CHQ or XJET

[Flyer1015]

I'm still waiting for a response from "Ben Franklin"

 

[generaltso]

superpilot: didn't you just get on with XJ? of course you are still excited. The fact is that you are something like 2500 out of 2700 pilots right now. Upgrade is no where in sight and you are working at a place with too many 50 seaters... a place that could easily be downsized within the next couple of years.

You reek of flight instructor turned 22yo excited regional airline pilot. A few months with a regional and you have all the answers.

 

[Superpilot92]

quote=generaltso]superpilot: didn't you just get on with XJ? of course you are still excited. The fact is that you are something like 2500 out of 2700 pilots right now. Upgrade is no where in sight and you are working at a place with too many 50 seaters... a place that could easily be downsized within the next couple of years.

You reek of flight instructor turned 22yo excited regional airline pilot. A few months with a regional and you have all the answers.[/quote]

First off I work for XJT not XJ. Wrong airline goober.

The Fact is you dont know the first thing about me or my seniority number so STFU. This job may be about the excitement for you but My job isnt about excitement its about supporting my wife and son. You just sound like you want bad things to happen to my company and keep expressing it. Dont down play me because i am not some 22 yr old pilot factory kid. I earned my job by working hard for it and graduating college and i paid for my own ratings.

Please elighten us on your background, what airline are you at because you have all of the answers obviously.

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

super, go take your lithium pills

and maybe kick your kid

you're a pilot, not a brain surgeon, most of us went to college

 

[Superpilot92]

super, go take your lithium pills

and maybe kick your kid

you're a pilot, not a brain surgeon, most of us went to college

go take some ritalin a$$, i will let my kid piss in your face.

I wasnt pretending that i was in anyway better than anyone else. dont be so sensitive homey.

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

go take some ritalin a$$, i will let my kid piss in your face

dayum, son, you got some serious issues with golden showers

 

[Superpilot92]

dayum, son, you got some serious issues with golden showers

You figured me out!! You know what its the picture in your avitar it makes me think of golden showers. I dont know what it is about it.

 

[Standby 1]

You know, everytime I read a post that refers to the CAL/XJT CPA and how XJT is going to lose their flying, it just reeks of sour grapes to me. The regional industry is in the crapper right now, what with furloughs, alter-ego companies, wage concessions, etc, and there are a lot of regional pilots who can't stand to see any other pilot group hanging in there. Right now, XJT pilots aren't doing too bad. SO WHAT? Why does that burn some of you so badly?? Can't you just be happy for them?

Things aren't perfect at XJT, of course. But every time I turn around, I see yet another post from someone OTHER than an XJT pilot saying that the company will furlough or you'll never upgrade or you'll lose your flying in two years or CHQ/Mesa/whoever will take your flying from you. It's like being in the playground of a Kindercare. You all have absolutely zero knowledge of what's going to happen at XJT down the road - none of us do. Those posts really do come across as a perverted sort of jealousy.

Personally, I am dismayed when I read about furloughs going on at ABC airlines. I'm also thrilled when I hear that another pilot group is doing well in some area. We are all pilots here and forget that we're supposed to be on the same side. Perhaps all this petty "you work for a loser airline" stuff is just a branching out of the non-unionized, alter-ego airline crap where we all just stab each other in the back. Either way, it sucks.

rant over, sorry.



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[Flyer1015]

From name calling, to telling someone that their kid will piss on your face...



I love the level of maturity on this board.

 

[Superpilot92]

Dont read it then! Its just good healthy Whining.
Slowly click the X in the top right hand corner and back away!!!!!

 

[Flyer1015]

Dont read it then! Its just good healthy Whining.
Slowly click the X in the top right hand corner and back away!!!!!

go take some ritalin a$$, i will let my kid piss in your face.

That doesn't sound like whinning. That sounds like someone utterly immature and p*ssed off.

Oh well, do as you please.

 

[mckpickle]

Why did you stay then? I know anything can happen, but if that was my point of view I would have bailed given the chance. Granted you have more job security than a new hire, but when it rains, it pours, and if thing go south here it will be bad for everyone.

I stayed because I still have confidence in this place. (what am I smokin right). I knew this period was going to be rough. I've been the guys saying for years this IPO crap is a shiit sandwich. But truth is that by going to CAL I wouldn't break even for 7-8 years. Which in my mind is an eternity. I think it's rather amusing that we see what has happened in the regionals but don't think it could happen to us. Sure we have a better product than Mesa but it'll still be thrown in our face that they are cheaper.

Honestly the junior folks should hope more guys think like me. In the near future we MAY (the following is based on my opinions and not any other information) be facing pay/work rules cuts and furloughs. It's no secret that CAL has little use for 37 seat a/c. Of which we have 30. Of which represents 300 pilots. We have a choice, adjust our contract to become more competitive or lose flying. From where I'm sitting on the seniority list why should I care? Lots of guys in my spots would vote no for any changes and let them furlough 300/500....or 1000 or 1500 pilots. Either way I'd still be at the top. I'd just go from the top 5% to the top 12%. But I can look at the big picture, try to keep this place alive and with as many pilots as possible. Or say, F it, last one out hit the lights. I'm not sure.

Something will need to be done to appese CAL. Hopefully we can do it through things like fuel savings, APU use, great product etc etc. But when the time comes we will have a choice to make. I for one will look at it from every angle. I will choose based on fact/reality and not emmotion. This is a great place to work. I'd recomend that anyone try to work here, however under the current situation with the renegotiations of the CPA and the possibilities of reduced flying I think someone who got hired here today may well be furloughed in a year. If there are other safer options availible I'd look at it. It doesn't change the fact this is still about the best regional and the best contract to work under.

 

[captjim]

Pickle, get the hell off of this board and bang your girlfriend! If you don't I will!!!!

 

[Superpilot92]

That doesn't sound like whinning. That sounds like someone utterly immature and p*ssed off.

Oh well, do as you please.

Nope no one is pissed off here. Nor immature i am just giving him a hard time. Relax Fracis

 

[mckpickle]

Pickle, get the hell off of this board and bang your girlfriend! If you don't I will!!!!

Let do a trade...I'm bored