Mesa
06-25-2015, 12:54 PM
#8661
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Joined APC: Feb 2014
Posts: 354
I just stabbed a guy. Can ALPA help me?
06-25-2015, 12:55 PM
#8662
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Joined APC: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,666
I'm not qualified to be a captain, but I want to be one anyways, can you guys negotiate that for me?
06-25-2015, 12:59 PM
#8663
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: South Paw
Posts: 630
06-25-2015, 01:21 PM
#8667
Living the Dream
Joined APC: Sep 2013
Posts: 1,795
Yeah, it's feast or famine with these damn schedules. F bombed (fatigue) it twice last month. Late nights followed with a flip (10 hour) overnight, morning show on the last day. I could not go to sleep, with 8+ hours of flying scheduled. This month, sit your ass out of town on the last day til 7:00PM, then fly one leg back. I'm doing one right now. Should have gone out and had a few too many. Been up since 6:00AM, worked out, went to lunch. Now I'm bored off my ass watching the clock tick until I can fly home. Not that I will get there. My commute flight leaves before my damn arrival.
06-25-2015, 01:39 PM
#8668
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: South Paw
Posts: 630
I think he said the scheduling section of the new TA will be bigger than the entire current contract. I really hope they've addressed these inefficient lines. What's the point when you fly 2 hours one day and another day sit til 7 p.m. to do one leg home? Surely Mesa could schedule more efficiently, and I hope there's incentive for them to do so in the new TA.
06-25-2015, 02:09 PM
#8669
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Position: CRJ 900
Posts: 131
I hate when we hear union leadership talk about " back in my day". We all know pay rates and work rules were worse when these guys were FO's. That didn't make it right then, and it is not an excuse to accept it now. Sometimes we are our own worse enemy when we start to take an attitude of well I had to pay my dues so now you have to suffer the same. If you suffered through the same kind of financial strains all the more reason they should be sympathetic to those who are new to the industry. It is also a different world for pilots. Not everyone needed to have an ATP, not everyone had the experience they have now, and not everyone paid 100K+ to try to get a shot at this career. There also was not a huge demand for regional pilots that we have today.
06-25-2015, 02:16 PM
#8670
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Joined APC: Dec 2013
Posts: 1,602
Man almost jumped in when I heard that back in my day crap from that guy. Talking about what he made back in the day. Yeah let's not talk about inflation that's happened since then. What was gas back then a buck? Groceries were what a third of what they are now? And let's not get started on rent.
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