Yes I respect and understand that AC owns their flying and is in an entirely different bargaining environment than Jazz is.

So if being locked into a deal until 2035(with a full wage re-opener in 2029) is so shitty then why (in your own words) did AC do such a poor job with open bargaining in 2024? Yet another person that just lives to complain and is never satisfied with anything. If you’ve got this whole bargaining thi...

You have always been extremely critical of both the JAZ MEC/Executive and Jazz pilots for voting the way they do on various tentative agreements. I’m not sure why you are so interested in what happens here. It’s kind of weird. Anyway, the Executive Officer terms end in February of 2026 so there will...

Thanks for your concern, you can go back to complaining about your own contract now. I’ve seen your posts in your mainline thread, and no one can do anything right in your eyes.

As I said earlier the 17 year deal has been debated ad nauseum. Bringing it up here again is pointless. What is problematic is when you say that “if the company wants to run the operation into the ground that’s on them”. There are almost 300 pilots at Jazz currently enrolled and contributing to a de...

Despite being locked into a long term contract, Jazz did receive fairly significant increase in compensation in 2023, due to the reasons you stated. The compensation increase was as much attributable to the reduction in benefit premiums as it was actually hourly pay rate increases. Plus a little kno...

Global solutions was a bankruptcy-era concept. With the failure of the ULP process, I don’t see anything short of, ironically ,a recession bringing the parties back to the table.

While I agree with the concepts you propose, do you really think the ACA negotiating committee is going to use bargaining capital on your next contract to have a PML included in your CBA?

The interference in bargaining resulted in less pay increases than were needed to attract and retain pilots that could/would go Captain here. So it’s both

For all the AC pilots weighing in here, let me ask you this… is your company facing an existential crisis? As in, do you have existing FOs willing and able to upgrade and/or are you able to recruit “captain ready”candidates to sustain your operation? Because Jazz cannot. So why don’t you piss off an...

The big takeaway is “ a rumour has been circulating within both JAZ and ACA pilot groups that the purpose of a Section 35 application would be to capture date-of-hire seniority for JAZ pilots on the ACA seniority list. This is categorically false. There is no basis in the present set of circumstance...

Message from your MEC Representatives Fellow Pilots, We understand that pilots do not want to see a public airing of the MEC’s internal debate. However, given the divisiveness of two recent communications from the Montreal LEC to their pilots (on November 17 and November 18), representatives from th...

And I don't know how much time you have spent in and around lawyers, or people in the legal profession. But they don't wast time, or energy in writing things that did not need to be written. Seriously, have you spent any time around lawyers? That's literally all they do. "We need to schedule a meet...

Cypresshill,
No need to “fire”(ie recall) anyone since all the Executive position terms end early in the new year. February I think. If you have enough support you are welcome to run for one of these positions yourself.

The leverage was not squandered, it was used as the only means possible to get AC management to the table for mediation. And it got the raises and reduced health care premiums just before the ULP was launched. AC was trying to convince the board that they didn’t belong in the talks since the beginni...

Didn’t you guys vote yes to a contract that avoided “peak leverage”? In the end, no group is better than the other

The ULP was filed OVER 2 YEARS ago. The JAZ MEC executive and negotiating committee have been extremely patient with ACA and the CIRB recognizes this. The ACA executive has been dragging their heals on this, pissing away time the board’s mediation dates(showing up unprepared etc)and frustrating the ...

Apparently(according to JAZ MEC legal counsel) 100% direct ownership is not required(although AC currently does own 10% of Jazz anyway). De facto control can be used to prove a common/single employer and there is CIRB precedent for this in other industries.

Very interesting, thanks for the explanation

What is the difference between a SA(Special authorization) CAT 2 and a regular Cat 2? Other than the fact that you need special authorization from TC? And you don’t need auto land or HGS for a Cat 2. You can do a Cat 2 via an airline specific PMA(pilot monitored approach) procedure. Autoland or HGS ...

The flight attendants showed courage. I’d argue anything they get in arbitration would be close to what ac offered. Hard to get a new deal that pays less than minimum wage wage… Pilots didn’t cancel a single flight. Played it safe. Some could argue it’s smart, but I’d argue it’s cowardice. Especial...

The LEC recall resolutions for the ACA MEC chair were driven by the pilots that thought ACA could have done better by going on strike and also figured that they would have been immune to any government/CIRB orders to return to work if they had walked. Now that it’s obvious that striking isn’t really...

No, 42% was the original negotiated increase, we ended up with 25ish to 40%, 40% year 1 and 2 I believe, then 25 at the top. I calculated the 42% increase back when this all went down and I’d be at 233/hr now instead of the 193 I’m at How are you at 193 when the top of the MOS7 scale for this year ...

What year? 2035 when the new contract is due Side note Anyone know how to ban those D’Mello scam ad ? People looking over my should think i need advice from someone who failed his upgrade… So he failed his upgrade but he is still offering (for a fee) “career advice”? Unbelievable. I guess in his mi...

PAL AC Express has so far been from YUL and east, so what are you saying? You have evidence of them starting AC Express routes out of YVR? Or are you trolling?