MORE Furloughs at ACA.

[KingAirKiddo]

Looks like 7-19-02.

 

[walkthasky]

seriously ?

thats 3 days before my hire date....son of a ..(&*%&$^

 

[g159av8tor]

I certainly think this is a ploy to drive a divisive wedge into the pilot corps. AirWis rates per departure are $2100 and ours are $3500 (if I recollect correctly from that infamous UAL document). Skeen, Moore, et al must have been wiping their a$$es with fifties.

Is ACA really that wasteful? We're not known for corporate indulgence or neglect. If AirWis can afford to pay their pilots comparable wages and benefits with a much lower fee for departure, two things are certain: 1) we should not give anything we're not willing to do w/o for possibly ever; and 2) where's all that extra cash going? Surely isn't English classes for the gate agents!!!

Tailwinds...

 

[embdrvr]

Are you sure Air Whisky wasn't the highest priced departure mentioned in the famous "confidential" report? For some reason I thought they were.

Prices for existing carriers ranged from $2960-3571.
The bottom feeders put their bids in the $2565-2732 range.

 

[Wiskey Driver]

I could be wrong and it certainly wouldn't be the first time but I thought I heard that of the three carriers we were in the middle on fee per departure. I do know that nobody is lower than mesa, LITERALLY!!!

WD.

 

[Snakum]

KingAirKiddo - Sorry to hear about even more furloughs, that really sucks. I hate it for Kevin B. as well. This is his second class date cancellation (COEX and now ACA). Are you going back to your previous employer? That CJ looked like a kewl place to hang for a while ... if one had to be hanging.

The (Non)Flying Monk

 

[Beechnut]

Something to think about when talking about fee for departure rates. When they say AirWis, are they talking about the 146 or 328? When the talk about ACA, again, J-41 or RJ? I wouldn't get to worked up over those numbers when they don't even define what aircraft they're talking about.

Good luck guys,

S.

 

[Tug Driver]

where's all that extra cash going? Surely isn't English classes for the gate agents!!!

Tailwinds...

not funny...

try waste of time/money mgt meetings.

ACA is looking to cut costs in a variety of ways. like turning the lights off and working in the dark.

i doubt that Tom Moore is using $50 as tp. compared to Tilton, Moore should be on welfare.

 

[CRJ_Driver]

Worthless Company

ACA is indeed worthless. 1st, they have time to make a decision on the total number of furloughs and then announce it...not this 9 now..no wait...how about 100 more. I think they drew numbers from a hat on black friday.

2nd-I'm not voting for any paycut, b/c this one is for the longhaul. Never will you see better conditions. I'm only in favor of a small paycut if I were to see trip/duty rigs and min days off of 14 even for RSV.

Fly Safely!

 

[Twotter76]

Please don't suggest another 100 - I am afraid they might actually do it. Words cannot describe how angry this makes me. I am out on my butt along with 100 of my brothers and I can only hope that I can find something else. I really dont get how they went from 9 to 101 in one day but then so little has been making sense here lately I dont see any reason for this to. Its really too bad because I was very impressed with ACA in my time here right up to about last month and then everything went to hell. Sigh....

Twotter76

 

[Hosed COEX]

Last night's MEC hotline mentioned that UAL is "accelerating the bidding process for UAX flying". This could change a lot of stuff guys - don't count your furloughed chickens before they're hatched (or some stupid phrase like that). I have yet to receive the dreaded certified letter from the company and until I do I'm only going to send out 50 resumes instead of my planned 100.