Starchecker, I just got a price on a room in PBI the Holiday Inn airport Conf center it is withing 2 miles of the airport it is a nice hotel for 85.00 and I am sure that if there is nothing special going on in the area I could either get the same Marriott you are in or any of the hotels you speak of for 60-70 if I just price line bid the hotel. We stay in the same hotels you all stay in just you all pay full price. I was just in the Marriott at HOU taxes and all for 68 the best rate the FBO had was 100 + taxes and it was the courtyard. If I would have went straight to the hotel the room would have been 140 plus tax. I was in the Hyatt in LA with bell hopes and all and paid something like 80 bucks last month. Sometimes yea we get screwed like now I am in Aspen my room with tax was 132 but we just moved to a different hotel in downtown and the room is 70 it is just a fair room they called this place 3 stars I would say 2 but I got wireless internet bathroom and a quenn size bed so maybe it doesn't have all the extra pillows and the pillow top mattress. You seem to bash La Quinta quite allot try the one in Panama City FL it is nicer then any Marriott courtyard I have been in there is also one in Atlanta just like it the one in Nashville it is ahh but they are renovateing there whole chain so 2 out of 3 really nice and the other I could get by with yea I know some are junk it happens to be the area they are in but remember I get to choose the area I stay in you don't so how do you know you have resturaunts or van service your dispatch made the reservation maybe they check on that for you I don't know. You mentioned TEB medowlands plaza it is like 85 a night through the FBOs or at least it was it has been a while since I stayed in TEB and they have a van to take you to near bye mall all be it small but alot of resturaunts 2 movie theaters.
Now if you are smart you do not count any money you make on per diem torward your salery. You look at it as play money when you are off.
Where you heard that we are going to be raised to match your pay. I don't think so my guess is are most junior 60 captain makes more then most all JR captains. I am going to toss this bit out there and you do the math.
I might hear about it even get my neck in a sling If you work for this company you know who I am I don't hide behind stage names I left that to the strippers maybe that is foolish on my part but what the hell, but I am just sick of this he said she said they get we get I think crap. A junior captain on the 60 at PA and all are on a 15 day rotation give or take a day then off 15 base pay 66000 + 50 a day 15 x 50 = 750 a month 750 x 12 months 9000 ........66000 + 9000 = 75000 a year. Now just for gigals you through in the money we make and we do every month on the low side you average 300 cash on you per diem that is 3600 cash not taxed extra for the year and this year I have averaged over 500 each month on my per diem that is 6000 cash for me, and being I am not junior hear and picked up a few extra days I will make 10000 on my day pay this year you figure out how much I make over your highest paid captain. So If they switch us all to your system we are all going to get F............ed. Now all of are home base guys it maybe a better deal for them. For the guys who are senior and out on the road live where we want to get 15 days off a month pocket play money at the end of each month we aren't liken that idea of a change to much. Which maybe why we are not being told much they are affraid about 50% of there pilots may up and just walk because it is about half of us that are out on the road we already had 3 45 guys leave because nothing was being said to them and they got worried. And I know alot of are guys are worried they have famlies and houses they took the job because they could live were they are now. I am in a better spot then most in my case my stuff is in storage and I am just waiting it out at family and friends houses while I am off, but I won't move across the county to keep this job.
What are you all going to do if they now say these are the bases now bid via seniorty how far down the list did you fall I am sure your number just got multiplied by 2 if you were 15 at JR you will now be 30 and now you just lost your base because 3 guys ahead took it just something to think about.
Now if you are smart you do not count any money you make on per diem torward your salery. You look at it as play money when you are off.
Where you heard that we are going to be raised to match your pay. I don't think so my guess is are most junior 60 captain makes more then most all JR captains. I am going to toss this bit out there and you do the math.
I might hear about it even get my neck in a sling If you work for this company you know who I am I don't hide behind stage names I left that to the strippers maybe that is foolish on my part but what the hell, but I am just sick of this he said she said they get we get I think crap. A junior captain on the 60 at PA and all are on a 15 day rotation give or take a day then off 15 base pay 66000 + 50 a day 15 x 50 = 750 a month 750 x 12 months 9000 ........66000 + 9000 = 75000 a year. Now just for gigals you through in the money we make and we do every month on the low side you average 300 cash on you per diem that is 3600 cash not taxed extra for the year and this year I have averaged over 500 each month on my per diem that is 6000 cash for me, and being I am not junior hear and picked up a few extra days I will make 10000 on my day pay this year you figure out how much I make over your highest paid captain. So If they switch us all to your system we are all going to get F............ed. Now all of are home base guys it maybe a better deal for them. For the guys who are senior and out on the road live where we want to get 15 days off a month pocket play money at the end of each month we aren't liken that idea of a change to much. Which maybe why we are not being told much they are affraid about 50% of there pilots may up and just walk because it is about half of us that are out on the road we already had 3 45 guys leave because nothing was being said to them and they got worried. And I know alot of are guys are worried they have famlies and houses they took the job because they could live were they are now. I am in a better spot then most in my case my stuff is in storage and I am just waiting it out at family and friends houses while I am off, but I won't move across the county to keep this job.
What are you all going to do if they now say these are the bases now bid via seniorty how far down the list did you fall I am sure your number just got multiplied by 2 if you were 15 at JR you will now be 30 and now you just lost your base because 3 guys ahead took it just something to think about.
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