80ktsClamp

80ktsClamp

newK apparently started playing for the Penguins:

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Thanks to our rapid expansion at LGA & United outsourcing, GoJets is having to hire Captains off the street. Terrific for Teamster's members, those who did not complete High School, and those with "interesting" criminal background checks. If you've got 4,500 hauling skydivers, or just penciled in a log book, and the ability to fog a mirror, Delta has a job for you! Delta's network guy described GoJets as the "best of the worst."

So anyone wanting information about this terrific opportunity flying Delta passengers, here's the place for the deets:

Aero Crew Solutions - Pilot Job Fair

Oh' and GoJets pays 10% more than Delta mainline pays new hires with much lower health care costs. Wonderful furlough opportunity for those who just love flying jets in Delta colors.

Damned if this doesn't make me want to tell my mother, "... if you want to see your grandkids, you're going to have to fly to Dubai."

Aldous Snow

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nwaf16dude

Rode the jumpseat with some ASA guys last week and they told me this was coming. Cockpit rumor was that GoJets bid below cost to get the contract and were having a heck of a time filling the seats for the flying they committed to, much of which will be done in jets taken away from ASA. Of course these guys were in a fine mood. Can't blame them.

Superpilot92

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Apparently Emirates has a lot of interest from pilots in Atlanta. For us Delta pilots, it will be easy to find the location for the sim ride:
They will be back in June.

Carl Spackler

The NMB would have no factual basis to claim that it is an unreasonable demand. SWAPA has it. SWA is our largest domestic competitor. SWA is a very profitable company. DAL is an even more profitable company. APA went wrong by demanding something from their unprofitable company at a time when there was nobody else comparable. The new NMB saw that as unreasonable.

Man would THAT be true. Their biggest problem with it would be knowing that it is a winning strategy with the NMB.

Carl

forgot to bid

Maybe someone knows but take a look at the PWA 23.S.14 and maybe that's your answer.

Carl Spackler

With SWAPA's pay, I'd be making about 100K more per year as a 747 Capt. Therefore, I wouldn't care if we pay banded the entire fleet. But a 737 Captain at DAL needs to paid at least the same as a 737 Captain at SWA. Period. If the company says that the only way they'll agree to that is if a 747 Captain makes the same, so be it. I'll just have to suffer with my 100K pay raise.

Nope...see above.

No need for the pilots to want a modification. It is MANAGEMENT that would be wanting the modifications. And for every one that THEY demand, we could cost it out, then agree to their modification if we thought we could live with it. Regardless, you let MANAGEMENT be the ones having to scream for modifications.

First of all, management is already attempting to do their own thing with our crew rest facilities. Second, there are regulations regarding crew rest facilities. On the vast majority of our wide body fleet, our rest area is a passenger seat. If the company gets its way with the A330, the only real crew rest areas will be on the 747/777. 34 airplanes. If the company was forced to sign off on the SWAPA contract, would they pull out those rest facilities too and give us passenger seats like the rest of the wide body fleet? They might. But in my view, it is an extremely small price to pay to achieve SWAPA's scope and pay.

Yup, the company could go to 1 capt and 3 f/o's. That means some captains like me would get bumped off to a smaller jet. But if we're pay banded...who cares?

It would work incredibly for the pilots. We would take some small hits, but make MAJOR gains in pay and scope. But would it work for management? Sure it would, but it would cost them way too much in their view. They like the huge cost advantage against SWA. An advantage given to them by us continuing to work for emergency/bankruptcy wages.

Carl