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Well, Larry Kellner, CEO, thinks we should not be in contract negotiations and we are some of the highest paid pilots in the industry.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/6330885.html


Here is an excerpt from the article. Note the difference in tone from the JP Morgan Airline Conference.

"Kellner acknowledged Continental's labor costs are on the high end of the industry. But he said the current economic situation might not make it the best time for negotiations with mechanics and pilots, whose contracts became amendable at the end of 2008."

 

[SFR]

Did you hear about the FOs that got threatened with firing and had their probe extended for tending to their family and very prego wife during the last hurricane? The CPO reamed em.
The funny thing was there was a DNU from on high that said for everyone to remember to take care of their family during this event.

NOT TRUE!!! I was on reserve the day before the hurricane hit (IKE) and was good until the following Tuesday.

I got called for a IAH-MCO flight which would leave at noonish the day before the hurricane hit and have a 48 hour layover in MCO. I asked scheduling i fmy wife and daughter could go and he said that they could not positive space them. I said "ok, but I am telling you now that if they don't get on that I am walking off the plane". I got a call from the chief pilot for that and I told him the same thing......long story short, they got positive space tickets!! And I never heard another word!!

Stand up for yourselves!! I also asked the CPO where I should park my car because I did not want to leave it in the parking lot when a hurricane came thru. They said they did not know where else to park. Oh well, I parked in Marriot lot, underneath. Ended up being free, no attendant when I got back.

Point of story, don't listen to anyone. Be in control yourself and no CPO will bother you. If they feel they can intimidate you, they will. If they know they can't, they won't waste their time.

 

[Homer Jay]

NOT TRUE!!! I was on reserve the day before the hurricane hit (IKE) and was good until the following Tuesday.

I got called for a IAH-MCO flight which would leave at noonish the day before the hurricane hit and have a 48 hour layover in MCO. I asked scheduling i fmy wife and daughter could go and he said that they could not positive space them. I said "ok, but I am telling you now that if they don't get on that I am walking off the plane". I got a call from the chief pilot for that and I told him the same thing......long story short, they got positive space tickets!! And I never heard another word!!

Stand up for yourselves!! I also asked the CPO where I should park my car because I did not want to leave it in the parking lot when a hurricane came thru. They said they did not know where else to park. Oh well, I parked in Marriot lot, underneath. Ended up being free, no attendant when I got back.

Point of story, don't listen to anyone. Be in control yourself and no CPO will bother you. If they feel they can intimidate you, they will. If they know they can't, they won't waste their time.

Uh, that was TOTALLY true! You really are a piece of work.

 

[Paul R. Smith]

TRUE!!!

Stand up for yourselves!! I also asked the CPO where I should park my car because I did not want to leave it in the parking lot when a hurricane came thru.

:erm:CLASS!!!

"Hey I know your busy and all with a total hub meltdown and an impending natural disaster, but where should I park? I don't want any water damage."

And you know damn well my post was true.

 

[CaptSeth]

Hmmmm...copyright infringement case looming!?


FUPM was a slogan at ATA several years ago...."Eff You- PAY ME!"


YKMKR

I know the guy that thought of it. He's an odd sort, given to bizarre rants and speaking in tongues, but occasionally he blurts out something that makes some sense, in a strange way. We wanted to use it as our slogan for our section 6 at ATA, but ALPA NATIONAL SHUT IT DOWN. I guess we weren't BIG ENOUGH to be ABLE to DETERMINE OUR OWN COURSE OF ACTION.

FUPM, ALPA.

 

[pipe]

NOT TRUE!!! I was on reserve the day before the hurricane hit (IKE) and was good until the following Tuesday.

I got called for a IAH-MCO flight which would leave at noonish the day before the hurricane hit and have a 48 hour layover in MCO. I asked scheduling i fmy wife and daughter could go and he said that they could not positive space them. I said "ok, but I am telling you now that if they don't get on that I am walking off the plane". I got a call from the chief pilot for that and I told him the same thing......long story short, they got positive space tickets!! And I never heard another word!!

Stand up for yourselves!! I also asked the CPO where I should park my car because I did not want to leave it in the parking lot when a hurricane came thru. They said they did not know where else to park. Oh well, I parked in Marriot lot, underneath. Ended up being free, no attendant when I got back.

Point of story, don't listen to anyone. Be in control yourself and no CPO will bother you. If they feel they can intimidate you, they will. If they know they can't, they won't waste their time.

The idea of a union is that everyone doesn't have to constantly "negotiate" their own way.

PIPE

 

[Whine Lover]

"I know the guy that thought of it. He's an odd sort, given to bizarre rants and speaking in tongues, but occasionally he blurts out something that makes some sense, in a strange way."

Legend will have it that he was ..."A Madman".

Somewhere on the Psychosis Scale between Edvard Munch, Edgar Allan Poe, and yet....Just this side of Norman Rockwell.

An Enigma, if you will.

A Shadow. He dances among you. Your lack of cognizance feeds his Light.

A question mark upon the very Soul.

Something that no Man has asked for.

Yet, that which he ultimately must face....


YKMKRGHYA

 

[DontFeedTheBear]

NOT TRUE!!! I was on reserve the day before the hurricane hit (IKE) and was good until the following Tuesday.

I got called for a IAH-MCO flight which would leave at noonish the day before the hurricane hit and have a 48 hour layover in MCO. I asked scheduling i fmy wife and daughter could go and he said that they could not positive space them. I said "ok, but I am telling you now that if they don't get on that I am walking off the plane". I got a call from the chief pilot for that and I told him the same thing......long story short, they got positive space tickets!! And I never heard another word!!

Stand up for yourselves!! I also asked the CPO where I should park my car because I did not want to leave it in the parking lot when a hurricane came thru. They said they did not know where else to park. Oh well, I parked in Marriot lot, underneath. Ended up being free, no attendant when I got back.

Point of story, don't listen to anyone. Be in control yourself and no CPO will bother you. If they feel they can intimidate you, they will. If they know they can't, they won't waste their time.

You are a true @@s!!! The story could not be more true...

 

[SFR]

You are a true @@s!!! The story could not be more true...

uh, whatever.

 

[whatitdoing?]

It's a true story.

 

[SFR]

:erm:CLASS!!!

"Hey I know your busy and all with a total hub meltdown and an impending natural disaster, but where should I park? I don't want any water damage."

And you know damn well my post was true.

Hey, I don't work for the current contract, I let the current contract work for me!

So, are you mad that I was able to make lemonade out of my lemons? What is the problem?

I thought you all said I was trying to get a CP job, kinda puts a hole in your story huh....

 

[skywdriver]

Hey, I don't work for the current contract, I let the current contract work for me!

So, are you mad that I was able to make lemonade out of my lemons? What is the problem?

I thought you all said I was trying to get a CP job, kinda puts a hole in your story huh....

hey buddy, you should try making lemonade out of your lemons on furlough. all of your "life is great for me" stories make me sick when you know there are people from the same company you work for out on furlough. what goes around comes around my friend!

 

[DontFeedTheBear]

Hey, I don't work for the current contract, I let the current contract work for me!

So, are you mad that I was able to make lemonade out of my lemons? What is the problem?

I thought you all said I was trying to get a CP job, kinda puts a hole in your story huh....

You are a perfect example of why the current contract is in place! Don't worry, someone will piss in your lemonade....LOL

 

[Paul R. Smith]

uncle.

 

[AA717driver]

"Kellner acknowledged Continental's labor costs are on the high end of the industry. But he said the current economic situation might not make it the best time for negotiations with mechanics and pilots, whose contracts became amendable at the end of 2008."

SO F@&KING WHAT?

Exec compensation is up more than 400 times what it used to be. No complaints from the CFO on THAT issue.

AA is at the top in compensation, too. Never mind that, in real dollars, we're working for less than AA paid in 1992.

I'm making the same today as a 767 FO as I made in 1996 as a TWA 767 FO when adjusted for inflation.

So, senior management, take your rantings about employee cost and shove them up your A$$!

FUPM. TC

P.S.--And to all those hand-wringing chicken-littles out there who are 'afraid to hurt the company'--FU, too!