Congratulations to the CAL boys

[Pocono Pilot]

I heard that you fought the company hard and got your unlimited water back. Flight attendants are no longer required to report you for asking for a full bottle of water while on the flight deck.

Nice work on that! Lesser pilot groups would have probably rolled over and flown without access to water.

They took it away, you got it back, and now you celebrate the victory!

 

[BID]

It has little to do with water, but more to do with the respect of our captains. The company, with the help of the union finally saw the big picture.

I know you are being ironic, but this is good for us. Our union is going to be up for a good fight next year and we need to set the tone right now. It looks like our union is slowly getting more aggressive and I am very happy with their efforts.

I still question your motive and your dislike for CAL. IMHO, you do not act like someone that turned down a job at CAL, instead you act like a scorn woman who just got dumped.

 

[TNPILOT]

Pocono as an fellow XJT pilot you are an embarassment. Are you so ignorant that you can't see that your job is dependent upon CAL's success? Or are you so ignorant that you believe branded flying can sustain us? Grow up.

 

[flynd94]

And we wonder why CAL likes to dump on us..... Like TNPilot said, you don't understand that we need a good working relationship with CAL, you do nothing but, destroy our image.

Please take a long walk off a short pier.. Or go get laid, I think you need some to loosen you up

 

[say again]

Hey Pocono, you're still very bitter over your rejection from CAL I see!!! Have a water on me.

 

[XJohXJ]

"Little things" like unlimited access to water matter a lot more than you might think.

 

[EMBpilot]

It's all part of the game. Welcome to the club.

Company tightens the nuts and then.. "OK, we love you guys, take water (insert whatever) as much as you want".

Later on it'll be one of the cards of "continuing working together" and "I am proud to be on your team" to crush our efforts in the eyes of fellow coworkers and possibly even free press when we demand a 40% pay raise.. aka "we are so good to you and you are so greedy".

 

[crashpad]

I can't believe it's come to this! We are professionals having to do battle with mid-level manager-preps who think it's smart business to deride airline pilots and crap on our profession!

 

[CAL EWR B737]

I was teaching P2P classes in EWR most of last week and have detailed information that I can't share on a public forum reference the water event. What I will say is alot went on behind the scenes our MEC Chairman, MEC and SPSC acted appropriately and this is a much bigger victory then it appears on the surface.

If we stand shoulder to shoulder all 5000 of us, we can achieve our goal of an industry leading contract. Last week certainly was a nice infusion of adrenalin to me.

I am prepared to do whatever it takes (legally of of course) to achieve our contractual goals.

 

[Scrapdog]

I was teaching P2P classes in EWR most of last week and have detailed information that I can't share on a public forum reference the water event. What I will say is alot went on behind the scenes our MEC Chairman, MEC and SPSC acted appropriately and this is a much bigger victory then it appears on the surface.

If we stand shoulder to shoulder all 5000 of us, we can achieve our goal of an industry leading contract. Last week certainly was a nice infusion of adrenalin to me.

I am prepared to do whatever it takes (legally of of course) to achieve our contractual goals.

CAL - don't even try to rationalize with this dude (or chick). She/He got shot down by CAL months ago and is bitter and continues to stew in her/his failure.

He/she is like a festering wart - just ignore it and it'll eventually go away.

 

[Pocono Pilot]

Still bummed out that all your friends are at FedEx and you are stuck at CAL, crapdog?

I still can't believe that you posted that on a message board since you are still on probabtion, but whatever. LOL

 

[Charlie Brown]

Is it true you guys at CAL are going for FedEx plus 1%? I have several friends at CAL, and I wish you all the best.

Oh yeah-- Pocono you are not fooling anyone.

 

[TAWS]

Which costs more:

A couple of bottles of water each leg, or starting both at the gate and draggin' a$$ on a nice slow taxi out (with the APU running)???

How did it ever come to this? More importantly, how did you guys let it come to this? (This is not a smarta$$ comment, but a serious question)....

 

[Paris]

You have to be kidding!! No water before? How does this happen at a MAJOR LEGACY airline? I guess the same way first year $31/hour FOs happened.

 

[cybourg10]

$31,000 a year AND unlimited water to fly a 757? where do I sign up? Honestly I would take the job at CAL just to say I don't work at the same company as Pocono.

 

[flygirlqt]

Just ponder this thought for a moment...she got turned down by Mother CAL and is a female. Now that really says something.

I also heard from a union source that this was only the tip of the iceberg. It is about time calalpa grew a pair.

 

[CAL EWR B737]

Just ponder this thought for a moment...she got turned down by Mother CAL and is a female. Now that really says something.

I also heard from a union source that this was only the tip of the iceberg. It is about time calalpa grew a pair.

BINGO and WE DID!!!!

 

[CAL EWR B737]

CAL - don't even try to rationalize with this dude (or chick). She/He got shot down by CAL months ago and is bitter and continues to stew in her/his failure.

He/she is like a festering wart - just ignore it and it'll eventually go away.

Scrapdog,

I stopped communicating with Pocono some time ago. My post was to all of our CAL brothers and sisters out there. I am confident after meeting with my friend and CA EWR rep Al Brandano that we have our sh*t together and we have the ingredients to negotiate a FED EX type of Industry Leading Contract!

Now off to teach P2P class in EWR.

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

I heard that you fought the company hard and got your unlimited water back.

PocoHo pilot, go back to your kitchen. Stop being so bitter since CAL rejected you. Ever wonder why the EWR guys all ignore you?

 

[BigMeat]

Now off to teach P2P class in EWR.

Thanks for taking the time to make a diffrence. I know its going to pay off in 08!