Genius move. Force the company to spend finite cash retraining pilots to fly aircraft temporarily until this SS is over. The airlines that bounce back to previous operations the fastest will be the ones that were not forced by intransigent unions to expend their most limited resource on idiotic, wa...

Before someone tells a story about the rude CATSA worker that treated them like crap one day think about the majority who do a good job. I don't give them a hard time as it's not in my interest to do so. However I can't say that I've personally ever seen one of them doing a "good job". My entertain...

Aklak Air operated a T1040. Never saw it out of hangar though. Piper also had a piston version, a T1020. Don't know much about them though. I'd go with the tired King Air scenero over any of the aforementioned above. I used to be the Base Manager for Aklak (Borek) back in 07/08 in YEV. I dont recal...

So easy to slander something you know nothing about, except through second hand news, purposely reported for self-interest on a nation, or its financial backers... :roll: I've worked at 3 UN missions, 2 military observer missions and one refugee. I will acknowledge that I may not know everything ab...

The public is getting exactly what the majority of the public want. If that wasn't the case then Westjet, Southwest, Ryanair, etc. wouldn't be the successes that they currently are. Many people complain about it but, at the end of the day, are voting with their wallets.

My issue with the ban is the lack of decent vis reporting. Won't even discuss auto stations as they are virtually useless. But even manned stations, went to yxs a while back and they were calling it RVR 1000. We picked up the runway visual descending through about 12,000 and 30 miles back. There was...

My airline also requires the pilots to inspect the wings under certain conditions after deicing. Most, if not all, airlines require this. This is good but at some point you are still trusting your life to the deice crews, or do you also get out and check the tail? As mentioned in a previous post at...

Does anyone know who the operator of this Basler BT-67 is? Borek?

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090105/119375471.html

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Did I hear right that Enerjet's first flight was Fort Mac to Gander? Can you fill up a -700 and fly that leg from that runway? ( I foget how long it is?). What about at 30c or so? It's a few hundred miles shorter than OGG-YVR which Westjet does. OGG's runway is about 500' shorter than YMM (roughly ...

Oh Mamma Mia, you need to really think this one over again. You are trying to tell me that a 5 year Captain is MORE valuable than a first year Captain??? IT IS THE SAME DAMN JOB. You really need to understand that not everyone who came here, came from jazz, or CMA, or Georgian, or (insert Turboprop...

Opinion time: We NEED to allow us (the FO's :wink: ) to slide over with years of service. Why? Because after 6 years at least (for some), it needs to be an incentive to take on the extra responsibility. Once the new scales for FO's get sorted out, why would a 6,7,or 8 year FO want to come over to t...

I agree that the situation at WJ isn't ideal, where there is a charge for the jumpseat, and should be changed. That said, there are some benefits that help offset that somewhat. It's not limited to 2 seats but to how many available seats there are in the back. Don't have to rely on the pilots to hav...

That sounds about right. Vancouver to the U.K. one way was over $500 in 1972, and was still the same in the mid-eighties. Vancouver-Edmonton return, economy, without the infamous, "Saturday stopover", was $805.00 in 1982-1983. That's going back further than he wants, but is more revealing. I've hea...

Grey_Wolf wrote:Business Annual Reports?
http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/investor/reports.html

Otherwise, possibly?
http://www.canadabusiness.ca/gol/cbec/s ... index.html

Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.

Troubleshot wrote:maybe here? to lazy to look.

http://www.statcan.ca/

Looked but didn't find the info there. It is a good site and I plan on checking it out in greater detail. Thanks.

Hello,

Hoping some one can help. For some research I've been doing I'm looking for some source of Canadian airfare data going back up to 20 years. Tried searching the web with no luck. Does anyone here know where such information could be found?

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I think you will find it will cost much more than they are predicting. Once people catch on to the fact that they can have their local friendly doctor sign a note for them saying they need a second seat for some disability I think a lot of people will do so. Also as I understand these rulings only a...

In any other industry, if you advertise a product at a given price, and then wont deliver for that price (before taxes), it's called fraud. For some reason, folks in aviation seem to think it's acceptable. I personally would like to see the fuel surcharge included in the price. That being said I th...

I disagree with you guys... This might not apply to Tango but more in regards to Air Canada. I travel to and from work internationaly and work long rotations.... Now when I head out to East Africa, I usually fly with KLM or Ethiopean Airlines, both of whom have an 40-60KG weight limit before going ...

My company flies me around on WJ frequently, and I usualy let the people beside me know what the starting wages are for their Flight Crew - lets just say the reaction isn't positive. I agree that the wages in the industry are generally appallingly low. That being said, do you also make the same com...

Shit happens to everyone in this business but you WJ folks slammed AC and JG at every opportunity telling us how much better an operation WJ was. Well what goes round comes round. The lack of accountability on every issue is fast becoming a WJ trademark. Yes, it does happen to everyone in this busi...

Perhaps you can do the same rebel? :roll: jj Well why don't you ask your CP or one of the techies? The rumor didn't appear out of thin air. As near as I can tell it did appear out of thin air. I've not seen one mention of it anywhere other than on rumor mills like this. It could be something as sim...

Be very careful AC doesn’t make any attempt to cover up any of its incidents on the other hand WJ well what can I say..430? Please provide the details on the suppose gear leg change the Inquire would like to know.. I agree, I've been hearing about this 430 incident for a while here, please provide ...

4400km in a 738 rather than a 757 or 767 - let's see what the public thinks! While the 767 may be nicer due to the wide body as I understand it the 757 and the 737 have the same fuselage cross section and cruise within about 20 mph of each other (.78 vs. .80) so I don't see that much difference. If...

And closing the L1 on the NG before you are actually ready to go does not count either!! OTP at WJ is based on park brake released and AC push but thanks for comin' out. jj Actually I believe you'll find that OTP is based on gate arrival as stated in the website; On-time is defined as an arrival wi...