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- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:34 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Comox WestJet + RCAF
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4249
Re: Comox WestJet + RCAF
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.
- 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
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/mig ... xjNUeh_X14
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
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...
- 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...