Bye bye Colgan

[great cornholio]

Climbhappy...nope upgrade hours are still the same. Actually Beech ugrades are gonna slow way down since we are getting rid of one Beech per month and replacing it with a Saab. General...Find out the first day or 2 of class they said that this class will be pretty close to 50/50 J41 and ERJ guys. Maybe I can get a cup holder that will be nice.

 

[climbhappy]

flying a jet is cool. last night i pushed the PA by mistake and when I was responding to the FA call, I answered, "Hello, Hello,
Hello" the passengers erupted. this one FA fed me mcdonald's cheesecurgers all week. i never knew jet jockeys had all the fun.

 

[flyboy]

Man, there sure are a lot of you Colgan guys headed to TSA. I have a friend that was a Colgan FO that just got on with TSA as well.

 

[chperplt]

Man, there sure are a lot of you Colgan guys headed to TSA

There are a lot of EX Colganites going everywhere. They see the light...

Good luck to everyone!!!!

 

[TSA Pilot]

Congratulations on your move to TSA. OK.... Trans States can be a tough place to work and employees are treated as somewhat of a nusiance.

Not true. We are treated pretty well and our current MEC does a good job in protecting us from abuse.

The training is demanding and the company is run on a shoestring. The cheapest of everything except the airplanes.

All training is demanding, and your right but some of our airplanes are cheap too, we bought about 10 USED EMB-145's and they are ordering all the new ones without thrustreversers to save money.

Possible IAD base if that's what you want. A real seniority system. ALPA (well....it's better than good will from the Colgans) Most important....they will be around regardless of what happens to their major airline "partners". They have no loyalty to any particular major. When TWA tanked TSA just moved on to greener pastures. They'll do the same if UAL or their other "partners" belly up.

Welcome aboard! Trans States is really a great place to work. You can also bet on seing some 70 seat RJ's here before too long our MEC (ALPA) is currently in negotiations for 70 seat payscales that dont resemble Mesa's.

Big talk right now of expanding IAD with United. A domicile is possible.

TSA Pilot

 

[WhiteCloud]

Not true. We are treated pretty well and our current MEC does a good job in protecting us from abuse.

If that's true then things have improved greatly at TSA since I was there (8 years ago). I enjoyed my time at TSA and learned a lot while I was there. Hopefully the MEC doesn't have to work to hard to protect you from abuse.

 

[GateGirl]

How's school gate??

school is great, I am having sooo much fun!

 

[great cornholio]

school is great, I am having sooo much fun!

Ask her about the fish she just killed.

 

[GateGirl]

Ask her about the fish she just killed.

I didnt kill it on purpose... (Dont worry Charlie the ops fish is still alive, this was another fish, a gold fish!) It just died so we threw it over the balcony... Poor thing...

 

[great cornholio]

Thats what happens when you buy a fish for 24 cents.

 

[climbhappy]

question: why

do all the colgan threads usually feature as their theme, a goodbye,or a see ya? or a didn't let the door hit me in the butt!

is this mere coincidence?

did the senator get reelected?

 

[BRA]

i know LVE just left, does anyone know if anymore C models are in the shop to leave??

 

[chperplt]

i know LVE just left, does anyone know if anymore C models are in the shop to leave??

Not talking about airplanes here.. Way to stay in the game!!!

 

[BRA]

relax over there

 

[great cornholio]

Re: question: why

do all the colgan threads usually feature as their theme, a goodbye,or a see ya? or a didn't let the door hit me in the butt!

is this mere coincidence?

did the senator get reelected?

I think that one is simple.....because other places are hiring.

Im pretty sure the senator did get reelected.

BRA....word on the street...just heard it last night is that one Beech is leaving per month starting with the C's then eventually working thru the D's so there will be no/none/zero Beechs there next year.

 

[THE Flying Ace]

All training is demanding, and your right but some of our airplanes are cheap too, we bought about 10 USED EMB-145's and they are ordering all the new ones without thrustreversers to save money.

Hope she doesn't get too icy or showy!

 

[THE Flying Ace]

my bad....snowy

 

[chperplt]

eventually working thru the D's so there will be no/none/zero Beechs there next year.

And then when the 1st crisis hits, all but one or two saabs get parked and the rest get sent packing..

 

[BRA]

No colgan thread is complete without some discusion of the aircraft i think. Where is the rumor coming from about all the beeches going away by next year? from another pilot.....or from manassas??, conference calls??? And why do the phones at headquarters break so often??

 

[great cornholio]

Another pilot said the rumor....but if you really pay attention to the conference calls you can see that when you do the math on the stuff they are saying that the D's will be gone too...and they have said time after time that they want to be all Saab anyways. We could all guess on why the phones are messed up, but there is usally alot of construction on that end of town and the crews have been cutting through the power or phone lines a couple times a year.