Originally Posted by
DublinFlyer
If you have any questions, or want to know more info - please don't hesitate to PM me! I'm here to try to help. This is a very difficult time for all of us, and all I care about is the wellbeing of our folks.
Do this first, rather than blasting him on a forum publicly without giving him a chance to explain (what I did).
Originally Posted by
paxhauler85
Should be seniority based, but I wouldn't put it past our trash management to try it, and our spineless/worthless union to nothing about it.
MAG tried this after 9/11, but ALPA stopped it. Just keeping it factual.
Originally Posted by
DublinFlyer
Okay but the thing I am confused about on the seniority list (which I'm looking at now) is the DOH. You see the COO of F8 is almost at the bottom, but look at his hire date of 2000.
RG was hired by MAG in 2000. After securing the left seat of the ERJ out of seniority and then going on a sightseeing tour of DC, he moved into flight management. He left MAG for US Airways in late 2007, decided he didn't like the idea of being a junior FO with a commute to the west coast (he'd be furloughed now too, to boot), and came back to Mesa. Somehow, he never lost his longevity, but did lose his seniority - so he didn't go on a LOA. Where was ALPA on this one? Who knows, but he is management, and won't be getting furloughed.
He was not an A-Lister.
Originally Posted by
DublinFlyer
I don't have a problem with picking up open time to get back to minimum guarantee (after say, you swapped a trip that now put you below it by 4-5 hours - that's okay in my book). But picking up open time ON TOP of what you were awarded is NOT okay.
So picking up open time while your fellow pilots are on furlough is ok by you.
And your logic - if you're
below min guarantee, you can pick up enough to get back to it?! It's called "guarantee" for a reason - you're
guaranteed to get it, no need to fly to it! And if you somehow swapped to go below min and won't get your guarantee anymore - don't swap if you can't take the hit! Problem solved.
You guys can talk circles around this if you want, but, in the end, it's simple. You voted in PBS = you voted to furlough these 100 guys.
Oh, just to throw another wrench into the mess - Island Air has Dash's. Looks like there might be a shortage of Dash drivers @ Mesa. Not saying it
will happen, but codeshare is KILLING the future of all US pilots. MAG pilots should be flying those routes in MAG Dash 8's in competition with Island Air, just as WN pilots should be flying passengers to Canada and Mexico, United (or even Air Lingus) pilots should be flying their own passengers to and from Europe, etc.
Great TA. Can't wait for the next round of excuses.
Where's MAGHub?