787's go to Swoop!!
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787's go to Swoop!!
Just heard through the grapevine that all 787's are now going to swoop. In light of the labour unrest at Westjet, they have decided to transfer these assets over.
Can anyone confirm?? NCP perhaps..
Can anyone confirm?? NCP perhaps..
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Yes confirmed!!!!! They will be crewed by the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny until Santa's elves undercut them all. At least that's what the grapevine says. NCP we need a trusted source to confirm this.
Leave the trolling to JS
Leave the trolling to JS
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10.2 Growth of WestJet Flying
"WestJet has agreed to guarantee that any future wide-body aircraft acquisitions would be added to the WestJet Air Operator Certificate 8754."
I think it's fairly easy to imagine that such a move would poison 99% of the pilot group. OTP would be devastated, cancellations would increase, OT pickups would stop. Traders will drop the share price to half and GGG would be terminated.
Seems unlikely to me.
"WestJet has agreed to guarantee that any future wide-body aircraft acquisitions would be added to the WestJet Air Operator Certificate 8754."
I think it's fairly easy to imagine that such a move would poison 99% of the pilot group. OTP would be devastated, cancellations would increase, OT pickups would stop. Traders will drop the share price to half and GGG would be terminated.
Seems unlikely to me.
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Wonder what they are paying the TF and EB?
Everyone's got a side hustle.
S.
Everyone's got a side hustle.
S.
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Well the TF and Easter Bunny are pretty cheap...you know they just want pixie sticks and Cadbury cream eggs. But the grapevine says Santas elves wouldn't need an IPad...just one Etch-A--Scetch between them. Updates are PAIN in the ass though.
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If you can't get the mules to walk get a bigger carrot.
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Yeah we're treating this thread with the respect it deserves.
I heard through the grapevine that Minister Garneau is set to approve single pilot ops for 705 operators to deal with the pilot shortage. They're working with Airbus and Boeing to retrofit current fleets in Canada. Can anybody confirm this? NCP maybe? See. I can do it too.
Discuss.
I heard through the grapevine that Minister Garneau is set to approve single pilot ops for 705 operators to deal with the pilot shortage. They're working with Airbus and Boeing to retrofit current fleets in Canada. Can anybody confirm this? NCP maybe? See. I can do it too.
Discuss.
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Santa's old school - he's still crushing paper plates like a crappy summer bbq. He's got his checklist and he's checking it twice, crew meals are fish and rice.
Just get Elf to update the 'sketch. A little Bad Elf to keep the SA high....
Yeah this thread is dying quickly. Onto the next grapevine rumour.
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Could be a good thing from a passenger perspective if Swoop has a different culture than WestJet. I can't imagine a 9 hour flight widebody flight full of little jokes.
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Seriously? When’s the last time you traveled on WJ?
I do often and 95% of the time no jokes, just great customer service, the other 5% a couple bad jokes during the the welcome announcements, the maybe another on arrival, like “welcome to Brandon” when we landed in Calgary. Never, in the hundreds of flights have I endured more than a couple jokes.
I suppose you think all AC flight attendants and CSAs are rude too!
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I’m still waiting for my white male privilege membership card. Must have gotten lost in the mail.
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I’m still waiting for my white male privilege membership card. Must have gotten lost in the mail.
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The 787's are not going to Swoop. The company has already put out a survey to assess what inter-fleet movement would like as a result of the 787 introduction later this year. Any alteration to the 787 plans for WJ would not bode well for WJ at the CIRB.
What happens eventually to the 767 (4 airframes) fleet is anyone's guess.
What happens eventually to the 767 (4 airframes) fleet is anyone's guess.
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It's not like there are any regionals with 777's.complexintentions wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 1:22 am It's not like there are any ULCC's with 787's.
Oh, wait...
Norwegian
Oh, wait...
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ts-398259/
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Any change to business practices that are not part of the normal course of business and that prejudice the bargaining unit members in a negative way would successfully be argued as an unfair labour practice by ALPA. Moving the 787's to Swoop, when all indications up until this point are that they would end up at WJ would likely be cause for an ULP complaint in my non-legal opinion.
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Any more threads about Swoop? Can the moderators do their job and get rid of this crap.