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- Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:19 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Flair Summer Expansion
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7629
Re: Flair Summer Expansion
I don’t think Flair will be heading into a vacuum, this summer AC and WestJet will head back there (along with Swoop), so it will be an orgy of losses and over capacity is my guess.
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 1:59 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Marc Garneau Finally Acknowledges Impacts of COVID-19 on Aviation Industry
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2616
Re: Marc Garneau Finally Acknowledges Impacts of COVID-19 on Aviation Industry
Especially now with the federal government reiterating no nonessential travel, BC is feeling out other provinces about interprovincial quarantines now also. Yet, no mention of a bailout/loan guarantees etc. I am curious if it is just the government, or WestJet/AC are opposed to restrictions that mig...
- Wed Aug 05, 2020 8:54 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Chapter 11.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6939
Re: Chapter 11.
It’s very shortsighted to just say ‘let them go broke’, their previous size was built from demand for air travel by Canadians (which will return). The pandemic and associated restrictions are well outside the airlines (or any industries) radar or control. Saying a new airline will come up to meet th...
- Mon May 25, 2020 1:36 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Will Westjet survive?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 48212
Re: Will Westjet survive?
WestJet (in its current form) will not survive. WestJet is faced with a massive payout to those who are set to be moved from LOA to layoff in September. A group layoff (50 or more) entitles those being laid off with 16 weeks notice or payment in lieu. The first batch (about 5000) will be laid off S...
Re: One List
Ha!, get rid of the one list is shouted out!. Well the fact of the matter is WestJet, Swoop, and Encore ARE all one list now for all intensive purposes. So give it a rest. The most junior Encore FO has 4 years in, and the most junior CA has 6. The majority of Encore is comprised displaced Mainline....
- Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:51 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: A "NEW" One List?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 30009
Re: A "NEW" One List?
I think the short term concession MMG of 55 or even 50 would have been given for a longer MOA pretty easily, I could see differing the ESP until certain metrics are met by the company. But waiving the ESP (basically our retirement savings) for a longer term tied to any relaxing of scope on Swoop or ...
Re: One List
Ha!, get rid of the one list is shouted out!. Well the fact of the matter is WestJet, Swoop, and Encore ARE all one list now for all intensive purposes. So give it a rest. The most junior Encore FO has 4 years in, and the most junior CA has 6. The majority of Encore is comprised displaced Mainline.A...
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:21 pm
- Forum: WestJet Encore
- Topic: MOA2
- Replies: 64
- Views: 10814
Re: MOA2
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- Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:16 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: #Swoopprez Out!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 13605
Re: #Swoopprez Out!
98 Corolla wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:52 pmI would expect Swoop will be disbanded.aerosexual wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:43 pm Sounds like Swoop CEO Steven Greenway is gone. I wonder what that means ...
Shhh...don’t jinx it
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Swoop CRM Class Shutdown by Police
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10046
Re: Swoop CRM Class Shutdown by Police
The very fact Swoop is still even running is crazy. WestJet is down to 57 aircraft (30 of them Q400’s), burning through millions of $’s a day-but can still find cash to blow on Swoop. Your telling me there is enough capacity to run a WJ 700 (800’s are parked) between YYZ-YVR AND a Swoop 800 between ...
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:08 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Layoffs
- Replies: 477
- Views: 108609
Re: Layoffs
WJ just layed off 7000. That’s half the airline. How many employees does AC have?
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:20 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Grab a seat. The music is stopping
- Replies: 188
- Views: 39376
Re: Grab a seat. The music is stopping
I can also see Flair and Swoop having a hard time because of this... with their prices they need excellent load-factors, and that's not going to happen if people need to save their pennies to pay off debt incurred by this whole shit-show. I disagree, low cost carriers are the ones who are least imp...
- Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:40 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: WestJet Group Hiring Freeze
- Replies: 177
- Views: 52036
Re: WestJet Group Hiring Freeze
It gets worse, word out there is that SWOOP just cancelled the latest planned training course and is sending the last tail number delivered back to the lease company (or wherever it was coming from) The Swoop tails are owned by WestJet as far as I know, so WestJet would be the lessor. WestJet may b...
- Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:23 pm
- Forum: WestJet Encore
- Topic: One List is Back!!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8055
Re: One List is Back!!
Now if we could just remove the pink pay scale in between we would be on our way.
- Thu Dec 19, 2019 9:15 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Swoop Terrain Warning
- Replies: 79
- Views: 16892
Re: Swoop Terrain Warning
The SOP’s at Swoop are very similar to WJ’s and hopefully the new DFO doesn’t mess with it. I understand the desire to align to the Boeing ones, but Swoop is embedded (as extremely frustrating as that is) in the ‘WJ Group’. So Encore pilots flow into Swoop, then into WJ when they can hold it. Encore...
Re: One List
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. Before we tee up any 2020 reduction bids we’ll have to see ...
- Thu Dec 12, 2019 2:01 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Commuting with Swoop
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3326
Re: Commuting with Swoop
Yes co-joe it is pretty f’d up.
And you will be charged for a coke, only water,tea, and coffee are free for flight crew. Once you’ve sold your self respect for the job you can put the $ toward your coke
And you will be charged for a coke, only water,tea, and coffee are free for flight crew. Once you’ve sold your self respect for the job you can put the $ toward your coke
Re: One List
It’s actually still around 8 years, and would be even hire except so many bypass the upgrade to stay out west instead of moving/commuting to YYZ.......unless you are including Swoop, then there is no wait required at all-what a mess.
- Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:53 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Swoow in-person interview
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4442
Re: Swoow in-person interview
I’m a ‘gumpy apple’, it’s obviously easier to get hired at Swoop then WJ or Encore-because it’s a crap operator. So maybe the same interview process, but with lower expectations. A great gaping back door into ‘the Westjet group’. So fill your boots and bring your white shirt.
Re: Swoop
The original poster is correct, he is better off an Encore captain. Better Sched, benefits, jump seat, travel benefits, uniform, won’t get charged to drink a pop whilst in command of a 50 million $ aircraft,etc,etc