Any ideas on when there could be more vacancies at YVR? It seems like there's very few positions there at the moment. That'll change, when is anyone's guess but the 220 base will almost certainly grow and probably 787 and 320 as well closer to the new airplanes arriving. Unsure about 737 and 777 or...

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...

The thing you guys don't get... it's not this seniority block or that seniority block or this age or that age... There are company suck-asses at every level of this pilot list that would stab their own mothers to get a shot at pleasing some low level flight ops manager in this place. It's unreal th...

Thanks for the TEDTalk “Dad” :roll: I’ll be sure to add “own your decisions” to the same inspirational Pinterest board where I keep “just work harder” and “don’t like it? Leave.” This is spot-on. The amount of out of touch boomers on here replaying these worn out platitudes is infuriating. There's ...

Lol, another pissy Jazz pilot. Here's a suggestion. If you believe your livelihood and success is dependant on other people giving you something, maybe try another job. You have free will, no? How are things at Transat? Lol You guys must be lowest paid widebody operators on the NAT tracks. Must be ...

I can’t see how someone on an approved leave of absence for reasons such as compassionate care, parental, etc, gets a ‘phone call’ about being in trouble… seems like a far reach to create speculation and rumours. Even training failures on probation have a process in our contract… if by the time tho...

older post but if anyone has info on the last comment regarding the Challenger 300 pay, overnights and typical schedule that would be great to know. My data is about 2yrs old but starting FO 70-100k, CA 160-190k. "Schedule" and overnights completely depends on the specific airplane and owner - i.e....

Wonder if this is all part of the $150m cost reduction initiative the company is well under way with? It was spoken about in the earnings call last week. Call your pilots and intimidate them lol Still have a hard time processing this happening, I honestly don’t want to believe it. Do you know of sp...

I can’t see how someone on an approved leave of absence for reasons such as compassionate care, parental, etc, gets a ‘phone call’ about being in trouble… seems like a far reach to create speculation and rumours. Even training failures on probation have a process in our contract… if by the time tho...

I’ll add that it takes quite a bit for a company to cut their losses on training, obviously the future training problems were taken into account! Training failures the company will typically go quite a ways with... eventually the writing is in the wall though and experience levels coming in have ne...

Much like roaches, they have and will continue to. Nothing's changed. Like schnitzel described, they pass all costs and then some onto owners while squeezing most aspects of flight ops down to the bone (i.e. crew and maintenance). Broker, training, fuel, catering, payroll etc bills go unpaid as long...

Right, and that's the number that is guaranteed. Anything beyond that is not. So telling people the pay is $100k is misleading. I still don't understand why you are so intent on inflating the numbers to make it seem like the pay is higher than it is. As mentioned, this mentality is why we stall in ...

$94.81/hr x 900 = $85,329. That is the salary. Sure, you can top it with all sorts of thing like unused per diems, SIM sessions if applicable and other means (short call, draft, VO etc.) but the salary alone is $85,329. In September this year, year 2 is $98.60/hr, which x 900 hours = $88,740. In Se...

What do you base your 88k on, just curious $94.81/hr x 900 = $85,329. That is the salary. Sure, you can top it with all sorts of thing like unused per diems, SIM sessions if applicable and other means (short call, draft, VO etc.) but the salary alone is $85,329. In September this year, year 2 is $9...

Year 2 is 6 digit already.. If you can’t afford to live on 100k, the wage isn’t the issue. Lol year 2 is 88k bud, wtf are you on about Year 2 is 94.81 Min guarenteed is 900 Credit top it with 7-10 sim session paid cash cleared on top of that. Perdiem average is 1300$ a month, and before you comment...

Man_in_the_sky wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 10:35 am

thepoors wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 6:22 am

CaptDukeNukem wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 5:09 am

What if your home country is Canada?

Then the advice is generally: "don't come to AC if you can't afford it"

Year 2 is 6 digit already..

If you can’t afford to live on 100k, the wage isn’t the issue.

Lol year 2 is 88k bud, wtf are you on about

CaptDukeNukem wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 5:09 am

Dry Guy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 11:53 am They have slowed to once per month. I'd suggest going back to your home country as it likely has a better chance of doing well economically in the short to medium term.

What if your home country is Canada?

Then the advice is generally: "don't come to AC if you can't afford it"

As a turbine captain at a 703 operation with never having worked at a 705 operation, why aren’t First Officers being upgraded or upgrading at Encore? Every First Officer at my 703 operator can’t wait to get the hours and upgrade, we also have more captains than first officers due to captains can be...

As a turbine captain at a 703 operation with never having worked at a 705 operation, why aren’t First Officers being upgraded or upgrading at Encore? Every First Officer at my 703 operator can’t wait to get the hours and upgrade, we also have more captains than first officers due to captains can be...

Fellow pilots, For the last several weeks, ALPA Canada, along with the WestJet and WestJet Encore MEC’s have prioritized efforts towards halting WestJet managements bid to hire pilots through the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program. As pilots, we know this issue goes beyond WestJet Encore, it im...

How DARE you talk that way towards our generation's gift to unionism and labour negotiations!!! Why if thepoors had any time or effort to spare over the last 2 years, he would have heroically led a full recall of the MEC, assumed control and marched us all out onto the picket line. After a few shor...

You're missing the point, which myself and 3rdWorldClassPilot have made over and over again: the MEC surrendered all of our leverage way before that needed to happen. Everyone here keeps skipping ahead to arbitration... We still had 3 DAYS before the strike when these traitors agreed to a dogwater ...

Can you be honest, take a step back and acknoledge that if it was voted down, with the actual climate and treats of our MEC chair stepping down. The actual economical climate would now be against us. If we're going to play that game... Can you be honest, take a step back and acknowledge that had th...

I have 2000TT. Just missing the total night time for my ATPL. Based in YYC and would like to move to an airline. Been working rotational jobs for my career thus far. Wondering what the upgrade time would be if I went to Encore, got my night time there and got the license signed off? Any info is gre...

PittBoss wrote: ↑Mon Mar 24, 2025 9:32 pm Upcoming GS for 31st have

5 A220 First Officers- YYZ
1 L-319 First Officer - YYZ
3 A320 First Officers - YYZ
3 B737 First Officer - YUL
2 B787 First Officer - YYZ
1 B787 First Officer - YVR

I'm assuming the 787 spots are RP not FO? There's no way they're offering WB FO spots in pit.