Originally Posted by
Roadkill
Speaking of Identifying folks based on their posts... for some reason on my last trip, I got interested in this. Carl posted something narrowing his status down, and I found myself, for no apparent reason, looking at the seniority list and category lists looking where the intersection was for "possible Carls". Unfortunately I found like 25 folks that could be him-OMG is that DTW 744 category tight on hiring and retirement dates! Like everyone flying it is from a 1 year window of life!
Anyways, it was actually an enjoyable hour of looking at seniority and hiring/retirement dates for a category I'll never see. There's something about the stalker biz that everyone digs heh... you know it's true.
It just occurred to me that I might have met Ferd the morning of the 7th going to work, before boarding. PM me if that was you, always need to figure out the local guys!
Hmm, one more point. Last 3 Capts I flew with were happy with 20% and "scope just isn't that critical to my stage in life". Getting a bit bummed that scope may be a complete FO cause...
They say that until you tell them that scope is 21 Virgin Australia frequencies a week to the us versus our 7 to SYD, and a because it is a revenue sharing deal and not a profit sharing deal (AF) there does not need to be a production balance implemented, just status quo. Then show them how this is so in the contract and then they all of a sudden start to see that Section 1 is not just for junior pilots anymore.
Show them the growth markets and what another Virgin Australia deal could mean without section 1 changes. Gets their attention quickly.