Is it true that Flair Pilots do turns only.. no layovers and get to go home every day? Well, it really depends on your base. Looking at August, it seems like the company is going back to mostly single day pairings, but there still are a lot of multidays in certain bases. If you are looking at a por...

Looks like we're taking applications, but I am unclear on the timeline for the hiring process. Haven't heard much on it lately, my best guess is nothing is going to happen before fall. I would recommend you apply and contact the recrutement team afterwards, they will be able to tell you the details ...

Could it be a management trick to hope pilots would quit to save on severance pay if they are planning further downsizing? Highly doubtful. But it definitely shows a complete disconnect from reality from management. If flight ops managers want to fly those pairings instead of the fun ferry flights ...

Hello, I'm currently an FO at Encore, and the new contract and reality that I won't flow for potentially 14 years has forced me to think about my future. I was wondering how many hours does the flair FO fly in a month, as well as how overtime opportunity looks. I'm currently at 1200 and flying 30 h...

hey I've got an idea why don't we wait until we know even the slightest detail about it before writing multiple paragraph posts about how shitty it is Awesome idea. See you here in a few days (or weeks?). ok start typing up those paragraphs because this is shitty Yeah. I mean if we now both agree t...

lament wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:04 am hey I've got an idea

why don't we wait until we know even the slightest detail about it before writing multiple paragraph posts about how shitty it is

Awesome idea. See you here in a few days (or weeks?).

Don't hold your breath. It was negotiated by the same negotiation team that brought us this current garbage contract. More concessions coming in order to foster increased retention and recruitment. :roll: . Vote it down. "You deserve better." Clearly the company still has no respect for the pilot g...

So different groups missed our flight on Flair out of Toronto Toronto due to the conveyor broke and 3 hr long lines at customs. They would not move us ahead so we could make the flight. That was no big deal as it’s our fault. What pissed is off was the lack of help and the rudeness at the Flair cou...

YYZ pilots being pushed to self transport out to YKF to circumvent the CARS Duty regs, Asking as a non-airline pilot, how does that work? Surely your first question after CrewSched calls and says that you’re working away from your base is : “great. How are you going to get me there?” I think by bei...

I can’t see why Lynx would even want flair. Why would they saddle themselves with all that debt ? Full disclosure here, I'm a Flair pilot. I wouldn't be able to tell you why if the timing was different, but I can see a good reason in this case. It's all about timing. Lynx, in terms of market and ex...

@FurHat, thanks for the info. Figured it was a tax and nothing else, the more you learn. @Accountant it does sound likely some form of consolidation is happening or soon will be. Time will tell. If Flair is bought, or merges, or whatever that ends up being, it sure would be interesting to see the re...

They've got to pay their tax bill somehow. Writing is on the wall. Sharpen your resume. Don't know if you're right or wrong here Accountant, but get your shit straight. Every occasion isn't an occasion to hit on your favourite nail, AIFs got nothing to do with revenu. It's straight up taxes. And to...

YKF is a smaller base, however it's good business for Flair and growth in the coming years include growing ykf. It would be easier for you and if you join as an FO there will be plenty of flying. I'd definitely look into it were I in your position. Hope this helps a bit. Thanks for the info. Any id...

YKF is a smaller base, however it's good business for Flair and growth in the coming years include growing ykf.

It would be easier for you and if you join as an FO there will be plenty of flying. I'd definitely look into it were I in your position. Hope this helps a bit.

Was wondering how fatiguing day trips are? I would be about 75 mins on average from base. Spending a day flying then having to shit traffic home with consecutive work days. Is it that demanding and how do you manage? If you are joining in the future, your relative seniority would mean you wouldn't ...

Wait, what we gotta know math? The only math I did last pairing was seeing how much my meal and pint in the US was going to cost me in Canadian Pesos when I get my Visa statement. If memory serves, a little bit of everything. %, fractions, divisions, little algebra etc. Some questions are just simp...

Compass test is pretty straight forward and the score you need depends on the position you applied for. Math, memory test, logical sequence if I remember correctly, questions relating to actual aviation stuff (spool up time from idle to max thrust, descent calculations for a jet at a certain altitud...

A pay raise is needed immediately to help with retention, but but would top pay be enough to compensate for the risk? If the risk is associated with pilot retention and lack of crew therefore inability to fly your plane efficiently and get high utilization, I'd say it's a step in the right directio...

It looks like crew availability is a problem for sure now. There's still heavy bases in yvr and yyc which are overstaffed, but that's basically the extent of it. There's ykf pilots operating yyz pairings all month now and December is going to be the same. There's a need to attract more pilots, and t...

December bid is out. Half of the pairings are multi-day. Of the multi-day pairings, 100% are credited with less than 4 hours min daily credit. So much for home every night. Didn't want to be home for my days off anyway. Not during the holidays. From what we were told, I believe they'll manually cor...

Has management shut down most of the airline? Flair flew 688 flights in August but is only flying 320 in November. Even ASMs (which account for flight length changes) are down by more than 40%. Is management shutting down most of the airline without announcing it or telling anyone? Lynx has actuall...

Has management shut down most of the airline? Flair flew 688 flights in August but is only flying 320 in November. Even ASMs (which account for flight length changes) are down by more than 40%. Is management shutting down most of the airline without announcing it or telling anyone? Lynx has actuall...

Hello Flair peeps, how much does a junior FO make in a year? 73500$ base salary, no perdiems no overtime If you want to work more we're short FOs at many bases so there's a lot of overtime available for you. GDO buyouts are paid double your rate and I know of 3 FOs at my base that are making North ...

I am suggesting the fastest way to get things like that fixed is to bring it to the CP. You can ask your ALPA reps to bring it to me as well. Either way, we can't fix what we don't know about. Now that i know about it I can also explain why that happened and what is happening to fix it. So why did ...

If only there was an email where pilots could reach out to management with concerns such as credit for pairings. If anyone on this thread actually works for Flair, send it to the Chief Pilot email so we can actually look into it. Are you suggesting we bypass our MEC? This is supposed to be their jo...