Flight Options

[waveoff]

Hey there waveoff how can you really say that a buyout/merger with Swift will never happen. Hell what about NJ and FO. After the Travel air and FO screw job, anything can happen.

You've got a point...I guess we'll just all have to sit back and see what happens then huh? I suppose the worst that can happen is that we'll all get another seniority number screwing. At least we won't be on the streets though!

 

[flyr4hire]

more wisdom from xrated

You're a dope xrated! Your standard contribution to ANY discussion involving Options: Options going under, getting bought out, getting sold, merged, and on and on. Tonker, Still think you're livin in a dream world. Seems to me that you have a distorted view of the the always helpful and efficient OCC (concerned about the pilot force and ready to help at every turn). Call me cynical 'cause I am, have seen how things work for more than 3 years now and my reality and yours are much different.

 

[fogrunner]

Same old stuff different day. I spent 5 years at FLOPS. The good the bad and the ugly. I was there for Kenny and Nahil. I don't know that KR really cared for the pilot group. I think he massaged the pilot group. There was a huge disconnect between what he advocated and what went on in the field. If you were a "friend of Ken"(fok) things were great. SFO was great if you were the 23 lucky individuals to benefit from it.
Joe S. told me if Raytheon had not come in, F.O. would have been out of business within about six months.

Nearly done with the DC-10 training. Checkride on Saturday night. I took a $35000 pay cut and lost 3 days off a month, however I am hopeful and confident in my new surrondings. I left many good friends who I miss. I don't miss working for Options, or the PM for the III. Has Tim M. broken the 3500hr mark yet?

 

[beechjetpilot1]

Another Good Deal

How do all of you FLOPs pilots feel about the new domicile program. For those of you not home, we got a mailing this week that says if your domicile is within 75 miles of another airport, logistics can now force you to drive to the other airport up to 75 miles away to catch airlines. They use the example of LAX/BUR/LGB/SNA/ONT. If I am based in ONT or SNA, you can bet that I am NOT going to drive 2 hours or more in traffic to LAX on day 1 and after a 16 hour day on day 8 drive 2 plus hours home....this is unsafe and we should fight it!!!! We have specific rules for domicile basing, and FLOPs needs to follow these rules. This is just another reduction in our quality of life. When are we all going to stand up for ourselves?

Furthermore, the new hotel deal we received in the same mailing is questionable. With that rate, I bet we won't still get points. Everytime they have some "good deal" for the company, we get screwed. We don't get paid industry standard and these points and living where you want make up for the difference. However, the more they take away, the less this job is worth it.

 

[dime line]

beechjetpilot1.............this is unsafe and we should fight it!!!!



and how do you think that we should flight this?

 

[beechjetpilot1]

simple refusal to accept those airlines.

 

[BE40Driver]

You should drive and park at your normal Domicile airport and take a taxi or rent a car to where ever your airlines or aircraft may be at the companies expense. This is why we have domiciles and we arrange and pay for parking! I have not recieved my mail yet, but that is the policy for day 1 and day 8 travel. also duty time starts when I pick up a car or taxi.

 

[Frac Daddy]

How do all of you FLOPs pilots feel about the new domicile program. For those of you not home, we got a mailing this week that says if your domicile is within 75 miles of another airport, logistics can now force you to drive to the other airport up to 75 miles away to catch airlines. They use the example of LAX/BUR/LGB/SNA/ONT. If I am based in ONT or SNA, you can bet that I am NOT going to drive 2 hours or more in traffic to LAX on day 1 and after a 16 hour day on day 8 drive 2 plus hours home....this is unsafe and we should fight it!!!! We have specific rules for domicile basing, and FLOPs needs to follow these rules. This is just another reduction in our quality of life. When are we all going to stand up for ourselves?

Furthermore, the new hotel deal we received in the same mailing is questionable. With that rate, I bet we won't still get points. Everytime they have some "good deal" for the company, we get screwed. We don't get paid industry standard and these points and living where you want make up for the difference. However, the more they take away, the less this job is worth it.

Don't have the mailing yet. Would that be 75 miles from your home or domicile? Certainly they can't expect a 3 hour response if you have to go from ONT to LAX.

And I am also sure that if you were based in ONT and had arranged for free parking there they would reimburse you for the parking at LAX, right? NOT!

 

[Fozzy]

beechjetpilot1.............this is unsafe and we should fight it!!!!


and how do you think that we should flight this?

Maybe you guys should file a Grievance. Oh wait, never mind.

 

[xrated]

Maybe you guys should file a Grievance. Oh wait, never mind.

Yup, they decided not to have a union.

Hey, fly4hire, just curious if you know when Swift is going to take over. If they don't will Options go out of business?