AirTran management pilots

[Hose A. Jiminez]

I notice that most of the senior AirTran management pilots bid 737 First Officer. Sounds like a concerted effort to get some guys to Dallas and in to the G.O. From what I have heard we will not like those guys being in management anymore than the AirTran guys did.

Any of our future brothers care to shine a light on what we might expect from your management pilots should they be successful in breaking into Flight Ops?

 

[Tripower455]

Being an optimist, maybe they can insert some common sense into the operation.

 

[Dude]

Tri,

That, or they'll fire people and let swapa try to get their jobs back.:uzi:

Seriously,

The trannies do not deserve the management they have and neither do we.

 

[PCL_128]

Well, it depends on the individual management pilot. Some of them are great, some of them suck, and some of them are just plain spawn of satan. I'm hoping that SWA management can weed out the bad ones and keep the good ones, but with the current rumor floating around about one of the guys that they apparently like, I'm starting to get worried. You really don't want some of these guys infiltrating your management ranks.

 

[texman]

Pcl, I hope so too. You guys need to speak up to our mgt/check airmen. If you have a run in with them. This has been a topic of conversation at Swa.

 

[8v8tr]

Well, it depends on the individual management pilot. Some of them are great, some of them suck, and some of them are just plain spawn of satan. I'm hoping that SWA management can weed out the bad ones and keep the good ones, but with the current rumor floating around about one of the guys that they apparently like, I'm starting to get worried. You really don't want some of these guys infiltrating your management ranks.

What about Tabor and Carol in planning-scheduling. I heard a rumor that SWA LUVs them. Please please please tell me not true or God be with us all!!!

 

[Cruncher]

Name the spawns of satin.

 

[75M]

I guess I had a different take on their SWA/737/FO bids. I thought that many of those guys wouldn't see the line until 2015,and therefore had the decency to NOT take a CA slot away from somebody else, only so that slot would go unused.

 

[PropPiedmont]

Name the spawns of satin.

I love satin. So, soft and smooth.

 

[PCL_128]

Name the spawns of satin.

Sorry, but both companies monitor this forum, and naming names could be grounds for discipline. Just ask the next AirTran pilot you see in the terminal. Everyone will name the same names.

 

[njcapt]

What about Tabor and Carol in planning-scheduling. I heard a rumor that SWA LUVs them. Please please please tell me not true or God be with us all!!!

Name the spawns of satin.

Sorry, but both companies monitor this forum, and naming names could be grounds for discipline. Just ask the next AirTran pilot you see in the terminal. Everyone will name the same names.

Since I don't work for AirTran anymore, I can share that the aforementioned Tabor would fall squarely into the don't-want-in-SWA-management column. Is Floy still in the flight department? He'd be one I'd keep.

 

[spitfire1500]

Since I don't work for AirTran anymore, I can share that the aforementioned Tabor would fall squarely into the don't-want-in-SWA-management column. Is Floy still in the flight department? He'd be one I'd keep.

I don't even work nor have interviewed at AT....and he treated me real well...top notch guy!!

 

[RadioClash]

I can think of a French moron that was/is in the training deptartment that you can add to that list...

 

[DonVerita]

It might be a good idea for you SWAPA guys to get in front of this train now while there is still time.

Suggestion: Quietly arrange an unofficial dinner meeting with our MEC Vice Chairman and Secretary/Treasurer in either of their home cities (one will fly to the other). They are both straight shooters and will tell you exactly how it is. They don't play politics.

Don't bother wasting your breath or time with the MEC Chairman. He is a non-line-flying politician who is about as out of touch as one can get and is only interested in feathering his own nest. You will never get a straight answer out of him.

 

[PCL_128]

It might be a good idea for you SWAPA guys to get in front of this train now while there is still time.

Suggestion: Quietly arrange an unofficial dinner meeting with our MEC Vice Chairman and Secretary/Treasurer in either of their home cities (one will fly to the other). They are both straight shooters and will tell you exactly how it is. They don't play politics.

Don't bother wasting your breath or time with the MEC Chairman. He is a non-line-flying politician who is about as out of touch as one can get and is only interested in feathering his own nest. You will never get a straight answer out of him.

Yep, spot on.

 

[B-J-J Fighter]

What about "Coach?"

 

[GuppyWN]

It might be a good idea for you SWAPA guys to get in front of this train now while there is still time.

Suggestion: Quietly arrange an unofficial dinner meeting with our MEC Vice Chairman and Secretary/Treasurer in either of their home cities (one will fly to the other). They are both straight shooters and will tell you exactly how it is. They don't play politics.

Don't bother wasting your breath or time with the MEC Chairman. He is a non-line-flying politician who is about as out of touch as one can get and is only interested in feathering his own nest. You will never get a straight answer out of him.

Isn't the MEC an elected position?

If he is out of touch and a "non" pilot how the heck did he come to represent you guys?

Gup

 

[beechdriver]

Yep, spot on.

On a side note, you might consider changing your avatar. Pretty sure you aren't ALPA anymore.

 

[27 driver]

On a side note, you might consider changing your avatar. Pretty sure you aren't ALPA anymore.

UM......we are ALPA and unfortunately we will be for a while. I don't think SWAPA wants anything to do with representing us.

 

[Hose A. Jiminez]

On a side note, you might consider changing your avatar. Pretty sure you aren't ALPA anymore.

They're ALPA until complete operational merger, or until the NMB decides that we are to be to the sole administer of their contract. There are a few different instances where this could happen. If (when?) it does, SWAPA will be required to manage their contract. Separate, temporary by-laws.