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05-13-2012, 06:18 PM
#1371
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Just seeing if anyone has heard anything along these lines...but I heard that the SJU flying has nothing to do with AMR Eagle or any regional for that matter.... apparently someone down there does a lot of charters and typically uses Miami Air for service. Word has it that the CEO is friends with said person and as a result we get flying from SJU to Boca Chica in the Dominican. It will be 4 day trips with deadheads out of amd back to Miami for the crews. If we don't get IAD and ATL the plan is to expand and develop PR into a central carribean hub and add on Miami and Key West flying....this place is a huge rumor mill...
Last edited by sandrich; 05-13-2012 at 06:44 PM.
05-14-2012, 04:02 PM
#1373
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Originally Posted by Draden
Anyone get notification that they are in the May class yet? If there is one?
05-15-2012, 03:15 AM
#1375
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2008
Position: PC12NG; C-414AW CA/Aviation Mgr.
Posts: 38
new hires going to the Saab
Originally Posted by jsfBoat
From what I hear in the crew rooms, a lot of guys are upset are about the new hires going to the Saab.
05-15-2012, 04:55 AM
#1376
Respek
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,603
Probably because the entire fleet or at least the majority of it is going to be a Saab. So it doesn't make financial sense to train an FO on the 1900 only a few months later to have to train him on the Saab. You can make more on the 1900 with CRP anyways.
05-15-2012, 05:26 AM
#1377
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Position: PC12NG; C-414AW CA/Aviation Mgr.
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Method of awarding open positions?
Originally Posted by Cruz5350
Probably because the entire fleet or at least the majority of it is going to be a Saab. So it doesn't make financial sense to train an FO on the 1900 only a few months later to have to train him on the Saab.
Yes, it makes good financial sense to minimize training costs, but I would have thought that open positions would have to be awarded per the labor contract, not management’s preference.
Does the contract address how open positions are to be awarded?
05-15-2012, 05:47 AM
#1380
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Mostly I think for me is they pay. How is a new hire FO junior to me going to the Saab and making more per hour than me and my colleagues when we all bid into the Saab and still didn't get it. I know the union is doing something to equalize the pay for 1900 guys that weren't shifted over. Not to mention 1900 flying is already been cut in half for next month in FLL.
So there definitely will be some upset peeps like myself on that. I think number 125 was the last senior pilot to get the Saab. Then all of a sudden 189 or so gets it skipping the line.
I don't know what other airline guys think of that or how that was handled at your airlines
So there definitely will be some upset peeps like myself on that. I think number 125 was the last senior pilot to get the Saab. Then all of a sudden 189 or so gets it skipping the line.
I don't know what other airline guys think of that or how that was handled at your airlines
Last edited by mexipilot84; 05-15-2012 at 05:51 AM. Reason: awesome spelling
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