ATTENTION EAGLE PILOTS-Furlough
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I am assuming you would disagree since there were many pilots hired with low time (500TT or less) in the recent years? We can agree to disagree, but as long as this attitude of "You need to pay your dues" continues then the senior pilots will continue to eat their young, negotiate ridiculously low 1st yr payscales, crappy reserve QOL for jr pilots, etc etc. Before you respond about how nobody is forcing a pilot to get hired for $21/hr and put up with the work rules please come up with something new because that is a weak, old, tired argument.
You are also looking at it solely from one viewpoint. As it is, I'm much more interested in not having to watch every single move the other pilot is making than if he/she is in a good mood. Granted, a good personality is important and makes the day go by easier, but you can not underestimate how much having a competent pilot that doesn't need to be watched every second of the day also makes the day more pleasurable. It is very tiring/draining to have to babysit each and every single minute of the day.
Other than that, and I agree with ya
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It's when pilots let their guards down when accidents happen don't you think? The last 2 CA's i have worked with don't even open their flight kit. Yes, they know each frequency/star/sid/approaches in each airport but it's small/poor habits like it that could lead to something bigger.
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Not sure, I'll have to ask. As of last month they still had people going through and the failure rates the last six months have been higher than previous norms as well.... but that can be a misleading fact, since there is no way to track if it was due to poor pilot quality/preperation or if they are testing harder to intentionally dump people. I suspect a bit of both.
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It's when pilots let their guards down when accidents happen don't you think? The last 2 CA's i have worked with don't even open their flight kit. Yes, they know each frequency/star/sid/approaches in each airport but it's small/poor habits like it that could lead to something bigger.
Is there anything besides lunch in the bag ?
No, I agree, even if they aren't going to look at the charts, they are setting a bad example for the CA in training sitting to their right.
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So basically now that Eagle has all "their" airplanes back from TSA they can furlough. Not forgetting TSA had to furlough a bunch of guys when they lost the Eagle airplanes. So essentially, ALPA screwed everyone on this deal? If I was airline management, I would be laughing really really hard at the irony of all this.
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So basically now that Eagle has all "their" airplanes back from TSA they can furlough. Not forgetting TSA had to furlough a bunch of guys when they lost the Eagle airplanes. So essentially, ALPA screwed everyone on this deal? If I was airline management, I would be laughing really really hard at the irony of all this.
How did ALPA screw anybody here? TSA had been flying AMR airplanes under a contract. Anybody taking a job at TSA was free to read the rulings from AMR/TSA/Eagle arbitrations and clearly see that based on the argument AMR used to win the arbitration, that eventually that contract would be gone.
Losing flying is something of a greater risk when the flying your doing isn't your own to begin with. That holds true across the board, not just at TSA. In most cases the subcontractor can hopefully bid on flying to replace what's lost. In the TSA case, it was obvious to anybody who ready the rulings, that eventually the flying - and the airplanes - would be gone. No airplanes, no way to bid on replacement flying... expect furloughs.
If the colors and logo on your jet don't match the source of your paycheck then how can you complain when the owner of the logo recalls their planes..... and how could ALPA be responsible for any of that?
But essentially you are correct in one regard. The planes had to return before they could easilly furlough.
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