Originally Posted by Tropical (Post 3629072)

Maybe they could find the funds by eliminating the breakfast/lunch/happy hour buffets and open bar "hospitality suites" at the MEC meetings, held in vacation spots where we don't have a pilot base...

Maybe they could pare back the number of volunteers who are "rewarded" by being taken to the biennial beachfront/Vegas drink fest at the BOD meeting...

Maybe the commuting MEC chairman could move to where his business actually is, instead of making ALPA pay for his lodging in ATL...

Maybe ask the volunteers to actually VOLUNTEER instead of paying them all full time flight pay loss to miss trips, then letting them pick up GS on off days.

Look, I just found about a million dollars more to fund contract compliance.

Originally Posted by hockeypilot44 (Post 3628887)

Why? They’re 6 months behind and falling further behind chances are they never get to it. Now we’re supposed to reach out to company to stop the 120 day expiration clock, but we haven’t been provided with an email to reach out to.

Here’s a hint. Getting ahold of a scheduler that can do anything is really difficult and the chief pilots want nothing to do with scheduling violations.

Our process is a joke. We should be able to fill out an Ace and get an answer within 2 days. It’s time to shut ACE down. It’s a colossal failure.

Originally Posted by CBreezy (Post 3629075)

I agree with eliminating open bar but disagree with most of the rest. Plus, the vast majority of volunteers here do their work without FPL. Not to mention that the company pays for a significant chunk as well.

Originally Posted by Tropical (Post 3629084)

Cool. Thanks for weighing in.

I know we were all eagerly anticipating your thumbs up or thumbs down gesture that you feel you have to give every post on here, as the self appointed arbiter of quality APC content. Your opinion really matters to all of us. Keep it up.

Originally Posted by FangsF15 (Post 3629087)

Cool your Jets, dude. I may disagree with CBreezy at times, but here he’s spot on, and it’s fair game to opine. Is this a discussion board, or not?

Originally Posted by Tropical (Post 3629093)

Relax. I'm mostly just poking at him, but it does get a little annoying that he feels he has to weigh in on every post. Jeez, he's at almost 8500 posts on here just on that screen name, and that doesn't even include his obvious other accounts.

Originally Posted by Tropical (Post 3629084)

Cool. Thanks for weighing in.

I know we were all eagerly anticipating your thumbs up or thumbs down gesture that you feel you have to give every post on here, as the self appointed arbiter of quality APC content. Your opinion really matters to all of us. Keep it up.

Originally Posted by CBreezy (Post 3629103)

I literally don't care what you think about my post count or my activity on here and pointing it out is merely an attempt to shame me into silence...which, everyone on here knows does not affect me in the slightest.

Originally Posted by Tropical (Post 3629072)

Maybe they could find the funds by eliminating the breakfast/lunch/happy hour buffets and open bar "hospitality suites" at the MEC meetings, held in vacation spots where we don't have a pilot base...

Maybe they could pare back the number of volunteers who are "rewarded" by being taken to the biennial beachfront/Vegas drink fest at the BOD meeting...

Maybe the commuting MEC chairman could move to where his business actually is, instead of making ALPA pay for his lodging in ATL...

Maybe ask the volunteers to actually VOLUNTEER instead of paying them all full time flight pay loss to miss trips, then letting them pick up GS on off days.

Look, I just found about a million dollars more to fund contract compliance.

Originally Posted by OOfff (Post 3629111)

out of curiosity, have you volunteered with DALPA?