Originally Posted by badflaps (Post 1769566)

I am watching H&G TV, a couple bought a piece of **** house for $800,000. How can you live in SEA? No wonder guys are sleeping on rice mats in Sapporo.

Originally Posted by Too Tall (Post 1769560)

When using the percentage qualifier for an AE bid if you put 90% in the box in a 100 man category are asking to be number 10 or number 90 in category?

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1769511)

Keep in mind that Express CA paid about the same as a 727 copilot at the time. Guys may have held CA in 18 months but it was all about pay. Regular Captains seats were around 12 years at the time.

Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1769594)

You sure about that? I thought I remembered late 96/early 97 hires getting 88A bids in spring/summer 2001? And I know for a fact that a few early 2000 hires got 88A bids around 2005/6 because I could have held it and a guy in my class actually bid it.

Scoop :confused:

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 1769181)

Absolutely zero chance. Zero.

Carl

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1769615)

I think your correct. They were however in NYC. I guess that counts but narrow body CA can be brutal in NY.

Originally Posted by pilotbrianb (Post 1769365)

Getting conflicting information and can't find anything definitive in the contract - is there any pay provision for being assigned to a category before it's open (NYC717B)? Finished IOE a few days ago but category doesn't open until December bid period. I've been told that my only pay mechanism is out of base white slips, which doesn't seem.....right. There's no pro-rated guarantee as a line holder?

Thanks for any insight.

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 1769522)

Worse than that, the cockpits and manuals. That's what this is about. There are no plans to raise wages for our profession at the entry level. None. The plan is using foreign nationals who will fly for peanuts. I was on a GoJet flight recently and both pilots' PA's were completely unintelligible (one Spanish, one Chinese).

I can see a day when I complain to a chief pilot about my FO not speaking the language, and that chief pilot telling me that I'd better up my game in my bilingual skills.

Carl