The Dominican

Not really, outside of the fact that it is difficult to get milk and eggs at the supermarket (or at least it was when I went on my days off) It is pretty much business as usual

MeLu

I was going to ask do you have a special protection while flying in radioactive area? Do you consider it as a factor that can causes of being turned down in a future ( I mean radiation possibility)? No one can predict a situation at the moment, but one thing which gives additional encouragement are the ones that decided to continue their jobs fields in external situation while other airlines refused to come and pick up their citizens, because of radiation. Basically, the passengers were told bye bye in whole its sense its insultive since others are fighting even risking their future chances had never been taugh to panic the last in cockpit switches off the light... Not so sure now if in two years I should not join a cockpit despite of a license. I would pick up the passengers waiting for me, despite of the rules of " dangerous radioactive area" but then the tests for younger ones must be passed in a local language . For now I like to be with my capt brother occasionally. Melu

Ski Patrol

***! Ummm say again please.

reredwood

Got through the interview on 3/21, now trying to get the medical done. Heard there is a May class date, everyone know the exact date?

reredwood

Sorry just re-read my post....does anyone know the exact date?

myoface

most likely you wont go to a may class if u have not done the medical yet. things take forever over there. (this is assuming u actually get selected)

Puppet Master

I take back every good thing that I have said about AJX. The company have just published new "Working Rules". It does nothing except show the contempt that the company hold towards the pilots. I have never had a harder slap in the face. All flexibly is now erased and they are determined to exert total control over our lives.

Even if they decide to change the new working rules to something better it is too late. All good will has gone...

STAY FAR WAY

CloudSailor

Puppet Master,

I almost went there a couple of years ago, and am very curious as to how/why things have changed. It used to be one of the best commuting contracts, if not THE best.

Do you have any specifics? Examples of new work rules?

Sorry to hear things have turned in a bad direction.

myoface

yeah...deets man....i spent a short time there also but happy to be where i am now.

The Dominican

As you may or may not know, for the past few months the company has been implementing the integration of both cargo and passenger operations that will begin as a combined roster in July, a couple of days ago we received the introduction of an option to bid for two commuting days and work a shorter month, with this introduction the devil is in the details because as everything in Japan it is unclear as to how this will be implemented and they are requesting people to bid for the month of July wether they will take the 2 commuting days option (a part time of sorts) or a full working month, I know that in the surface this sounds like good news but there were a few new policies that were included that are not very good such as not being able to commute in the same day your duty roster starts which pilots could do before and it is unclear if you will be able to commute after the completion of your last duty on your last day as many of us are able to do now working a full month, the cargo duties are riddled with very fatiguing rosters and many dead heads which they haven't addressed properly and nobody knows how the duty rosters will look after we start working combined passenger and cargo rosters, the reality is that the point man the company has chosen to do this integration has done a poor job at it and has managed to make what were essentially two separate happy (although the issues of fatigue on the cargo side were there before) pilot groups and has turn it into a mess with some ridiculous policies like now they want that if you call in sick, you need to go see a company doctor to confirm that you are sick. Just ridiculous small "nickel and dime" decisions that are just ****ing everybody off.
The main issue is that the pilots have received approximately a 25% pay cut due to the devaluation of the dollar against other currencies where pilots commute from (not as bad if you commute and live in the U.S. but pretty bad if you are from OZ for example) and the company doesn't recognize that they are paying us a LOT less on the last year of the contract in the equivalent in Japanese yen compared to 4 or 5 years ago, they refuse to acknowledge this and refuse to make a pay adjustment that will recover these loses that pilots have suffered, they are enjoying a lot less operational cost because they generate revenue in Yen but pay our salaries in a very devaluated U.S. dollar, now they add all this ridiculous items into the mix such as us not having to pay for the laundry of our uniforms (I spend round $25/month) and an increase due to dollar devaluation to only 50% of our per diem instead to the entire amount that they very well know was insufficient when the Yen was at 117/ Dollar and now that it is orbiting around 80/ Dollar it is ridiculously low and they slap us in the face by a currency correction to only 50% of the per diem??? This is the type of "nickel and dime" decisions that has everybody angry and disappointed. For the first time in this contract history we have a serious problem with attrition due to all this nonsense and the numbers of people applying are getting lower and lower, at the same time there is a recruiting campaign by other contracts and guys are interviewing and getting offers with better pay elsewhere while they pay $25 dollar tab for our dry cleaners and call it an "improvement on the contract" sad really, because a lot of people actually enjoy working here but they will continue to lose pilots if they continue to neglect the fact that they need to increase the salaries to compensate for the monetary devaluation of the dollar, if they don't do that the discontent and attrition will continue.