Any "Latest & Greatest" about Endeavor?
10-14-2015, 09:04 AM
#991
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Joined APC: Sep 2010
Posts: 2,648
Great, here we go again.... I agree the Bloch award was not dispersed evenly. As a February 2005 Mesaba hire I was downgraded on 13-02 for 6 weeks. My sim partner was Pinacle and hired 3 months after me. Yet he is 280 numbers senior to me. Got me angry every sim session. Trying to accept the fact is hard sometimes, but in the end I try to remember what's done is done. I or we can't undo it. We need to look outside Endeavor to get away from it.
10-14-2015, 09:28 AM
#993
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,939
You could hold a line in NYC, but you don't want to commute. That's something called "Life". You can blame Bloch, luck, or your own despair. Living IN BASE on reserve is far better, I get it (believe me, I'm a MEM commuter- "live in base, it's awesome...OK... well the base is closed, fun commute begins), but all you do is complain. Pick your poison. Be on reserve in base, or commute to a line. Nobody forces you to show up to work. That's the last option. You can blame everyone, but in 12 years you should have already had numerous opportunities to leave this place. If not via SSP, hiring happened for a good majority of your time here across the industry.
Yes, blunt, but all you do is complain and blame everyone else. Others seem to be complaining, but don't even work here anymore. There are plenty of things to "fix", just as every company (inclusive of majors) has on the agenda, and many of those pieces (Flica, commuter hotels, parking stipend, etc) are being negotiated this week.
"Woe is me" is a broken record and a blatant misrepresentation of the situation at this point in the game. A "bad situation was late 2011-mid 2014". Things have changed. Movement is happening, QOL is improving, and money is now being put into your pocket just for showing up to work. Move on.
Yes, blunt, but all you do is complain and blame everyone else. Others seem to be complaining, but don't even work here anymore. There are plenty of things to "fix", just as every company (inclusive of majors) has on the agenda, and many of those pieces (Flica, commuter hotels, parking stipend, etc) are being negotiated this week.
"Woe is me" is a broken record and a blatant misrepresentation of the situation at this point in the game. A "bad situation was late 2011-mid 2014". Things have changed. Movement is happening, QOL is improving, and money is now being put into your pocket just for showing up to work. Move on.
10-14-2015, 09:30 AM
#994
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Joined APC: Oct 2013
Posts: 288
10-14-2015, 09:31 AM
#995
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
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Ken ended up on the wrong side of that 500 pilot split given to the Pinnacle guys hired in 2006. I'm still waiting for the explanation on how it ever made sense to cut a single class in half and put over 500 people from the other companies in between classmates. Heck of a way to punish Pinnacle for their idiot of a merger negotiator.
10-14-2015, 09:42 AM
#996
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: CL-65 captain
Posts: 2,244
Do they actually fly the ready reserves? Or is it more of, like a time my FO got sick at the last minute and we cancelled, "we can't use our ready reserve because then we won't have one if we need one"
10-14-2015, 09:49 AM
#997
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Joined APC: Nov 2013
Position: NB CA
Posts: 451
10-14-2015, 09:52 AM
#998
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Position: NB CA
Posts: 451
More like picking up other regionals' flying last minute. Most of my reserve time has been spent covering someone else's flying. I noticed we've been doing a lot of canceled SKW flights lately.
10-14-2015, 09:57 AM
#999
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Joined APC: Aug 2012
Position: B-767 FO
Posts: 554
I can't imagine most folks average 15 days off as line holders as was mentioned a few pages back, unless things have changed significantly. I know I only saw 15 days off twice in the 9 years that I was there, but Ken probably has more accurate line averages if he still does PBS work. Min (12) days off used to go pretty high up the list to meet staffing needs.
10-14-2015, 10:20 AM
#1000
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Joined APC: Oct 2012
Position: CL-65 CA
Posts: 77
And you would think you'd fly more than 50 a month on ready reserve, say in DTW? I live 5 miles from DTW and will try to bid DTW 200 and I'm taking a 11k paycut to come here next month because I'm only flying about 20-25 hours a month at my current job flying a DC9.
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