Can we now safely say the 900 is on property?
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SmitteyB
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:nana2:
How is this good news?
Baronman
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It's the biggest and shiniest jet that will be a new addition to the fleet. New plane smell is better than old-pukey plane smell.
surreal1221
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Oh yeah, something to be proud of. No doubt about that.
Allow much rejoicing to sing from Trip777's apartment and the company's headquarters. May they be in sync so that all of the fine city of Atlanta can recognize the extreme hotness of a stretch RJ being flown by sub contracted pilots.
Allow much rejoicing to sing from Trip777's apartment and the company's headquarters. May they be in sync so that all of the fine city of Atlanta can recognize the extreme hotness of a stretch RJ being flown by sub contracted pilots.
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SpiceWeasel
Tre Kronor
I find it ironic that the very people who fly these things are knocking someone's enthusiasm for his company getting one of them.
I'm not saying I like it either, but I'll continue to fly what the company I am employed at has until they are no longer allowed by mainline scope to have them. At this point, all we can do is not refuse to fly them, but to negotiate our rates up to a level that the mainline doesn't see a cost savings for using any regional partner for a specific aircraft.
I'm not saying I like it either, but I'll continue to fly what the company I am employed at has until they are no longer allowed by mainline scope to have them. At this point, all we can do is not refuse to fly them, but to negotiate our rates up to a level that the mainline doesn't see a cost savings for using any regional partner for a specific aircraft.
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
I think it takes a considerable amount of clarity, understanding, and awareness to come to the realization that a large gauge airframe such as the CRJ900 negatively impacts ones own career expectations -- and rather than succumbing to excitement over a new airframe, higher payrate, quicker upgrade -- for one to realize how much damage that particular contractual oversight has done to his/her career.
Trip7
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I bet you can't wait to fly that bad boy for the same crappy pay as the 70 seater, but it's ok, this plane has first class!
You guys have got to be kidding me. All of the above is grade A+ HATING....Hi Haters! Yall can be sad all you want. Im celebrating:nana2::nana2::nana2:
Trip7
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:yeahthat:
surreal1221
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I hope for your sake Marcus, that the economy some how turns around after our August schedule.
I'm pretty convinced that it's going to take another unfortunate act of management staff realignments for you to snap out of this fantasy world you're living in.
Live it up while you have it right?
PGT
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ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
I find the screen name "Trip7" ironic in light of this thread because every large gauge airframe that is delivered to the contract regionals makes earning a job with the majors more and more competitive (fewer narrow body aircraft at the majors = fewer jobs at the majors).
The irony is that the very airplane you celebrate today could keep you from your dream of flying the "Trip7" tomorrow.
The irony is that the very airplane you celebrate today could keep you from your dream of flying the "Trip7" tomorrow.
Trip7
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I hope for your sake Marcus, that the economy some how turns around after our August schedule.
I'm pretty convinced that it's going to take another unfortunate act of management staff realignments for you to snap out of this fantasy world you're living in.
Live it up while you have it right?
Don't mean to sound rude, but I'm furlough protected by the new contract. Now I know you're about to come back with the ole' that means nothing rebuttal. So ok, if that doesn't work out I got plan b. If that doesn't work out I got plan c. Then d. See Surreal, like I've told you over and over again, I don't live in fear. Stop trying to scare me. I'll never leave my fantasy world. See my world is different, much much different than yours....
Trip7
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Not really...the very airplane I fly has helped many people get their time and head to overseas jobs like Emirates to fly a "Trip7" or similar heavy many years earlier than any US based pilot could ever dream of.....
You had that choice. You chose to pass. Your reasons were without a doubt good ones, but that option is there for those willing to make the jump.
Guys this is not contract negotiation time. When that time comes we will be able to take another step in improving the career. But for right now we're just dealing with the cards we're dealt.
Maximilian_Jenius
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Cruise
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I don't think a single person that's posted in this thread has said anything about 'refusing to fly 'em.' Hell, I'm dead set against the CJC Q400 payrates....but here I am, flying 'em. And, we'll be working on the payrates come contract negotiations.
The problem here, instead, is an aircraft like the 900 does not belong at a contract-lift provider (regional) and is ABSOLUTELY nothing to be celebrating unless you're making mainline rates to fly them (and that's most likely not gonna happen). The difference with the Q is.....that it is still a REGIONAL aircraft, the 900, not so much.
No one is trying to rain on your parade, Marcus. We're just trying to help you open your eyes to the continued destruction of career progression here in the US. It's great someone can go to Emirates and fly wide-bodies. However, I'd much rather do it here in the States instead of in the desert.
