Look Who's on the Majors Board.

[Resocha]

You are the one who lives on an island flying for that Rosacea airline. I thought rosacea was only a disease that women dealt with.

My nephew could come up with something better than that. Good try, though!

 

[Brown Cow]

Have another look on the fuselage of that 747 to see how you spell that slogan your foreign airline lives by. You forgot the apostrophe. Pprune is the site for scabs like yourself. Are you from the real HACS or some Wasinc flunkie, hired by those 500lb bozos who are such a clear example of what a person in aviation should look like Finally, it would be nice to see some of the pretty flowers on your airplane instead of that bird. It would be a better representation of your self-proclaimed "Alabama Blacksnake".

 

[Resocha]

Have another look on the fuselage of that 747 to see how you spell that slogan your foreign airline lives by. You forgot the apostrophe. Pprune is the site for scabs like yourself. Are you from the real HACS or some Wasinc flunkie, hired by those 500lb bozos who are such a clear example of what a person in aviation should look like Finally, it would be nice to see some of the pretty flowers on your airplane instead of that bird. It would be a better representation of your self-proclaimed "Alabama Blacksnake".

Dang, someone's a little sensitive. Forget your wheaties? Or maybe your undies are just on too tight. Yeah, I left out the apostrophe. The fact that I did so must have some deep-seated psychological meaning. Scab? Try furloughed. I'd expect more from an ALPA brother, but then again, maybe not. Your sour attitude is what gives all my former brethren a bad name.

Not only do your posts show you to be arrogant, but ignorant as well. Your cheap shots show that you really have no creativity. But I tell you what, let's call a truce. There's no need to muddle up this board anymore. I'll pretend you don't exist and you can go on making yourself look like an idiot, because I'm sure you just won't be able to hold back another low-brow insult. Deal?

 

[RP 04]

this will be the start of globalizing airlines...boycott virgin

How much growth would it be for FEX, if they were only allowed to fly cargo to and from the US? Maybe for a start, FEX, NW, and UAL should give up all the intra-asia flying?

 

[AA717driver]

Cabotage is ok as long as I'm the one doing it, right?

Keep whistling past the graveyard and buying stock in the Buggy Whip industry...TC

 

[Dave Siegel]

Sat74 is right. I dare ANY one of us here to turn down a job at JB or VA or any other LCC (or even a "dirtbag" charter outfit) when they are on the street after being at a "major" for 10-15 years.

If YOU haven't been there, you aren't qualified to comment.TC

P.S.--Dave Siegel has the best gig out there right now.

Hi, it's Dave again.

Thanks for the kind words. Also, a sincere thank you, and well done on your insight. Frank and I knew that when you put pilots out of the cockpit and into the unemployment lines, their standards will deteriorate rapidly. That truly has been our plan from the beginning. I'm happy to see that AA717driver not only recognizes that reality, but more importantly, he has come to embrace it.

For all of you who are unemployed, or looking for some supplemental income, Frank and I golf frequently, and we're always looking for airline pilots to carry our bags. It was Frank's idea, and personally, I think he enjoys the humiliation almost as much as I do.

Please e-mail either of us your resume.

[email protected]

[email protected]

Have a great day, and I'll talk to you soon.

 

[Brown Cow]

Res'ocha.

Ok truce, but I am so far removed from your ALPA brothers. In fact, I have had the luck of never having been involved with ALPA, they are too weak and divided. The IPA is strong, united and devoted.

 

[LeonPhelps]

Good book on globalization...

Gentlemen,

I know this thread was not originally intended for the subject of globalization, but I kinda went that way... Anyhow, there is a good book out there on the subject of globalization, and although it has an anti-Bush bias(which might please many on this board), it's not very alarmist at all...just a good book.

"The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman

 

[AA717driver]

Apparently the pre-interview calls are going out. A relatively junior former TWA guy got called. No A320 or Check air experience that I know of. Nice guy but an interesting choice.

We'll see.TC

 

[FNG_that's me]

I've been laid off for four years now! What are guys going to do work at Burger King? This is all I know how to do and all I want to do.

This is why the industry is screwing the pilots now. We should all need to pass a review board before being allowed into this business and have to prove that we can make a living doing something else if we get screwed.

IF YOU HAVE NO OTHER SKILLS THAN BEING A PILOT YOU RISK BRINGING THIS INDUSTRY DOWN!! Sorry for the inflammatory nature of these comments, but it is the truth.

Management loves bringing on folks that have no other skills, becuase they know that these folks will work for less than the current standard just to keep from being on the street.

 

[FlyBoeingJets]

this will be the start of globalizing airlines...boycott virgin

Educate and promote buying American, Yes. Boycott others, No.

The first is a positive message and the other very negative. In fact, it generates law suits and the like.

BTW, how did we show displeasure when NWA started to crush their unions??? Someone should have proposed a plan to not fly on them for one day as a show of support and power. You could have just advocated flying on a different day, not a boycott. A carrier grounded for lack of passengers on one day. I'm sorry it didn't happen.

Is there a website or some other resource to highlight worker friendly companies? I would like to continue to support good companies and we should shame those who don't into it with peer pressure.

I, for one, did write my congressmen before the vote about the danger of Stevens Amendment to the transportation Bill that allows cabotage in Alaska. Stevens needs to be reminded of what he has done.

 

[Dave Siegel]

Management loves bringing on folks that have no other skills, becuase they know that these folks will work for less than the current standard just to keep from being on the street.

Hi, it's Dave again.

If you can get past the fact that this individual cannot spell, he actually makes a valid point. When pilots are threatened with a furlough, they'll take concession after concession in order to keep their seniority and keep their paycheck. After all, for them, keeping this job with a 40% paycut is better than starting over at another company, or worse yet, trying to compete for a "real" job. Good luck trying to convice human resource specialists that being the Captain of a B-757 actually makes you somehow more qualified for a position than someone with the right combination of education and experience in that specific field.

The problem with pilots is that you spend too much time with other pilots, and you inflate each others self worth and create income expectations that, quite frankly, are laughable and pathetic.

Personally, Frank, Jon, and I love it when people like you don't take the initiative to improve yourselves, because if you, as a whole, didn't NEED this airline career so desparatley, we in management would find it significantly more challenging to manipulate your contract and your working conditions. Fortunately, the vast majority of you a self-consumed, and live in denial, so thank you for making my life so easy.

 

[CaptainMark]

what a douchebag!!!

 

[FNG_that's me]

Hi, it's Dave again.

If you can get past the fact that this individual cannot spell, he actually makes a valid point. When pilots are threatened with a furlough, they'll take concession after concession in order to keep their seniority and keep their paycheck. After all, for them, keeping this job with a 40% paycut is better than starting over at another company, or worse yet, trying to compete for a "real" job. Good luck trying to convice human resource specialists that being the Captain of a B-757 actually makes you somehow more qualified for a position than someone with the right combination of education and experience in that specific field.

The problem with pilots is that you spend too much time with other pilots, and you inflate each others self worth and create income expectations that, quite frankly, are laughable and pathetic.

Personally, Frank, Jon, and I love it when people like you don't take the initiative to improve yourselves, because if you, as a whole, didn't NEED this airline career so desparatley, we in management would find it significantly more challenging to manipulate your contract and your working conditions. Fortunately, the vast majority of you a self-consumed, and live in denial, so thank you for making my life so easy.

Dave, How's the glass house? Take a good look in the mirror. I mistyped once...two letters transposed. You have two spelling errors and a grammar error.

 

[CaptainMark]

and dont' forget he is a loser!!!

 

[Resocha]

Res'ocha.

Ok truce, but I am so far removed from your ALPA brothers. In fact, I have had the luck of never having been involved with ALPA, they are too weak and divided. The IPA is strong, united and devoted.

There's something we can agree on!