In my opinion anyone that complains about Canadian ATC has not done much in the way of international operations. Canada has a pretty decent air traffic control system. The U.S. is good as well, although they tend to deviate markedly from ICAO standards in certain locations (NY for example). Western ...

Slipstream: People are self-interested - that is the basis of our capitalist economy. In my view there is nothing wrong with that. There is no sense getting angry about this issue, regardless of the motivation of Vilven and Kelly. Their motivations are immaterial. The fact is that the mandatory reti...

Brickhead, I should have been more precise. A decision that tosses the current mandatory retirement provisions for pilots at Air Canada will have the effect of creating a windfall gain for those on the cusp of retirement at the time the provision is quashed - should the other terms and conditions of...

Giving your collective heads a shake, think about a workable model that might be a graduated one, starting with a whole new system for the next new hire, and working it's way UP the seniority system. Exactly. However, the ruling from the CHRT isn't going to be phased in over time, it will be immedi...

Rockie: I think the point you are missing is that formula pay, as it is currently understood by the pilot group at Air Canada, is not a right it is a choice. If the pilots decide, through their bargaining agent, that it should no longer be the case that piloting a large aircraft should pay the most ...

One never knows what the courts will do. But certainly a stay at this point while the CHRT decision winds its way through to a final conclusion is not out of the realm of probability. We all must follow the law and direction of the courts as they ebb and flow. The only problem with a stay is that i...

The current AC/ACPA collective agreement has been negotiated using the premise that the members of ACPA will retire at 60. There is nothing illegal or discriminatory about renegotiating the collective agreement to minimize the effects of seniority and more evenly spread the wealth among the pilot gr...

Pilots tend to look solely at their hours and type ratings to guage their competitiveness against other pilot candidates. This tends to oversimplify the hiring process and its considerations. I look at the whole package and I have often elected not to hire the candidate with a relevant type rating a...