Agreed

I think I touch my mask every 2 minutes to keep adjusting the damn thing

I’m not an AC employee and I have never had a bad experience on AC, in fact the last few years they have been great

I honestly can’t believe air Canada continued with the 1900 side of the operation as long as they did.

Management did their best to paint the pilots as the devil during negotiations and pit the rest of the employees against them. I think what we have here is an example of the brainwashing having its intended effect. Management didn't try to paint pilots as the devil, ya'll did that when you lined th...

Does it smell like gas at all?

Crime rate is only high in one area of the city that has drugs and poverty, it’s very easy to stay away from that spot and most of the city is quite safe. The flight school isn’t in the city they have 2 locations one in a town 10 min north of the city (St. Andrews) and the other in a town 45 min to ...

I am trying to leave. Tried to get an IT engineering job to use my bachelors degree but realized my skills are outdated and that I have a big gap in my resume from flying and that no one will hire or even interview me. My plan now is to start a local service business and if that doesn't make money ...

With the current state you will have an extremely hard time even getting the first job before it expires. In Canada right now there is a lot of 10 000 hour pilots laid off

I’d imagine the 80’s challengers are getting to be pretty high time and high cycle machines as well

maybe not in an airplane but there is a market out there outside of aviation for 100LL

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Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:16 pm

As much as they sucked, it's not ideal having 1 less place to hire us.

Actually it is because the flying didn’t disappear it went to a company with better conditions

CEWS nice and all? Not sure if you've lived through a downturn before, but every penny counts. $2000 per month on CERB $2500 ballpark on CEWS...hmmm For some, that will be the difference between putting groceries on the table for our families and going to the food bank. I'm sure the vast majority o...

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Mon May 25, 2020 6:47 pm

How rare are degrees? I feel like anyone under 30 would have one since most people want to have a backup career

I would be willing to bet that very few of the degrees that pilots have would be useful in getting a job in a “backup” career.

Doesn’t Onex also own the aircraft leasing company that leases a bunch of WJ’s airplanes?

The big danger chorus has is if AC goes into CCAA

What is the seniority of the negotiators at WestJet? Did they keep their jobs?

More along the lines of why wouldn’t the ATR companies be chartering themselves out for this freight work that is required ?

really inefficient, an ATR 72 freighter can carry 17 700lbs roughly at a much cheaper operating cost and can be loaded on pallets through the front door.

I'm still wondering who travels to the Northern communities for fun? The average plane up there is filled with construction crews, court parties, RCMP officers, teachers, doctors, nurses, non critical medevac patients, and some groceries in the back. From my time there I’d say 80-90% of the plane o...

Correct me if I'm wrong... Low Cost Carriers depend on densification to keep fares down. Who in their right mind wants to be crammed in a plane right now? Prove me wrong but I see air travel being for the wealthy in the short to medium term. We are years away from having this virus to a level where...

- change that cellphone plan (do you still need international/US coverage?) - learn to do your own small car maintenance. if you drive old junk and don't care about resale value or warranty: oil changes are not mandatory every year - braking is what makes you burn more fuel. avoid roads with stop s...

I think it’s pretty cool / lucky they could ski down to an area for rescue

Will you feel better about yourself if AC pilots get layoffs too? No but the math are clear, you don't park up to 175 Airplanes without offloading pilots, I just hope not to be in the numbers... Mainline has 189 and rouge 66.... only 80 frame left flying... How many pilots will be needed ? Are the ...

I wouldn’t sweat the delays, right now there will be many 3000+ hour guys looking for jobs and no hiring for 2+ years at the majors anyway as some will inevitably have long term layoffs.