Air Transat interview - Potential lay off in the fall???

[florch]

So WG needs less pilots in the summer and AT needs less in the fall. Overlap and training time ensures that no pilot could work for both.

It's hard to criticize the business models of the Survivors of the Charter World, but if AT took on some of their own narrow body flying and WG took over their current summer Atlantic program, wouldn't it help to mitigate the problem?

[Dilbert Pickles]

Can someone explain how the starting peanut salary for flying a 330/310 will work then? What was the original reason for the change? Seriously just very interested.. At least it's a liveable wage, unlike Air Canada and their poverty starting pay.

Curiously,

DP

[watermeth]

Compared to last year, there is over 900 hours of added flying for the upcoming season.

let say 300 pilots on the roster, it makes 30 hrs/Year/pilot available. or less than 3 hrs/mth/pilot.
should be doable, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[pilote007]

OMG I think some people don't understand ... the extra flight hour is 900 hrs per month!!!!
The situation is easy to understand when the guy flying over 90 hrs/month in summer period, they need more pilots to do that extra flying...

[Wacko]

I don't know how any operator does it in Canada:
I fly too much
I don't fly enough
I want to leave after 2 weeks for a better job
I don't want to sign a bond
I say we all stop applying at AT, watch them hire foreign pilots and then we'll have another airline to whine about that they are outsourcing.

I tip my hat to AT for the heads up, and you have 6 months to look for different opportunities in the winter. Don't want to do that... don't apply.. so simple... it's not like they are cutting pilots wages or making you work crazy hours.

STOP WHINING!

[Jack Klumpus]

I'm not into the whole info thing, but please correct me if I'm wrong, but did the salary of a new hire at AT decrease in the past couple of years?

I always 'thought' it was in the 60s, and recently I believe it was in the 50s?

If those numbers are somewhat close to the truth, then AT did lower pilot wages no? Unless you don't consider new hires as pilots.