Hi twinpratts, The Thomas Cook 757 bid just came out, and training for the 757 starts in September, with flying starting in early November. Since we are on status pay, every pilot in the company will get a raise from these planes being on the property, not just those that fly them. Here's how it wor...

http://www.alpa.org/portals/alpa/pressroom/pressreleases/2010/7-14-10_10.18_EN.htm Release 10.18 July 14, 2010 Conciliation Commissioner to Oversee Air Transat Pilot Negotiations MONTREAL – The Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), representing pilots employed by Air Transat, a division...

What conditions must be met in order to receive a per diem at Jazz? ie Any calendar day where you complete a flying sector? 4 hours of duty, and you'll get a perdiem, even if it's a single-day pairing. How much you get will depend on how long your duty period is, and checkin/checkout times. Example...

Total of $131,000,000 additional dollars will be spent by Jazz on Pilot wages, benefits and expenses over the next five years, an average of $26,000,000 per year. 26 million per year divided by 1500 pilots is a $17,333 increase per pilot per year. Or about $86,000 per pilot over 5 years. That is ab...

Some highlights of the Agreement: - Total of $131,000,000 additional dollars will be spent by Jazz on Pilot wages, benefits and expenses over the next five years, an average of $26,000,000 per year. - Complete Pilot payroll including wages, benefits and expenses will rise from an annual level of ap...

Good for me, good for the pilot group, good for all professional pilots in Canadian aviation.

We now have a good contract that ALPA and Jazz Air LP can both take ownership of.

This pilot group forges ahead, unified.

A sincere thanks to our MEC and negotiators. Can't forget the SPSC as well.

I'm sure ALPA will have its press release out sometime later today.

Anything for my fellow Pilots

For those Jazz Pilots that are having a hard time with the above directions, I will make this really easy instead. Go to this link, read the blog, read the TA:

http://acjpilots.alpa.org/MECHome/Discl ... fault.aspx

With respect to the benefits, I was under the impression that it would still be 50/50, but that company with pitch in for half of our 50. Yesterday I was told that company will only contribute their share for STD only. Can anyone confirm this? If so, we haven't made any gains in the benefits aspect...

Ah crap!

The roadshow starts tonight in YVR and will work its way west. Just a reminder that AvCanada is not the place to discuss the roadshows or what was said in them, or the details of our TA, as this is a public forum. After the vote has been tabulated, then sure let's discuss it here. Until the vote is ...

We've gone through nothing compared to what our negotiators have gone through.

- ALPA and Jazz have reached an agreement in principle. - This agreement has to be transcribed into a Memorandum of Settlement - This Memorandum of Settlement has to be signed and will then become our Tentative Agreement - Until the Memorandum of Settlement is agreed to and signed there is no deal [...

This might honestly call for the biggest grass-roots movement this Canadian aviation industry has ever seen.

If the Jazz pilots don't have the right to strike, no pilots have the right to strike in this country.

Excellent! Never even thought about that angle.

We do carry a lot of parliamentarians to many obscure places in Canada.

Legislate us back! Do it!

Let's see who's in the driver's seat.

Can anyone take a wild guess at how smoothly this company would run if its pilots were legislated back to work?

OTP? 10%? Less?

No one is arguing that the plug needs to be pulled! The MEC will do it when the time is right for them, not the company.

Until then... Act as safely and professionally as you can on the line; be within the CARs, COM, AOM, and your current [expired] contract.

Woah, settle down up there. Negotiations will resume in YOW tomorrow, we all know that now. Just give the Negotiations Committee your full support at this time. Every pilot at Jazz knows how excellent a team of negotiators that we have assembled. Not only that, they have $5 million dollars worth of ...

Thanks to all the Air Canada pilots for their words of support in the terminal!

I agree putting them in the flight deck is pushing it (someone must have got the idea from the Air Canada pilots writing under each map holder light in the old CRJ-100s). But, I must admit I did get a kick out of whoever it was that put the "Career Contract - We Are Not Asking" sticker, two of them ...

The solidarity amongst the pilots in this company we call Jazz is just incredible. I've been in every crew room in this country recently, and everyone is on the same page. It's also really awesome to see all of the pilots wearing their ALPA lanyards in a show of solidarity to management. Also, fello...

Yes, they do a sim eval on you in a Dash-8 in either Vancouver or Toronto.

I don't want to use negative terms, but a few of the points this "vref" poster makes are completely out to lunch.

There's no way the company would say what spots are open in the interview. They have never done that, and they probably never will; it's a unionized company with strict bidding protocol to follow according to the ALPA Jazz collective agreement. This isn't a bush operation where management just decid...