Airtran Opens App Window April 1st 0900

[DonVerita]

MAnagement will drag this out through the busy summer season to keep mediator happy then tell pilots to pound sand in fall. They will have new hires that were either unemployed and desperate or guys that quit jobs to come here. They are betting that financial reality will be greater than idealistic rhetoric and they will fly as newbies. Plus the few scabs that would gladly fly 100 hours a month, plus the guys that are just scabs in waiting that see opportunity to get in good with company and make lots of extra cash flying open time, plus there might be some that will be offered upgrade and will take it. You never know the true human heart until it gets ripped out. I hope none of that happens. I hope I hope I hope. I do not believe management is scared or worried or impressed about a strike vote. What is the worst thing that can happen to them? They shut down Airways and keep all the money they already made plus severance? Or better yet, AAI just starts alter ego airline that is non union and all the Republic scum of the earth fly them? This is going to be bad for us period.

Spoken like a true management lapdog.

You speak like the FI version of Fox News. Fear mongering, the sky is falling, doom and gloom, etc. etc. The ATN pilots are more unified than you think. We'll handle it and the outcome will be in our favor.

 

[bluefin]

APRIL FOOLS! 1423 et and no pilot positions posted. Yep I bit it too! I HAVE A FAMILY TO TAKE CARE OF! so ya gotta do what you gotta do! Since airtran is alpa, I would gladly cross the line! Where were they when my job was OUTSOURCED DOMESTICALLY? rooting to keep jobs from being outsourced overseas.

 

[Ty Webb]

MAnagement will drag this out through the busy summer season to keep mediator happy then tell pilots to pound sand in fall . . . blah, blah, blah

Time to grow a set, son, get up off your knees, and stop being afraid.

This airline is making money and will NOT take it to the mat. Boeing, and the Big shareholders won't let them.

PILOT PAY IS A FRACTION OF THIS AIRLINE'S CASM, AND WILL REMAIN SO LONG AFTER THIS CONTRACT IS SIGNED.

Educate yourself, have some confidence in your fellow pilots, and stop living in fear.

Ty

 

[LaGarbage Man]

Man this thread is getting ready to blow up big time.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

APRIL FOOLS! 1423 et and no pilot positions posted. Yep I bit it too! I HAVE A FAMILY TO TAKE CARE OF! so ya gotta do what you gotta do! Since airtran is alpa, I would gladly cross the line! Where were they when my job was OUTSOURCED DOMESTICALLY? rooting to keep jobs from being outsourced overseas.

This guy states in prior posts that he was hired at UAL in 2000. He says he was about 200 on the seniority list at that time at Skywest. He has been furloughed twice from UAL and was in the netjets hiring pool. This guy might be worth some work to find out who he is to make sure he gets a no vote from the inside.

 

[islandhoper]

Talked to our C.P. minutes ago...
He said HR was having problems setting up for the expected response to the open window.
It has been delayed a bit. He wasn't specific until when, but the feeling I got was that it should be up later today. More as the news develope...

 

[felixpuppy]

It's posted now!!

 

[Quiet Flight]

Link?

 

[felixpuppy]

Sorry about that. airtranjobs.com, do a search for open positions under flight operations and it will come up as First Officer with a link to apply.

 

[Quiet Flight]

Nope. Tried that. I don't need a job but I did notify several people about this opportunity... This is all that comes up after searching "flight ops" at this website:

https://airtran.taleo.net/careersection/10060/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en


Potential Milwaukee Based Flight Attendant

Full-time
US-GA-Atlanta

Job Posting:Mar 19, 2010-Requisition ID 090010GB

Apply|Add to My Job Cart


Aircraft Router

Full-time
US-FL-Orlando

Job Posting:Mar 16, 2010-Requisition ID 1000103Z

Apply|Add to My Job Cart


Crew Scheduler

Full-time
US-FL-Orlando

Job Posting:Mar 3, 2010-Requisition ID 1000103P

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Manager, Crew Planning

Full-time
US-FL-Orlando

Job Posting:Mar 3, 2010-Requisition ID 1000102Q

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[maxblast72]

What is the worst thing that can happen to them?

Airtran management could get sued by AAI shareholders if they tank this place and take AAI's stock price from $5/share to nothing.

They shut down Airways and keep all the money they already made plus severance?

Wrong, Airtran has over $1 billion dollars in debt that doesn't just disappear when management wants it to. Also, remember most of upper managements compensation is in the form of AAI stock, some of which hasn't vested yet. The top 15 guys at Airtran have around 2.5 million shares of AAI. That is alot of money to lose if they tank this place.

Considering that Airtran barely is able to run their 138 aircraft now with around 1,400 bidding pilots, do you really think they are going to be able to replace 1,000 or so guys quickly? We need management to come up with a business plan, obtain airplanes, and choose routes to fly them on while management needs us to fly airplanes safely and efficiently. If either side screws up or withdraws their services, Airtran Holdings starts bleeding money real fast. Why shut down a money making business that made on average a little more than $10 million a month in 2009?

 

[maxblast72]

PILOT PAY IS A FRACTION OF THIS AIRLINE'S CASM, AND WILL REMAIN SO LONG AFTER THIS CONTRACT IS SIGNED

Not exactly true. Pilot CASM at Airtran is about 10% of total CASM and the amount of money we are talking here is in the tens of millions of dollars per year.

To get this amount of money out the company, it is going to take a fight. Management is not going to say here you go, have fun. They will give it to us only after we pin them into a corner.

Save your money. You have about 4-6 months to top off your strike fund.

 

[YMICFI]

Posted?

It's posted now!!

Not posted...yet?

 

[LaGarbage Man]

It's posted, Completed and submitted @ 1615 EDT of course it didn't hurt that I managed to sneak in an application when they briefly opened it back in Jan. for the floaters in the pool. The app. was just a little different than the last so it looks like you need to resubmit if you are in the same boat.

 

[greyskyracer]

Is it on or not? I'm still having trouble.