I am glad someone agrees. I can’t say if one airline is better than others, I really can’t. However travelling extensively over the years on several airlines I definitely see a trend and it’s not good. Gnarly gross table trays, carpet, seat rails, seats etc. My better half lost an earbud on the flo...

From a pilot call a while back it will probably be late summer early fall before hiring resumes. Westjet training department will be busy training approx 80 sunwing pilots/month for the next 6 months. No room for OTS or upgrade training till integration is complete. What OTS person with half a brai...

Another reason I hope the Max10 doesn’t show up is WJ will no doubt remove a lav at the back as they did with the Max8. Operators like Alaska run 3 lavs in the back, 1 in the front. WestJet only has 2 at the back. Always a long line, so now we allow economy pax to use the forward lav which detracts...

I thought they were upgrading a few guys in YYZ this year. Hasn’t been a YYZ upgrade for a long time, I’d say a year. There are talks of the November post-merger rebid being a reduction bid for YYZ, although that is all speculation right now as WJ is keeping their plans very hush hush. The old tric...

PittBoss wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 1:13 pm Why Why Why Why Won't You Come to WestJet?

Give me a good reason.

The current management, lack of fleet diversity, morale, uniform style, absolutely horrendous upgrade times, contract.. lots of things really and the general Cheeseball feeling of the place..

Airbrake wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:13 pm

co-joe wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:04 pm

Airbrake wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 1:16 pm

It is coming in the future.

Wow, still stuck in the dark ages?

In some ways we are slow at adapting. But we will get there.

The B team…

The union who lied for over a year and sold out it's membership for these meager "gains?" And then fear mongered about arbitration to persuade a yes vote? Yeah, that one. I make no apologies for supporting our union. My union speaks for me. They speak for me when I agree with them, and they speak f...

see At least Westjet ALPA had the excuse of having to deal scope re: Swoop and Sunwing and had to use a lot of their leverage on it. What's ALPA excuse for this self flagellation humiliation ritual ? "Uhhhh the Feds would have forced us anyways" muh strike ready lanyards muh we will make them muh w...

Air Canada offers pilots a 30% raise..... https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/air-canada-offers-pilots-a-30-pay-hike-bloomberg-news-reports/ar-AA1q01nP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W046&cvid=24452ac29ca04d10ad6ca71470769d36&ei=14 Is that a good deal? If not....how much? No BS about other conditions....how mu...

Why don't you call them to know why? Are those pilots junior? Senior NB and WB captains. At least in my base... IF TRUE……..Preface. Gee. What a surprise. The same Captains who loudly declared here “I’ll never vote for a contract that isn’t good for everyone, down to the greenest FO”? Oh, the fake m...

Not WJ, lots of good people working there. Maybe Onex can clean house and replace all execs and management who pushed 3 employee groups to strike mandates or beyond. Management: treat your employees right, or go away. Find another business to ruin. WJ used to be a great company. My thoughts exactly...

Agree 100%. My math has this costing 30-50 million in passenger comp so far(if not more). They will be sure to highlight this in November and May for the next year or two on dates we were supposed to have profit share as a way to turn employee groups against one another. In the article I just read,...

The translation app he (and our other executives) are using must be as old as our IT infrastructure because they clearly misunderstood the CIRB decision that highlights a strike was still allowed. They got completely caught off-guard. They did indeed. Our (AMFA) legal team reviewed the laws for hou...

If you take a look at pilot pay for a 172 and a 737 you can get a rough idea of how the industry values the increased complexity and responsibility. Even with conservative numbers if you say a 172 pilot makes 60k and a 737 pilot averages 120k you can see that 35 an hour to fix 172s equates to 70 an...

Stay strong! Your union clearly knows your worth. We all have your backs. Couldn’t agree more. Every AME deserves much more then what they’re getting.. The industry is behind you all. Let’s see 🤔 Mainline pilots almost walked last year, Enocre narrowly averted a strike and now the AMEs. 3 groups in...

Gotta look at the whole package. Lots of extras to take into account then just hourly pay. I don’t know what flairs total package is but for example as a first/second year Westjet FO T4 was 104K. Another 13k tax free per diem on top of that. That includes a couple days of OT approx 3k To proper cla...

I'm not able to answer your question...just wondering why we are loosing young talented pilots here in swg going to AC after the westjet merge has been announced. ?? I can't speak for those who leave for AC, but I can guess. Air Canada is the only airline in Canada, realistically, where you can go ...

digits_ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:57 am

Bede wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:45 am Completely backwards. Flair and Lynx are merging and then they're buying Air Canada. AC pilots going BOTL.

Would you recommend taking a job at AC if your goal is to make it into Flair and getting a seniority nr at Flair asap?

They’ll probably recommend you coming to the B team.. WJ

canadian_aviator_4 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:50 pm I think by the time westjet starts running gs again, AC will have their new contract, and it will be difficult for Westjet to fill just like before CA2.

Difficult to fill? More like difficult to retain…

brokeflapoperator wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:51 pm On the pilot call earlier this month, Diederik said future eastern bases were being looked into after everything stabilizes. YUL and YHZ were specifically brought up. My guess is its possible after the dust settles with the Sunwing merger.

People still listen to that stuff?

CaptDukeNukem wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:11 am More reason you guys should get a page turning contract.

Get the industry leading contract you guys deserve that WJ was unable to get

Hiring will slow in 2024. According to our ceo there is no longer a gap in pilot staffing requirements. Job posting has been taken down as well. I would imagine once Air Canada gets their new contract, westjet will once again be bleeding pilots and will need to hire to maintain staffing levels. A s...

Why are you commenting on their CA if you’re not flying for them? I'm hitting back at someone who is purposely misrepresenting the facts to influence a pilot group against their union. If some Delta guy wants to castigate my wages, so be, but I'm not going to be lectured by someone who makes less t...

If you put the respective "gains" in the AIP on a scale of 1 to 100, Delta/American being 100, and where Westjetters started being zero. The gains wage wise sit around 12+-. Almost every dime was eaten, or will be eaten by inflation. Those aren't "gains" as the word is defined. It's just treading w...

The fact the union agreed in principle to this is crazy. You hit the nail on the head. The entire industry thought this was going to be the big money moment in Canadian aviation. Sadly, this shows extreme weakness and it will be hard to carry momentum now. Even with a no vote, everything looks like...