Silver Airways
07-16-2013, 02:36 PM
#3611
I'm a man of my word.
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Silver Airways
I hate to rain on your parade, sandrich, but the Company and the Union just announced their plan to get all FOs their time in a private aircraft with a Silver Airways representative.
Check your email, guys and girls.
Check your email, guys and girls.
07-16-2013, 02:39 PM
#3612
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2012
Position: E-175 CA
Posts: 339
Originally Posted by sandrich
I think the "big news" will be nothing more than some stupid codeshare with a foreign carrier, and mean nothing for the pilot group.
Food for though-- the union's view is that if FO's dont like the current situation, theres plenty of other airlines out there to work for. However, they also stated "why would anyone with ATP mins want to come fly turbo props for these wages." Cliffnotes; no plan to help retain pilots, no plan to help attract new ones. Well, call me stupid, but either the company or union (probably both) doesn't understand the importance of an FO in a 2 pilot aircraft.
It seems to me that the company and union would rather wait until they have to spend thousands every day to put pax in hotels for cancelled flights, than spend $5 more per hour to the pilots for said flight. FWIW, apparently last month was an all time high with $70,000 spent in hotels, transportation, meal vouchers, customs fees, etc in FLL alone, for cancelled flights (a fair part of that due to crew shortages).
Want to really sit back with popcorn and watch a good show? Tell all the senior guys in FL that they are going to be outstation based in Pensacola, Jacksonville, and Macon (maybe thats the big news
)
Food for though-- the union's view is that if FO's dont like the current situation, theres plenty of other airlines out there to work for. However, they also stated "why would anyone with ATP mins want to come fly turbo props for these wages." Cliffnotes; no plan to help retain pilots, no plan to help attract new ones. Well, call me stupid, but either the company or union (probably both) doesn't understand the importance of an FO in a 2 pilot aircraft.
It seems to me that the company and union would rather wait until they have to spend thousands every day to put pax in hotels for cancelled flights, than spend $5 more per hour to the pilots for said flight. FWIW, apparently last month was an all time high with $70,000 spent in hotels, transportation, meal vouchers, customs fees, etc in FLL alone, for cancelled flights (a fair part of that due to crew shortages).
Want to really sit back with popcorn and watch a good show? Tell all the senior guys in FL that they are going to be outstation based in Pensacola, Jacksonville, and Macon (maybe thats the big news
)
07-16-2013, 02:41 PM
#3613
ILL BEE DAT
Joined APC: Aug 2006
Position: Rollin' Down tha 405
Posts: 2,549
Originally Posted by CaptainCarl
I hate to rain on your parade, sandrich, but the Company and the Union just announced their plan to get all FOs their time in a private aircraft with a Silver Airways representative.
Check your email, guys and girls.
Check your email, guys and girls.
Haha
(Totally kidding, I never want to instruct again, ever)
07-16-2013, 03:05 PM
#3614
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2011
Posts: 787
Originally Posted by CaptainCarl
I hate to rain on your parade, sandrich, but the Company and the Union just announced their plan to get all FOs their time in a private aircraft with a Silver Airways representative.
Check your email, guys and girls.
Check your email, guys and girls.
Curious to see if there will be some sort of commitment, whats to stop someone from saying "thanks for the free time, see yahhhh"
Originally Posted by Bassman1985
New CA slots in FL? Watch every senior FO down here, myself included, jump all over those opportunities. Senior CAs down here might not be so thrilled if they downsized FLL or TPA in any significant way, of course!
Last edited by sandrich; 07-16-2013 at 03:16 PM.
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