flycrj200

I think the doors will be closed at Comair when this thread reaches 10,000. Good luck to all

TurboDog

Careful. An talked to the Chiefs a little over a year ago about going to his own wedding and then called in sick and got fired.

Boomer

Wasn't the move from 8 to 7 banks in December 2005 the reason we lost CDs and started having 3-4 hour breaks all over the place?

I hope the drop to 5 means we get earlier releases or maybe less scheduled-reduced rests. And by "we" I mean whoever steals Comair's CVG flying. And by "earlier releases" I mean they can eat a turd.

TurboDog

C10K = run for your life.

Boomer

If it happened a year ago he's probably a Captain at Mesaba by now. Comair did him a favor.

If I had the smarts to put my wife first and Comair second, I don't think I'd still be here either.

Besides, his decision saved someone from getting furloughed.

heading180

I had the great pleasure of flying with one of the chiefs when I was just out of IOE. Guess he was getting his currency. Anyway, he shared this story with me as he was, I guess, trying to scare me about something or whatever. Mold the new guy I guess. He said this guy had 17 sick calls during the past year. This is why the company denied his PL and when he called in sick he was fired.

Confirmedat20

True, but there was alot more to that story than we know. Like most stories we hear that are unbelievable, that's because a lot is left out

H46Bubba

Just got a memo today saying that were closing LEX's maintenance base. DAY is in the process od closing. MX is starting to feel the hurt as well. They've been cutting us non union employees back since last December. I think they're running out of non union mx employees to cut. I see the IAM being put on notice to furlough here soon within the next month or two.

BlueMoon

If it was up to Dan Ford, Delta would have no scope and Comair would fly 777's. He sued Alpa, because he believed scope was predatory and limited the regional pilots(he needs to get the fact that we are a contractor and nothing more).

If you want to fly a mainline plane, apply to mainline. He doesn't want to start at the bottom of a mainline list again. Hence the lawsuit.

I want a flow-through(like mesaba's), I'm thinking of trying to run for a union position and see if we can make it happen

Confirmedat20

Question for those have been around awhile. If we wait for the elections, the problem is we don't vote for the MEC, the reps do. Now all the reps I know are outstanding guys, but do we know what pressures they endure to vote a certain way? I'm not faulting them, but it's human nature. How many politicians constantly vote against their constituancy because their party pressures them to vote a certain way? Look at Lieberman for example; he stepped away from his party to support McCain which took alot of moxie. Now, he is being ostrasized by the democratic party. Will our reps vote the way the pilots want, or will they take the MEC line, because we (as pilots) don't know everything? How do we know who will do what? Thank heaven for the reps, they truly give of themselves for us on a daily basis. I just don't know the answer to this.