I don't know Ken, I'd never heard his name before this election. While I think the association needs some new members, with new ideas to start carrying the torch. I don't vote for pilots running for MEC or NEM positions who have never done any committee work. I understand if other don't agree with m...

Comparing Florida to Canada is pointless. The virus spreads easier in poorly ventilated indoor settings, in Canada (excluding the mild Vancouver region) it's too to stay outside so we gather indoors. Alberta and Manitoba had early second waves as it got cold in September/October and central Canada t...

Bit of a standoff going on between the Government and airlines. Airlines want money and a say in the countries travel restrictions and implementation. The government wants service to small communities and refunds issued. The government also has the merger approval as leverage over Air Canada but onl...

Launchpad1, The F15EX is basically a F15SE without the canted tails. It is modeled on the F15 E. it has that the E’s heavy wing, and tandem seating. Except, the EX will be crewed by one pilot, with a hugely improved cockpit. It actually makes a lot of sense for Canada to look at this variant, if th...

All of social media's experts on epidemiology and vaccine production are going to have to dust off their non-existent textbooks on aircraft certification standards and tell everyone how they "won't be flying on it!!"

Omar Alghabra was the Parliamentary Secretary to the PM, so I wouldn't expect him to stray from the party lines. On the other hand political pundits are saying this appointment has implications for the next election and his Mississauga riding is far from a Liberal stronghold and FULL of households d...

The airlines are realizing it will be summer 2022 before things get normal both internationally and domestically. What is your definition of ‘normal’? When commuters are requesting the jumpseat because the flight is looking pretty full and we can wander around on layovers, without wearing masks, lo...

There is no comparison between the product offered by TS and Rouge. None. TS are experts in leisure travel and within that segment offer a premium product. Rouge was late to the game and does not offer an equivalent product. I usually agree with your comments, but not the first two sentences. Both ...

Rockie, well put. This is bad policy that would have been excusable in the Spring, it isn't acceptable this far along. It's a knee jerk reaction to criticism that does not follow scientific data or best practices from around the world. Here is what IATA released: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/pr...

Not unexpected for a student to come in high, why not just get the student to practice their go-arounds and get into the students head that you don't accept long landings on runways short for aircraft type, especially when wet...... Agreed, the current practice at airlines is to perform a landing d...

Good post Fanblade, I feel like I need to reread my own posts. Tdi, the narrow body cap was negotiated, even then there are senior pilots who don't like it because of the pairing swaps that result. Apparently their 'right to work 8 days or less should trump someone else's not to work more than 16. T...

I agree with almost everything you've written on this subject L39Guy, but surely you must believe that not designing MCAS to work off data from dual AoA sensors was an engineering oversight? Does anyone know why TC is delaying its approval? Was everyone working on this file just fired for emails the...

I see the conspiracy theorists and nay-sayers are whipping themselves into a frenzy again. Keep it up!! The MOA was a different story, that was temporary. This is a permanent 10% pay concession on freight flying in order to "secure the flying" as the MEC loves to say. We don't need to sec...

What am I missing? A 12th year Cargojet Captain will earn $209/hour and a 1st Year Captain $130/hour as of June 1st 2021. As of April 2nd 2021 under this LOU, at 90%, excluding Nav aid and Overseas pay, a 12th year AC 767 Cargo Captain would earn 223.36 (Day) and 250.12 (Night) or 236.75 blended, th...

I guess you're not on ACPA's email list yet Gilles. ACPA advised its membership of the rally and the upcoming YUL and YVR marches. Thanks for your communication on these issues.

Interesting for sure. Are those sports team trips assigned by seniority bids per trip or are crews assigned on a yearly basis. I would imagine there is a specific code of conduct like not looking for autographs, picture taking etc. Yes the Charters are normally part of the monthly pairings, in play...

Airbrake, thanks for sharing that link, there was a lot of interesting information in there. I knew the YYZ-LGA was big, but I had no idea it was that big! That Swoop was set up to be completely separate from Westjet certainly has it's positives and negatives but doesn't lend itself to joint venture...

For those who are unfamiliar Jetz aircraft are A319's configured for charters (the Canadian NHL teams and Blue Jays). Obviously they aren't being flown right now and this is an interesting, and fairly low risk test. The loads are going to be light regardless, why not maximize yield? I flew on a Jet...

Would anyone on the inside care to comment on this. What does it mean for the future of Swoop? Why was it excluded? Was there any indication that ALPA was involved given both groups are represented by the same union? I'm not looking to incite any arguments just curious as to what the consensus is at...

I would think there are plenty of private equity firms on Bay St bargain hunting right now. I'm a pilot so I only know the names of two; ONEX, which would have to deal with anti-competitive scrutiny and Canaccord Genuity.