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by mijbil
Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:39 pm
Forum: WestJet
Topic: WestJet Sunwing merger and seniority
Replies: 161
Views: 28729

Re: WestJet Sunwing merger and seniority

How are the pairings out of YEG these days, expanding? That depends if you currently fly for WG or WS. In the past February was our busiest month by far. Things would start slowish in October and November. By mid December things were rolling for the Christmas rush, January was steady, and by Februa...
by mijbil
Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Southwest has lost its mind.
Replies: 21
Views: 11966

Re: Southwest has lost its mind.

Do they have extra long seat belt extensions for these hippos, or are they so wedged in there that a seatbelt isn't required? Will they have a new category for these people when doing the W&B on the iPad? S for supersized? Imagine the poor person having to sit next to them. They can't even wash prop...
by mijbil
Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:23 pm
Forum: Marketplace
Topic: FOR SALE: CX2 Flight computer
Replies: 0
Views: 772

FOR SALE: CX2 Flight computer

$50 Mint condition. Clearing out the office. Used this in ground school only. CYVR based or will ship at actual shipping cost. PM for contact details.
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by mijbil
Fri Sep 15, 2023 5:19 am
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Poll - September 2023 - Hours at work pilot vs. 9-5 worker
Replies: 34
Views: 3662

Re: Poll - September 2023 - Hours at work pilot vs. 9-5 worker

The second thing which you’re discussing is whether a pilot should be paid 1:1 for the time they are at the airport on duty in uniform. Many airlines have rules that are now 1:2 Should it be 1:1? So you're asking if I prefer to be paid on duty time rather than credit? I think that that is a fair qu...
by mijbil
Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:38 am
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: A bank's perspective on the pilot shortage
Replies: 19
Views: 3063

A bank's perspective on the pilot shortage

Here is an interesting third party perspective of how one bank's research department (National Bank) views the pilot shortage and the projected future costs to airlines of pay increases. There is even have a chart showing how many ATPLs have been issued since 2007. (I've looked elsewhere but not bee...
by mijbil
Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:34 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Comox WestJet + RCAF
Replies: 27
Views: 4249

Re: Comox WestJet + RCAF

WS Herc UQQ.mp4
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Daylight. No marshaller. Hercs are on the old Buffalo spots. The new SAR airplane (the Kingfisher) has had some delays becoming operational so Hercs are holding the FW SAR requirement for the BC Yukon SRR.
by mijbil
Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:26 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Commanding the ejection
Replies: 0
Views: 421

Commanding the ejection

A bit of a shock for the PIC in the front seat
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/mig ... xjNUeh_X14
by mijbil
Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:29 pm
Forum: WestJet
Topic: Smaller Westjet vs Pay Pilots
Replies: 95
Views: 21763

Re: Smaller Westjet vs Pay Pilots

What Daedelusx said. Where I am, we were encouraged to "enjoy our days off" last spring and not answer the phone on GDOs or other non flying days. Cost the company millions bringing in wet leases from as far away as Malta and that was in our slow season. The union figured that if they had paid every...
by mijbil
Sat Feb 25, 2023 5:18 pm
Forum: Air Transat
Topic: Reciprocal Pilot on AT?
Replies: 8
Views: 3859

Re: Reciprocal Pilot on AT?

I've jump seated with them before. Go up to the check in counter, show your ID and request to list on the flight you want. You'll get a standby boarding pass to get through security. Seat assignment happens at the gate. You'll be taken down early to get the captain's approval and you're basically a...
by mijbil
Mon Nov 28, 2022 8:59 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Personal Callsigns
Replies: 82
Views: 9062

Re: Personal Callsigns

Anybody know the fighter pilot name that was used in the RCAF that was in the news today. FAWG = Fucked A Woman Gay. Some of my other favourites were "Custer" - = lost a bar fight to some Indians in Cold Lake "BUG" = he had a really really ugly girlfriend. She had a Bent Up Grill. "Guns" = she had ...
by mijbil
Mon Mar 07, 2022 7:34 am
Forum: Sunwing
Topic: Sunwing/Westjet
Replies: 286
Views: 54497

Re: Sunwing/Westjet

The AX/VX merger isn’t the great white hope where the Virgin pilots slayed the Alaskan pilots your holding your breath for the first Virgin pilot hit the list at #535, ratioed in for 2006-2012 hires and generally DOH after the 2012 hires. No one cares you spent 5 years at Canadian North, or that yo...
by mijbil
Mon Mar 07, 2022 7:02 am
Forum: Sunwing
Topic: Sunwing/Westjet
Replies: 286
Views: 54497

Re: Sunwing/Westjet

WestJet is not a 1932 company and Sunwing is not a 2007 company. They have been around about the same time and fly the same aircraft except the 787 and WestJet has 5 times the number of pilots. DOH is the absolute best Sunwing can hope for and BOTL is the worst, and likely it will be somewhere in b...
by mijbil
Sun Mar 06, 2022 11:13 pm
Forum: Sunwing
Topic: Sunwing/Westjet
Replies: 286
Views: 54497

Re: Sunwing/Westjet

I don’t understand how you think DOH is unfair or unreasonable. Why is your time at Sunwing so much more valuable than the WS pilots time there? This is a mainline buying a financial unstable charter outfit. I think a strong argument can be made to the arbitrator that improvements to the Sunwing pi...
by mijbil
Sat Mar 05, 2022 5:36 pm
Forum: Sunwing
Topic: Sunwing/Westjet
Replies: 286
Views: 54497

Re: Sunwing/Westjet

The deployments to Europe and layovers in the Caribbean were more of an "icing on the cake" so to speak. I would hardly see the SW pilots losing them as being major "quality of life" issues. Who are SW pilots going to "jump ship" for that would offer them the same chance to essentially vacation for...
by mijbil
Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:53 pm
Forum: Covid
Topic: If only the Airline Industry was this United
Replies: 68
Views: 9391

Re: If only the Airline Industry was this United

I don't believe that Blackface Justin or the incompetent Tam want this to end but for separate reasons. For Blackface, when this ends then many more people, except for the Liberal faithful sheep, will start to ask financial questions like "where did the money get spent"? and "How many sole source co...
by mijbil
Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:45 am
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: cover letter and resume
Replies: 9
Views: 5443

Re: cover letter and resume

I had xsbank do mine up. IIRC it was about $100.
by mijbil
Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:11 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Inflation is coming...in a big way. Part 2.
Replies: 52
Views: 7399

Re: Inflation is coming...in a big way. Part 2.

Inflation continues to accelerate hard. Kyle Bass, a rather direct talking individual, believes true inflation is upwards of 15% annually in the US. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3788088-hedge-fund-manager-kyle-bass-buckle-your-seatbelts-on-oil-prices Barry Ritholtz and every advisor like him are b...
by mijbil
Thu Dec 30, 2021 9:37 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Mobile phone plans - (for Canadian pilots layovers in US)
Replies: 14
Views: 3429

Re: Mobile phone plans - (for Canadian pilots layovers in US)

Just get a US cellphone. It’s a pain in the dick giving everyone your new number, but it’s just a one time thing. You can get a US phone with a Canada plan for about $45/mo less than a Canadian phone with a US plan. I have a Pennsylvania number, and I find it keeps the telemarketers at bay too. Doe...
by mijbil
Thu Dec 30, 2021 9:34 pm
Forum: Enerjet
Topic: Lynx Air
Replies: 8
Views: 8896

Re: Lynx Air

I know one guy who lives in YYC and was at AJX on their fantastic contract (especially for commuters) back 20 months ago. Once the music stopped he was doing like everyone else (McJobs) since the Japanese sent all the foreigners home in spring 2020. Check out PPRUNE for further reading. He is now at...
by mijbil
Thu Dec 30, 2021 9:20 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: AIFs question when jumpseating
Replies: 11
Views: 3522

Re: AIFs question when jumpseating

I will be interested in the response from YYC. I have contacted ATAC asking the same question, and I am still waiting on a reply a year later... Hi Redder and all others interested in this. Here is what I got back from a fairly helpful guy in the Calgary airport authority. Me:Good day, Online it sa...

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