Great news for PDT poolies!

[Sig]

Bang on post, Lear24.

Trainer- off the top of my head.. 2 Airtran, 1 CAL, 1 JBLU, 1 NAA in the past handful of months are the ones I know about. The guy on the 75 at North American says it's a piece of cake; I'd imagine the MCDU on the airbus at jetBlue must be like some whacked out crazy dee-vice that nobody outside of an MIT postdoc program can figure it out. C'mon, dude- this isn't rocket surgery.

 

[PA31Ho]

apparently everybody that interviewed at piedmont today got sent home after the written test... they changed the test fyi

 

[ceo_of_the_sofa]

apparently everybody that interviewed at piedmont today got sent home after the written test... they changed the test fyi

How many interview dates are they doing?

 

[BoilerUP]

Had a bunch of friends that got whacked back in October after failing the written test.

Live by the gouge, die by the gouge...

 

[trainer8]

Bang on post, Lear24.

Trainer- off the top of my head.. 2 Airtran, 1 CAL, 1 JBLU, 1 NAA in the past handful of months are the ones I know about. The guy on the 75 at North American says it's a piece of cake; I'd imagine the MCDU on the airbus at jetBlue must be like some whacked out crazy dee-vice that nobody outside of an MIT postdoc program can figure it out. C'mon, dude- this isn't rocket surgery.

Five? Captains or FOs?

As far as EFIS...don't shoot the messenger, I'm sharing the info. Check it out for yourself.

Lear24, have you read the Flow Thru proposal, the one from 8.26.05? The one that proposed returning CEL pilots coming back as new hires, not to their original DOH?


9. Pilots’ Seniority at PWO Carriers

Except for specific bidding provisions applicable to Jets for Jobs pilots at a PWO Carrier, pilot seniority for all bidding purposes at a PWO carrier will be in the following order (including among U pilots during the alternating bidding procedure of LOA 92 PSA Large SJs):

A. Pilots (including Jets for Jobs pilots) employed by the PWO Carrier as of the date of signing of this Agreement, in their seniority order,

B. then APL pilots who have become employed by the PWO Carrier after the date of signing of this Agreement, in their relative seniority order,

C. then the carrier’s New Hire PWO pilots, in their CEL order.


So the proposal breaks the PWO seniority list three ways, essentially placing CEL pilots who are APL pilots below their original PWO DOH.

For those AAA pilots interested in coming back to PDT, this language won't fly. It will have to be hammered out more.

T8

 

[WSurf]

Do worry there will be tons of stuff that will have to be hammered out! But why would anyone wanna leave RP and come fly a old worn out Dash 8 anyway?

 

[trainer8]

Do worry there will be tons of stuff that will have to be hammered out! But why would anyone wanna leave RP and come fly a old worn out Dash 8 anyway?

Don't think they do. Most will be E-170 Captains by summer if these AAA recalls keep going. All J4J classes are filled as of 3/20. But there may be MDA CEL furloughees who mightt want to come back.

T8

 

[Sig]

Five? Captains or FOs?

As far as EFIS...don't shoot the messenger, I'm sharing the info. Check it out for yourself.

Captains. Again, they're the ones I know about (flown with, can point them out in a crowd, they know my name, etc) in the past few months. Not a flood, for sure. Which further illustrates the lack of seats to be had recently for the displaced guys- the ones that don't want to push us out.

Now EFIS is the deal breaker? Dang. Shuuuure is faintzy, with them vector graphics and all. EICAS and all that whiz-bang stuff? Dang again. Do they display engine condition in dynes, and airspeed in decimeters/week? Must be UTTERLY alien stuff.

Nobody in this industry is trainable, from what I gather. Isn't the old saw about the intransitive property of flying cubs and concordes true anymore, or hoowhat?

 

[WSurf]

Remember the saying about the Future Cockpit! It will be a Dog and a Pilot! The pilot is there to feed the Dog, and the Dog is there to bite his hand if he touches anything!!!

 

[OPECJet]

The dogs have to pay for training, and their union isn't happy about it.....

 

[check6]

apparently everybody that interviewed at piedmont today got sent home after the written test... they changed the test fyi

Not good for me! Time to crack the ATP book. . .

 

[mnalpha]

confirmed from SBY base re-alinment. PHP, and CLT are going bye-bye

 

[WSurf]

confirmed from SBY base re-alinment. PHF, and CLT are going bye-bye

Well that was only a matter of time! I feel for the CLT people (once FL people) now those folks are looking at 2 Leg commutes! Man, and you had 17 year Captains sitting reserve in CLT!! Grrrrrrr!

EWN is Bad, really bad!!! You CLT and PHF folks don't wanna come down to this hick town.... its terrible!!! LOL, Jking!!! Good Luck to all those folks if this is true!!!

 

[ceo_of_the_sofa]

What does this mean, again? I am pretty new at this airline game, but isn't KPHP in S.Dakota? When did PDT spread its wings there?

What about new hires? What bases are slim on FOs right now?

 

[PA31Ho]

so what does that mean for the last guy on the totem pole in EWN? I'm only guessing bad things.. lol

and what the hell is PHP?