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12-18-2011, 07:03 AM
#3291
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Joined APC: Aug 2011
Position: Right/Backseat
Posts: 22
don't get me wrong. i got no beef with piedmont pilots. im sure youre all good pilots and good guys as well. its just when i have my very brief window of opprotunity along the korry 3 to call in range i get really tired of some toolbag from piedmont trying to be funny and talking like a jerk-ff on the radio trying to be funny and have the foreigner on the other end who is making 9.50 an hour working in ops try to figure out what they are saying. just talk normal. if they dont get it the first time. just talk normal the second time. dont keep up your lame schtick repeatedly over and over while other people are trying to use that same frequency. i get it. we have a boring job. we work for sh---y airlines. we do have somehwat difficult lives. sometimes humor is a way to cope. but when im trying to get my job done and there is somebody trying to be funny and making it 20 times
more difficult, i get a little irritated, especially when it happens so frequently and its the same group of people. its not just a wise comment over the radio. we all do that. but this is a frequent routine i here on 131.60 that gets so old. and its only piedmont. none of the other carriers.
oh...and i just got laid. had 2 miller lite drafts earlier as well.
oh...and the ties that bind us, are stronger than the little things that make me mad. so while i get cranky on here, id still buy yall beers. were in this together.
more difficult, i get a little irritated, especially when it happens so frequently and its the same group of people. its not just a wise comment over the radio. we all do that. but this is a frequent routine i here on 131.60 that gets so old. and its only piedmont. none of the other carriers.
oh...and i just got laid. had 2 miller lite drafts earlier as well.
oh...and the ties that bind us, are stronger than the little things that make me mad. so while i get cranky on here, id still buy yall beers. were in this together.
Drop it. We've moved on on this forum.
Or go to CLT and listen to the d-bags from PSA trying to be funny on north ramp.
12-19-2011, 12:39 PM
#3293
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Joined APC: Jun 2010
Posts: 781
12-20-2011, 03:32 AM
#3295
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Joined APC: Dec 2009
Posts: 259
I've been at PDT longer than 5 years, but I feel no resentment for PSA pilots. Their MEC went behind the backs of their pilots and sold us out, but the majority of their pilots had nothing to do with it. I blame our management.
12-20-2011, 04:55 AM
#3298
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Joined APC: Dec 2009
Posts: 259
As for PSA's 900 rates. I was under the impression that they didn't have any. Guess I'm wrong.
12-20-2011, 05:39 AM
#3299
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Joined APC: Dec 2008
Position: Upright
Posts: 605
I blame PDT Mgt, US Airway Mgt and ALPA for asking for concessions in exchange for Jets that they had no intention of giving to PDT. This happened before I was on property (about 9 years ago) and I still came. I will not blame a PSA line pilot that had just as much say in this as I did. You can blame whomever you want and be mad at whomever you want.
As for PSA's 900 rates. I was under the impression that they didn't have any. Guess I'm wrong.
As for PSA's 900 rates. I was under the impression that they didn't have any. Guess I'm wrong.
The PDT / PSA / ALG MEC's all agreed to present a united front to management on jet rates and work rules (concessions). The PSA MECC came to the realization that the DO328s were being parked (Dornier went T/U leaving aircraft support up in the air). He undercut PDT / ALG thinking that the pilots he represented would be unemployed if he didn't do something to secure the jets.
Trouble is, USAirways management was in bed with the AAA MECC (Beebe) to cut costs at the wholly owneds. Beebe didn't inform any of the three MECCs he knew the jets were already allocated to PSA. Had he represented pilots as a whole, all three wholly owneds most likely would have retained the united front, both companies would be at the same place they are today but with better work rules, higher pay, and less animosity.
We found out Beebe screwed us well after the SOB was elected VP of Finance for ALPA. Ask around to some of the louder PDT guys who have been around a while if they have the court transcript that basically says what I just posted. It's out there.
12-20-2011, 10:38 AM
#3300
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Joined APC: Feb 2008
Position: bar stool
Posts: 771
Who cares, pay rates and work rules at both crap companies are crap.
Nothing to even argue about, both companies are a joke. Just like 90% of regionals are a big joke, with pay and work rules suited more for dogs then people. ALPA should invest their time into starting a campaign to educate and notify wannabes of the realities of this industry so they don't make the same awful uneducated decision so many others have made. That would be a lot more useful then the miniscule changes that they have been fighting for years now to make to our contract that won't be respected by the company anyways.
No worries though, the big shortage is coming. Just remember regionals are 53% of all airline flying in the U.S now.
Nothing to even argue about, both companies are a joke. Just like 90% of regionals are a big joke, with pay and work rules suited more for dogs then people. ALPA should invest their time into starting a campaign to educate and notify wannabes of the realities of this industry so they don't make the same awful uneducated decision so many others have made. That would be a lot more useful then the miniscule changes that they have been fighting for years now to make to our contract that won't be respected by the company anyways.
No worries though, the big shortage is coming. Just remember regionals are 53% of all airline flying in the U.S now.
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