ShillBill wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:33 pm My 12 years old could figure this one.

Wait, YOU'VE procreated? I mean congrats, but wow, that's the most disturbing part of your barely coherent post. If Forrest Gump's kid can be smart, maybe there is hope for your offspring too...

Let's back up just a bit. My initial post about the threat of a shutdown was only in response to @getagripen's post. He/she took the position that the MEC should have called the Company's bluff. I took that to mean shutting down, but it is possible that's not what they meant. From what I can tell, G...

Maybe it's a bluff. BUT, here's the thing, what would happen if, after going on strike, the Company decided just to shut Encore down? How bad would it look if the NC/MEC (a group of 8-12 volunteers) received an offer that met the mandate their pilots gave them, didn't put it to the pilots and inste...

Anxious to see the full paperwork, but I don't see this passing. The summary feels like they didn't hit any of the major issues. Pay matching Porter, a non-union airline is embarrassing. Major cutbacks on ESPs to even make that happen. No change in QOL(an extra 2 hours premium pay for working 18+ d...

Could you explain what under payment timelines means? I believe what you're referring to is what happens when Crew Pay makes a mistake. If they goof, and you owe them money, they don't take it all off at once. That's happened to me a few times, unfortunately. A bit of warning without the pay to sto...

I’m not yet opining on the Encore TA. However, I will say that this original post is just about the dumbest one I’ve read on AvCanada in a while! First, comparing Northern Medevac wages to regional airline wages is a fool’s errand. Yup, a super senior Missinippi Kkng Air Medevac Captain makes more t...

Got it. How about the reduced block and vacation? Overall what I'm trying to gauge is how easily I could snowbird for 2-4 months a year. Any of the bases for the nicer weather YYZ,YVR,YYC and then for 2-4 months go to the southern states or Mexico over winter. The ability to leave Canada during the...

A few quick comments. The WJ 787 FO position and the AC WB FO position isn't exactly an apples to apples comparison. Because of seniority scheduling at AC vs. socialized at WJ, flat pay at AC and the ability for initial hires to go on the WB compared to step pay at WJ and the requirement to have 2 y...

It's been floating around for a while, but I guess once the pilots on the One List are off to mainline or leave the company Encore will fold into Pacific Coastal with about 15-20 tails maximum. I've heard the "Pasco will take over Encore Tails" a number of times, but as someone who has worked at bo...

The WJ COO has indicated that they are committed to a YUL crew base once the integration is complete. What that looks like remains to be seen.

What kind of lawyers? The labour kind. That's a little pathetic for an organization that large to not have more variety. Through ALPA I've worked with: -In-house Canadian Lawyers with experience in Labour Law, Employment, Human Rights Law, commercial contract negotiation, labour contract negotiatio...

The amount of SWG drivers excited about this merge is quite low, regardless of the pay bump. Especially out West. Making 20% more (and paying more taxes) and going from 8 days a month to 16 days a month isn’t quite attractive to me and so is going from a 28 hrs MBJ layover in a 5 stars resort to a ...

With regard to bonds, the devil is in the details. SouthWest used to require a 737 Type rating before they'd hire you! Times have changed but as a 220 hour wonder, it's still hard to get some traction. And just to clarify, by upfront, you mean you pay the money for the training and the Company then ...

The luck of the draw, open system is so strange to me. I’m not looking forward to it. Why not have the ability to list yourself available and then get notifications on open flights. It used to be like this to an extent. The problem was that in some instances there wasn't a lot of transparency. Peop...

I think you sum it up well. Joining today you’ll have approx 800+ ahead of you waiting for an upgrade. Usually around 50 a year being upgraded, although I have heard as high as 80 projected. As you say, no growth planned currently with extra aircraft. Not much in the way of retirements. The Maxs co...

Isn’t it implying that since there is no movement on the Westjet side with new tails/expansions, the upgrades will happen by bumping junior SWG capts (most of them based in YYC and YVR) once WJ integrates those SWG tails ? Something that hasn’t been negotiated/arbitrated yet. That's not the implica...

Listened to the podcast today, ALPA dangling upgrades at a senior base where sunwing is a very small player seems fairly disingenuous. If you’re YVR based Sunwing doesn’t fly much from there. Most of the wetleases that will be taken over are in the east. Expectation management. Listened to the podc...

how many years does it take at WJ to get socialized bidding? Don't you have to do reserve for a few years first? How long on property to hold a block or be a lineholder at YYC or YEG ? It depends. Right now the group hired in Jan 2023 are on the cusp in most bases. For example, one fellow had a lin...

A couple further comments on my previous post. I'm at 2nd step (after completion of one year and my rate is $88.65). I realize that the initial poster was asking about take-home at MMG and my apologies as what I posted wasn't MMG. It was also a rough average as I did very quick back of the napkin ma...

2nd Year 737 FO Last few months average out to ~$7,700 per month take home (not including REIP as I came from Encore). I very rarely pick up Open Time but do occasionally and also have a pairing finish after 2am the next day which triggers 4 credits of Premium, but most months in that average do not...