I suggest you direct your attention at Fl280 instead of asking someone just stating facts to “tone it down”. As for shining light on the winners at each company, I was simply stating that one isn’t a superior career choice over the other as is evident by the strike of geniuses that each company clearly employs. Fl280 included. Everyone is coming out of this with bloody hands one way or another. So can we settle that AC or Transat, we are all kind of fucked regardless of our choices?727driver wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:15 am 160 I suggest you tone it down and be careful about casting disparaging remarks about drunk pilots and crashed airbus’. You guys have your share of genius aviators too that have managed to slip through the cracks or did your forget about the hero Capt Piche who ran out fuel because he couldn’t identify a fuel leak and wouldn’t listen to the FO when it was painfully obvious, or the winners that were busted at the gate in Glasgow trying to operate a flight home drunk. Stones and glass houses don’t mix well. Let’s not forget that the one of the purposes why Rouge was created was to cripple Transat not to acquire it. The acquisition of Transat by AC was purely a defensive move to keep it out of the hands of Onex. Air Canada purchasing Transat was not priority before the Onex deal took place and AC certainly wasn’t looking for Transat pilots I can assure you of that. The airline division of the company has zero value(words from your own management btw) and only exists as a cost and capacity management tool. The only assets at Air Transat are the the hangars and the 310s(excluding leased engines) and they are only worth their weight in scrap. If Calin could acquire the operation minus the flight ops department that would be his preference. He among anyone knows how complicated and how much of or headache the merging of pilot seniority lists would be. He would sooner pick up the infrastructure that runs the tour operation and leave the rest. Air Canada certainly doesn’t need the Air Transat fins or the crews right now when Air Canada has a lot of extra capacity lying around. I wouldn’t surprise me if Transat starts returning leased 330’s, keeps the Neo to conserve cash and just buys space on Air Canada because they can’t fill their own 330s this summer and Air Canada has extra capacity as they wait to see IF the deal closes.
As for CR’s choice to buy transat, you probably aren’t wrong in your hypothesis. But the question still isn’t why AC pilots have to pay for the poor choices of Transat pilots, the question should still be directed at AC’s execs for the decisions they’ve made and why AC pilots have to “suffer” ...
And yep, the middle eastern or Asian airlines know how to hire pilots, it’s why they are superior too... as if there are no idiots in those outfits at all. Just turn to half the CAE instructors and you’ll see that the majority are nothing special, and could use a lesson or two on superiority complex.
