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xaarman

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  1. How’s life at SWA post contract ratification? Magically, signing ours made a lot of the gripes go away.
  2. The ALPA movement is dead, mostly because their zealousness has turned off the majority they need to attract - as shown. And then you have Captains pressuring new hires for ALPA card drive support, who subsequently turn to APA Pro Standards because they fear a bad Probationary report if they don't agree. Then APA has to defend those Captains when the Chief Pilots find out about it during the Probationary meet ups.
  3. So basically, you’re upset that your hypothetical doctor might not be in-network. And ALPA would somehow prevent this. Are you Jeff Manley?
  4. Half the story. The company, upon notification that restricting out of network offices was against the JCBA, are working to ensure it never goes into effect for 2024.
  5. https://maps.app.goo.gl/THu9vAwwfEC41YmE8?g_st=ic 😋
  6. I used to be involved with the union side of new hires until last year. The number that get hired at a legacy, then leave for another legacy/FedEx/UPS is statistically irrelevant. For anyone who leaves, another legacy pilot takes their place. The primary driver is domicile (go for first hire, then leave for first choice.)
  7. My idiot CA last trip was talking about his $100k retro check on the van to the hotel, in front of the driver, who I'm sure was making about $10/hr with no benefits. My one word answers made him talk more about the calculations, pensionable vs not pensionable, why not pensionable in prior years, but it's ok because net cost is so great. Then tipped a dollar like usual.
  8. Most of the time we take a 15-20 minute delay and still block in three minutes early.
  9. Found the independent contractor
  10. Can’t wait for the shitstorm in 24 months as everyone there takes a 50% pay cut. No one in their right mind should stay there over a spot at the big 6, or even Spirit/Frontier/JBlue.
  11. The instructions should include whether or not they want Part 141 or UPT stage checks listed. When I was filling out applications, DAL was a yes to all. IIRC Southwest was a no, and only wanted failures listed after your PPL. This was in 2017 before their fancy new website and all so it may have changed, but I remember everything being pretty clear in the instructions. UPT were stage checks… Q3s were checkride failures
  12. Not really, everything we’ve heard is were so behind on hiring. Some news articles posted in the last day: At the conference, executives of American Airlines and Delta Air Lines said they saw record daily sales last week. In investor updates, Delta said it expected revenue for the quarter to slightly exceed its previous estimates, while United Airlines said corporate travel was improving faster than expected, reaching the highest level since the pandemic began. American said improvement in revenues would “more than offset” the increase in fuel prices, which have spiked since Russia went to war in Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/business/airlines-travel.html Outgoing American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said Tuesday at the same investor conference that the carrier recorded three of its best ticket-selling days of all time last week. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2022/03/15/southwest-airlines-cuts-65000-spring-flights-with-continued-staffing-shortage/ "We're seeing an increase in demand that is really unprecedented," said Delta president Glen Hauenstein. "I have never seen ... demand turn on so quickly as it has after Omicron." https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/15/business/rising-airfares-fuel-prices/index.html
  13. I can’t see any country not try to develop or attain nuclear weapons. It seems that is the only deterrent from being attacked by another nuclear power.
  14. We have a lot of provisions that are not friendly to pilots, and heavily favor management. If you commute, the problems are exemplified... if you do what @Lord Ratner does, the issues are mitigated significantly. Off hand: No double dipping, no reassignment premium pay except for actual time flown outside original sequence block in, Recovery Obligation for a sequence that has a Misconnect, Illegality, or Cancellation that extends to 0159 the day after for domestic, or +30 hours from block in for international, only 150% premium, premium is seniority based (great for those at the top), trips blocked for IOE rather than being bought off (can still be bought off, but less common), significant disagreements with Management on Notification rules, negligible profit sharing, a near incompetent IT team, Loss of License (LTD) monthly pay capped at 60% or $8k, whatever is less, 60 hours of sick time a year, no timeline to settle grievances so there are 100+ of them pending, and the company enjoys "Fly and Grieve" afforded to them by the RLA, etc. All of these are largely Scheduling issues that can be fixed contractually. The other half of AAs problem are pilots who have seen the worst of the industry, and are 1) permanently jaded about life 2) constantly believe they should be made whole and are mad that it hasn't happened yet 3) refuse to learn how to manipulate our contract to their advantage 4) blame everyone else for not fixing their personal pet peeve (x6000 other pilots with their own personal pet peeve.) Despite all the above, I still enjoy working here. If you live in a mega hub, you can make a lot of money by working very little comparatively. If a pilot gets wrapped on the Union forums or the Facebook groups... well, misery loves company... and there's several hundred vocal pilots who won't be happy until you agree with them on how awful everything is. edit: still leaps and bounds better than AD, and I have more free time then I know what to do with. pilots having an entire second business is a real thing here.
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