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[redflyer65]

You don't see a lot of things through your ALPA rose colored glasses.

Completely agree Kharma.

 

[JT12345]

To the OP.

GMAFB

More trolling. Get a life.

 

[Flyer1015]

First chance? He's been bypassing for months.



Sorry, but you won't get that opportunity for me. For the same reasons that Lear is transitioning early, I'm looking at the possibility of resigning around the November timeframe, earlier than I had originally planned. With the "de-hubbing" of Atlanta that they've announced for this fall, the schedules just aren't going to be my cup of tea. Whether I resign early just depends on whether we have enough staffing to be able to drop most of my schedule every month. If we don't, then I'll have to hang it up before the end of the year. If staffing allows me to drop most of my schedule, then I'll probably stay until I can use next year's vacation in the first few months of the year, then I'll be gone. Either way, there won't ever be a transition class for me. Sorry to disappoint you.

Can I ask, why did you even become an airline pilot? Flying commercially in your teens, had to wait for age 23 to upgrade at Pinnacle, by this time already holding union rep positions (PCL 128), and then hired at Aortran mid 20s, which is soon all SWA. You went out of line flying quickly to union positions, and scored the full time buyout position. You probably set a record for young age at ALPA National as EVP. It seems you went out of your way to drop trips and not fly. Now you're still young, and driven for union business. So what is finally doing you in? Don't like the idea of being a 20 year SWA FO? Or the fact you can't be an ALPA rep/EVP at SWAPA? Here you are at a young age at SWA and now you are quitting this business? Good luck to you, I'm not sure this flying career was your cup of tea. Hopefully you can find a position at some union gig because that's where your heart really is.

 

[waveflyer]

That's true Flyer1015- but it isn't for many-
Which is the problem with many union reps and chiefs- they don't like to fly which is why they aspire to the office -
My question and statement has always been how can y

 

[waveflyer]

Nice tbc

.....how can you represent pilots when you barely fly? When it doesn't bug the hell out of you not to fly? But ok- lots of us look for time off- how can you represent pilot interest when you don't fly a full line? We all know an airliner can look awfully different cherry picking a convenient 10-20 hours/month vs 88/month after month after weekend after holiday, year over year, ad nausea...

Enjoy that office and not fully understanding the life of a line pilot

 

[PCL_128]

I think anyone who has flown thousands of hours as a line pilot with a normal schedule for years understands the life of a line pilot. He doesn't forget just because he's been in the office for a couple of years. It's a ridiculous argument, usually made by people who would like to be in the office themselves.

 

[SWA/FO]

dude - only special people like to be in the office.

Hey PCL, I heard a rumor you are really big into flying flight simulator on a PC? My question is: if its true, why not pick up a trip and actually fly a real airplane + get paid for it?

Also it was stated that there is a picture of you... somewhere, flying "flight simulator" with a joystick in the food court in Philly while you were enjoying some ground time. :cartman:

 

[PCL_128]

Hey PCL, I heard a rumor you are really big into flying flight simulator on a PC? My question is: if its true, why not pick up a trip and actually fly a real airplane + get paid for it?

I don't even own a PC. Haven't owned a computer with Windows installed in nearly a decade.

Also it was stated that there is a picture of you... somewhere, flying "flight simulator" with a joystick in the food court in Philly while you were enjoying some ground time. :cartman:

Nope, not me. If I was in a food court, I'd be eating.

 

[Phlintstone]

I think anyone who has flown thousands of hours as a line pilot with a normal schedule for years understands the life of a line pilot. He doesn't forget just because he's been in the office for a couple of years. It's a ridiculous argument, usually made by people who would like to be in the office themselves.

IMO, it is not about you understanding what it is like on the line. It is about your credibility with the folks flying the line. If the folks have faith in your ability to "know what it is like" then you can do better work as their representative. If they have no faith, then folks are divided and we get crappy representation...look what we got for an SLI.

Phred

 

[Kharma Police]

I think anyone who has flown thousands of hours as a line pilot with a normal schedule for years understands the life of a line pilot. He doesn't forget just because he's been in the office for a couple of years. It's a ridiculous argument, usually made by people who would like to be in the office themselves.

That's funny. You sound just like the non-flying management pilots that you despised for your very brief airline career.

 

[JT12345]

IMO, it is not about you understanding what it is like on the line. It is about your credibility with the folks flying the line. If the folks have faith in your ability to "know what it is like" then you can do better work as their representative. If they have no faith, then folks are divided and we get crappy representation...look what we got for an SLI.

Phred

More trolling nonsense right here. You all a bunch of fire starters. Get a life.

 

[Ty Webb]

Hey, if I bash PCL :smash: too, can I be in the club again?


:laugh:

 

[PCL_128]

IMO, it is not about you understanding what it is like on the line. It is about your credibility with the folks flying the line. If the folks have faith in your ability to "know what it is like" then you can do better work as their representative. If they have no faith, then folks are divided and we get crappy representation...look what we got for an SLI.

Phred

The SLI? An interesting example for you to bring up, since the pilot group had the ultimate level of faith in the Merger Committee, and members of that committee went out of their way to maintain currency. How'd that work out for you?

 

[Phlintstone]

The SLI? An interesting example for you to bring up, since the pilot group had the ultimate level of faith in the Merger Committee, and members of that committee went out of their way to maintain currency. How'd that work out for you?

It is not that folks had "ultimate level of faith in MC," it was that the line pilots had ZERO faith in the MEC (The LH regime) and demanded the MC be "hands off." In anything that big, there needed to be checks, balances AND clear direction. Absent those things from the MEC results in personal influences, opinions and desires become the metrics. The root cause of the merger mess was the weak MEC. GK and SWAPA saw it and played it to their advantage. How can you NOT see that?

As far as how everything is working out for me, I don't know yet...I am still flying the line here at AT as opposed to dropping reserve duty to play ALPA games.

Phred

 

[SWA/FO]

Hey PCL - I like to eat too!!