Hold on tight

[fischman]

You're welcome for the hundreds of former owners who came from netjets and were lured away by cheaper prices. I'm sure many of the current 495 thank you as well.

That was a heartless thing to say.

Go get some class.

 

[FR8DOG777]

Do us all a favor, when your phone rings asking if you want to return, say no. Please say NO!

Wow 12 whole posts on flight info by a company stooge. Way to go, keep drinking that blue juice koolaid.

 

[X-rated]

You're welcome for the hundreds of former owners who came from netjets and were lured away by cheaper prices. I'm sure many of the current 495 thank you as well.

And they're welcome from the 100's of corporate flight departments that shut down when they "gave their owners" to Netjets.

This thinking is beyond stupid. No company owns their customers/aircraft owners. They are free to make the best deal they can for themselves, and they vote for the best solution with their feet. Treat them right, or someone else will.

 

[CL300Pilot]

^^^^^^^ second most intelligent post in years^^^^^^^^^

 

[LAZYB]

You're welcome for the hundreds of former owners who came from netjets and were lured away by cheaper prices. I'm sure many of the current 495 thank you as well.

The truth only hurts if it should...

 

[acaTerry]

This whole thing is just sad. How many times do we NJA pilots, Flex pilots, CS pilots and everyone else including airline guys see each other around the airports, hotels etc and its all pleasantries and sharing the bar each night. Then in here it's cutting throats, slinging mud and name calling.
We all do the same damn thing: we sacrifice our lives and our families to make life convenient for everyone else. In the grand scheme of things, whether Flex got this company's owners, or this corp flight dept closed because of Marquis, so on....what hand did any PILOT have in it? We're all just pawns in what our leadership teams do.
I remember when I was a regional pilot in my 30s and I got all wrapped up in the whole airline vs airline thing. Air Cheese got OUR jets! No fair! Oh look, we lost RDU because someone else took it! Bastards! As time went on and I grew up in mentality I realized that the pilots had nothing to do with it, it's all just a big game that managements play for the growth of their companies.
So how can a NJA pilot accuse the new FLOPS/Flex pilots for "stealing" our owners? I think Prince Harry and his crack team of yes men are the culprit, not fellow pilots who just like us, want simply to get through a tour, go home and get paid.

 

[BushwickBill]

This whole thing is just sad. How many times do we NJA pilots, Flex pilots, CS pilots and everyone else including airline guys see each other around the airports, hotels etc and its all pleasantries and sharing the bar each night. Then in here it's cutting throats, slinging mud and name calling.
We all do the same damn thing: we sacrifice our lives and our families to make life convenient for everyone else. In the grand scheme of things, whether Flex got this company's owners, or this corp flight dept closed because of Marquis, so on....what hand did any PILOT have in it? We're all just pawns in what our leadership teams do.
I remember when I was a regional pilot in my 30s and I got all wrapped up in the whole airline vs airline thing. Air Cheese got OUR jets! No fair! Oh look, we lost RDU because someone else took it! Bastards! As time went on and I grew up in mentality I realized that the pilots had nothing to do with it, it's all just a big game that managements play for the growth of their companies.
So how can a NJA pilot accuse the new FLOPS/Flex pilots for "stealing" our owners? I think Prince Harry and his crack team of yes men are the culprit, not fellow pilots who just like us, want simply to get through a tour, go home and get paid.

Well said.

 

[gutshotdraw]

This whole thing is just sad. How many times do we NJA pilots, Flex pilots, CS pilots and everyone else including airline guys see each other around the airports, hotels etc and its all pleasantries and sharing the bar each night. Then in here it's cutting throats, slinging mud and name calling.

Cause it's an anonymous message board amigo so I can call you a turd and get away with it.....oh, wait, you know who I am....

We all do the same damn thing: we sacrifice our lives and our families to make life convenient for everyone else. In the grand scheme of things, whether Flex got this company's owners, or this corp flight dept closed because of Marquis, so on....what hand did any PILOT have in it? We're all just pawns in what our leadership teams do.

Mongo just pawn in game of life.

I remember when I was a regional pilot in my 30s and I got all wrapped up in the whole airline vs airline thing. Air Cheese got OUR jets! No fair! Oh look, we lost RDU because someone else took it! Bastards! As time went on and I grew up in mentality I realized that the pilots had nothing to do with it, it's all just a big game that managements play for the growth of their companies.
So how can a NJA pilot accuse the new FLOPS/Flex pilots for "stealing" our owners? I think Prince Harry and his crack team of yes men are the culprit, not fellow pilots who just like us, want simply to get through a tour, go home and get paid.

Good point bud.

As you well know, there are more important things to worry about than beating each other up on a message board....

Unless it's MCDU, or Wave, or instructordude....then it's cool to do some bashing

 

[Sparse]

I heard from a CS pilot that the deals were struck last week. Directional buying both. The original poster of this thread said more was to come. I hope for the CS pilots that is true. If so it will be Cadillac (flex), Chevy (CS), and rent-wrek (_____). Look out NJ.

 

[acaTerry]

GutShot....I'll take those replies as "Hey Terry, first round is on me" next time I see you.

 

[gutshotdraw]

First and second. Maybe even the third...unless it's snooty beer.

 

[GooseHZ]

PBR baby!!

 

[fischman]

First and second. Maybe even the third...unless it's snooty beer.

I'll take the 3rd. :beer:

 

[G4dude]

The Flex guys are going to be hating this when it is all said and done ask any ex-RTA pilots.

Yep. Can't see this as good news for FlexJet pilots. Bummer.

 

[GooseHZ]

lol....G4...aka B19.....shows up right now???......lol how predictable.

 

[G4dude]

lol....G4...aka B19.....shows up right now???......lol how predictable.

What are you talking about?

 

[gutshotdraw]

I'll take the 3rd. :beer:

Good thing Stag isn't snooty beer....

 

[fischman]

Good thing Stag isn't snooty beer....

What are ya talkin about man!?! It's Golden Quality since 1851! Says so on the can.

 

[gutshotdraw]

What are ya talkin about man!?! It's Golden Quality since 1851! Says so on the can.

:beer:

 

[Fresh Air]

It's been a couple of days now, and the enormity of our (FO pilots) screwing is just beginning to sink in. After 5+ years of grinding our faces into the dirt with fire-sale wages, worn out equipment, and Nextant Franken-jets, our parent company just spent 185 mil to buy a competing fractional, and pledged to spend another 5.2 billion to make it the classiest, most modern fleet in the industry. For the first time ever, I literally couldn't eat last night, my food stuck in my throat.

To paraphrase that great old quote by Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation:

"Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Kenn Ricci, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there in Cleveland with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-azz, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey sh1t he is! Hallelujah! Holy sh1t! Where's the Tylenol?"