FICU wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 10:00 pm So how does this affect the Swoopers?

Safe in current positions for now....
But with a reduction bid coming in the second half of 2020, likely bumped into the right seat till every qualified encore person turns down the left seat at swoop.

If any of you Whoopsters are reading this, hear me now, good luck EVER getting a jumpseat....not that I expect you to care but you’ve lost the respect of, at the very least, 91% of Westjet Pilots. I know quite a number of good people who are now working at swoop and count a number of them as friend...

Jep,
If I were you, I'd call HR, or DaveP or whoever you have contact info for.
The latest shows no hiring before February. Sorry Brah.

Fine. When are the bases scheduled to open? What are the location of the bases? How many bases? The answer; unknown, unknown and unknown. But the pilot agreement goes on the back burner. Keep your eye on the ball. As early as September if they can get the poop in a group. YYZ 40% YYC 40% YVR20% is ...

DP, your logic is flawed, if Westjet started long haul the WJA pilots would go into year one long haul pay leaving WJA positions to be filled with people starting at year one pay, creating two "immature work forces" for the price of one. Training cost for the start up long haul would likely be inclu...

Is it also common to have the shaker go off in severe turbulence? What was their margin? 20 kts? I'm not being antagonistic here, I'm asking seriously. I've never heard of that before, but that's not to say it doesn't happen. Yes, As G loading increases in Turb the bottom end may move up on you and...

QKDH8,
That answers my question, Thank you!!

Fish

Trim Spinner wrote:Fish just isn't getting it.

Do you understand "status pay" and how that rate is calculated??

Fish if you want to compare apples to apples you are looking for the Q400 rate not the Dash 8 rate. Somebody might be able to find it, however there is a lot more to compare than just rates. You would have to look at total compensation. Pay, penion ( or no penion), stock options, weeks of vacation,...

Flyer, The number I'm looking for would essentially involve removing the CRJ portion from the hourly rate, leaving only the dash 8 rate. The current rate is essentially the average of the CRJ rate and the Dash 8 rate giving the status rate. IE: (CRJ$+DH8$)/2= status$ Teacher if you could dig it out ...

thanks, I understand the concept of status pay. Last year when certain people were commenting on the fact that Jazz was flying the 757 for the same rates, in essence being the worst paying 757 operator out there, some Jazz guys in the know came back with the rate of the 757 before it was blended in ...

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/canadian/jazz_aviation.html Thanks inverted but that's the status pay rates not the pay for the dash itself. Looking for the numbers specific to the dash before it's blended with the RJ pay to achieve the status rate, that way we can compare apples to app...

What is the dash 8 pay at jazz anyway?
just so we can compare when WJ-Encore publishes their salary band.

Cheers

Fish

Saw one on the ramp last winter with a fresh coat of type 4 on his back,
snow was light at the time, he probably had a good 20 minutes of hold over left.

While I agree with the sentiment that passengers need to be held responsible for their choices (good idea about the fines), in this case it sounds like nobody sued when it was due to turbulence. Now that it turns out the airline lied about it, the lawsuits begin. Airlines are guilty of this all the...

VS,
Don't forget moving for employment is a tax deductible expense, you won't get it all back but it's better than nothing.

How about the same thing the business world calls WestJet??

Successful!

Oh ok stinkenapple, if you want to walk around with teal colored glasses on thats not my problem. Guess we'll see in a 5 or so months. Lets look at the obvious for a sec, the Western program worked for both parties, TC needs something to do for the surplus of 57s during our winter or park them. TC ...

Canada Eh, Why are you so interested in the internal business of Air Canada , other than being a troll. Worry about your own house. First , you have foreign pilots operating a 757 from Calgary to Honolulu on behalf of Westjet. What route is next. Keep getting that cheap European labour as their eco...

Rudder, What is the rate for the DH8 guys (top and bottom)? http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/canadian/jazz_aviation.html Rudder I had the same question as Bede, But can you de-factor the rate like u did for the 757, IE what is the cash allocated to a dash skipper before it's inflated wit...

This rumor has teeth!! Bell TV is what you watch on WestJet Aircraft. Next year Bell TV is exclusively leasing a new satellite to broadcast its signal, the Nimiq 6, to be launched in mid 2012. A look at the link below shows the coverage of said satellite, a large portion of WestJets route structure ...

Had a close call with this clown last year round this time.
Don't let the angle fool u he was pretty much vertical as we banked hard to get out of his way.
Managed to snap this with my iPhone as I knew no one would believe us!

Merry Christmas

Big Pistons Forever wrote:BFD, 36G49 That would be a normal December day in St John's. Don't tell me Cowboy Mclusky was the last great Albertan aviator,

True! And there'd be no video cause it would be vv100 and rvr1200!!

Don't have the metar,
but I landed about 5 mins ahead of the Lufthansa 340, and the last i remember from the tower was 30 gusting 52, direction was 220.
We took 25 and the 340 took 28, he easily had 40+ on the beam!! Good job in the end!!

Cheers

Airborne where are u located??
I know a couple of AMEs who may be able to help you.