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  1. thepotato232

    NetJets China Set To Start Ops in Early 2014

    Well, let's see: You've got your blood draw, urinalysis, EEG, ECG, cardiac stress test, abdominal, cardiac and carotid ultrasounds, chest x-rays... and that's pretty much it for Day One. Next up are the full eye and ear tests, colorblindness, blood pressure reading, followed by a full-body...
  2. thepotato232

    30 year Career: US Legacies vs Emirates/Qatar/Ethiad

    Mainland China can be a bitch to live, work and eat in if you're brand new to the area and haven't been through Laowai Indoc... but really? A week in Shanghai and you couldn't find anything to eat? I'm not sure when you last visited, but these days that's preposterous. Already dreading those...
  3. thepotato232

    Great Picture of Steve Wynn's New Gulfstream G650 - Gorgeous Airplane...

    LTTP, but the letters on the tail are are the name of the Wynn corporation - "Winglei" in Cantonese. A literal translation of the two characters would be something like "perpetual profit".
  4. thepotato232

    145 vs 200

    Same reason for forty year-old Diesel 9's over here - companies bought them years ago, and they're paid for. BAE just happens to be the local flavor over in Europe.
  5. thepotato232

    Republic and AMR in talks about "large RJs"

    I'm glad you were thrown some bones, but your late, unlamented 70+ seat payscale is public knowledge. In the hands of RAH's management crew, it could have done some real damage. Lynx was a small core of good folks who signed on to a bottom-rung compensation package in the hopes it would become...
  7. thepotato232

    Republic and AMR in talks about "large RJs"

    Actually, whatever levity might have came out of the end of Lynx was probably because it meant Bedford and the boys in Indy couldn't try to whipsaw existing Republic pilots against an even worse contract. Seriously, there's plenty of rage to go around on this board, but you choosing to make your...
  8. thepotato232

    Republic and AMR in talks about "large RJs"

    God damn it. I'd make a pilot shortage joke, but it would seem sadder than usual...
  9. thepotato232

    30 year Career: US Legacies vs Emirates/Qatar/Ethiad

    For my part, I worked a bit off and on in Africa since the RJ furlough, and only recently landed my current gig in mainland China. Now with a few ticks of the clock left before the big Three-Oh and just finding my first grey hairs in the mirror, I confess I don't really know what I would do...
  10. thepotato232

    30 year Career: US Legacies vs Emirates/Qatar/Ethiad

    Your daily reminder, ladies and gentlemen, that Dumb Pilot has a really good thing going and we all hate him very much. I keed, I keed... That's a really interesting piece of information. I would imagine there are some hard numbers out there somewhere as prevalent as expatriate work is these...
  11. thepotato232

    Can Someone Shed More Light Here?

    I know I'm going to come across as an irredeemable liberal pinko for saying this, but there isn't a [citation needed] tag on the internet big enough for this statement.
  13. thepotato232

    The end of Comair

    I think you're a little off on your timeline - the ESOP happened in 1994. The ugliness at UAL in the 80's was not about employee ownership, but it may have sown the seeds of the idea. Following the ESOP, hindsight suggests that the new owners failed to translate their new-found leverage into a...
  14. thepotato232

    The end of Comair

    One of many answers for why ESOP failed is that after acquiring a majority of the stock, the employees were still grossly underrepresented on the board of directors. Combine that with the corporate environment of the immediate post-9/11 panic and the fact that being the majority owners of a...
  15. thepotato232

    Walmart Pilots

    Inline, is it your honest belief that the current ills of corporate aviation can all firmly be laid at the feet of whatever jackass happens to be in the White House at the time, or are you just congratulating yourself for that oh-so-clever "Barry Hussein" crack by posting it every time someone...
  16. thepotato232

    Middle East Booming: Emirates to Hire 4,500 More Staff Starting April

    Plenty of folks on the PPRuNe boards griping about Emirates, Qatar, et al. The Etihad CEO is well known for his attempts at "controlling the message", which is a phrase that translates to English as "he's kind of a prick".
  17. thepotato232

    Hazmat, Emergency, IPC: Last Airline's Record

    Just had a question come up from a friend of mine whose prospective employer is looking to pick up a copy of his prior airline's Hazardous Materials, Emergency Training and International Procedures Course completion documents. His last airline didn't provide physical copies of the above to...
  19. thepotato232

    Could someone smart explain SKYW stock's continual decline?

    To be honest, if you're expecting smart reasons for SKW's stock being in the toilet, I'm not entirely sure you have a realistic perception of the stock market. The average investor is a panicky, misinformed creature. The average investor has been told that gas costs a lot, and that SKW is not...
  20. thepotato232

    18-Month Old Yanked From Flt; On No Fly List

    :puke: Enjoy the show, folks. We're paying for it, after all.
  21. thepotato232

    Sukhoi SuperJet dissapears on demo flight, 46 on board

    FAULT would be normal on the ground with the aircraft not ready to fly, but OFF is a selected position, which isn't SOP for any aircraft I've flown in any normal phase of operation. All this is baseless speculation, of course...
  22. thepotato232

    1261 days to go!

    I don't have the same problem with the rule change that so many other folks here seem to, but let's not pretend this was done with "minimizing the impact to younger guys" as a major priority. Folks who didn't already have a good seat when the music stopped are not feeling the love, and the...
  23. thepotato232

    Woman sues Southwest over large passengers policy

    This is America. Everyone here has a right to sit and eat themselves into the 300+ club if they wish. They even have the right to try and hop onto a privately owned mode of conveyance and tell the unfortunate souls next to them to kiss their fat ass. But the people providing said conveyance have...
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