As the 3 stooges are classic comedy, you old schoolers were more classic! Nothing like having a good laugh at the expense of your CPs and they laughing as well with no harm done.
9-5 hired me, could of fired me but I swear loved me at the same time! Hope Ed is well wherever he is. What a...
Are you talking about the old D Con crew room with the huge glass walled smoking room facing the BA 777(facing the approach end of 23?)? The same crew room that Mesa crews would microwave some of the nastiest smelling things known to man and then DH for half price? I miss that crew room.
There's lots of ex-Chicken at NetJets...Jimmy(the ex-wrestler) included!! I'm not there but know one well and others just from flying with them at the Chicken. Feel free to PM me, I think I know where to lead you to ex-Chickerners that are there and enjoying it.
Wasn't it Grant with his cane that sold the Chicken to JO? INT was shutdown by JO because that was an "old Piedmont" commuter haven to CLT. All sorts of other places were such down by JO in eastern NC. I remember hauling around a mainline CP between CLT-HKY! Does USAir even serve SOP...
Looking at my first paystub from the Chicken as a newhire FO on the Jetscreamer in 1999 I was making $20.43/hour. If I recall, JO wanted FOs to take a paycut to $13/hr or something and become a EMB-145 base or something.
You serious?? Alot of senior guys at CAL don't even know who XJT is and what we fly. Now they might, after 10 years of growing now shrinking. They voted in a substandard contract in '97 while letting their scope get loose, then they voted in a concessionary contract in '04...good luck in '08...
What's the date man?? I'm friends with a few of the younger Chicken group but with help of the elders on here, I think it would be quite a turn out. 285..is that the Earnhart look a like that I like to call "doom and gloom"?
Well hell, after 4 pages and the Chicken lives on!! Who would of thought this with the cut-thoat business of "regionals"? I'm amazed at some of the posts and names that I remember! I will start the whole thing but I'm gonna need some help. The Mesa guys have a rough schedule, so they need lots...
Poor "Norm," he loved his coffee and Chicken Marsula....from Carrabas...hated flying with him at the time...thinking of him all stapped in the Jetstream sweating like a pig....priceless, miss that.
A reunion woud be fun. If there's a poster in CLT, we need to get it down to ATL for the...
So is there going to be a Chicken reunion of some sort or is the short count coming back alive? What was it..."How 'boutcha!?" you would always hear to get things started?
Because of the XJT branded flying, it's suppose to be a focus city or something like that. I doubt the RDU base will happen due to the competition with AA which will mean just through flights or whatever you wanna call them.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say most newhires can expect...
The only thing that I have close to that is calling BA's 777 into CLT a "speedturd"...after calling in the "times" Ed laughed when I was summoned to his office in the trailer with Matt F. We smoked a few butts together still laughing about what I had done.
The CLT ramp is so quiet now and somewhat boring without all the Jetstreams racing around the concourses to spot 2! Many fond memories and learning experiences under the "Carolina" call sign.
Any of you guys remember Uncle Buck out of of ISO? I think he went to mainline and then got furoughed. Or Matt F., the crazy body building Iranian? Think he's at UPS as well. Wally out of ISO went to ATA.
Ex-Chicken Jetscreamer from 99-01
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