Colgan Staffing and Draft Pay
06-08-2010 | 02:12 AM
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Colgan Staffing and Draft Pay
Okay folks,
73 hour lines with 10-12 days off. Two FO reserve lines in Houston. What a joke! Everybody is busting bu##, yet all we get is a memo saying WE need to buckle down more!
So we are SERIOUSLY short of pilots, especially FOs. BK even did a test flight in Houston today.
So.....
NOW IS THE TIME to push for all we can get. I was on my eighth day of nine (due to carry over from last month and new month line) and have gotten TWO calls to pick up open time in the last FIVE HOURS. This after picking up a turn while demanding and getting double draft pay!
IF you choose to pick up open time, DEMAND double draft pay PLUS the 150% and anything else you can think of (extra day off, dropping a trip, or whatever you would want).
We got 'em by the short hairs!!! Now is the time to pull it 'till it HURTS!
73 hour lines with 10-12 days off. Two FO reserve lines in Houston. What a joke! Everybody is busting bu##, yet all we get is a memo saying WE need to buckle down more!
So we are SERIOUSLY short of pilots, especially FOs. BK even did a test flight in Houston today.
So.....
NOW IS THE TIME to push for all we can get. I was on my eighth day of nine (due to carry over from last month and new month line) and have gotten TWO calls to pick up open time in the last FIVE HOURS. This after picking up a turn while demanding and getting double draft pay!
IF you choose to pick up open time, DEMAND double draft pay PLUS the 150% and anything else you can think of (extra day off, dropping a trip, or whatever you would want).
We got 'em by the short hairs!!! Now is the time to pull it 'till it HURTS!
06-08-2010 | 03:49 AM
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Okay folks,
73 hour lines with 10-12 days off. Two FO reserve lines in Houston. What a joke! Everybody is busting bu##, yet all we get is a memo saying WE need to buckle down more!
So we are SERIOUSLY short of pilots, especially FOs. BK even did a test flight in Houston today.
So.....
NOW IS THE TIME to push for all we can get. I was on my eighth day of nine (due to carry over from last month and new month line) and have gotten TWO calls to pick up open time in the last FIVE HOURS. This after picking up a turn while demanding and getting double draft pay!
IF you choose to pick up open time, DEMAND double draft pay PLUS the 150% and anything else you can think of (extra day off, dropping a trip, or whatever you would want).
We got 'em by the short hairs!!! Now is the time to pull it 'till it HURTS!
73 hour lines with 10-12 days off. Two FO reserve lines in Houston. What a joke! Everybody is busting bu##, yet all we get is a memo saying WE need to buckle down more!
So we are SERIOUSLY short of pilots, especially FOs. BK even did a test flight in Houston today.
So.....
NOW IS THE TIME to push for all we can get. I was on my eighth day of nine (due to carry over from last month and new month line) and have gotten TWO calls to pick up open time in the last FIVE HOURS. This after picking up a turn while demanding and getting double draft pay!
IF you choose to pick up open time, DEMAND double draft pay PLUS the 150% and anything else you can think of (extra day off, dropping a trip, or whatever you would want).
We got 'em by the short hairs!!! Now is the time to pull it 'till it HURTS!
06-08-2010 | 06:11 AM
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Okay folks,
73 hour lines with 10-12 days off. Two FO reserve lines in Houston. What a joke! Everybody is busting bu##, yet all we get is a memo saying WE need to buckle down more!
So we are SERIOUSLY short of pilots, especially FOs. BK even did a test flight in Houston today.
So.....
NOW IS THE TIME to push for all we can get. I was on my eighth day of nine (due to carry over from last month and new month line) and have gotten TWO calls to pick up open time in the last FIVE HOURS. This after picking up a turn while demanding and getting double draft pay!
IF you choose to pick up open time, DEMAND double draft pay PLUS the 150% and anything else you can think of (extra day off, dropping a trip, or whatever you would want).
We got 'em by the short hairs!!! Now is the time to pull it 'till it HURTS!
73 hour lines with 10-12 days off. Two FO reserve lines in Houston. What a joke! Everybody is busting bu##, yet all we get is a memo saying WE need to buckle down more!
So we are SERIOUSLY short of pilots, especially FOs. BK even did a test flight in Houston today.
So.....
NOW IS THE TIME to push for all we can get. I was on my eighth day of nine (due to carry over from last month and new month line) and have gotten TWO calls to pick up open time in the last FIVE HOURS. This after picking up a turn while demanding and getting double draft pay!
IF you choose to pick up open time, DEMAND double draft pay PLUS the 150% and anything else you can think of (extra day off, dropping a trip, or whatever you would want).
We got 'em by the short hairs!!! Now is the time to pull it 'till it HURTS!
06-08-2010 | 06:40 AM
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06-08-2010 | 07:21 AM
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not sure i understand what you are getting at here. are you saying 73 hours is a lot of flying or are you saying 73 hours with 12 days off isnt efficient?
06-08-2010 | 08:08 AM
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This after picking up a turn while demanding and getting double draft pay!
IF you choose to pick up open time, DEMAND double draft pay PLUS the 150% and anything else you can think of (extra day off, dropping a trip, or whatever you would want).
We got 'em by the short hairs!!! Now is the time to pull it 'till it HURTS!
IF you choose to pick up open time, DEMAND double draft pay PLUS the 150% and anything else you can think of (extra day off, dropping a trip, or whatever you would want).
We got 'em by the short hairs!!! Now is the time to pull it 'till it HURTS!
06-08-2010 | 11:12 AM
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Demands are really 'demands' when its pretty much assumed youll get what you want.
06-08-2010 | 01:37 PM
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I dont pick up time. I have been under guarantee for months (the farther under the better). This month I started at 75 hrs. In this case, I actually traded a 4 hour event for a 2 hour event and got 9+ hours of pay.
06-09-2010 | 06:34 AM
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Here is another company, Colgan Air. Amazing how they are eating up all the so called "mainline" flying. Advertising tremendous growth, yet paying their Pilots next to nothing, and pressing them to do even more. Hope you guys (gals) there will soon rise up, and demand more for your hard work...
06-09-2010 | 07:20 AM
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Define "efficient". One of management's deffinitions is not awarding per diem on day trips, and then stacking the lines with day trips. I'll pick up open time, but it will cost them dearly.
