Okay, so that makes it ok to have pax wait for 6 hours in the plane? It sucks that they got jumped in the fuel line, but that doesn't mean they have a wildcard to just not care about the passengers. After 1.5 hours it might have been time to work on alternatives (stairs, gates, catering, .. ) Most ...

Sorry, couldn't resist this

Loopa, I'm not a lawyer, but since it is in the signed agreement, I would say no less enforceable than the PML itself. The language itself could always be contested, it could come down to a grievance made by newer Jazz pilots. To be fair, there is no minimum amount of pilots to be hired for the next...

My understanding is that a union contract is public information, so I'm sure you could find it, however this is from the signed agreement and leaves no room for argument. "Once the PML has been exhausted, AC will introduce the FPMA which will apply to all of its contracted regional carriers, includi...

If you're working with the right crew, a statement just prior to control checks of, "watch your knees and nuts or watch your lips and nips" usually works. Personally this intentional non-compliance really bugs me, it seems harder to make up your own thing than to just follow the SOPs. My first FO jo...

Good on you fod_vacuum, please don't refer to yourself as bottom of the barrel, in my opinion you're cream of the crop for valuing your experience and if there were more like you, the race would stop. Fact is, I worked for a company over a decade ago that valued my experience and treated me so well ...

Bonds in any form, upfront or promissory are indebted servitude and puts much less onus on the company to behave ethically. If they insist on a promissory note, I would get a lawyer to draft up a version that has your expectations, that way if they violate it, you can leave with cause. If they won't...

Gilles, What is the difference between Sunwing wet leases and the wet lease Transat has with Czech TVS? I don't want to hear "well that's only a couple aircraft". Numbers are irrelevant at this point now that Transat is doing the same thing. So should this thread. Pete, not only are the numbers rel...

:lol: Happy new year anon. Keep working on your personal contributions to the industry. (Which if you ever care to share) let us know So I see now this was sarcasm and you've likely not contributed in a positive way, just take by any means necessary, step on anyone in your way, am I close. Your pre...

Hi Squid, I can honestly say I've walked the walk and have attempted at every opportunity to make the industry better, unfortunately it has usually been in vain because there is always "10 pilots who want your job that would do it" that's a quote from the president of a company I worked for. I've be...

So, what I'm getting is both of you agree that mikeecho might be too stupid to grasp what I was saying, thanks for the support! I guess since you can't argue against what I'm saying you need to make yourselves feel bigger by pointing out a very simple error, thank goodness I used you're instead of y...

So , you support pilots undercutting their counterparts, feel like you need to defend them. One word of disdain should not negate the rest of the message, that's just petty and if the only thing against my point is to criticize an insult directed at a group who deserve it, that in itself shows a lac...

mantogasrsrwy wrote:+1

How clever, guess you can't formulate your own thoughts!

mikeecho, for that you get a douchenozzle, in case you're to stupid to figure it out, it's worse than being a douchbag:) Other than the word I chose to show my disdain for them, do you have any other problem with the point I was making? Do you support pilots undercutting the rest for their own self ...

However Rudder, when you have the leader of the race to the bottom, who started with US regional pay taking a 6.5% pay cut, I feel like a genius. At least now they can't come to us for ten years demanding we match those bottom feeders

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/some-prankster-hits-westjet-pilots-in-eyes-with-laser-as-airliner-lands-in-ottawa “The captain and first officer both looked directly into the beam,” says the report. “The captain is experiencing a slight burning sensation to his left eye. First officer has n...

Mr. North, You make very reasoned and thoughtful points and I couldn't agree more abovt the "live longer" comment, so I will have to learn to let things go that are not likely to ever change. I will say this though, these are pilots who already had a job that agreed to a pay cut of an already existi...

Wow, 4' bent up and aileron off, sounds like a very close call with a much worse event

Squid, I can't be bothered to look up your previous posts to see if you're a WJ or Encore pilot but from what I can tell, your last post seems to reference the beginning of WJ. The Royal Douchebags that went to work as Captain on a 737 for 55.00/hr and screwed over the rest of the industry and now y...

http://www.laserpointersafety.com/laser ... asses.html
Looks like law enforcement pilots are wearing these and are being marketed towards pilots in general, I think I will look into a pair of these myself

So, is the forest the fact that management benefits from more productive blocks, ie; less pilots sitting around blocked under the min guarantee? That must make the trees that the pilots are now paid 6.25% less for more productive blocking, oh wait that benefits the company also! Well at least you're...

And the executives take the 6.25% cumulative savings and direct deposit that into their bonus account, pilots sure are good at math(sarcasm. in case you can't tell)
Morons!!!

PROC, just had a look at our COM and if Jazz pilots are allowing a SR pilot access to the flight deck, they are in fact violating the COM and CARS. It would be no different then allowing a WJ pilot to occupy the J/S. We have a policy to allow AC pilots and FAs and that is it.

PROC_HDG, in fact I do discourage pilots from applying at Jazz and during the road show presentation I asked one of the managers who was trying to sell us on the new wages, if he thought this would cause a problem attracting new pilots. The response was quite honest and based on reality but surprise...

PROC_HDG Wrote; Inverted2 wrote: Wonder if they will still be starting the Embrarer 175 flying on Feb 28? I heard they don't allow commuting and you have to live within 100 km of base. Any truth to this? April 1st entry into service for the 5 new EMBs. Many guys commute. There is no 100km rule that ...