Skywest FAT EMB120 CA's at UAL?

[tjmoser]

Hello!

I was a Skywest EMB120 pilot at Fresno from Feb04 to Sept 06 (FO and CA). Now a B747 FO at an ACMI, thinking about UAL. Looking for some of the furloughed UAL guys I used to work with, to ask a few questions and maybe a referral. PM me if you're out there! Thanks!!

 

[Hair-on-Fire]

UAL doesn't hire fat pilots.

 

[ReverseSensing]

Hello!

I was a Skywest EMB120 pilot at Fresno from Feb04 to Sept 06 (FO and CA). Now a B747 FO at an ACMI, thinking about UAL. Looking for some of the furloughed UAL guys I used to work with, to ask a few questions and maybe a referral. PM me if you're out there! Thanks!!

I bet John Ward would give you a good referral.

How's it hangin' man. Haven't seen you in awhile.

 

[Little Bubba]

.Now a B747 FO at an ACMI

Sorry to hear that...

 

[Frank Lorenzo]

I like those ACMI operations.

They are the closest you can come to scabbing without actually crossing a picket line.

 

[Coffee Pot]

You know very little for which you speak. Some of the ACMI carriers have very hard core union members. To call them scabs...well you might as well call their mother's whores.

 

[stillflyn]

I like those ACMI operations.

They are the closest you can come to scabbing without actually crossing a picket line.

Who is ACMI

 

[SNOWBUM]

I like those ACMI operations.

They are the closest you can come to scabbing without actually crossing a picket line.

actually atlas's guys did cros picket lines while polar was on strike.

 

[Coffee Pot]

Yes, and so did pilots at UAL and CAL. Are all scheduled 121 pilots scabs? Lets not paint all with a broad brush...all I'm saying.

 

[DrewBlows]

Yes, and so did pilots at UAL and CAL. Are all scheduled 121 pilots scabs? Lets not paint all with a broad brush...all I'm saying.

Uh... those pilots at UAL and CAL who crossed the picket line are scabs by any definition. The word 'scab' is thrown around a lot around here, but in this instance it's warranted.

 

[Coffee Pot]

Agreed. However, the argument here is "If you fly ACMI, you are a scab." This is what Mr. Frank said above. My retort was, "No they are not. There are some fine, solid union members at many ACMI carriers who would NEVER cross a picket line." Where he gets off saying something like this, I dunno. It would be as stupid as saying everyone at UAL and CAL are scabs, which we know they are not.

Those who cross picket lines are, plain and simple, scabs. No argument, no justification.

Go ask a World pilot how he feel about scabs and crossing a picket. Their response should not shock you. You will probably find the same opinion at Gemini.

 

[Frank Lorenzo]

"If you fly ACMI, you are a scab." This is what Mr. Frank said above.

OK, so uncle Frank was a little harsh on the ACMI pilots.

Let me clarify why I LOVE ACMI!

If any of the pilots decide to "strike", I simply set up a block space agreement with the other carriers and voila!.... ACMI scabs. Look at it this way, it is a win-win for everybody. The executives get their cargo to where they want it to be, and the pilots can weasel out of being called a scab by telling everyone they are "just flying ACMI."

So easy, an x-executive-banned-from-the-airline-world can do it!

I also love the lame attempt at "struck cargo." The last time a group of pilots tried declaring this, their cargo "brothers" at competing carriers gleefully flew the freight to all corners of the globe.

I love it!

 

[SNOWBUM]

OK, so uncle Frank was a little harsh on the ACMI pilots.

Let me clarify why I LOVE ACMI!

If any of the pilots decide to "strike", I simply set up a block space agreement with the other carriers and voila!.... ACMI scabs. Look at it this way, it is a win-win for everybody. The executives get their cargo to where they want it to be, and the pilots can weasel out of being called a scab by telling everyone they are "just flying ACMI."

So easy, an x-executive-banned-from-the-airline-world can do it!

)

I also love the lame attempt at "struck cargo." The last time a group of pilots tried declaring this, their cargo "brothers" at competing carriers gleefully flew the freight to all corners of the globe.

I love it!

once again franky is refering to the spinless atlas mec and their scab members during te Polar strike( note not all atlas's pilots are scabs nor did they cross the line )

 

[Long Time Gone]

I didn't know the American College of Medical Informatics flew 747s. DARN!!! I missed THAT boat.