70-seat RJ's flying for CAL

[IAHERJ]

Are you and Joemerchant related? Not a single thing iaherj has said is untrue. Bottom at CAL is better than top of any POS regional.

Thanks, it's not like I enjoy repeatedly having to state that my airline has the worst contract of the legacy carriers except maybe U.S. Airways(who had to file bankruptcy twice to get below us). It doesn't inflate my ego to have to state more than twice this week that as crappy as my work rules and pay are, I'll still easily earn more than the highest paid regional captain, and I'm a lowly first officer. I don't do it to try and thumb my nose at regional pilots. Look at my profile. I was one. I was also a LCC pilot so you won't see me puting down AirTran pilots either. I just have a hard time listening to regional pilots bitch on one hand about the lazy mainline pilots who allowed all this outsourcing a decade ago(when I was a regional pilot myself) then get upset with us on the other hand for vowing to take it back. We are now blowhards and cocky for wanting to take 70 seat flying back all of a sudden. What do you guys want? I think i know what you want but I'm not going to go that direction right now.

 

[BID]

I hope they outsource all your flying. The mainline carriers haven't done really any true hiring in 10 years. First 9/11, then 65, enter ********************ty economy... So just because some of us have made this our careers because of the recent conditions so be it.. Bottom line, I make more than many mainline F/O's and have more days off and a better QOL.
And due to the piss poor pay scales and QOL issues many RJ drivers have decided to stay than sit RSV in MSP on the DC-9 for Delta. I am on the fence, but seeing your weak mainline drivers are giving up more flying to me, I just might stay after-all.. Enjoy the right seat, sounds like you may be there for awhile.

ha enjoy your justification for making a regional your final career stop. Yes, it's much better at a regional. yes, much better. Feel better ? Just remember you work for a contract airline, the contracts will expire, it's not your flying. Odds are you don't even have a reservation center, or marketing department. So don't cry when your contracts seize to exist.

I have many friends who have made a regional their final career stop. But they don't kid themselves. They understand the risk and have accepted the fact that the flying could one day go back where it came from MAINLINE.

 

[BUDDHA145]

i really doesnt metter that mainline pilots bla bla bla!!! or the regional pilot bla bla bla!!!

management holds the strapon with no lub, so lets keep getting it...
...back to my Scoth to ease the pain!!! cheers ouch.

 

[luckytohaveajob]

CAL is now UAL's regional.

CAL is closing down its departments and merging them into UAL's. UAL's reservations, marketing, name, and identity is the survivor. UAL's structure is the one being preserved and CAL's destroyed. HQ was moved to Chicago not Houston.

CAL is just another contract flying for UAL. CAL is the worlds largest regional. And CAL already has a regional contract with an incompetent union.

 

[Twisted Mind]

I really hope we can start the process of bringing in the "big" RJ flying.

You need to take it all back. Including the T-props or it will not work and managment will have everyone right back to square one.

 

[Twisted Mind]

Don't worry about other people’s decisions. Staying at a regional is their choice and if they are happy let them be happy.

 

[IAHERJ]

CAL is now UAL's regional.

CAL is closing down its departments and merging them into UAL's. UAL's reservations, marketing, name, and identity is the survivor. UAL's structure is the one being preserved and CAL's destroyed. HQ was moved to Chicago not Houston.

CAL is just another contract flying for UAL. CAL is the worlds largest regional. And CAL already has a regional contract with an incompetent union.

Indeed, you are lucky to have a job....

 

[luckytohaveajob]

IAHERJ, how much soft time did you make last month? ZERO! Because CAL pilots do not get paid unless the door is closed and the engines are turning.

Most regional pilots get paid for all kinds of soft time. CAL pilots vocabulary does not even understand the concept.

And CAL has never had a contract with rigs.

 

[BID]

IAHERJ, how much soft time did you make last month? ZERO! Because CAL pilots do not get paid unless the door is closed and the engines are turning.

Most regional pilots get paid for all kinds of soft time. CAL pilots vocabulary does not even understand the concept.

And CAL has never had a contract with rigs.

and once again you are WRONG ! dude, get your facts straight or pipe down. I mean seriously. All you do is ruin threads. At least, in the very least get your facts straight. But am curious who do you work for ? they have rigs and soft pay at your airline ? You a captain, what is your pay rate ?

 

[IAHERJ]

Really? Tell me about my rigs. You mean the layover I had in EZE(that is Buenos Aires, Argentina for you XJT ipod dudes) didn't have a rig that kicked in? Please tell me more about my contract. Lets see, I bid reserve a month or two a year and get paid around 81 hours of 757 pay to fly less than 5 hours for the month. How much of that pay is "soft"? It is obvious you fly for XJT and got turned down by CAL. I can just feel it. Good luck in life. The rejection list from CAL does get merged in with UAL's rejection list, BTW. I hear Allegiant is looking for a few good ******************************s...

 

[luckytohaveajob]

Name one category you got paid soft time last month doing?

You are obviously the liar. CAL pilots do not have soft time.

How much did you get paid for a day of training? 2 hours

How much did you get paid to fly 2:30 minutes to FL from EWR? 2.5

How much did extra did you get paid to fly graveyard? Intl ops?

How much extra your monthly schedule pay over its block? ZERO!

What the hell are you talking about you got paid soft time? You work for CAL.

 

[luckytohaveajob]

Getting paid to sit on reserve is not soft time.

It is a perfect example of how little a CAL pilot understands the big leagues.

CAL pilots have no concept of what a contract is as they have never worked under anything but a regional contract.

 

[IAHERJ]

I made 10 K last month and had more days off than I ever had at your little airline where you try to act like a real airline pilot up to the point where 80% of your passengers are still waiting for their purses and handbags to be handed to them in the jetway because they can't fit in the overhead "slot"....

 

[luckytohaveajob]

Thanks for listing your resume in your profile.

I however only have listed Boeing as that is all you need to know.

Ask me a technical Boeing question if you want to verify my credibility.

 

[IAHERJ]

When you grow a set and at least admit to this board which airline you fly for, I need not explain anything further to you. You have issues for sure. Why your chosen target is CAL is something only you know. Look forward to discussing our next contract with you. Hope it continues to lower your jumpseat priority on UAL/CAL....enjoy