Any charters DH/repo LA area to DFW Sunday or Monday?

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Aye yi yi. My ears are bleeding on a number of issues.

No picket lines were crossed and if he did, I'd whip his ass.

Labor is labor.

I'd be just as livid if Iain crossed a picket line at a hospital than I would if he crossed one at an airline as no matter what the rational, it would be absolutely inexcusable.

But it didn't happen.

It'd better not happen.

And if it ever did, it better be for something no less than to a the last operating triage field hospital after an "Oblivion"-scale alien invasion, but we all know that's improbable.
 
TFaudree_ERAU said:
It's not automatic, but it isn't unheard of. No two 91 flight departments operate in the same manner when it comes to compensation and bonuses. Hell, there was a thread on another site about expenses on the road, and even I was surprised how many different ways it's handled.
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Yes, and I understand that there are very decent companies in 135 and 91 who do compensate their pilots in several ways and reward them. There are just as many sadly that do not however. Some of the rates and perks and comps can be very good and at other entities...not so much. There is a large disparity in 91 and 135. Everything from making guys pay for training and type to you name it....well you/we know this already. Flight schools for CFIs are in the same boat from dreck to very good. When I read some of the things that people endure on here or that some companies offer, I just shudder.
 
I_Money said:
Besides CFO/CIO I do not see what roles couldn't be transitioned from the pilot role.
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What the hell are you getting at? Every single role at an airline has some sort of Leadership aspect. Captain is a leader, lead FA is a leader, and then everyone has the responsibility to step up and lead if the need arises. What is your obssesion with this so called leadership tangent you're going off on? Airlines have specific approved positions and roles, you can't just deem yourself team leader of the crewroom one day.
 
I_Money said:
Besides CFO/CIO I do not see what roles couldn't be transitioned from the pilot role.
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Tell that to Management then. The days of Juan Trippe ended a long damn time ago. Enter Frank Lorenzo, Carl Icahn, et al. Employees are given their roles by management and those roles are laid out in detail all by management as THEY deem fit. To make a group "feel better" and quiet them, they may bring on/in a new role from time to time. Doesn't translate to anything changing in truth though.
 
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What I am saying is I am surprised pilots are climbing the ladder into VP, and C level positions. Most airlines date back to pilots founding them, and I would imagine for a long time they were the major players in running the business.
 
I_Money said:
What I am saying is I am surprised pilots are climbing the ladder into VP, and C level positions. Most airlines date back to pilots founding them, and I would imagine for a long time they were the major players in running the business.
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You would imagine? You are not aware of what, how and why all of this changed then nor the details of how things used to be and how they have evolved/devolved? You have not read/studied the history of this or read the threads on this forum and other aviation forums or even the host of books written on the subject in all these years either? This is just getting sillier by the moment.
 
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I_Money said:
What I am saying is I am surprised pilots are climbing the ladder into VP, and C level positions. Most airlines date back to pilots founding them, and I would imagine for a long time they were the major players in running the business.
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I_Money said:
I think one of the ways my professions is so intertwined with leadership is taking ownership of these issues - there are more front end workers in high ranking positions which I believe have made all negotiations and employee relations better.
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What world do you live in? Your hospital was about to cut off negotiations and a large group of workers were going to not come to work (except you). Where does that seem to be better working relations? I'm pretty sure thousands of pilots would have loved to walk off the job if they weren't in fear of getting arrested because of the RLA. You on the other hand like to reap the benefits that are negotiated by hard working men and women but aren't willing to do what's necessary to get those benefits. To me that's about as basic as stealing but that's another argument.
 
amorris311 said:
I'm pretty sure thousands of pilots would have loved to walk off the job if they weren't in fear of getting arrested because of the RLA.
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In all honesty, would this really happen? I mean seriously? Who would make the arrests? Ive heard this fearmongering for a long while now. From my end, I guarantee you, as a fed myself, if I was told to go arrest a bunch of striking airline pilots who were on a picket line, because they had struck against the provisions of some ancient federal labor law; I'd laugh in the face of my own superiors. I can think of a few hundred better things I have to do and laws to enforce, than to be bothered with bullcrap like that, that's truly nothing more in my opinion than a civil dispute. And where the hell would we put all these hard-core federal felons....in concentration camps? :)

Being arrested for refusing to go to work. I just don't see it happening in any sort reality-based thinking. And the fact that anyone.....especially educated white-collar labor like airline pilots....should even remotely fear this happening, is laughable at best. And really makes me wonder how gullible they are. Sure...it's a law. But its unenforceable in the real world. Sounds great on paper though.
 
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