Unneeded pain and cost for Pinnacle Corp. Airlines

[higney85]

The PCL128 Council is bringing forth a Resolution to reverse this language.

 

[Yodafly]

I disagree...seniority should always be followed

 

[Flyprdu]

You know what....SHUT THE HELL UP!!!! BOTH OF YOU!!! What I started this thread with would have helped alleviate the issues you have bitching about for the past week.

That's sweet of you... but the first step of resolution is identifying the problem.

1. Pinnacle MEC did not want this.
2. The company surely does not want this.
3. Colgan MEC is still trying ween the nooks from their mouths.

So by process of elimination....

It was the Mesaba MEC in the Library with the Revolver!

Your idea is admirable; they should suspend that ridiculous rule that is going to cost Pinnacle Corp millions reshuffling the pilot deck. But if nobody seems to want this, then why is it going through??

Ask your MEC.

 

[Flyprdu]

I disagree...seniority should always be followed

That's crap. Especially when integrating airlines that have been intermixed by arbitrary means.

 

[Yodafly]

well, we will just disagree on this.

This is the agreement we all signed on to, it should remain

 

[altimaklr]

Pinnacle Corp = jet-4-jobs for mesaba Saab captains.

 

[DoinTime]

This is the agreement we all signed on to, it should remain

No....The agreement should reflect the will of ITS PILOTS. Not individuals on the MECs, not individuals on whatever committees, not special interest groups, and especially not some staffers working at ALPA national.

This provision should be stricken. Senior pilots already had (and will continue to have) ample opportunity to bid these positions and they refused. Junior pilots should not have to suffer and be forced out of their positions of choosing just so some senior schmuck can retain all the choices in the world whenever he wants to make them.

 

[Flyer1015]

Um, can anyone else say conflict-of-interest by having a Mesaba guy Frank as the one who handles these vacancy awards, and not a Pinnacle or Colgan guy? Given the fact that no Pinnacle pilots were displaced out of the jet and that not a single Pinnacle pilot got awarded a Captain seat on the Saab, it is fairly obvious that the Mesaba MEC/merger committee members must have provided their interpretation of the award to Frank himself.

How else could this eff-up happen?

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Um, can anyone else say conflict-of-interest by having a Mesaba guy Frank as the one who handles these vacancy awards, and not a Pinnacle or Colgan guy? Given the fact that no Pinnacle pilots were displaced out of the jet and that not a single Pinnacle pilot got awarded a Captain seat on the Saab, it is fairly obvious that the Mesaba MEC/merger committee members must have provided their interpretation of the award to Frank himself.

How else could this eff-up happen?

Send your complaints to Phil the clown, he and his manager selection comittee chose Frank to be the VP in charge of crew management (basically the head of all crew planning in corp.)

 

[bri5150]

Um, can anyone else say conflict-of-interest by having a Mesaba guy Frank as the one who handles these vacancy awards, and not a Pinnacle or Colgan guy? Given the fact that no Pinnacle pilots were displaced out of the jet and that not a single Pinnacle pilot got awarded a Captain seat on the Saab, it is fairly obvious that the Mesaba MEC/merger committee members must have provided their interpretation of the award to Frank himself.

How else could this eff-up happen?

So, would having a Pinnacle guy do the awards not be a conflict of interest then? I don't understand your reasoning. Someone higher than Frank though he was the best to keep for that position, so he is the one that is figuring out this mess. I can tell you Frank doesn't care about me any more than Joe Blow from Pinnacle. They are all names and numbers. The process is pretty cut and dry (even if it is a mess). I am sorry Pinnacle's MEC took the stance that Saabs don't exist in negotiations (from what I hear). I am pretty sure that's why Bloch fenced Pinnacle off of them.