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05-10-2007 | 09:21 AM
#21
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whodis,
Not to throw gasoline on the fire, but trying to commute HYA-LGA in March and April, Colgan MX cancelled on me twice. On less than ten attempts.
Maybe the B1900s have more problems than the S340s? But Colgan does seem to have a higher rate of MX problems than elsewhere. (Over the last two years, I've had one flight MX cancel flying the CRJ for PSA & the ERJ at AE.)
Not to throw gasoline on the fire, but trying to commute HYA-LGA in March and April, Colgan MX cancelled on me twice. On less than ten attempts.
Maybe the B1900s have more problems than the S340s? But Colgan does seem to have a higher rate of MX problems than elsewhere. (Over the last two years, I've had one flight MX cancel flying the CRJ for PSA & the ERJ at AE.)
05-10-2007 | 09:40 AM
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I'm sorry, I really wanted to stay out of this, but this list is inane.
If the list goes on, do the statements on it start getting true? Or do they stay as rediculous as these are?
Didn't you say you were in SCE? I talked to an SCE crew this week, and, the FO was new and said he got 90+ hours with weekends off on his first bid ever.
How exactly do you define poor health insurance? I've had nothing but good experiences with Anthem the couple times I've dealt with them.
We do have a 401K, so that is false. We don't have a match, was that what you meant?
Upgrade is based primarily on seniority. There are members of the alpa organizing committee on the upgrade list. How do you suppose they got there?
The last 3 hotels I've stayed in have been a Marriott, a Hilton, and a Radisson. Oh, and a Holiday Inn before that. So you're wrong there.
Jealous about the CP drinking? Are you trying to be funny, or do you actually live in such a cartoon reality that something like this could be true? I'll assume you're trying to be funny and ignore it.
How often are your A/C broken? You give a lot of generalizations, without many facts to back them up, so here is a fact for you: Since the start of March I have operated 140 flights. Of those 140 flights, I was delayed for maintenance once. That is 99.3% dispatch reliability. Now can you find a fact for me and tell me what the industry average is?
Please name a specific instance when scheduling has tried to get you to break a FAR. I've been here a lot longer than you were, and it's never happened to me.
I've never had a 14 hour day with only 4 hours of credit. Since the company pays 1/2 duty on long sits I find it unlikely that it ever will happen to me.
We do have only 50% deadhead pay, and the planes do smell sometimes. Those are true, I wish the lav wasn't so close to the cockpit.
It seems like you decided you were too good for Colgan pretty early on. I hope the grass turns out to be greener for you on the other side. Actually, that's not strictly true, I don't really care either way.
Congratulations on your lateral move, I hope the regional jets are as shiny as they have been in your dreams.
If the list goes on, do the statements on it start getting true? Or do they stay as rediculous as these are?
Didn't you say you were in SCE? I talked to an SCE crew this week, and, the FO was new and said he got 90+ hours with weekends off on his first bid ever.
How exactly do you define poor health insurance? I've had nothing but good experiences with Anthem the couple times I've dealt with them.
We do have a 401K, so that is false. We don't have a match, was that what you meant?
Upgrade is based primarily on seniority. There are members of the alpa organizing committee on the upgrade list. How do you suppose they got there?
The last 3 hotels I've stayed in have been a Marriott, a Hilton, and a Radisson. Oh, and a Holiday Inn before that. So you're wrong there.
Jealous about the CP drinking? Are you trying to be funny, or do you actually live in such a cartoon reality that something like this could be true? I'll assume you're trying to be funny and ignore it.
How often are your A/C broken? You give a lot of generalizations, without many facts to back them up, so here is a fact for you: Since the start of March I have operated 140 flights. Of those 140 flights, I was delayed for maintenance once. That is 99.3% dispatch reliability. Now can you find a fact for me and tell me what the industry average is?
Please name a specific instance when scheduling has tried to get you to break a FAR. I've been here a lot longer than you were, and it's never happened to me.
I've never had a 14 hour day with only 4 hours of credit. Since the company pays 1/2 duty on long sits I find it unlikely that it ever will happen to me.
We do have only 50% deadhead pay, and the planes do smell sometimes. Those are true, I wish the lav wasn't so close to the cockpit.
It seems like you decided you were too good for Colgan pretty early on. I hope the grass turns out to be greener for you on the other side. Actually, that's not strictly true, I don't really care either way.
Congratulations on your lateral move, I hope the regional jets are as shiny as they have been in your dreams.
Q400= Still not as shiny, and still has Props
05-10-2007 | 10:13 AM
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You're right, as usual. Getting excited about the company taking on a new A/C type and a bunch of new flying is pretty silly. Maybe if we stopped with all this growth and lost 1/4 of our flying we could be cooler.
05-10-2007 | 11:09 AM
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PS. I love the "lateral move" line..............in terms of what??????????? QOL, PAY, equipment, contract (Oh wait you don't have one). Go ahead and stay at COLGAN for the upgrade....................cause we all know going to a regional for just the upgrade is the smartest thing one can do, almost as smart as sticking up for an airline that steps on the backs of its employees on a daily basis...............GO COLGAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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05-10-2007 | 04:10 PM
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Just like any airline Colgan has its good points and bad points:
Good
Home every night (only good if you live there)
Short Reserve (I had 2 months)
You build time quickly
Short upgrade (as long as you don't **** off manassass)
Good experience lots of IMC and Ice
Good Crews
Good lines (weekends off very easily 12-18 days off in ALB dont know other bases)
The SAAB is fun
Good training
quick turns
Bad
Pay/no per diem except IAH and doing TDY
Crappy bases (Jamestown, Johnstown)
Out station basing
Understaffed (no sick days and they ask for doctor notes)
Not enough aircraft
Poor dispatchers (forget alternates, wrong a/c on releases, forget to put MEL's on releases)
Extremely disorganized
Poor ground support (no type IV in Presque Isle, Maine Nuff said)
Aircraft have seen better days (but it makes flying them more exciting)
MX program sux (how can you expect a mechanic to clear 8 MEL's in 12 hours or a mechanic in LGA might forget your engine oil cap and you almost fry an engine on takeoff)
Planes swaps out the @#$
Same flights all the time (boring)
Crew schedulers suck big time (except for Leroy)
The Brain Factory
Some people stay and some people go and we all have our reasons and they are all valid. Gonna miss you Albany.
Good
Home every night (only good if you live there)
Short Reserve (I had 2 months)
You build time quickly
Short upgrade (as long as you don't **** off manassass)
Good experience lots of IMC and Ice
Good Crews
Good lines (weekends off very easily 12-18 days off in ALB dont know other bases)
The SAAB is fun
Good training
quick turns
Bad
Pay/no per diem except IAH and doing TDY
Crappy bases (Jamestown, Johnstown)
Out station basing
Understaffed (no sick days and they ask for doctor notes)
Not enough aircraft
Poor dispatchers (forget alternates, wrong a/c on releases, forget to put MEL's on releases)
Extremely disorganized
Poor ground support (no type IV in Presque Isle, Maine Nuff said)
Aircraft have seen better days (but it makes flying them more exciting)
MX program sux (how can you expect a mechanic to clear 8 MEL's in 12 hours or a mechanic in LGA might forget your engine oil cap and you almost fry an engine on takeoff)
Planes swaps out the @#$
Same flights all the time (boring)
Crew schedulers suck big time (except for Leroy)
The Brain Factory
Some people stay and some people go and we all have our reasons and they are all valid. Gonna miss you Albany.
05-10-2007 | 10:18 PM
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Just like any airline Colgan has its good points and bad points:
Good
Home every night (only good if you live there)
Short Reserve (I had 2 months)
You build time quickly
Short upgrade (as long as you don't **** off manassass)
Good experience lots of IMC and Ice
Good Crews
Good lines (weekends off very easily 12-18 days off in ALB dont know other bases)
The SAAB is fun
Good training
quick turns
Bad
Pay/no per diem except IAH and doing TDY
Crappy bases (Jamestown, Johnstown)
Out station basing
Understaffed (no sick days and they ask for doctor notes)
Not enough aircraft
Poor dispatchers (forget alternates, wrong a/c on releases, forget to put MEL's on releases)
Extremely disorganized
Poor ground support (no type IV in Presque Isle, Maine Nuff said)
Aircraft have seen better days (but it makes flying them more exciting)
MX program sux (how can you expect a mechanic to clear 8 MEL's in 12 hours or a mechanic in LGA might forget your engine oil cap and you almost fry an engine on takeoff)
Planes swaps out the @#$
Same flights all the time (boring)
Crew schedulers suck big time (except for Leroy)
The Brain Factory
Some people stay and some people go and we all have our reasons and they are all valid. Gonna miss you Albany.
Good
Home every night (only good if you live there)
Short Reserve (I had 2 months)
You build time quickly
Short upgrade (as long as you don't **** off manassass)
Good experience lots of IMC and Ice
Good Crews
Good lines (weekends off very easily 12-18 days off in ALB dont know other bases)
The SAAB is fun
Good training
quick turns
Bad
Pay/no per diem except IAH and doing TDY
Crappy bases (Jamestown, Johnstown)
Out station basing
Understaffed (no sick days and they ask for doctor notes)
Not enough aircraft
Poor dispatchers (forget alternates, wrong a/c on releases, forget to put MEL's on releases)
Extremely disorganized
Poor ground support (no type IV in Presque Isle, Maine Nuff said)
Aircraft have seen better days (but it makes flying them more exciting)
MX program sux (how can you expect a mechanic to clear 8 MEL's in 12 hours or a mechanic in LGA might forget your engine oil cap and you almost fry an engine on takeoff)
Planes swaps out the @#$
Same flights all the time (boring)
Crew schedulers suck big time (except for Leroy)
The Brain Factory
Some people stay and some people go and we all have our reasons and they are all valid. Gonna miss you Albany.
I lived in downtown for like 6 months, most fun I ever had, worked at Abercrombie in the mall hehehe, when were you up there?
05-11-2007 | 10:15 AM
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So all the FO attrition is due solely to "SJS" ?
Expensive monthly fee in combination with a high deductible. Apparently you have never had "good" insurance before. My insurance prior to Colgan included "free" MRI's, CAT scans, and such as long as they were ordered by a physician.
That is what I meant. But it is pointless, as Colgan's wages are so low it is (would be) quite difficult to set any money aside anyway.
Are you serious.. have you been at Colgan for more than 2 months? Ask anyone and they can give more than one example of upgrade out of seniority.
You must be in Houston.
Was a joke; much like Col.. I won't go there
I typically get delayed once every 4-5 days because of maint. and a Cx every 10 days or so
More than once, usually after a Mx issue (which you claim never occur), I have had an early flight the next morning for which I was not going to have legal rest. When I called big "I" in scheduling she told me to go home, get some sleep and be there for my flight in the morning after 5 hours rest. But hey.. I'm probably making that up.. that never happens 
It is quite embarrassing being a part of a operation that subject there valued customers to cabin temps over 100 degrees in combination with the fine smell of the interior of a SAAB
I think almost every pilot I have come across deserves better than Colgan offers.
WOW you actually, seriously referred to the 170 as an RJ.. there's a first time for everything around his board I suppose.
How exactly do you define poor health insurance?
We do have a 401K, so that is false. We don't have a match, was that what you meant?
Upgrade is based primarily on seniority.
The last 3 hotels I've stayed in have been a Marriott, a Hilton, and a Radisson.
Jealous about the CP drinking? Are you trying to be funny, or do you actually live in such a cartoon reality that something like this could be true?
How often are your A/C broken?
Please name a specific instance when scheduling has tried to get you to break a FAR.
and the planes do smell sometimes.
It seems like you decided you were too good for Colgan pretty early on.
I hope the regional jets are as shiny as they have been in your dreams.
05-11-2007 | 10:21 AM
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Well dont go thinking the 170 is anything special now , especially what your going to get paid to fly it for j/k.................................ITS A REGIONAL JET, a pretty one, but still a "REGIONAL" jet for all intesive purposes that is. Im happy for ya KILO I know the pain that is COLGAN, congrats on Republic and have fun, 121 training 2nd time around is a walk in the park
, especially what your going to get paid to fly it for j/k.................................ITS A REGIONAL JET, a pretty one, but still a "REGIONAL" jet for all intesive purposes that is. Im happy for ya KILO I know the pain that is COLGAN, congrats on Republic and have fun, 121 training 2nd time around is a walk in the park
05-11-2007 | 10:22 AM
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From: AA A320
4992 Pit-ckb 0840 0925 0045
4992 Ckb-mgw 0940 1000 0020
4992 Mgw-pit 1015 1055 0040
Rht Pit-pit 1110 1630 0240
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Total Duty: 1050
Block: 245
4992 Ckb-mgw 0940 1000 0020
4992 Mgw-pit 1015 1055 0040
Rht Pit-pit 1110 1630 0240
4993 Pit-mgw 1700 1740 0040
4993 Mgw-ckb 1755 1815 0020
Total Duty: 1050
Block: 245
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