There seems to be a recurring theme on here and in the Media that claims the US wage disparity when compared to the Canadian Majors is somehow due to pilot attraction and retention issue between carriers down south. While it's the "Wild West" at the regional level in the US, I don't believe this is...

The current Flight Ops team and CEO are not suited to the task ahead . They need to go. They are to abrasive and dismissive. "You will get what you negotiate, when you negotiate it, nothing more." This play is in stark contrast to what is happening just a few hundred miles south of us with CEO's of...

Air Canada does not have a recruitment problem at current wages, so they aren't going to be very motivated to increase them much beyond Wetjet's new CBA. Unpopular opinion here I'm sure, but even a strike, threat or actual, isn't likely to get Air Canada's pilots US-level wages. Realistically a rel...

The current AC pilot contract is the result of nearly two decades of ‘whipped dog’ syndrome and third party interference in normal course bargaining and dispute resolution. Is restoring the AC pilot contract to 2003 WACON really even a raise? Fact is AC pilots never recovered from CCAA. Someone dec...

Air Canada does not have a recruitment problem at current wages, so they aren't going to be very motivated to increase them much beyond Wetjet's new CBA. Unpopular opinion here I'm sure, but even a strike, threat or actual, isn't likely to get Air Canada's pilots US-level wages. Realistically a rel...

Babar350 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 5:25 pm Reading MR, he'll bring the company to the strike/lockdown position if he has to in order to not pay the pilots what they're worth.

He absolutely will take this to the wall.

Any other expectation was naive. He won't pay unless we make him. That simple.

All these statements do is unify the AC pilot group even further. The AC executives should be very worried because this current pilot group and union is hungry for change and will not settle for anything less than historic gains. He knows what you just stated means this will have to go to the wall....

The E2 doesn’t fit into scope at AC. It’s too large. I distinctly remember years ago being told by some VP at Jazz in no uncertain terms that they would never, ever operate Q400s or the bigger RJs. Scope wouldn’t allow it. Can’t happen. I’m certain whatever AC pilots get offered this fall will once...

Them taking Jazz pilots is a definite thorn in ACs side for the regional lift, causing many problems that AC, like you said is happy to wait to fix, not exactly sure what they are waiting for though, only a guess. The problem for MR is that competing for pilots will drive pilot wages higher. Someth...

I believe the statement of “trying to wait” is referring to a downturn, our CEO said basically that on the last quarterly Q & A. I get that. Or maybe a failure of one of the startups. But that won’t end the shortage. An event may dull the shortage temporarily. But only temporarily. That kind of ans...

From a labour perspective, that article is distressing. From an Express (Jazz) perspective, it signals abandon ship. MR just told the mainline pilots that the WJ pilot contract is the bar. It certainly looks like 2024 will be a turbulent year as nothing has changed. The world is not flat no matter ...

From a labour perspective, that article is distressing. From an Express (Jazz) perspective, it signals abandon ship. MR just told the mainline pilots that the WJ pilot contract is the bar. It certainly looks like 2024 will be a turbulent year as nothing has changed. The world is not flat no matter ...

Funny. Much of what Rousseau is stating is recycled Rovenescu/Smith arguments from 2014. One example - You don’t need a raise. You will get that from a promotion. The big difference today is how the pilot group is reacting. In 2014 the union was even supporting of the concept. I don’t see any new ma...

Having said that, there are well documented accidents in the US where , for sake of a better term , unqualified pilots was a major contributing factor. The Couglin Q400 crash is an example. The Colgin Q400 accident had multiple contributing factors. - FO's inexperience. Addressed by requiring 1500 ...

Canada already offers express entry to foreign pilots who want to immigrate to Canada. It’s already a thing to try and attract foreign pilots and has been in place for a few years now. The problem is why would an experienced pilot come here? Some of the lowest pay in the world combined with some of ...

sportingrifle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 10:37 pm
But that is about to change. AC’s growth plan is 6000 pilots and with about 5000 already on the property, that’s a little over a years hiring.

This alone will force other companies to increase wages again. They have to compete for Captains.

. But to make the imperfect storm, retirements happen in waves - and in about a year the retirements dry up from highs of 100/year to about 35/year until 2029. So in a little over a year, AC hiring is predicted to go from 40 every two weeks to 40 a year. The pilot shortage in Canuckistan will be ov...

AC pilots have very little time to leverage their bargaining power and the Jazz pilots just played their last hand. AC pilots don’t have any leverage that comes from the shortage of pilots. The top tier airlines in the US never have either. The leverage is pure work stoppage. Purely a union demandi...

If you're chasing metal and long term money, Air Canada is your best bet. If you are chasing schedule and a family life, WestJet is your best bet. And because I'm transitioning from military, 36, father of 2, this choice is pretty hard. In one hand I can have a shiny career perspective with short/m...

I hope you don't take my pessimism as me working against you or disagreeing with you. I'm just trying to think outside the box and how they would think. It is the only way to achieve sizeable gains. I'll be there screaming and waving my sign around in the T1 departure loop, Starbucks in hand. I fig...