American Reaches Agreement in Principal

Maurus said:
How many of people on the board are previous US Air guys?
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honestly I have no idea, but I’d bet a pretty interesting correlation could be found in the pedigree of various board members.

roundout said:
I heard. It was kind of tongue in cheek. Things really sound messy right now.
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it’s become rather vitriolic. Well, more vitriolic than our fragmented pilot group normally is. At least the vote the other night got people to stop bitching about the AIP for a least a few minutes. Until… “they killed the ALPA merger! Let’s show them by voting no on the contract!” Like…what now?
 
derg said:
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American Airlines And Pilots Reach Agreement In Principle

Allied Pilots Association and American Airlines have reached an agreement in principle.
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From APA:

APA and American Airlines Management Reach Agreement in Principle​

The APA Negotiating Committee and its American Airlines management counterparts have reached an agreement in principle (AIP) on a new collective bargaining agreement.

As required by the APA Policy Manual Section 9.06, we will move forward with completing contractual language for all sections and related letters and for the implementation schedule. Once that requirement is fulfilled, the Negotiating Committee will present the AIP to the APA Board of Directors for consideration as a proposed tentative agreement (TA) at least seven days prior to any meeting convened to consider the TA.

Details of the AIP will be released by the Negotiating Committee in the days ahead.

Fellow pilots, thank you for your steadfast support throughout this lengthy process. As always, we will proceed with the best interests of the pilot group foremost in our minds.
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NAH! Not voting for it !!!!!

I want my MTV!!!!
 
mikecweb said:
The • I saw at Atlas makes a baseball hat seem tame.
The guy that put a towel between the seat belt and his pants. The golf glove guys. The guy who brought his own ceramic mug, around the world, every trip.
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What about clapping captain? Had a guy who just started clapping at random times. Loudly. Like he was at a sports ball game. I finally asked why he was doing that and he said I could leave the trip if I didn’t like it. I said, or, you could be courteous and turn the hot Mike off when you do it. He did, but begrudgingly.

Turns out he had a “near death” experience a few years back and now felt it necessary to express his joy for life by clapping when he felt like it.

Then there’s doomsday prepper captain, OCD captain, dysgraphia captain (on an honest to goodness kneeboard strapped to his leg), and my favorite, hates helicopter pilots captain.

I’ve had music captain and he was very laid back but super socially needy.
 
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poser765 said:
honestly I have no idea, but I’d bet a pretty interesting correlation could be found in the pedigree of various board members.

it’s become rather vitriolic. Well, more vitriolic than our fragmented pilot group normally is. At least the vote the other night got people to stop bitching about the AIP for a least a few minutes. Until… “they killed the ALPA merger! Let’s show them by voting no on the contract!” Like…what now?
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Whoah!
 
Ian_J said:
What about clapping captain? Had a guy who just started clapping at random times. Loudly. Like he was at a sports ball game. I finally asked why he was doing that and he said I could leave the trip if I didn’t like it. I said, or, you could be courteous and turn the hot Mike off when you do it. He did, but begrudgingly.

Turns out he had a “near death” experience a few years back and now felt it necessary to express his joy for life by clapping when he felt like it.

Then there’s doomsday prepper captain, OCD captain, dysgraphia captain (on an honest to goodness kneeboard strapped to his leg), and my favorite, hates helicopter pilots captain.

I’ve had music captain and he was very laid back but super socially needy.
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What kind of screening did hiring not do??
 
Ian_J said:
What about clapping captain? Had a guy who just started clapping at random times. Loudly. Like he was at a sports ball game. I finally asked why he was doing that and he said I could leave the trip if I didn’t like it. I said, or, you could be courteous and turn the hot Mike off when you do it. He did, but begrudgingly.

Turns out he had a “near death” experience a few years back and now felt it necessary to express his joy for life by clapping when he felt like it.

Then there’s doomsday prepper captain, OCD captain, dysgraphia captain (on an honest to goodness kneeboard strapped to his leg), and my favorite, hates helicopter pilots captain.

I’ve had music captain and he was very laid back but super socially needy.
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I remember jumpseating on Gojet one time. FO wore full elbow length army green gloves. CA at some point said, "I bet you're wondering about the gloves?" Turns out FO had been in a small single engine cockpit fire. Burned his hands and this was a mitigation device if it ever happened again. I did not ask any questions.
 
Dexter said:
I remember jumpseating on Gojet one time. FO wore full elbow length army green gloves. CA at some point said, "I bet you're wondering about the gloves?" Turns out FO had been in a small single engine cockpit fire. Burned his hands and this was a mitigation device if it ever happened again. I did not ask any questions.
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My supervisor, and academy classmate, where I am, flies with full flight gloves and sleeves down, collar up. Etc. 20 years ago he was landing on an offshore platform helipad when there was a wind shift on short final, and the smoke and gases from the oil rig burn off stack shifted into his approach path at about 100 feet. The helo instantly lost lift and continued forward and down, impacting a fuel tank pipeline next to the helipad deck level that the main rotor blades promptly sliced through and the helo as it rolled over onto its side on top of the spewing fuel, ignited everything on the pad. With the interior and exterior of the helo on fire, and himself on fire, he was able to get one passenger shoved out the top of the bird, but couldn’t get the other passengers dead weight moved before he had to get himself out because he couldn’t see anymore with his face and head on fire along with the rest of his upper and lower torso. The rig firefighting team activated the helo pad foam and water deluge system and moved in with fire hoses. That’s the last thing he remembered seeing until waking up in a burn center.

To this day, he’s mostly burnt/scarred, all on his head, arms and chest/back.
 
derg said:
FO's left-hand armrest! THERE IS NO OTHER LOCATION.

And they're still using 2 in the 350, although we're chastised for printing anything out or having paper.
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Behind the printer is the go to spot, back up spot is FOs arm rest.
 
Kingairer said:
Behind the printer is the go to spot, back up spot is FOs arm rest.
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I think I remember seeing someone on a Cactus jet with some magic they did with the bag handle and that bar over the printer… or something.
 
derg said:
I think I remember seeing someone on a Cactus jet with some magic they did with the bag handle and that bar over the printer… or something.
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Yes, and you can weave it under the printer screw in the shape of a "W" to really flash your sign.
 
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