Originally Posted by
Columbia
I could never get past this screen.
Since sometimes the concrete walls seem to defy gravity, I'd say your options rest on a high arching shot to each one of those pig guys. Damn things are probably laughing a lot too.
Originally Posted by
sailingfun
SWA has a application window opening. It will help if your buddy puts a recommendation in for you.
Commuting on reserve as you have found out is pure folly. It never happened before we ended up with the best reserve system on the planet. That went away in the 1113 contract. It was simply unheard of when I was a new. If you decide not to go with SWA since you now have a young child the very best advice I can give you is to pick one of the major bases and move to that area. Your life will be a improvement beyond anything you can imagine that involves a commute.
I have one of the easiest commutes around. Short flight, same time zone, 35 plus flights a day on 5 different airlines and no kids at home. Its still sucks! I would not even consider my commute with children at home under this contract.
What's wrong with saying "I know, 18 days on for just 70 hours and all for $50K less than a SWA pilot hired at the same time is something we have to get fixed ASAP." ?
Not, "why don't you either uproot your wife and kid, regardless of whether you're moving away from family and support, and move to a base and enjoy the chapter 11 pay and work rules or you should quit. Because by complaining you're complaining about ALPA and that's not acceptable."
I think until commuting is outlawed, as a guy who lives in base, I don't think someones reasons for commuting should ever be questioned unless you don't mind your commute, bidding choices, aircraft choices and so on being questioned. It's nobody's business and if someone wants to complain about it, I'm willing to hear them out for 1 reason - who is to say I won't one day be forced into a commute? Or if you commute, losing seniority or forced to another base and worse QOL. You never know and that's a simple rule from RJ day 1 much less mainline day 1.
Originally Posted by
TANSTAAFL
OMG, we better prepare to give the company money in 2013, they can't afford to give us pay raises, and if they do they'll have to give everyone a raise as well, and they might unionize, oh my! Can't wait for the union to tell us we might have to lower our expectations cause of the price of oil - but of course we'll get a profit sharing check when things are better
^^ get ready. I have a feeling you'll turn out to be right.
But talking about rising oil prices, I'll stop.