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by DanWEC
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: Flair Airlines
Topic: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt
Replies: 205
Views: 31985

Re: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt

So their workaround is booking through a classy third party aggregate site, cheapo air- owned by 777. I assume it's temporary. I checked a few flights, and many didn't translate to Cheapo. The one flight that did was $199 on flyflair but $305 on Cheapo, hope it's just WIP. I've flown Flair several t...
by DanWEC
Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:54 pm
Forum: Flair Airlines
Topic: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt
Replies: 205
Views: 31985

Re: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt

I’m 99% sure we don’t use Sabre or Radixx, ours is processed through Amelia. Your numbers, below, illustrate in perfect clarity why pilots should fly, and leave the bookkeeping tasks, to bookkeepers. I won’t say everything is fine but I will say you should shut your yap when spouting off on topics ...
by DanWEC
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:19 am
Forum: Flair Airlines
Topic: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt
Replies: 205
Views: 31985

Re: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt

My error. It looked like Flair's site was up as of 7:30 am Sunday morning. https://www.sabre.com/radixx/ Whatever is going on, this issue is isolated to Flair. My observation was based on flight options being generated by the system, which is more than was possible in the previous 24 hours. I have ...
by DanWEC
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:10 am
Forum: Flair Airlines
Topic: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt
Replies: 205
Views: 31985

Re: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt

Hmmm another unpaid vendor finally pulling service? Seems odd to me that these "glitches" (ADP and now this) start happening when Flair's payment processor is withholding cash until services are rendered to the customer stopping Flair from using tomorrows bookings to pay todays bills. This is preci...
by DanWEC
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:04 am
Forum: Flair Airlines
Topic: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt
Replies: 205
Views: 31985

Re: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt

Maurice wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:57 am Appears the website has an error message when you try to book since last night.
This comes up as soon as you go to flyflair.com since yesterday. This is an eternity in the IT world for an issue to persist uncorrected.......
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by DanWEC
Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Flair Airlines
Topic: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt
Replies: 205
Views: 31985

Re: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt

This kind of publicity is the worst. The article's tone borders on malicious. Yes, they're rightsizing their schedules for the season, and tempering growth, and have a negative balance sheet with a self-admitted end somewhere down the line, (!) but to lead with a catastrophic assumption does a lot o...
by DanWEC
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:08 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Having issues with Medical?
Replies: 39
Views: 7135

Re: Having issues with Medical?

It's so frustrating hearing these anecdotes. Transport Canada Medicine seems to have further devolved into an increasingly dysfunctional, opaque organization. CAME's I've spoken to lately are less than complimentary of the recent changes. I've ben told it's now an ex-military doctor in the lead who'...
by DanWEC
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: Flair Airlines
Topic: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt
Replies: 205
Views: 31985

Re: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt

Rudder, purely as an aside conversation, I thought that ADP was authorized to distribute existing funds from what is essentially either a charter account or an account wholly managed by the corporation, with access authorization to ADP. I'm only basing this on what I've seen from looking at small sc...
by DanWEC
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:26 am
Forum: Air Transat
Topic: PayScale/Deductions
Replies: 11
Views: 2040

Re: PayScale/Deductions

Well, mostly true. I do know for a fact while comparing 1st year paystubs, TS was ahead of AC. Deductions sure narrowed the gap but takehome was still slightly more. The comparator at TS had opted out of the CHP coverage but that accounted for only a small portion. The LTD/STD deductions are a hotbu...
by DanWEC
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:41 pm
Forum: Air Transat
Topic: A321 v A330
Replies: 8
Views: 1142

Re: A321 v A330

I'm bored. Like really bored, so here goes :) So, there's no MFF yet, and unknown if it'll proceed. It needs to come with a generous kitty if it does. I've flown both, and I have a definite preference, Pros and cons from my perspective; (As a caveat, some of my info on pairings is several years old....
by DanWEC
Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:48 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Studies correlated with aerial firefighting
Replies: 3
Views: 632

Re: Studies correlated with aerial firefighting

Hi, good question. Given most of that flying is more pure hands and feet, anything academic might only help with resume ammo to get into admin or director roles, but I'd suggest something involving forestry and conservation. Back in university for Bio I did an elective that was along the lines of ar...
by DanWEC
Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Transat or Porter?
Replies: 82
Views: 10841

Re: Transat or Porter?

All accurate opinions. It comes down to what you want. If you're DEC eligible you can make much more at Porter right off the hop, but you'll work a lot more- for some that doesn't matter. It's the personal preference of work to live vs live to work. There are many places where you can make more $$ t...
by DanWEC
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Transat or Porter?
Replies: 82
Views: 10841

Re: Transat or Porter?

Your first years at Transat are the same as the 4 year flat pay salary as AC but your deductions are double, so the take-home is terrible.
by DanWEC
Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:43 pm
Forum: Flair Airlines
Topic: Bonza flying approved.
Replies: 6
Views: 5334

Re: Bonza flying approved.

So Oz gets lower paid pilots to undercut the incumbents?
If I'm wrong please rebuke me, I'm curious to hear the arrangement.

Edit, just read it's a dry lease? Then who cares?
by DanWEC
Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: AvCanada finally restored and functional once again
Replies: 32
Views: 5065

Re: AvCanada finally restored and functional once again

I doubt Russian hackers would have any desire to take down avcanada, there's no value or utility, but sure seems like either a brute force or ddos attack. Ddos is intentional and targeted purely for disruption, so someone would have to have an axe to grind. Brute force is also targeted, trying to lo...
by DanWEC
Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:22 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: AvCanada finally restored and functional once again
Replies: 32
Views: 5065

Re: AvCanada finally restored and functional once again

Sure looks like an ongoing DDoS attack.
by DanWEC
Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:18 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Emirates or Air Canada
Replies: 68
Views: 11953

Re: Emirates or Air Canada

One thing to note is that an upgrade carrot isn't regarded as the only way to start making a livable wage and an excuse to depress FO wages into poverty, so the necessity for the all-important upgrade we're clamoring for here doesn't exist. Capts make about 40% more than FO's at Emirates, not more t...
by DanWEC
Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:17 pm
Forum: Flair Airlines
Topic: Flair/Lynx Merger
Replies: 25
Views: 7776

Re: Flair/Lynx Merger

I'm curious as to if the subsidy stops. Flair could go another 10 years just being propped up, who knows. The pockets are very deep and 777 must have a function for the money going to Flair. I think pilots there are safe for a few years at least anyways.
by DanWEC
Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: Air Transat
Topic: Current hiring experience?
Replies: 4
Views: 1795

Re: Current hiring experience?

Yes
by DanWEC
Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Emirates or Air Canada
Replies: 68
Views: 11953

Re: Emirates or Air Canada

The disability benefit thing is an absolute drop in the bucket.
I wouldn't choose to have to be reliant on 60% STD from 60k a year, minus taxes, as opposed to making 20k a month ;)

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