metrics in the interest of a political statement will be a thing. Doubt many Westjetters feel like "owners" anymore :roll: . Trust in business is a curiously fickle and interesting concept and business is much like war in that it can be ruthless with sacrifices and aims to achieve an ultimate supreme goal - money. Even the most philanthropic manager or CEO will not put an employee above a company unless it will directly feed into the corporate success. Companies are NOT in business to provide a workplace for people. They are in business to make money and that's the bottom line. Finding the right balance between corporate growth and employee relations, all the while maintaining a level of ethical practice however, is the key to any successful CEO. But trust me in saying that NEVER should the words of a corporation be taken in faith without questioning the underlying motive. As Sun Tzu is quoted from the Art of War, "All war is deception".
So, once again it's all about yourself(selves) because any action you take will affect your bottom line $$. So rather than say not grooming or whatever small actions, you choose to have a list to punish other pilots who may have good reason to go to Swoop, rather than use leverage and take a small hit to yourselves to further yours and everyones interest. I maybe wrong, but you sure make it sound like that.
I don't work for WestJet or have anything to do with ALPA. I'm only pondering that a big chunk of their employees are going to look at their stock prices as a motive for inaction.
So sell the stock, do your actions and buy it back much cheaper :D
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Diadem wrote: Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:43 am This is pretty much where I'm in my career: too much time to want to go into the right seat at Encore, and not enough to realistically have a shot at WestJet or AC. I could stay in my current position for several more years getting marginal wage increases, I could go to Encore and make less than at Swoop, or I could go to Swoop, get upgraded in a couple of years, and be making 50% more than I'm making now. It's not as much as I would make at WestJet, but I might never get called by WestJet, and it's far more than I'll ever make in my current position. I get that pilots need to stand together if we want wages to increase across the board, but no one has ever stood up for me in this industry; no WestJet pilot has ever lobbied one of my employers to give raises, but now I'm supposed to help fight to protect their scope? It's up to me to get the most out of my career, and no one else is ever going to put my interests first.
Of course, if there's no retirement plan, then that's a deal-breaker.
Here's how that reads, just so you know:

Who cares that no one ever stood up for the wages and working conditions of the pilots who are currently at any airline! Who cares that it now takes 2 years to get an airline job instead of the 10 or more it used to take as little as 5 years ago! Who cares that all the people who are currently at airlines had to work for less than minimum wage in shit jobs, in shit conditions, sometimes for years before even touching an airplane!! ME, God Damnit! ME! It's all about ME and you all owe ME! Sure I'll get to any airline 5 times faster than you did, at a younger age and I've always worked on better equipment with better wages than you airline pilots ever did but, ME! ME! ME! ME! Here's a news flash for everyone singing this song, your wages and working conditions ARE better than they were 10 years ago. YOU'RE WELCOME. IF you don't screw us over now, and yes it means you might have to suffer a little longer (OH GOD, I know ONE or TWO whole years is the most time anyone anywhere has ever had to put up with such horrors), things will continue to get better. If you really need to see sacrifice, I want you to phone all the flight school and charter companies under you and demand that they pay more.... lead by example.
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infiniteregulus wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:48 pmI'm only pondering that a big chunk of their employees are going to look at their stock prices as a motive for inaction.
Most folks I fly with and know don't hold onto their stock any longer than they are required and seem to sell every quarter if not monthly. In my opinion that's a fringe possibility and I don't think us flying the Swoop aircraft at our current wages and conditions vs what's being posted will have any significant impact on the stock price, if any.
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Realitychex wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 1:42 pm From Raymond James’ latest report, The Scoop on Swoop.

Swoop is going to cause a lot of changes in the industry over the next 18 months. It’s going to be an interesting ride.

Here lies exposed the myth of the “free aircraft,” which we view as a commonly misunderstood component of the ULCC model. The secret to Allegiant’s low costs, for example, had often been linked to its old fleet, which the airline could afford to park for extended periods of time due to the low‐upfront acquisition cost of the planes. This, in our view, was an oversimplification of the company’s ULCC formula that ignored other efficiencies, cost savings, and flexibility the airline had built into its operations. It also proved to be unsustainable as poor reliability and very high maintenance costs eventually forced the company to effect a large modernization program which is currently underway as its replaces its aged MD80 aircraft with newer Airbus 320s.

Rouge subscribes to a similar theory that its fully‐depreciated aircraft are effectively “free.” However, with its fleet of 20 A319s boasting an average age of ~20 years, we see this as an equally misplaced and unsustainable formula, representing yet another key strategic difference between it and Swoop.

To be clear, the fleet analysis above is not meant to provide an estimate of Rouge’s costs, or to suggest that its CASM is near the 12.9¢ that our model has calculated (as outlined earlier, we think it is hard to determine exactly what Rouge’s costs are because it is effectively an extension of Air Canada). Rather we are simply showing what we think Swoop’s unit costs would be if it used an old fleet of A319s that resembled Rouge instead of the newer 737‐800s that it has selected.

The point is that these planes are, in our view, too small and too old—even after accounting for zero ownership costs—to drive CASM down to the rock bottom levels needed to make money at rock bottom fares. They are also not dense enough to be deployed effectively on a ULCC platform. The fact that all of the US peers in this market segment rely much more heavily on larger, newer, more‐densely configured narrow‐body aircraft for the majority of their capacity helps to substantiate this claim (see Exhibit 27*).

We draw a similar conclusion about Flair and its fleet of 737‐400s (an aircraft that no other ULCC has embraced). These planes are equally too old (average age ~25 years) and not dense enough (156 seats) to be an effective tool for Swoop. According to our model, when we toggle the same fleet assumptions for this type of plane, Swoop’s CASM with the 737‐800s increases >10% from 10.0¢ to 11.2¢ (refer back to Exhibit 26).

While it is beyond the scope of this report to assess the financial performance of Rouge/Flair with their respective narrow‐body aircraft, our model does a very compelling job of telling us that Swoop would likely be much less profitable (if not very unprofitable) if WestJet had selected either the A319 or 737‐400 frames, even with zero ownership costs.
Raymond James has to be the LEAST credible analysis on anything WestJet/Air Canada...
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So let me ask this question:

- Why wouldn't a DH8 F/O making 40K a year, with almost zero chance of making it to big red stick around and not take a 40K a year job flying a 737NG? At least he gets a type rating and can go overseas. I'm not saying it's right, BUT WHAT ARE THESE REGIONAL AIRLINES DOING TO PREVENT THAT? NOTHING!!!
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Mach1 wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:58 pm
Diadem wrote: Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:43 am This is pretty much where I'm in my career: too much time to want to go into the right seat at Encore, and not enough to realistically have a shot at WestJet or AC. I could stay in my current position for several more years getting marginal wage increases, I could go to Encore and make less than at Swoop, or I could go to Swoop, get upgraded in a couple of years, and be making 50% more than I'm making now. It's not as much as I would make at WestJet, but I might never get called by WestJet, and it's far more than I'll ever make in my current position. I get that pilots need to stand together if we want wages to increase across the board, but no one has ever stood up for me in this industry; no WestJet pilot has ever lobbied one of my employers to give raises, but now I'm supposed to help fight to protect their scope? It's up to me to get the most out of my career, and no one else is ever going to put my interests first.
Of course, if there's no retirement plan, then that's a deal-breaker.
Here's how that reads, just so you know:

Who cares that no one ever stood up for the wages and working conditions of the pilots who are currently at any airline! Who cares that it now takes 2 years to get an airline job instead of the 10 or more it used to take as little as 5 years ago! Who cares that all the people who are currently at airlines had to work for less than minimum wage in shit jobs, in shit conditions, sometimes for years before even touching an airplane!! ME, God Damnit! ME! It's all about ME and you all owe ME! Sure I'll get to any airline 5 times faster than you did, at a younger age and I've always worked on better equipment with better wages than you airline pilots ever did but, ME! ME! ME! ME! Here's a news flash for everyone singing this song, your wages and working conditions ARE better than they were 10 years ago. YOU'RE WELCOME. IF you don't screw us over now, and yes it means you might have to suffer a little longer (OH GOD, I know ONE or TWO whole years is the most time anyone anywhere has ever had to put up with such horrors), things will continue to get better. If you really need to see sacrifice, I want you to phone all the flight school and charter companies under you and demand that they pay more.... lead by example.

Here's how that reads, just so you know:

It took me 15 years to make it into the airlines, so those youngsters better be bloody happy they can make it there in 2 years. They shouldn't even try to advance their careers without making absolutely sure that my senior salary will not be affected in any way. I spent 25 years of flying to get where I am now and was promised lots of gold at the end of the rainbow. Now it's time to cash in, so don't you take that away from ME. I don't care about you, it is a nice side effect that your wages might have gone up a little bit while I am raking in the big bucks now, but MY family finally needs a pay off. So don't let the big evil CEO take MY salary away, I mean, sorry, "Stand united and don't screw over your fellow pilots (ME)
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Raymond James has surmised that FLAIR is simply JetsGo with 737-400’s?

It does not take an MBA to figure that out. And it will meet the same ultimate fate.
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We may all know by tomorrow, Rudder.
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