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#22
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Position: A320 CA
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You're thinking of Virgin Atlantic. Though you're observation makes the point of those who want to prevent VA from starting ops in America. It is a foreign controlled company.
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Posts: 401
FlyingA320, I want to thank you personally for trying to get hired at a company that is going to lower the industry standards. I would let a go-jet pilot jumpseat before a VA pilot. My prediction is that VA will not last more than 3 yrs. Your going to regret decision dearly when your furloughed in a few years. cheers.
As for the jumpseat threat you and green slime throw around so easily, have you ever considered your rogue actions are against your own union policy? That your actions put the jumpseat privilege for your own pilots in jeopardy? You are welcome to scream, yell and present resolutions all you want to your MEC and company, but once the rules are written, as a good union member you are expected to OBEY the majority rule. Anything less is at the least not being a good union member and could possibly be a violation of your company policy that your union leadership will be hard pressed to defend.
As a former system chief pilot of a large company, I once had a captain refuse a "known strike breaker" from a company we did a lot of business with. The other chief pilot informed me that his hands were tied, my captain had violated the jumpseat agreement by refusing his pilot based on union affiliation, placing the entire agreement in jeopardy for his 8000 pilots and my 1500 pilots. I had to call my guy in, and while I would not violate captains authority by ordering him to carry the other pilot I would inform him that his actions, however righteous he felt they were, would inconvenience quite a few others. He made the right decision, which was fully supported by both MEC chairmen, both jumpseat committees and both chief pilot offices.
My point to you is your comments are just as much "me, me, me" as the other side's are.
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Tough ****, Fred. I don't have to take anyone on the jumpseat I don't want to (with limited exceptions). Personally, I don't think Union pilots should even be talking to B6 pilots, much less asking them for favors. "Could I pleeesse have a jumpseat, so I can watch you stab me in the back?"
Ludicrous.
Ludicrous.
#26
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Joined APC: Jan 2007
Posts: 401
You make my point nicely lime slime. Your MEC chairman will have to use valuable negotiating capital to keep your butt out of trouble for violating your own rules. I'm sure your fellow pilots will really appreciate that. That's a typical senior captain mentality you have there. You call guys ducks and go quack, quack, quack. Every body else hears you as the sea gulls in Finding Nemo "Mine, mine, mine".
BTW, you never answered my question on your whereabouts in 85 & 86. You did say you were involved in some unionism in 72 to 78. Ready to retire? or are you now going to tell us you flew with Wilbur & Orville as well old man?
BTW, you never answered my question on your whereabouts in 85 & 86. You did say you were involved in some unionism in 72 to 78. Ready to retire? or are you now going to tell us you flew with Wilbur & Orville as well old man?
#27
green slime
if it quacks like duck it's most likely velocipede.
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