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01-22-2009, 08:38 PM

#31

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Originally Posted by Reds

Heard the Feb marketing hours decreased slightly, 300hrs or so, is this correct?

Also heard rumors of March decreasing by 3,000hrs. Is that purely speculation, or actually backed up by some info/intel? When will the March bid packets come out?

Anyone care to speculate the chances of a successful contract negotiation the week of 1/26? (50% chance, slim, nil, etc.)

questions, questions, questions...

February hours are 300ish less than January; however, that's still more flying in Feb. vs Jan. February has 3 less days in it.

The 3,000 hour reduction in March is purely speculation/rumor and while many on this board enjoy feeling like they know what they're talking about - nobody has legitimate information.

As far as the negotiations on 1/26 I'm just waiting for the "no progress was made" union email again. That's the only speculation you can historically call accurate.

If they want the pilot group to help save the company money then I say we just for a while. Apparently being the industry's lowest paid CRJ pilots with the highest pilot group utilization simply wasn't good enough for ole "Simply the Best."

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01-22-2009, 08:57 PM

#32

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Originally Posted by ebl14

Best bullet point from the slideshow that went with the conference call...

"Our excess cash is tied up in illquid investments sold to us by wall street banks.
- We expect to get our money back, but we don't know when."

You gotta love these guys, just pass the buck, blame someone else. This management never seems to want to take responsibility for anything even the least bit negative.

What do you expect coming from Memphis? Rhodes Scholars?

01-23-2009, 05:32 AM

#33

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Originally Posted by Airsupport

second if you read the letter clive wrote he said they are asking people to take loa's long and short term. what he failed to mention is that all the pilots that put in for an loa were denied. so i guess they dont want the pilots taking time off.

Actually I know of at least 3 that were granted the leave. But it's a last minute, Pinnacle style jerk them around until the last minute with no info on benefits kind of thing. What I think is total BS is that they "survey" for LOA that they put out said very clearly it was not official, it was solely to get an idea of who may be interested. So I was going to wait for the official version then get my few weeks off, not that it would proably matter anyways.

01-23-2009, 06:15 AM

#34

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If by displacing 30CA's to FO's they are thinking that all of us are going to stick around, they are badly mistaken. From talking with several other of the displaced guys, we will be looking to leave 9E. I've already got one foot out the door and I know several other guys do as well. Pinnacle's MIS-management is in for a rude awakening in negotiations if they think the pilot group is going to give them an inch. More and more I'm hearing STFD. I agree, STFD if they dont want to give a hard working pilot group a fair contract.