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From a union email today, WJ/ALPA has a meeting with the CIRB on May 8th. WestJet is pulling the ‘pilots are an essential service’ card, rather than entertain the prospect of improving pay and conditions. They will have to show that a strike/lockout poses ‘an immediate or severe danger to the safet...

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The falls under the “somebody told me” category, but flights to HAV were suspended shortly after the route was relaunched due to the war in Ukraine. Supposedly there were a lot of connections from Asian markets in YYZ that aren’t being operated due to the closure of Russian airspace to Canadian airl...

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I don't disagree that these such complaints are absurd. I would however like to highlight that this is a somewhat self-inflicted wound on behalf of the airline. Hear me out, consider the following: 1- The Air Canada Public Participation Act is not new, the airline is well aware of its requirements, ...

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I like the Negotiations team that ACPA has assembled, but more importantly I like the way the MEC has been conducting itself and its communications with both the company and the pilot group. JR and HE, in my opinion, have been successful as negotiators in the re-openers where they've had little leve...

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So, to summarize, the negotiations team has too many guys with experience and too many guys without experience.

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Widow, welcome back and thank you for sharing this report. I have no experience in this field but wanted to thank you and your advocacy to aviation safety.

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Because the Q pilots don’t generate as much revenue as the E2 pilots when you look at CASM vs RASM. This is from the WJ forum posted recently, the 787 crew makes roughly double what the Q400 crew earns and yet is half of the overall operating cost.

averageatbest wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:15 am
Bede wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:19 am

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it was a full fair J class paid back in April to the Caribbean. They got me bumped to the back. for a junior first officer so he could sit up in business class. better get used to it more passengers, complaining wherever they can. I can appreciate your frustration, but blaming the "junior first off...

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I have to disagree with the post above, with the caveat that if there is a massive recession there won't be much movement for roughly 2-3 years, but I believe that would unfortunately be the same situation (or worse) regardless of which airline you worked for. With reference to the two seniority pro...

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co-joe wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:08 pm
When we did take a pay cut is at the bottom of Covid, we agreed to half time pay for half a block for a couple of months to save the company That felt highly honourable, and likely there wouldn't be a Flair sub forum here if we hadn't.

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Right? YYZ CEO just gave themself a fat raise too. What have these people actually done to earn that raise? To make travel more efficient and affordable. All they have done is make it more expensive, higher departure fees, landing fees, gate fees, parking and make it less efficient with cuts to ope...

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Airports are operated as not-for-profit enterprises and have become bloated, inefficient and worst of all not accountable to the travelling public. Airports are treated as cash-cows by the Federal Government instead of vital National infrastructure, we’ve seen this week how much people depend on the...

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Like in the new bid... how many courses are they triggering with the extra CA reductions vs. 22-03? When they already can't staff staff the airline? That'll sure teach us. That’s true, but until it happens it’s a paper exercise. They can show the reductions. Not train anyone. Then have them back be...

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You're right...no one else is talking about a recession other than AC management and the ACPA schills...you figured it out. I haven’t heard AC Management talk about a recession. Massive growth is the reason they came to the table, they cannot flow enough pilots from Jazz to cover the vacancies thei...

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I can’t imagine why anyone would vote yes to a contract amendment that isn’t at a minimum equivalent to inflation? Nobody that votes yes to this MOA should ever complain about starting wages, this is the best opportunity to fix them, not next year or 2024. We have leverage to ensure that if pilots d...

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Jazz should only be hiring ATPL. Starting pay minimum $65k. Upgrade available by first recurrent PPC. Starting CA pay minimum $95k. p.s. AC starting pay should be minimum $90k. Second year pay on formula. The Director of Flight Operations needs to be able to make this case to those above them in th...

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Just some facts for the investors:

-“we are not seeing any pilot attrition…”

-“we didn’t layoff any pilots”

-“I don’t need to speak French to live and work in Montreal”

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In early 2020 there were something like 900 vacancies posted. Since then there have been retirements, pilots leaving, and a purchase order for new aircraft. If things keep going as they are I hope 300 new hires represent just the tip of the iceberg. Not sure where those pilots will come from, I’m i...

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AC needs to improve quality of life if it hopes to attract the type of candidates it’s been accustomed to recruiting. The lifestyles (schedules and pay) of pilots on both wide body and narrow body fleets all all seniority levels has greatly decreased. Demographics don’t favour OTS new hires, pilots ...

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In a statement to The Globe, Stephen Jones, Flair’s chief executive officer, denied the carrier has violated the laws and said Flair will co-operate with the CTA. “Flair Airlines is a Canadian airline and is controlled by Canadians both in law and in fact,” Mr. Jones said. If that was true, why is ...

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