Sign the release at the gate, drop the brake during boarding, and have them close the doors when the last passenger steps on. Works every time.

 

amateur move, dude. Recently I've started boarding and deplaning SIMULTANEOUSLY.

 

Yup. Blow aft slide, have pax deplane that way and up jet bridge stairs while pax are boarding through L1 door. Put delay code on catering. We did our job.

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So we still have CAs that won’t drop the brake until they established comms with the ground crew?


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A good friend of mine is a pilot and recruiter for Republic. Apparently Rick Leach has been visiting Republic's headquarters for the last eight days. Republic also just got a new LOA pushed through within a 16 day window for contract improvements, pay raise, and an MRJ pay scale. They are also pushing for coast to coast flying. This is from a credible source.

 

Well if this happens everyone prepare for endless rsv!


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According to anonymous sources familiar with his thinking...

 

Doubt it. Mergers would have protections for both groups. Likely fences, that would prevent say a CPZ pilot from bidding into a RAH base and vice versa. Either by a certain amount of time, or a set meter the restricts lateral base swaps. Or possibly, they would do a straight SLI, and just let the chips fall were they may. Even then, there would need to be a mass exodus of CPZ pilots to open up spots for RAH guys in our bases. So an LAX CA would not be bumped down unless, an LAX CA left and a more senior pilot from either group then got awarded that base, so absolute worst case scenario, RSV could occur for junior guys. But honestly, I'd bet a merger might spread the seniority around between all the bases, lots of commuters at both companies might want a newly available base. Downgrades could not result from that alone. Only if the the staffing model requires it, and the company announces official dowgrades. Then it would be low seniority first.
So unless a bunch of guys from RAH would want LAX, SEA, or PHX, I doubt it would cause too much issues for any compass folks. Even then, it would take time for all those moves to occur.
Both companies have a decent amount of commuters, even coast to coast guys. So I'd guess things would more or less even out initially.

 

Compass is buying Republic, Q4 2018. You heard it here first

 

This is a rumor. ol' RickyBobby and I have discussed mergers at length, I told him it's not gonna happen. He's just playing golf over there. On the other hand, the Hawaiian flow is real, it's been on my desk for over a month, it's just needs my signature.