atrdriver

Just a theory.

newarkblows

Bozo does lie. He stretches the truth quite a bit in his anti-xjt propoganda. A 30,000 block hour reduction becomes 50,000 block hour reduction or that we are furloughing or that we are somehow losing a 1/3 of our flying or the most recent is that they are parking 200+ of our airplanes. He is a guy that was right twice on here and he sees some benefit to fear mongering. He comes across as very naive because this is nothing new to the XJT side of the operation. It is pretty obvious to everyone that has been doing this for a few years that about every two years CAL/UAL reduces block hours and then adds them back if the economy picks up.

All he is doing is rah rah'ing the ASA side into thinking the xjt side is somehow the bad guy. The truth of the matter is that the two companies fates are already tied together. Both sides need each other to be successful companies and that isn't going to be changed by a naive online poster who is trying to scare the junior pilots.

afterburn81

Well said. Unfortunately the community on this forum makes the whole LASA group look like tools. There are still a few good ones.

g-code

I like the ASA guys. You guys have all been very cool to me. Our biggest problem is we have a small group of morons on both sides that spout crap and then it spreads in the cockpit during a boring, long leg. I had a LONG talk with my rep the other day and almost everything said here is false. The biggest thing holding up our contract is uncertainty. The PBS issue will be resolved. We just need to be patient.

Bozo

Your ewr fo rep stated the 30,000 if there had been no changes from a conference call. To my knowledge there had been only one call when numbers where discussed and the number your fo rep stated on the pipe is short

As for the the reduction in block hours, it is not based on a seasonal thing . Its based on info from several years of 10 ks that have shown dates of cpas.

As for being "naive", you have a long way to walk before you have seen as much as I have in this industry.

afterburn81

I love how guys can make an assumption that they are somehow more well seasoned and have much more experience with certain things than all others with nothing to go on.

One thing I have learned is that you never know who you are sitting next to.

You could probably stand to learn a few things from your fellow pilots etc.

Statements like this just reinforce my hunch that YOU (Bozo) are full of crap.......

yeah sure

So, why are you even bothering with the Regional threads? Just asking...

Spoilers

Yup! I love flying with those people that just assume. Of course, I don't say crap about my background unless they ask, its just funnier that way.

PBSG

Correct me if I'm wrong (And not to start another PBS debate) but does this mean you haven't seen your December schedules yet?

resetjet

You are correct. We don't have them yet for ATL FO's but that has nothing to do with PBS.