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- Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:31 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: TSC- How to Spend Your Flying $$$
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3705
Re: TSC- How to Spend Your Flying $$$
It's like the stock market run up to the dotcom bust in the late 90's, everybody was an expert. Taxi drivers gave out stock tips. TSC, THE TSC, is no different. Based on his own situation in life he figures it's because he's brilliant that he is where he is and discounts the economy, demographics, a...
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 6:36 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Gregg Saretsky is the modern Frank Lorenzo
- Replies: 100
- Views: 24721
Re: Gregg Saretsky is the modern Frank Lorenzo
There must be people that are glad the culture is dead. This would drive me nuts. Things like calling your passengers "guests" is incredibly annoying. I'd just want to go to work and get my flights done safely without all the cult like culture. No doubt there have been changes. I never got wound up...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 6:31 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: To sum things up
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5930
Re: To sum things up
First off....am I the only one that thinks that it is a bit scary that JS is allowed to be the captain at a major airline?!? He has clearly demonstrated behaviour that is nutso and is obsessed with spewing nonsense on these forums. John, I stopped going on the WJPA forum because of you and now Avca...
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:00 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: China_CAAC's Merged Threads
- Replies: 772
- Views: 98650
Re: alpa hidden agenda
I might have been wrong about ALPA's motivation for choosing the conciliation approach to bargaining. Although, it does get them dues money which they are not getting (unlike JetBlue), it appears from this memo from the JetBlue MEC that all members are responsible for dues from the time they were el...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:41 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Swoop/Sunwing/Transat: Hourly Pay
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7536
Swoop/Sunwing/Transat: Hourly Pay
Hey there! I thought I would dig out some factual stuff regarding Swoop pay, because, you know, facts. I'm using only the first three pay steps for Captains and FO's, and not including any credit for years of service. Captain..Swoop...........SunWing (2017*)....TransAt (narrowbody) Step 1 - $103.57 ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:43 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: China_CAAC's Merged Threads
- Replies: 772
- Views: 98650
alpa hidden agenda
Been at westjet 13 years now. Haven't said boo to anybody about anything except my close friends. Just did my job. But I have to speak up. I am disgusted at the way things have turned out. We were told the relationship would not change with wppa and then with alpa. Well it did. And how are we better...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:13 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Let's all apply at Swoop!
- Replies: 170
- Views: 31182
Re: Let's all apply at Swoop!
And as evidence of the coercive tactics of ALPA and its accomplice ACPA, I would look no further than this forum for evidence of the actions of professed Air Canada employees to influence in an anti-competitive manner the affairs of a new entrant in the airline sector. You guys are f#cking with the ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:01 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Let's all apply at Swoop!
- Replies: 170
- Views: 31182
Re: Let's all apply at Swoop!
Johnny, You are aware that usually there are 2 ACPA members interviewing each candidate? All it takes is for one of these ACPA members to ring ANY reason NOT to find the candidate a good fit for AC and they will not hire them. So, as you state " what hiring ban?" , but in reality, and especially af...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:00 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Let's all apply at Swoop!
- Replies: 170
- Views: 31182
Re: Let's all apply at Swoop!
ALPA has answered the LOA offer with a clear warning via MEC communication that the seniority list has yet to be negotiated and they cannot guarantee what the implications may be of a LOA to go to S on a WJ pilot's position on that seniority list. I'm not sure what they could do but the waters are a...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:26 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: China_CAAC's Merged Threads
- Replies: 772
- Views: 98650
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:48 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Marshmallows & kids
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7070
Re: Marshmallows & kids
This brings me back to the correlation between delayed gratification and success later in life. All of us know of a pilot (or many pilots) that always jumped at the first crap job offered. They were the one's busting rules at the insistence of their scumbag operators, paying predatory training bond...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:18 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Marshmallows & kids
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7070
Re: Marshmallows & kids
I have a friend. My friend was a nice guy. A few years younger than me, but we knew each other from being glider pilot instructors in Air Cadets and later working at the same flight school. My friend went to work at a small regional DHC-8 operation. Soon, in a restructuring, he was offered the chanc...
- Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:18 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Swoop to join ALPA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3558
Re: Swoop to join ALPA
I'm not LEVELCHANGE.
And I'm not alone.
And I'm not alone.
- Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:00 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Let's all apply at Swoop!
- Replies: 170
- Views: 31182
Re: Let's all apply at Swoop!
Of course, we could all be lucky and meet NCP in person, because if he is a man of integrity, he will have already applied for his WJ LOA..... Cheers. With ALPA's threat on the table WRT seniority list construction at mainline, my integrity will have to take a back seat to self preservation. And yo...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 11:05 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Rumo(u)rs.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4890
Re: Rumo(u)rs.
See how easy it is to make a spelling error when one isn't careful? I changed "rumour" back to "rumor", and promise to be careful in my posts going forward, in the manner you have come to expect of me.
Cheers
Zee One und Only
Herr VingNut
Cheers
Zee One und Only
Herr VingNut
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:43 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Rumo(u)rs.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4890
Rumo(u)rs.
In the United States of America the accepted spelling of rumor is "rumor". In Canada, the accepted spelling is "rumour". Owing either to a conflict between the American and Canadian elements within ALPA, or merely sloppy work on the part of the ALPA MEC at WJ, here is how your MEC thought rumour (I'...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:28 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: 787's go to Swoop!!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5523
Re: 787's go to Swoop!!
Any change to business practices that are not part of the normal course of business and that prejudice the bargaining unit members in a negative way would successfully be argued as an unfair labour practice by ALPA. Moving the 787's to Swoop, when all indications up until this point are that they wo...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:18 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: 787's go to Swoop!!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5523
Re: 787's go to Swoop!!
The 787's are not going to Swoop. The company has already put out a survey to assess what inter-fleet movement would like as a result of the 787 introduction later this year. Any alteration to the 787 plans for WJ would not bode well for WJ at the CIRB. What happens eventually to the 767 (4 airframe...
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 9:56 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: China_CAAC's Merged Threads
- Replies: 772
- Views: 98650
2017 CIRB Single Employer decision
ALPA has announced they will seek a common employer designation from the CIRB regarding WJ and S, and concluded a recent message with the following statement: "This raises the question of who the true employer of Swoop really is." I raise the above statement to direct your attention to the fact that...
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 7:16 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Talk of strike/walkout?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5311
Re: Talk of strike/walkout?
Lol no tail between my legs here! I've been very busy working on my WingNut Airspeed Indicator system. After the testing in California two weeks ago I'm confident of the model so now I'm working on the display aspect. The LED strips were okay, but the next step is to get the HUD working. So far, I h...