100LL... Again!
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mckpickle said:Frank Lorenzo Has lifetime benefits on CAL. He has a home in ACK. Of course is only boarded after revenue pax. However I do believe a weight restriction would take care of that problem I never got the chance to do it to him as a captain, but when I was an ATR FO I knew Captains that did. An ATR weight restricted.......Imagine that
TiredOfTeaching said:I am betting that they will furlough the new guys like me and then offer the oppurtunity to go to work at G0 Jets. Bunch of new crap just come down today and it stinks.
Told the whole new hire class that we where going to be in STL instead of RIC now and advised the CA upgrades to bid STL for a better deal. I'll be surprised if in December I still have a job with Ttrans States. All this today and they want me study tonight?
DX Rick said:He's actually made his face seen in public? Wonder if the "hitmen" who were after would like to hear this.
TiredOfTeaching said:I'll be surprised if in December I still have a job with Ttrans States. All this today and they want me study tonight?
Lear70 said:Quick and dirty version: management wants to outsource TSA's flying to different pilots, rather than deal with the existing union, so they created a NON-ALPA "alter-ego" carrier (NOTE: NOT non-union -- company could care less if pilots are union or not), G0Jets, and are trying to bring it up to speed using Trans State Airline's training department, instructors, etc.
Basically, taking jobs and outsourcing them to cheaper labor (the rumor is that pay rates will be "close to or better" than existing TSA book, but I'm betting the rest of the contract, when taken as a whole, is less expensive than TSA's).
The evil of this, of course, is that there a pilots out there who are ready, willing, and able to undercut the TSA pilots just to get a flying job, KNOWING FULL WELL that they are undercutting another pilot group. About as close to being a scab as you can get without an actual picket line existing. Basically Mesa / Freedom Air all over again.
I'm still not quite understanding why management doesn't barter more with the TSA pilots, but I haven't followed it as closely as I probably should.
FreedomAList said:All more or less true, BUT YOU FORGOT ONE THING!
ALPA gave TSA the excuse it needed to do this by having competing scope at ANOTHER ALPA CARRIER that prohibited TSA from operating CRJ700's on it. So to fly the planes, TSA had to create an alter-ego (GJs). TSA could care less if the pilots want a union or not (they went with teamsters). Same thing happened at Mesa/Freedom (Usair ALPA wouldn't let Mesa ALPA fly >50 seats for America West).
ALPA f-ing another ALPA group, if you ask me. But at least they can point the finger at a ready made scape-goat, and get away with it because 99.9% pilots just don't give a rats.