Dry Guy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 10:58 pm There was only person onboard. The hijacking news is fake.

As someone else has already pointed out, you are very much incorrect. It was indeed a hijack.

This my opinion. If you are 35 or younger, you are probably better off going to WestJet. Even if you end up waiting 10 years for an upgrade, you still have potentially 20 years left in that left seat. And remember, if you upgrade at year 10, you go straight to year 10 captain scale. And while you w...

This my opinion. If you are 35 or younger, you are probably better off going to WestJet. Even if you end up waiting 10 years for an upgrade, you still have potentially 20 years left in that left seat. And remember, if you upgrade at year 10, you go straight to year 10 captain scale. And while you wa...

Does anyone know someone who has returned to WestJet after leaving and working at a different Canadian airline? If you're considering going but are afraid of making the wrong choice, know that unless you want to live in Calgary, your best long term and short term solution is leaving now. It's going...

You already stated you were jealous (which I think is the wrong word, you likely meant envious): Nice try. You can hold any opinion you want. It's when you attempt to peer pressure and borderling threaten pilots into doing a pointless test to make you feel better, that you're crossing a line. If yo...

Envy? Not in the slightest! I already shared that I'm happy that our Sunwing colleagues are here with us. You already stated you were jealous (which I think is the wrong word, you likely meant envious): Yes, maybe I am a tad jealous that more than a hundred pilots now have a job at Canada's second ...

You needed an ATPL to get hired. Some colleagues didn't. Get over it. Stop trying to justify your envy. You are the problem, your colleagues are not. Envy? Not in the slightest! I already shared that I'm happy that our Sunwing colleagues are here with us. They make us stronger. What I speak is my o...

If telling yourself the company will remove them from the flight line for something not required of them helps you sleep at night. Go for it. So you'd call their bluff, and continue on your merry way expecting no consequences in 12 months? That's funny! Straight from the memo: "Non-ATPL pilots will...

Either way, I'm sure most will feel enough pressure to write their AA's asap. But don't kid yourselves, the company can't dismiss them if the don't. Not only are they fully qualified for the seat they hold, but having an ATPL wasn't part of the merger conditions. Maybe not, but they can remove them...

I love how these guys would feel safer with a 2000 hour kid that just started flying a 737 three months prior just because they have an ATPL. Meanwhile their previous job was flying something below 10,000 pounds. Over a cadet that has been flying it for 3 years but hasn't quite reached 1500 yet. I ...

I wonder what happened with those aces that almost went for a swim in SXM. That was pre merger so the FO definitely had their ATPL. So did the pilots that overran the runway at Kitchener. 8) A pilot that has 1600 hours and a Group 1 CPL is no better a pilot than a 1600 ATPL. So why do we even have ...

I'm simply defending the use of these codes to identify a low time pilot the same way the codes are used to identify WestJet's Age Retricted pilots, new captain's with high minimums, initial FO's, etc. I'm also defending the captain's right to lengthen or shorten the leash of their FO's based on th...

When a captain pulls up their schedule, they will immediately see that they only have a CPL. You don't need to ask them or interview them. You'll already know. Now you have to decide... Which leg do you let them fly? Do you let them have the YYZ-YYC leg where the weather is good, daylight, long run...

When a captain pulls up their schedule, they will immediately see that they only have a CPL. You don't need to ask them or interview them. You'll already know. Now you have to decide... Which leg do you let them fly? Do you let them have the YYZ-YYC leg where the weather is good, daylight, long run...

I'm simply defending the use of these codes to identify a low time pilot the same way the codes are used to identify WestJet's Age Retricted pilots, new captain's with high minimums, initial FO's, etc. I'm also defending the captain's right to lengthen or shorten the leash of their FO's based on the...

I thought you should be better at numbers, Digits or does that mean something else? 90% of what airline deal with this? In the US, you don’t fly a 705 equivalent aircraft without an ATPL, so those airline pilots are not dealing with this! AC doesn’t hire without, not entirely sure about AT but we k...

Executives must love how easy it is to get pilots to fight each other. No kidding... what an attitude. As if the Sunwing pilots had any decision whatsoever on wether or not to merge with Westjet. I suspect a significant group of sunwing pilots (or perhaps all?) would very much have preferred to sta...

With upgrade times of 9+ years there's a concern some FOs don't hold an ATPL? :rolleyes: :roll: It's the principle of it that has some people feeling annoyed. Westjet has always required an ATPL, and now there are supposedly well over 100 pilots coming over that would have never been hired if not f...

My understanding is that they've been given 12 months from their start date to get it. It's only temporary.

Dry Guy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 2:52 am They're all going to be decimated because Canadians won't be able to afford to travel by air.

Easy there Dry Guy.

Whoever their flight instructor was did a great job of teaching when and how to do a soft field landing! Bravo! Tomorrow's lesson: when and how to conduct a missed approach.

thepoors wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:48 am What I've heard is the ex-Lynx 37s are getting this treatment because they are a high density, all economy configuration with 29" seat pitch and no recline.

All 9 Lynx tails have been painted Teal.

EDIT: My mistake. Didn't realize there were tails that were never delivered to Lynx.

While I don’t disagree with the data used to make that projection, it’s such a long timeline that with the volatility of aviation it can’t possibly come true… can it? Porter is growing rapidly, with jet time experience, a E2 Captain upgrade would come way quicker than a 737 upgrade at WJ. But, Port...

nohojob wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 10:28 am How many years after 65 can one flies at WJ ?

As long as they keep passing their rides.

Don't mean to be rude, but you'd be out of your mind to consider Flair a career option. They have been circling the drain for a long time, and anyone still working there knows it's only a matter of time. It'll happen suddenly and without warning too, just like Lynx. Then you'll be among hundreds of...