American Airlines ALPA

[Autothrust Blue]

What is the 350B? Some type of section at an arena?

 

[ERfly]

What is the 350B? Some type of section at an arena?

Ok, United, what's an OMC (hint, it's not a boat engine), PCFA, UNAM, Commissary, etc.

 

[Skåning]

Ok, United, what's an OMC (hint, it's not a boat engine), PCFA, UNAM, Commissary, etc.

Dont they call their training center some acronym nobody knows what it means?

Alaskan calls recurrent "CQ" whatever the eff that means. They also say "southeast" and I keep thinking of Jacksonville but I guess they mean the skinny part of Alaska we took from western British Columbia.

 

[Roger Roger]

skinny part of Alaska we took from western British Columbia.

plz give us back I want off this ride

 

[Roger Roger]

Alaskan calls recurrent "CQ" whatever the eff that means.

Ive never done CQ elsewhere but everyone who has says we don’t know what it means.

 

[🦈💜]

Ive never done CQ elsewhere but everyone who has says we don’t know what it means.

AQP Continuing Qualification per 14 cfr §121.915 et al

 

[Skåning]

Ive never done CQ elsewhere but everyone who has says we don’t know what it means.

Dont even get me started on how they call each day or whatever CLO, CMV, CidunnoWut. Just stahp with these non sense acronyms.

 

[Roger Roger]

AQP Continuing Qualification per 14 cfr §121.915 et al

Yeah I was making a jab at how Eskimo calls our trains AQP but doesn’t really meet the spirit of AQP

 

[Skåning]

AQP Continuing Qualification

So two qualifications? Like saying FedEx Express which is Federal Express Express

 

[🦈💜]

Yeah I was making a jab at how Eskimo calls our trains AQP but doesn’t really meet the spirit of AQP

I figured, but I just wanted to throw that out there because I've been surprised in the past.

 

[Roger Roger]

Dont even get me started on how they call each day or whatever CLO, CMV, CidunnoWut. Just stahp with these non sense acronyms.

I see CLO and my brain automatically adds “Green”

 

[Inverted]

Alaskan calls recurrent "CQ" whatever the eff that means.

I can't hear CQ without thinking Carrier Qual from the Navy. Honestly wouldn't shock me if that is exactly where it came from.

 

[Richman]

I can't hear CQ without thinking Carrier Qual from the Navy. Honestly wouldn't shock me if that is exactly where it came from.

All those letters come from AQP, which stands for “acronyms qualify pilots.”

 

[Hiboglossi]

I can't hear CQ without thinking Carrier Qual from the Navy. Honestly wouldn't shock me if that is exactly where it came from.

I always figured it came from the Continuing Education most medical professionals go through.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Dont they call their training center some acronym nobody knows what it means?

What in the sunny • is TK, anyway?

 

[Ian_J]

What in the sunny • is TK, anyway?

Training and Knowledge. Seriously.

I was told the story and history about it but those penguins jumped the iceberg.

 

[Sculprit]

Training and Knowledge. Seriously.

I was told the story and history about it but those penguins jumped the iceberg.

You mean it’s not Training Kingdom? Which Google Maps also references it as now haha.

The story I heard was back during the Stapleton days the Ticketing office was located there and had TK in the address. ¯\_( ˘͡ ˘̯)_/¯

 

[thepotato232]

"Tragic Kingdom" was the accepted nomenclature when my dad taught there, which carried a certain "oof" quality during the Tilton years.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

I'm LAX, which is a fun way of saying "I do the State Bird of Florida too, I just get paid 4.5 hours more on either end of the trip, and every time I get nabbed for a reroute (which is every time I see Atlanta) every rotation becomes a poor man's green slip..."


I chose to commute, partially due to making bid decisions prior to making life decisions, and partially because the idea of going to initial again was completely objectionable at the time. And I'll admit it was also because I wanted to fly the 757, and have since I first got in one. Bonus, my parents still live there so short call is a rent-a-car-and-hang-out-at-Mom's-house proposition.

Thinking my next act is going to be going to our regional jet, pardon me, the C-series, pardon me, the A220, yes, that's what it's called now, just because I'd sit top 30% or so in the right seat. The 350B bid's in but I doubt it is in the cards.

We'll see.

I can tell you for free that if they closed every domicile in the system but Atlanta, I would commute, for sure.

I’ve never seen someone so excited about bidding various FO positions.

Man up, bid CA, do your green slip game, and make serious coin.

 

[bLizZuE]

COVID phenomenon. Draw a 2 hour circle around any major metro, and you’ll find that home prices spiked.

Had a horrible laugh at someone else’s expense. Neighbor in his $1M+ custom home by us just got word that he can come back to work or find other employment. He apparently does, uh, “work stuff”.

I tried to make affirming and comforting noises, and cluck cluck with sympathy, but according to my SO, my eyes said “WTF you dumbass, what did you think was going to happen? Zoom/Teams is the absolute worse way to do anything ever invented, and the suck increases with the cube of the number of participants”.

I was previously unaware that eye movements could convey exponents, so hey, good to know.

Productivity soared as did profits with the advent of zoom meetings. The only people that want the workforce back in office are managers with stones to grind.