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Old 03-23-2008, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by de727ups View Post
"someone said that we could screw a pilot group by denying VA a jumpseat to work."

That was me, thanks.

"I just have a problem when that competition is between pilot groups and while he/she is possible screwing me i'm suppose to take it and say "thank you sir, may I have another"

Or, it could be a chance to explain your point of view on unions.....
these aren't pilots that are coming out of flight schools that don't know anything about unions and the industry. these are pilots who have been in the industry.

if they are military and new then I bet they would do their homework real quickly if they found out they couldn't jumpseat like others and forced to live in base. I think most realise how expensive SF is.
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Old 03-23-2008, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Stratton View Post
maybe the problem is that it is only a few maverick pilots doing this and not every union pilot.

someone said that we could screw a pilot group by denying VA a jumpseat to work. well couldn't the argument be made that VA is screwing with most pilot groups out their with those pay rates and work rules. what's the ramifications of that?

why don't we hold pilots accountable for their actions or inactions?

I have no problem with competition from other airlines. I just have a problem when that competition is between pilot groups and while he/she is possible screwing me i'm suppose to take it and say "thank you sir, may I have another"
Eric....

As a CAL pilot, I said clearly that I disagree.

Do me a favor and revisit CALPilotToo's post:
"Pilots like this are destroying the industry. I'm getting to the point that if you are not a union pilot in the large regional or major categories you will not get on my jumpseat."

Pretty clear if your nonunion, your not going to ride....true?

So are you going to ban nonunion VA from the Jumpseat and let nonunion JB sit?? Sounds a bit hypocritical to me. Nonunion is nonunion. In letting one sit and banning the other is going to leave the nonunion guys as a whole really wanting to jump right in and join an ALPA, or some other independent and form up a union....JBPA....VAPA....whatever.

If ALPA, along with President John Prater, and MEC's at UAL, DAL, CAL, ALA, FEDEX, COEX, AMR EGL, Comair, ASA, Mesaba (XJ), Transtates (and the rest I am forgetting, sorry), want to say nonunion does not ride....then there you have it, that is a group movement. When you have some "radomes" playing games with "JS Bingo," that's extremely nonproductive, and destructive all the way around.

My view from the original post still has not changed.

I ask you the same question that I posed earlier.....do you commute??.......specifically JS to work??

Regardless of your take.....Animal House still rocks.
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Old 03-23-2008, 06:31 PM
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Just remember, when you make the call to bump someone, it can have big repercussions downstream. You say "All unions should band together to do it". Ain't gonna happen cause the group, as a whole, see's that it isn't worth it the price.

Again. You gonna tell the CAL guys that ride on Jetblue to forget it for the sake of the profession?

Good luck with that.
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Old 03-23-2008, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by SoCalGuy View Post
Eric....

As a CAL pilot, I said clearly that I disagree.

Do me a favor and revisit CALPilotToo's post:
"Pilots like this are destroying the industry. I'm getting to the point that if you are not a union pilot in the large regional or major categories you will not get on my jumpseat."

Pretty clear if your nonunion, your not going to ride....true?

So are you going to ban nonunion VA from the Jumpseat and let nonunion JB sit?? Sounds a bit hypocritical to me. Nonunion is nonunion. In letting one sit and banning the other is going to leave the nonunion guys as a whole really wanting to jump right in and join an ALPA, or some other independent and form up a union....JBPA....VAPA....whatever.

If ALPA, along with President John Prater, and MEC's at UAL, DAL, CAL, ALA, FEDEX, COEX, AMR EGL, Comair, ASA, Mesaba (XJ), Transtates (and the rest I am forgetting, sorry), want to say nonunion does not ride....then there you have it, that is a group movement. When you have some "radomes" playing games with "JS Bingo," that's extremely nonproductive, and destructive all the way around.

My view from the original post still has not changed.

I ask you the same question that I posed earlier.....do you commute??.......specifically JS to work??

Regardless of your take.....Animal House still rocks.
I honestly don't care if they are union or non union it's about undercutting this industry to get ahead. (think gojets) I will add that most non union carriers seem to do less for raising the bar then do union carriers.

I agree with your JS bingo analogy. that is why I said their should be more, as in all of ALPA and everyone else who wants to protect this industry. when go jets started my airline came out and said don't let gojets ride because what they were doing. alpa carrier. unfortunately that didn't last and others didn't go along.

I just feel pilots need to take responsibility for their own actions/inactions for what happens in this industry and stop blaming management and deregulation. management has been doing this since the beginning and deregulation happened 30 years ago. there is an old saying of "doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results" I think that was the definition of insanity.

as for commuting, I recently stopped after quit awhile of doing it. my beliefs were the same then as it is now. I've never felt that an easier commute is worth the possible effects of being undercut.
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Old 03-23-2008, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by de727ups View Post
Just remember, when you make the call to bump someone, it can have big repercussions downstream. You say "All unions should band together to do it". Ain't gonna happen cause the group, as a whole, see's that it isn't worth it the price.

Again. You gonna tell the CAL guys that ride on Jetblue to forget it for the sake of the profession?

Good luck with that.
I feel jetblue should have never been offered a ride when they started. I had a jetblue guy on my jumpseat in the begining who said he didn't care about the rates because he upgraded in less than a year and lived in grand rapids where the cost of living was less than most places. he said FO rates didn't matter because he wouldn't be one for long. that is the same thing I hear about guys looking at VA. what's the upgrade at jetblue now and what will it be at VA in the future?

if you are going to undercut airlines you shouldn't get the same benefits as the others who are trying to bring it up.

have people been able to commute before VA started. what happens if alaska tell's it's pilots they need to take a paycut to compete against VA.

I do agree with you that as a group unions don't want to do this. that would mean we may have to take some responsibility for our own actions in lowering the industry. that means we couldn't just blame management any more.
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Old 03-23-2008, 07:48 PM
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Eric....

You EWR based?? If so, I commute and sit prior to "pond" push.....let's do lunch, I want to hear more of your views live and in person.

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Originally Posted by de727ups View Post
The problem with that is it could screw the rest of your pilot group trying to fly on that guys jumpseat for the rest of his career.
In my opinion the damage they are doing to us all is more important than whether someone will be able to get on thier jumpseat.

In many cases these guys are the reason airlines hire less or eventually furlough because they are breaking the backs of this career. I'll forgo a jumpseat option to maybe save a career option.

You all complain about CAL scabs and this is why they survive this industry because no one punishes them. Same with the VA type scumbags.
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Originally Posted by SoCalGuy View Post
You must not commute to work??

For your fellow CAL pilots that do, please rethink that decision if that's your final answer.

Thanks.
I've commuted my entire career. And I've never ridden on JetBlue, VA, GO, or Mesa, and never will.
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Old 03-23-2008, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop View Post
What is it exactly that a big chunk of your CAL cronies did for the industry? You are a hell of a stone thrower for a guy who lives in scab infested glass house. Do they ride your jumpseat? Or do you talk as big in the crew lounge as you do on the internet???
Many CAL pilots have done their very best to destroy this profession and it is guys like me that remind them everyday. So don't tell me I live in a glass house. And yes, I talk out loud in the crew room as much as I do on the internet. It is why I bid Captain so I could call a Scab a Scab without it making for a long trip. Guys like you want to forgive and forget apparently. Not me. Once a scab, always a scab. And finally, because ALPA was so stupid to give them amnesty which I was against, I have to recgnize them as union members now. But to answer your question I have denied two CAL pilots the jumpseat int he last 3 years because they were MIBS. But if they are MIGS I let them ride.

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Originally Posted by SoCalGuy View Post
Reggie,

First let me say as a CAL pilot I am embarrassed, and I do apologize for his take. I can say without a DOUBT that his view of denying JS on this topic is shared by very few other CAL pilots, if at all.

IE...in our EWR base, I have flown with several pilots who use jetBlue as their primary means (or back up) of getting to and from work between the Florida and EWR markets on regular basis. Although I have never jumped on JB, our pilots who do so sing JB's praises time and time again for their professionalism in providing JSs for our pilots.

I am not saying any union is perfect, but for those airlines that are not unionized yet, we need to encourage them to do so in today's industry.....not turn them off to the union idea by having a few "maverick individuals" denying the JS to those pilots.

Again....my apologies.

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Don't apologize for me. I have never denied a JetBlue pilot.
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