TFW Application Denied for Sunwing's Winter 2015/16 Season

[FICU]

Nice to see they did something right. Thanks Gilles.

[ahramin]

I am quite surprised they denied it. It would be interesting to FOIA the request and see what the basis for the application was and why it was denied.

[Galaxy]

If SW doesn't get their act together, there's going to be a lot of pilots out of work. I for one will not be a return customer, and according to the very bad publicity for them on the news these days I'm not the only one.

[oxfordhouse]

Denied for now is right. Wait until the Federal Election is over. If the conservatives are in power again, then you can bet this will go back to the same deal.

[rudder]

If SWG with all of its political connections cannot get a single TFW pilot approved for winter 2015/2016 then one can reasonably assume that TFW for airline pilots in Canada is dead. And the 20% rule is not a coincidence. Operation maintained. No cancelled vacations. Politicians can sleep soundly at night not worried that there will be angry constituents protesting outside their doors. Just a few disgruntled SW pilots...

I am just guessing but the outcome may have placed a constraint on the amount of added capacity planned for SWG for the coming winter but it certainly did not trigger mass advance cancellations. SWG has been adding capacity on a fairly agressive basis and may have to examine other means to continue at that pace. I am not aware that there is any embargo in the UNIFOR agreement that precludes SWG from sourcing additional seasonal lift domestically (i.e. CanJet/EnerJet).

I am fairly certain that this issue will move up the priority list in the SW/UNIFOR negots.

[complexintentions]

Denied for now is right. Wait until the Federal Election is over. If the conservatives are in power again, then you can bet this will go back to the same deal.

If the conservatives are in power again, there are far bigger problems afoot than just the TFW issue.

Majority governments suck. Too much power, it gets abused. Glad to hear of the progress on the TFW front, though.