Funny how you always resort to and engage in name calling and ad hominem arguments... Try answering the questions....if you can. You act so threatened when some one asks you difficult questions. It wasn’t a difficult question. I answered it above. I think the reason you get the responses you do is ...

United pilots get paid what United pilots get paid not because of supply/demand, not because of market demand, but because they are united in demanding and extracting the most possible from their employer and the market will bear it. Same at every other American major. Prove that...you know you can...

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://aviationsourcenews.com/airline/air-canada-to-acquire-four-crj900-aircraft-from-falko/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNDYxMjM1NTI3NjYxMjA3MzgzODIZMGVmM2UwYjJiYWYwNWYzNTpjYTplbjpDQQ&usg=AOvVaw0Dzw5yHzSffGXpVUdOgdpI Upgauging. Pilots get costlier put more seats behin...

So, would anyone care to postulate, is scope on the table at all in the current talks? obviously North American scope clauses currently prohibit small jets greater than 76 seats, but according to bargaining 101: shoot for the moon and settle somewhere in between, would this not be a good angle for ...

We don’t need the division on pension either. Pension has the potential to be very divisive. Your MEC has dealt with the issue. If we can’t have the same type of pension, then they must be equal. One of the best ways to address the CWIPP issue is higher income. Not only higher income but higher inco...

The issue being discussed here is more wide spread than people obviously realize. Companies not paying at all if there is no duty on a specific colander day. I assume Flair management is hanging it’s hat on this? 21.4.2 A Pilot who reports to work shall be credited for any Day worked by the greater ...

The fact that WestJet's union settled for a 15% raise in the current economic climate does not bode well for AC guys. We had the exact same rhetoric too. We even has Alaska union leaders having us all chant "we will make them". It's quite embarassing now in hindsight, considering on what we settled...

That's not a fair criticism. The junior pilots did quite well in CA1 with years of service pay and the more senior pilots got less. This time, the senior pilots did better. It doesn’t matter that who did well in which contract. The way the wages was distributed was very unfair and increased the FO ...

I think if anything, the new hires and flat payers will be the ones to carry this contract to victory for everyone and the old crusty captains who are happy to pick up all the overtime and are historically the ones to leave the junior pilots to fend for themselves will benefit from their resolve. Y...

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 ...