PBS Frontline expose' on regional airline industry

[jonjuan]

I think most will watch this instead

Well, I guess they picked the wrong date and time to air this. Look what's on at the same time! Premieres Tuesday, February 9th 9p

http://classic.cnbc.com/id/34828878

 

[WayBack]

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Yeah Rez, I'd like to hear who he's speaking to.
Seeing that they're not saying who he's talking to, he's probably just talking to the pilot groups.....and we all know how effective that is.
Rez, I have something just as effective for you to try.
How about you, PFT_128, Prater and the rest of your ALPO chest thumbers go find an empty conference room and do some informational picketing. Oh, don't forget to shut the door so no one can see you guys.
Also move some tables and chairs out of the way to clear a path. They don't call PFT_28 "Twinkle Toe's" for nothing. He's about as nimble as a one legged, half retarded drunken monkey.
Get back to us when your all done, I'd like to see how it went for you guys.....Oh yeah, don't forget to tell the photographers at ALPA Magazine to show up. I'm sure they need a new cover photo so they can put "We Are ALPA" over it......It's odd how they have done that for every magazine since AAA voted them off the property.

 

[rfa]

42k before taxes as a 3rd year FO. ...of course I am away from home far more than someone with a 40 hour per week "nine to five". What gets me about those who defend current pilot pay (like the RAA bozo) is that they do not mention how much pilots have to work in order to make their inflated incomes.

 

[vetrider]

Relax everyone! No one will be watching PBS on a Tuesday night at 9pm. This will soon fade and other then a few changes, it will be business as usual.

Bingo, this is no different than the last several times this has come up. It's just another fart in the wind.

 

[jonjuan]

Y They don't call PFT_28 "Twinkle Toe's" for nothing. He's about as nimble as a one legged, half retarded drunken monkey.

Damn you. I just spit good 10 penny ale all over my laptop. LOLOLOL......

 

[CopilotDoug]

Yeah Rez, I'd like to hear who he's speaking to.
Seeing that they're not saying who he's talking to, he's probably just talking to the pilot groups.....and we all know how effective that is.

So Prater and Friends are effectively "preaching to the choir" so to speak??? Wow...

 

[WayBack]

So Prater and Friends are effectively "preaching to the choir" so to speak??? Wow...

Some pilots are the only ones dumb enough to believe every word he drools.
Others see him for the moldy sack of potatoes that he is.

 

[vetrider]

Some pilots are the only ones dumb enough to believe every word he drools.
Others see him for the moldy sack of potatoes that he is.

Ask a former America West pilot about Prater, the answer would make moldy sack of potatoes look like a compliment.

 

[WayBack]

Ask a former America West pilot about Prater, the answer would make moldy sack of potatoes look like a compliment.

I don't doubt it one bit. As for the "mold sack"....Well, I've been pushing the TOS lately and trying to control my language.
If I wanted some time away from FI.com, I could have broken the bank with my vulgar language and thoughts.....But it's too much fun to make fun of ALPA.

 

[CopilotDoug]

So this is what your 2% goes to? So Prater can make excuses to the various pilot groups as to why ALPA was IGNORED by the NTSB?

 

[WayBack]

So this is what your 2% goes to? So Prater can make excuses to the various pilot groups as to why ALPA was IGNORED by the NTSB?

No, your 2% goes to a really nice magazine subscription, and we're not talking Playboy. It has a bunch of pictures of fat, balding guys with mustaches. Some times they have pictures of those guys holding a plaque, because they sold the most boxes of chocolates in order to raise money in order to get rogaine for mustaches.

There is also encrypted messages in this all so powerful magazine, revealing the proper gut to mustache ratio to achieve the highest rank at ALPA, Chief Moral Officer.
After your probation period along with your "We Are ALPA" pin, you also get your special ALPA decoder ring.

Careful though, reading too much of this magazine could cause rapid increase of body fat, severe delusions, spontaneous combustion, random limbs falling off, hairy ears, could even cause women to grow a mustache, Hair growth on soles of feet, Abnormal growth of nose, Crazy itches, Abnormally large pimples, Full Dialation of the right pupil, Fingernail to talon syndrome, Brown Nose disorder, Stinky Ears, Melted cheese ozzing from pores, Growth of mutated organs (third yellow eye, etc.), Obnoxious laughing, Changes in apearance that make you resemble your own mother and severe cases include your white shirt to turn yellow.

 

[Av8tor]

Regional/Commuter flying and safety in the US..Flying Cheap

On air and online February 9, 2010 at 9:00pm



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...gn=homepage&utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=feeds

 

[SNAFU22]

Should be a good program.

 

[samballs]

ALPA helped create AQP. AQP assures pilots they will not fail. That is looking out for safety?

 

[samballs]

REZ name 5 thing ALPA has done wrong in the last 5 years. And someone will say 5 good things, but I would like to hear what you think ALPA has messed up on. Or will you be the good politician you are and not answer, you know the same way you answer a question with a question, and when called out just ignore. That seems to be how politics work

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

REZ name 5 thing ALPA has done wrong in the last 5 years. And someone will say 5 good things, but I would like to hear what you think ALPA has messed up on. Or will you be the good politician you are and not answer, you know the same way you answer a question with a question, and when called out just ignore. That seems to be how politics work

Retract your AQP statement.... and I will gladly discuss ALPA'e failures..

 

[samballs]

Retract your AQP statement.... and I will gladly discuss ALPA'e failures..

Am I not allowed to have an opinion? I don't think it helps, it may keep jobs but I have watched the worse get through because of the program. Now if you would like to answer my question fine, but if can't take other peoples opinions, well then move on.

 

[CX880]

2 of my family members are coming to fl for spring break. unfortunately they had to fly ASA for one of their legs from ATL. I begged them no but they had to take it for timing. Is it safe, ASA? What airplane will they put them on? I hope it is the ASA "9" so that its more automated but my gut feeling is that it will be the crj-200. I am woried. The return flight will be all on Delta though so that part Im not worried.

 

[knewhigher]

2 of my family members are coming to fl for spring break. unfortunately they had to fly ASA for one of their legs from ATL. I begged them no but they had to take it for timing. Is it safe, ASA? What airplane will they put them on? I hope it is the ASA "9" so that its more automated but my gut feeling is that it will be the crj-200. I am woried. The return flight will be all on Delta though so that part Im not worried.

Seriously?


Nevermind... there is no way thats real.

 

[COOPERVANE]

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11 years and he is the only one on my ignore list

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