I won the lottery!

[Cowboy75]

I understand that I, as a former America West pilot am holding a lottery ticket. My so-called lottery ticket since winning in 2005 is seeing friends furloughed, Captain downgrades and having to spend money defending myself against a union bent on taking my job.

So please tell me, where is my winning lottery ticket? I'm looking for specific examples.

 

[crj567]

Thanks, bud-but that is one lottery you can just keep.

 

[Cowboy75]

Thanks, bud-but that is one lottery you can just keep.

It's a winner, why would you not want it? Misery, loves company, you know.

 

[Colonel Savage]

Most people who win lotteries wind up with their lives ruined. Is that what you're talking about?

 

[Cowboy75]

Most people who win lotteries wind up with their lives ruined. Is that what you're talking about?

I've seen it first hand. If US Airways asks you to dance, run! Parker wants a new partner.

 

[get2flyin]

You won the lottery, too? Aw, sweeeeet! Me too! Expecting to get furloughed in the spring!



MCDU in 3...2...1....

 

[Captain Jeff]

Dont you wish you could sell your seniority number? I would love to put mine on ebay.

 

[St. Nic]

You are GD right you won that lottery! Most of us here understand the concepts of DOH and experience- maybe you will figure it out one day. I think I speak for a lot of us, quite you're complaining!

 

[Cowboy75]

You are GD right you won that lottery! Most of us here understand the concepts of DOH and experience- maybe you will figure it out one day. I think I speak for a lot of us, quite you're complaining!

As far I am concerned, you should be selling lottery tickets at the local 7/11. I think ol St Nic was too kind.

At least I interviewed and was hired at the company located in Tempe, AZ. How about you? Nic is the list, get over it pal.

 

[AWACoff]

You are GD right you won that lottery! Most of us here understand the concepts of DOH and experience- maybe you will figure it out one day. I think I speak for a lot of us, quite you're complaining!

So you are willing to give DOH to all the other pilots who US Air acquired in various mergers, right.....?

 

[St. Nic]

Nix isn't anything but a piece of paper. And btw I was hired 20 years ago. How about you???

 

[St. Nic]

So you are willing to give DOH to all the other pilots who US Air acquired in various mergers, right.....?

Those mergers all ready happened! Quit stirring up the past it does nothing to help unify this pilot group!

 

[BoilerUP]

Those mergers all ready happened! Quit stirring up the past it does nothing to help unify this pilot group!

"Do as I say, not as I did."

One has to at least appreciate the stupidity of unmitigated hypocrisy...

 

[Cowboy75]

Nix isn't anything but a piece of paper. And btw I was hired 20 years ago. How about you???

DOH where, the old US Airways? LCC was formed in 2005 after the acquisition. I've been in the airline industry for over 20 years. Maybe I should be allowed to count the years at bankrupt carriers I worked.

I watched your side get your butts handed to you in court. That piece of paper is going to dog you and it is people like me who are going to make sure that happens.

Now pay attention, back to my original question, what exactly did I win with my so-called lottery ticket?

 

[St. Nic]

Listen pal, AWA was the toilet bowl of the profession and I am sorry you couldn't get hired by a nicer outfit. What you and your buds want to do is destroy the bedrock of this profession -- DOH. Fortunately, many pilots at other airlines agree withDOH as the standard. Nice is and always will be a piece of paper. Sorry you are having trouble cashing your lottry ticket.

 

[LaGarbage Man]

Oh Great !!
Another East vs. West crap throwing thread. We needed another one of these.

 

[Sandhawk]

Listen pal, AWA was the toilet bowl of the profession and I am sorry you couldn't get hired by a nicer outfit. What you and your buds want to do is destroy the bedrock of this profession -- DOH. Fortunately, many pilots at other airlines agree withDOH as the standard. Nice is and always will be a piece of paper. Sorry you are having trouble cashing your lottry ticket.

Pretty GD funny stuff right there - I had 2 Useless Crashways pilots interview with me at AWA - I wonder why they would want drop so low as to interview at AWA? Oh wait, they had been furloughed for quite a few years from their "dream job"!

BTW - heard they found another Eastie name on the ALPA Scab list? It appears more than one Eastwipe sprinted across that line in Houston in the early to mid 80s. Thought there weren't any scabs at AAA ?

 

[BeCareful!]

OK, so you found former scabs on the list....whatcha want? A cookie?

You thought there weren't scabs over here? You must have read that on the Internet, where all good, modern "information" comes from.

Yeah, there are scabs, useless ALPA-lovers, guys who don't even know we have pilots on furlough right now. What's your important point here(?), that you read inaccurate info on FI.com? Call FOX News!!!

 

[Cowboy75]

Listen pal, AWA was the toilet bowl of the profession and I am sorry you couldn't get hired by a nicer outfit. What you and your buds want to do is destroy the bedrock of this profession -- DOH. Fortunately, many pilots at other airlines agree withDOH as the standard. Nice is and always will be a piece of paper. Sorry you are having trouble cashing your lottry ticket.

You must be one of them "union" pilots that I pass with my Cactus badge backer. Have any idea why I wear a Cactus badge backer? It is because I have to defend myself from the very union that claims to represent me. It cost me over $1000 for that piece of plastic. Funny thing, you guys are always looking at the floor. What are you looking for? Are you looking for your integrity because your "union" is trying to screw fellow pilots.

Yeh, I was busy destroying the profession while us air was destroying aircraft. Would you care to compare safety records prior to 2005?

One other thing, your callsign is Cactus not Catfish.

 

[say again]

:bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling:

 

[Tail Gunner Joe]

Did you pick the 'lump sum' or the 'payments over 30 years?'

 

[C Festerpuss]

One time I one the lottery two. Uncle-sam sent me a letter and said "I has to reports to the Army". I did but they wouln't take me on account of I didn't have the "mental Apsitutde".

I wuz disappointed and so I vowed to make something of myself. I flunked out of truckdriver school but the Mesa training academny too me in and now I am a real airline pilut.

I ain't a East or West airline pilut, I am a southern one, put that in yer julip and suck on it.

Cletus

 

[MILPILOT17]

One time I one the lottery two. Uncle-sam sent me a letter and said "I has to reports to the Army". I did but they wouln't take me on account of I didn't have the "mental Apsitutde".

I wuz disappointed and so I vowed to make something of myself. I flunked out of truckdriver school but the Mesa training academny too me in and now I am a real airline pilut.

I ain't a East or West airline pilut, I am a southern one, put that in yer julip and suck on it.

Cletus

That right there is funny; I don't care who you are!

 

[Tejas-Jet]

Yet another East/West stuff throwing session...these are always fun to watch from the bleachers.

 

[St. Nic]

Yet another East/West stuff throwing session...these are always fun to watch from the bleachers.

Huh huh huh huh... I'm cool. Yeah. Ummmm. Yeah... Huh huh huh huh huh ... I bash usair pilots and republic pilots ... Huh huh huh huh

 

[Bringupthebird]

And btw I was hired 20 years ago. How about you???

Congrats, I guess. So, what's that 20 years buy you, narrowbody F/O? Good that's where you should stay on the Nic list at your NEW AIRLINE.


PSSSt- Your old airline doesn't exist anymore. It just retained the old name. But you already knew that.

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

Listen pal, AWA was the toilet bowl of the profession and I am sorry you couldn't get hired by a nicer outfit. What you and your buds want to do is destroy the bedrock of this profession -- DOH. Fortunately, many pilots at other airlines agree withDOH as the standard. Nice is and always will be a piece of paper. Sorry you are having trouble cashing your lottry ticket.

Said "toilet bowl of the profession" then acquired usair. What does that tell you about usair?

Sorry... DOH is not the way things go. Binding arbitration is binding- I guess you guys will figure that out one of these days.

 

[Cobraair75drvr]

If he was hired 20 years ago wouldn't he have about 18years on furlough?

 

[St. Nic]

If he was hired 20 years ago wouldn't he have about 18years on furlough?

My DOH is my DOH-- as well as is your Doh for you. EVERYTHING we do as pilots is based on DOH. DOH was how mergers took place in the past and it was universally fair to all because the one constant all of us pilots can hangtheir hats on is doh

 

[Tristar]

Listen pal, AWA was the toilet bowl of the professionn...

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I must take issue with this statement.

No sir, USAir is, was, and probably will continue to be the toilet bowl of this profession. USAir is THE WORST airline I have the misfortune of being forced to ride on - and has been for many years running. If there was any equity in the bankruptcy system, you would have been working at a new carrier years ago, because there is NO justifiable reason why USAir should still exist.

Sorry you picked a crappy airline to go to work for, to some extent I believe the blame lies more in management than the employees. But again, you seem to be laboring under the delusion that your airline isn't the worst in the US, and wasn't saved (for heaven only knows what reason) when HP came in and pulled your sorry a$$es out of yet another BK filing.

I never applied to either carrier, but at no point in the last 15 years would I have gone to USAir - I would have gone to America West.

I'm sorry that you chose to go to work for a carrier that, well frankly just sucks. If HP's management had ANY brains they would have let Airways die on the vine and then move in on the carcass. They didn't and now we're all stuck listening to you bellyache about how you and your failing airline (which should have been out of business ten years ago) were hard done by.

As the old saying goes - you played with the bull, and you got the horn. You insisted on binding arbitration, you were warned (by the arbitrator) to find a compromise, as you wouldn't like the results if he was forced to rule. What part of this outcome is a surprise to you. When a toy train goes into a tunnel, are you amazed every time it comes out the other side?!?

Get a grip.