Originally Posted by
FurloughedX2
An American Airline has a Guam base?........Really? F that.
You mean to tell me that we can't schedule crews through that part of the earth to cover that flying? Anyone in management with intelligence could.
Sounds like modified cabotage to me. That, and employee abuse. I have spent enough of my life trying to make a career out of this job, only to have been furloughed twice. This is what our career has come to? Being an American based in Guam? Rediculous. What is this WWII? I know this is quite the rant, and expect a lot of razzing, so, let it begin..........
Guam is not a base it's a hub. There are CAL 76 crews (soon to be UAL crews) that are based in the states that fly trips through Guam, but the flying based here is 737 800/700 that largely caters to the Japan tourism market. It's not cabotage any more than flying out of Kansas is cabotage because Guam is a US territory. Being an "American based in Guam" I have a monthly FBA and fly ten one-day out-and-backs a month that average about 7:45 a trip. I'm home every night and don't do layovers. If you think that's employee abuse, I strongly encourage you not to bid it. Feel free to stay home in Oklohama, but please don't dick it up for those of us who like the option of living and working here. Let me reiterate - PEASE feel free not to bid Guam. Really.