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11-27-2013, 05:32 AM
#31
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Staller and his follow-on monikers haven't hijacked and destroyed a thread......has it been weeks, or months?
Guppy's suck. The lCAL pilots I fly with have flown many other aircraft and complain about it as much as I do. The only pilots I have met that like it are the young starry-eyed ex RJ instructors in the Puzzle Palace South Campus.
I actually had 3 of them start the sim brief with "It is not a guppy anymore, it is a real airplane. And they are all ETOPS!"
LOL Flame suit on.
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Guppy's suck. The lCAL pilots I fly with have flown many other aircraft and complain about it as much as I do. The only pilots I have met that like it are the young starry-eyed ex RJ instructors in the Puzzle Palace South Campus.
I actually had 3 of them start the sim brief with "It is not a guppy anymore, it is a real airplane. And they are all ETOPS!"
LOL Flame suit on.
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11-27-2013, 07:37 AM
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If you'd be so kind to reference my o.g. post on this topic...never once said that only lcal pilots can/could fly the guppy...it's just funny how some poke fun of it,compare it to a 757, etc...then after whining about it, jump all over it.
But seeing how today is yet another day of no reserve, I'll tangle a bit...by scab-a-thon, are you referring to that wicked, evil, satan breeding scab company "CAL", who hired the poor furloughed UAL pilots at like 100 bones or more an hour( in a sheety *** economy, mind you)?? This merger has brought out the best and yet the worst of some keyboard commands, but from an entertaining perpestive, it's glorious!
But seeing how today is yet another day of no reserve, I'll tangle a bit...by scab-a-thon, are you referring to that wicked, evil, satan breeding scab company "CAL", who hired the poor furloughed UAL pilots at like 100 bones or more an hour( in a sheety *** economy, mind you)?? This merger has brought out the best and yet the worst of some keyboard commands, but from an entertaining perpestive, it's glorious!
The only reason there was still a CAL side was because we needed a SLI to integrate and the company recognized the cost savings of the no work rules contract on that side, and took advantage of that as long as possible.
CAL stopped existing well before they furloughed pilots came back.
11-27-2013, 07:52 AM
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"CAL" didn't hire the furloughed pilots. United did. They put them on the old L-CAL side of the airline because it was cheaper to do that.
The only reason there was still a CAL side was because we needed a SLI to integrate and the company recognized the cost savings of the no work rules contract on that side, and took advantage of that as long as possible.
CAL stopped existing well before they furloughed pilots came back.
The only reason there was still a CAL side was because we needed a SLI to integrate and the company recognized the cost savings of the no work rules contract on that side, and took advantage of that as long as possible.
CAL stopped existing well before they furloughed pilots came back.
11-27-2013, 08:36 AM
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Well the planes had United painted on them and the callsign they used was United and the paycheck said United. Also the ID badge said United.
11-27-2013, 09:38 AM
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Federal Aviation Administration - Airline Certificate Information - CALA014A
11-27-2013, 10:44 AM
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I have no problem with some of that statement ...minus the brain surgeon culture, minus the throw other pilots under the bus so I can gain whatever, the beating of the chest.."we're gonna do( insert action)" and the sound of crickets chirping loudly in the background .....and since its almost turkey day, I'll throw ya a bone..minus the scab(mentality) as well...so no problem right?
11-27-2013, 11:41 AM
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Ah yes, but they were, are, and forever will fly under the Continental Airlines certificate. If we're going to parse it.
Federal Aviation Administration - Airline Certificate Information - CALA014A
Federal Aviation Administration - Airline Certificate Information - CALA014A
Only because Air Micronesia is a separate certificate under that one and it was cheaper to do it that way when United bought Continental than to use the existing United one.
11-27-2013, 11:53 AM
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11-27-2013, 12:01 PM
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I don't see how UAL pilots "won" the SLI. My relative percentage is the same as before, and that is considering that we weren't a huge guppy airline, we actually have lots of big aircraft.
I see a guy who was hired in 2005 being senior to a 1998 hire as the real winner. Its like 7 years of bonus seniority.
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