Sorry for mistating the raise part. I think we are entitled to the amount we lost in addition to a 20 percent raise. We work for a major and should be paid as such. I hope we can set the bar higher and set ourselves apart from our us couterparts who are in a race to the btm pay wise. As for the bid...

Wait for the arbitration to end first...

Get the ASU guide to find cheap deals, or pick up the phone and ask the front desk manager of a few places.

Pre Sept11 AC was offering direct entry CPT seats on the RJ's but if you failed the course you were let go, or so the story goes. Funny that AC can't find pilots to fill those left seats on the jungle jets, while at the same time there turning down Jazz pilots left right and center. some of whom ar...

Amen, The problem with 24 hour news is that they need 24 hours worth of filler. Most of what is reported in aviation is way off the mark, and where true investigative journalism is required, they are too lazy to bother. The American news is the worst but we aren't far behind here. I think the only j...

Pot stirring. The collective agreement doesn't allow for it. Once in the company one can bid after completing the initial FOM course. Bidding left seat direct entry isn't terribly bright and shows how poor the working conditions are on the narrowbody fleet due to ACE and ACPA's past negotiations. Th...

Just fax an update in the evening followed by a next morning phone call. The fax may get them to pull out your file to see who you are, and the phone call will answer the question for you. Good luck.

HEY WHATS UP ALL. HAVNT REALLY BEEN FOLLOWING THE WHOLE BID THING. WHATS THIS ABOUT A REDUCTION? CURRENT EMJ FO LOOKING TO BID LEFT SEAT IN THE EMJ OR RIGHT SEAT 320. ANY IDEA IF THOSE POSITIONS WILL BE AVAIL. JUST LEARNING HERE AND ENJOYING LIFE! I suggest calling a local base LEC rep from your un...

I agree that on heavy routes, everyone will buy them leading to everyone paying more money to travel to the same place. However, I have a bigger problem with the notion of a new hire employee buying his/her way onto a flight ahead of a reitred employee with 35 years of service you is living on a fi...

exbengal, If I was misunderstood my apologies. I was talking about this. Here is the quote from one of our ACPA reps, Martin Tamme whose name is in this threads title. The present ACPA MEC wants to start a Professional Association of the likes what doctors & lawyers have. We want to have a body that...

YUL DUDE, You are 100% correct. Neither side is all sinners or saints. We are out of CCAA and have a collective agreement each in force. Teplitsky cannot go and take Jazz dashes to Georgian, or Mainline Embraer's to Jazz. Again, this is like the middle east. Until both sides can accept the status qu...

Actually, the only difference between an amateur and a professional is a paycheque.

Not to be harsh but as a new hire, you get what you get. Expect to be there up to 2 years. If the music stops even five years... Now, I hope that isn't the case but you should go into AC expecting that you may be an RP, and if you do better just be thankful. We've had since 1995, new hires take 3 ye...

The contract hasn't changed, so no. A320 is out of the PG and can only be bid from within after a PG group has been awarded or from another a/c type and already on the line.

There has been some great discussion here. Traf, MT and others,well done on your commentary. As a Captain I've never turned down the jumpseat to anyone period regardless of corporate history. Until the we let the past be the past forgive and move on nothing gets better. Exbengal, you are one angry d...

http://www.achorizons.ca/en/issues/2006/april/extreme.htm The big buses are getting phased out for the Boeing's. The link lists the time table for the fleet renewal. Had AC not been in CCAA for two years this would have been done by now. The PTV product on the Embraer works well although there were ...

Yes, @holes like this Grant guy exist, and I wish they would be fired or quit. Daily I see great people here and ones that have no business in customer service. The bad ones are the small minority but it only takes one or two to destroy a persons opinion of our company. Our senior managers are a lit...

Libby, I think childrens charities should be going to those the most in need. Sick, poor, orphans, etc. Soaring isn't up there. Also as was mention the Air Cadets already do a great job in getting youth into Gliders as well as improving their citizenship and leadership skills. BUT...I think if you a...

Depend on who your family member is, reverese nepotism can occur too. All an inside reference can help is getting an interview. Nobody gets treated differently in the interview process. You can get help too the interview but after that you are on your own.

Hiring always seems to move at a glacial pace when you are on the outside looking in. Many have had wait times of 6 months or more. Don't stress so long as you haven't received confirmation you won't be hired. They are building a pool of canidates. All of the new hires I've met have been great indiv...

exb, My goodness we are beyond testy! I trust my IQ and choices so far and have done well despite your own assessment. I am about as moderate as they come within ACPA's ranks but with your high strung, judemental, ready to whore your association out like a Surrey girl on on a Saturday night ideals.....

Thank you, I thought it was 15 as well, but with all the western Canada route announcements i wondered if it was maybe higher. Kag, have you interviewed at AC? We each have our own scope clauses. I'm sure you wouldn't be please if Georgian started operating Dash 8's, then promised the RJ's for less ...

How many 705's are in Jazz'z fleet? Can all the 50 seat RJ's be converted to 705's under the current collective agreement?

And that's the kind of mentality that put in it CCAA in the first place. It may surprise you that AC exists to create profit and wealth for their shareholders. You want a piece of that profit - buy some stock. Actually, I wish ACPA to negotiate the best possible rate of return on my services as a p...

I agree 110%. I've already used the contract admin people once. Fast & painless. I've got great respect for both Dave and Doug. They are both col our blind managers that are pilots first. I've enjoyed flying with them both before they reached their current status. Glacial pace, but things are improv...