Fortune magazine article on Sokal

[wolfpackpilot]

I just did my expense report from my last tour. I have hotel receipts from:

London
Dublin
Bermuda
Nantucket
Dulles
Santa Monica

And that was a 7-day tour. We do 14 hour days standing on our heads in the Gulfstream fleet...

 

[jonjuan]

I just did my expense report from my last tour. I have hotel receipts from:

London
Dublin
Bermuda
Nantucket
Dulles
Santa Monica

And that was a 7-day tour. We do 14 hour days standing on our heads in the Gulfstream fleet...

Do a 5 legger in the Yultra. Guaranteed you'll be doing the "Crying Game" at the end of the day.

 

[CRJFlyer]

I just did my expense report from my last tour. I have hotel receipts from:

London
Dublin
Bermuda
Nantucket
Dulles
Santa Monica

And that was a 7-day tour. We do 14 hour days standing on our heads in the Gulfstream fleet...

Thats 4 outta 6 solid overnights....Could do without IAD or ACK...Santa Monica might be my new favorite overnight...Maybe someday I'll get back there.

 

[glasspilot]

I AM the man from KACK.

 

[wolfpackpilot]

Do a 5 legger in the Yultra. Guaranteed you'll be doing the "Crying Game" at the end of the day.

No doubt. Point being the company is utilizing pilots unlike they did in the past.

 

[jtf]

Not necessarily true- 2006 was far busier for me on the Excel. That was due to having lots of airplanes, but not enough pilots getting through the training tunnel. It is back to normal times for me now on the Excel. Some days are brutal and others are do nothing and others are somewhere in between. It is definitely busier than the last couple of years, but not crazy all the time yet. I definitely believe things will get busier and busier until we reach the breaking point before current management will recall, but I don't think we are anywhere close to that. It is going to take a heck of a lot more fatigue calls that co$t the company more than it costs to recall.

 

[Jack Campbell]

It is going to take a heck of a lot more fatigue calls that co$t the company more than it costs to recall.

I think the breaking point will be selloffs if it is not fatigue calls. Either way, they won't recall anyone until they absolutely, positively need to.

 

[RP170]

I think the breaking point will be selloffs if it is not fatigue calls. Either way, they won't recall anyone until they absolutely, positively need to.

Which, by then, will most likely be too late.

 

[Jack Campbell]

which, by then, will most likely be too late.

bingo !

 

[rajflyboy]

I just did my expense report from my last tour. I have hotel receipts from:

London
Dublin
Bermuda
Nantucket
Dulles
Santa Monica

And that was a 7-day tour. We do 14 hour days standing on our heads in the Gulfstream fleet...

Thats exactly why you can have it and most of us do not want the International side

 

[rajflyboy]

Are you guys also having trouble with CMH not answering phones, making mistakes, being rude, etc etc ???

It appears to have gotten worse in the last few months.

Did DS cut too many FM's considering what they do now? They basically do everything in CMH now outside of maintenance and dispatch.

Bottom line is that pilots should talk directly to scheduling. We should not have to use a go between. We can have a professional conversation with scheduling. I think it would actually help morale on both sides.

 

[gunfyter]

Why would we discuss that here on Flight Info? Somewhat boring for people not involved.

But I never call Columbus. General Message is my primary means of communications... and only use voice to call in to MX for MELs.

 

[gutshotdraw]

Bottom line is that pilots should talk directly to scheduling. We should not have to use a go between. We can have a professional conversation with scheduling. I think it would actually help morale on both sides.

WE did. We had a great relationship with our ops center. Talk to skeds, talk to dispatch, talk to travel. Whatever was needed to take care of the customer, the company, the jet, and the crew. Mores the pity of what's happening right now. I DREAD the day we flip the switch to CMH.

 

[rajflyboy]

WE did. We had a great relationship with our ops center. Talk to skeds, talk to dispatch, talk to travel. Whatever was needed to take care of the customer, the company, the jet, and the crew. Mores the pity of what's happening right now. I DREAD the day we flip the switch to CMH.

I hear ya man. Every other place I worked in aviation the pilots talked directly to scheduling. I don't see a need for a "Go Between".

 

[rajflyboy]

Why would we discuss that here on Flight Info? Somewhat boring for people not involved.

But I never call Columbus. General Message is my primary means of communications... and only use voice to call in to MX for MELs.

If they don't answer the general message then what?