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10-29-2016, 09:50 AM
#1631
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Joined APC: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,122
Originally Posted by WhiteHammer
Don't you mean YOUR cpo, and YOUR chief pilot. Your possession is discriminatory.
In all seriousness, won't it kind of suck if they start boarding before we get there. Sometimes it takes 5 min to get from outside to the cockpit after a walk around if they already started boarding. I just don't like the idea of having to push past 30 people with bags on a jet bridge, just to stand 5 feet from the door and wait on a wheelchair. If they start boarding before we are at the jet, it really could make us rushed, or late.
In all seriousness, won't it kind of suck if they start boarding before we get there. Sometimes it takes 5 min to get from outside to the cockpit after a walk around if they already started boarding. I just don't like the idea of having to push past 30 people with bags on a jet bridge, just to stand 5 feet from the door and wait on a wheelchair. If they start boarding before we are at the jet, it really could make us rushed, or late.
10-29-2016, 11:49 AM
#1632
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2008
Position: Left,Right, Left, Right,Right,Left, Right, Left
Posts: 3,150
Sorry goose.
MY chief pilot. He's mine. However this particular case would be was mine.
I digress.
Go ahead board before I'm there... then we can deplane them all when the cockpit needs o2. Or my favorite a shutdown reset... that gives everyone a feel good. Honestly couldn't care less when they board. My routine doesn't change. It will suck more for the FAs.
MY chief pilot. He's mine. However this particular case would be was mine.
I digress.
Go ahead board before I'm there... then we can deplane them all when the cockpit needs o2. Or my favorite a shutdown reset... that gives everyone a feel good. Honestly couldn't care less when they board. My routine doesn't change. It will suck more for the FAs.
10-29-2016, 07:12 PM
#1633
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Joined APC: Oct 2014
Position: FO
Posts: 435
Originally Posted by WhiteHammer
To piggy back on the above.
It might be harder right now to get a call from JB than other places. We hire what 200-300 a year, others are 500-800. I personally have 5-8 friends that have retired from the military in the past year. They applied everywhere. They all got multiple interviews and offers, no call from JB.
This could be because other companies are calling everyone due to high numbers and JB with much lower numbers is harder to get a call.
Or, and I hope this is not the case, they didn't get called because the company is worried they will leave for someone else.
Or maybe they didn't get called because they know me.
It might be harder right now to get a call from JB than other places. We hire what 200-300 a year, others are 500-800. I personally have 5-8 friends that have retired from the military in the past year. They applied everywhere. They all got multiple interviews and offers, no call from JB.
This could be because other companies are calling everyone due to high numbers and JB with much lower numbers is harder to get a call.
Or, and I hope this is not the case, they didn't get called because the company is worried they will leave for someone else.
Or maybe they didn't get called because they know me.
10-29-2016, 07:30 PM
#1634
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Joined APC: Oct 2014
Position: FO
Posts: 435
Originally Posted by pilotpayne
First
We need more vacation allocation
Second
We bid in rounds like every other major so the top guy does not get everything he wants.
Third
You move up in seniority
We need more vacation allocation
Second
We bid in rounds like every other major so the top guy does not get everything he wants.
Third
You move up in seniority
10-30-2016, 01:17 AM
#1635
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Joined APC: Oct 2012
Position: 190 captain and “Pro-pilot”
Posts: 2,918
Originally Posted by slimothy
Oh! I move up in seniority? That sounds easy. Except I flew with one of the horrible 100 a few weeks ago, and he was only 9 years older than I am, so it's going to be a long road considering I'm a 1st year FO.
There are guys in lgb that are FOs that can't get summer vacations and they have been here like 10 years.
If you fix 1 and 2 way more guys will get good vacations but it still also depends on seniority.
10-30-2016, 05:09 AM
#1636
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Joined APC: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,122
Originally Posted by pilotpayne
It's not me trying to be rude it's just a fact.
There are guys in lgb that are FOs that can't get summer vacations and they have been here like 10 years.
If you fix 1 and 2 way more guys will get good vacations but it still also depends on seniority.
There are guys in lgb that are FOs that can't get summer vacations and they have been here like 10 years.
If you fix 1 and 2 way more guys will get good vacations but it still also depends on seniority.
10-30-2016, 06:02 AM
#1639
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Joined APC: Mar 2012
Posts: 988
Originally Posted by CaptCoolHand
Those 14yr FO's do pretty well. Make more $$ than a lot of our junior CAs. Work less. Seniority's a great thing if you can get it.
10-30-2016, 07:37 AM
#1640
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Joined APC: Mar 2016
Posts: 591
Originally Posted by slimothy
Oh! I move up in seniority? That sounds easy. Except I flew with one of the horrible 100 a few weeks ago, and he was only 9 years older than I am, so it's going to be a long road considering I'm a 1st year FO.
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