No they are not hot. This guy must have been in Portland for wayyy to long. The women here are subpar.

 

Forget fantasizing about pilot chicks...

The real question is are the female FA's hot?

 

Unless you are on RJ pay!!!

 

Not in most cases. Oregon and WA unemployment dont include the latest full quarter of income in there calculations of how much money you will get. So unless you are on Q4 pay now you will see no increase unless you can hang on till mid next year. Not trying to play the downer card (I found out the hard way)

Best of luck you wont need it. I may be down that road again soon too.

 

do they own the q200s? what are they going to do with them? I know commutair is getting couple...anybody else getting them???

 

They haven't said where they are going. Just that the "market for the 200 is robust" so they will be parking them in anticipation of a quick sale.

 

Oh, and downgrading the Q200 Captains to FO regardless of seniority.

 

I never remember hearing/reading this while I was there but I take it that its true that they can furlough/downgrade out of seniority order?

 

The contract prohibits furloughing out of seniority.

 

There is going to be something interesting happen when the 200 go away. First they have to furlough in senioity, the low guys are gone regardless of equiptment. Well 70% of the bottom 100 people fly the 400 so if they are going to fulough 100 people then there needs to be bunchof 200 to 400 training, likely in August. But now in the lowest 100 people there are 20 to 25 RJ pilots. They said that they are going to hang on to the RJ for a while to cover the earily MD80 retirements. If they do hold on to the Rj for a while longer and are going to furlough they will have to training from the 200 to Rj for just a few months then on to the 400. QX hates training cycles. So there could be some people getting some time off with pay while the RJ's slowly dwindle away. I could be wrong and the sun rises in the west but that is what I think COULD happen.

On another note, it is pretty sad that the airline "can't make any money" because every flight I have done in the last 3 days have been full. Also the AAG stock went up over 10% today.
Atleast I have my Jamba juice to drink and keep me refreshed.