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02-21-2026 | 04:29 AM
#151
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Then VDA will need to get overhauled to a system like Delta, where once you get used to it, you go to the bottom of the stack until everyone in seniority order has had the chance. If not, we will have just a select few being able to drop their schedules and enjoy a 200% pay increase.
02-21-2026 | 12:49 PM
#152
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Total time from type rating to completion of IOE on 220… 4 months. 80 hours a month. Line awarded in Feb which was over training guarantee that they had to pay out. Those trips were all over weekends leaving my days off during the week. CKAs are senior dudes that don’t like weekends. So aligning IOE with CKAs schedule meant they needed my days off. That paid150%.
Or, I could have said no, had the same problem in March and run this thing out prob another 6 weeks. There’s lots of us in this situation. Getting paid to sit. I didn’t need a fed ride but that’s a backlog as well.
Or, I could have said no, had the same problem in March and run this thing out prob another 6 weeks. There’s lots of us in this situation. Getting paid to sit. I didn’t need a fed ride but that’s a backlog as well.
02-21-2026 | 03:27 PM
#153
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Honestly, one of the more clueless things I’ve ever read on this forum.
02-21-2026 | 04:33 PM
#154
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I’m approaching four months waiting on OE, with zero communication from company. At this point they aren’t even fully utilizing their resources, so it seems they have slowed the training down intentionally for some strange unknown reason.
02-21-2026 | 05:39 PM
#155
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From: A320 CA
Just get lost in the system and collect your 80 hours.
02-21-2026 | 05:59 PM
#156
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The union is asking for ASAPs on it. The company balked a bit over my request for a warm up sim a month after RQ3 and 3 months after initial. Hadn’t touched a JB aircraft in almost 7 months. They did eventually agreed to one a week before OE. If a guy sloshes OE months after completing initial a pilot could legitimately argue there’s probably some culpability on behalf the company. Only so much you can read in a manual.
02-23-2026 | 06:10 AM
#157
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From: FO
DJ, last September/October: "We have never made money in Texas and really can't make money in Texas."
This week - "We're going back to Texas!"
02-23-2026 | 06:23 AM
#158
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This is why the entire leadership team should be fired. It reeks of incompetence, lies and indecision. I’ve never seen an airline or another publicly traded company run with such indecision and incompetence. Are they going to wait for 10 years of losses while the others make record profits?
02-23-2026 | 06:33 AM
#159
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From: A320 CA
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