TradeWinds

[KeroseneSnorter]

PlaneDrvr,

Did you say 74 pilots?!? Well, heck I better get my stuff in to them quick!

No No No..I saw 747 pilots!! They must be buying KAL!!!!!!!

 

[NoahWerka]

Well that's good news for those of us who work there, anyway. More hiring is always good. Also I have never heard of anything called an "assistant chief pilot." Do you mean a program manager?

Never really found out what his function was, so I used that term loosely.

They are looking for Boeing 747 pilots, not 47(the #) pilots. Currently have 7(the #) pilots on furlough. Planning on adding 6 crews.

 

[Thedude]

Noah, I think I may have waltz through the office when you where filling out paperwork and I was on a fishing expedition. You intereviewed with the chief pilot and the 747 program manager. I understood that 8 crews where to be hired, might be a little wrong that could be 6. But we are going to grow the pilot group in any event.
Outta curosity, what are you quals since you where told we have such a low TT pilot group (I heard the same thing but I pretty sure it was in refrence to something else.)

80for80,
The capt in question has personal reasons other than the company.

 

[Flybet3]

A buddy of mine's friend was a 747 captain there. Last week he just up an quit Tradewinds. He got a job outside of aviation. If a guy is willing to quit a 747 captain job, that should tell you something about the type of operation Tradewinds is.

Never really heard anything bad about this place...I mean, if you dont mind being gone for a good amount of days. It always seemed to be a good operation.

 

[CSY Mon]

if you dont mind being gone for a good amount of days. It always seemed to be a good operation.

Now that is funny:

TDX gives ya more days OFF than any other company I have worked for.
Are ya thinking of the Connie boys, or perhaps Southern? Them guys are gone for longer than the TDX boys..

I was on a fishing expedition.

Looks ya ya caught something: Yer name is on the August Domicile Awards.

 

[CWI]

CSY Mon,

Good point indeed.

I've been home 6 days since May 20th, and have only worked on 3 of my days off.

That was June 1st, 2nd and 3rd to cover a pop up charter for the earthquaker victims in Java.

CWI

 

[Draginass]

One guy I know there told me that TDX has a severe attrition problem on the 747 side. Something on the order of 40%. Many have left to go to Focus, Southern, and Kallitta. That blown-up engine and hull loss in Medellin in combo with losing crews to other 747 companies makes you wonder what's going on there.

 

[CSY Mon]

The official atrition over @ TDX is 45% on the 747 side.

With crew scheduling trying to screw guys over days off and pay issues, not many crew members see a future for themselfs.

If one fights hard enough, results can be had, but guys are tired of fighting for their basic rights. And rightly so.

Top managment are also tired of guys leaving in droves and have promised changes...

We shall see, it can't get any worse considering the August bid lines....

 

[NoahWerka]

Noah, I think I may have waltz through the office when you where filling out paperwork and I was on a fishing expedition. You intereviewed with the chief pilot and the 747 program manager. I understood that 8 crews where to be hired, might be a little wrong that could be 6. But we are going to grow the pilot group in any event.
Outta curosity, what are you quals since you where told we have such a low TT pilot group (I heard the same thing but I pretty sure it was in refrence to something else.)

80for80,
The capt in question has personal reasons other than the company.

121 Capt. current on the 737. 17,000hrs.

 

[federico]

With all that flight time what would you ever come here. 121 capt 737. 17,000 to come to the second generation whale.