Colgan POI forced out during Q400 certification

[PeterPilot]

That's not good for the anyone.....

:yeahthat:

 

[SoCalAprch]

Do you know the kind of man you work for?

Yeah hes a guy who is bent on making money and at any cost. And I can assure you he isn't looking out for the pilots best interest. His job is to make money and ours is make sure we are paid appropriately for whatever flying he manages to add. We haven't done our job and he has done his well. We really need to step it up and I hope that our pilot group will stand together and demand to be paid and treated appropriately.

 

[meritflyer]

I will agree, cost is a huge part of these contracts, but not always the controlling factor.

EVERY purchased item is a balance of cost + quality.

 

[Polar742]

Awesome...another thread that devolved into trying to figure out which regional is crappier.

Some are monopolies and have leverage to get better contracts. Then the single customer farms out flying, reducing the leverage.

Some are wholly-owned and get whipsawed against other wholly-owned carriers

The rest are contract carriers that come and go on the whim of the partners. The more diverse ones tend to survive better than the lesser-diversified ones.

In the end, airlines come airlines go.

The executives get rich, and the pilots go fly the same serial numbers in different paint for less pay.

My airline, your airline or the next guys airline could disappear tomorrow and the lift will be quickly replaced. If you don't believe it, re-read your history books.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

POI?

 

[Killtron2000]

POI?

Principal Operations Inspector

The FAA assigns one to every airline but the airline can ask for a replacement.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Principal Operations Inspector

Thanks fellow B5 fan. The Vorlon rock, the Shadow's suck!

 

[Killtron2000]

Thanks fellow B5 fan. The Vorlon rock, the Shadow's suck!

What do you want?

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

What do you want?

Sorry...not following you..anyway your avatar has the Shadow's from Babylon 5.

But, back on topic..

 

[Killtron2000]

Sorry...not following you..anyway your avatar has the Shadow's from Babylon 5.

But, back on topic..

Shadows ask "what do you want?"
Vorlons ask "who are you?"

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Shadows ask "what do you want?"
Vorlons ask "who are you?"

....ahhhhh, okay. Sorry but I had forgotten, haven't watched the show Since highschool. Back in like 94/95!

Goodtimes!

 

[ZapBrannigan]

My airline, your airline or the next guys airline could disappear tomorrow and the lift will be quickly replaced. If you don't believe it, re-read your history books.

Excellent point. But you're all wrong. My corporate flight department is far better than any of your commuter airlines.

 

[zmiller4]

Excellent point. But you're all wrong. My corporate flight department is far better than any of your commuter airlines.

But you do have to live in Northwest Arkansas.

 

[Polar742]

But you do have to live in Northwest Arkansas.

Somebody just won a free libation of choice with that BURN!!

:nana2:

 

[ZapBrannigan]

But you do have to live in Northwest Arkansas.

Yeah... I guess you have a point there. :crazy:

 

[zmiller4]

Yeah... I guess you have a point there. :crazy:

I know it's not a bad place at all...but I feel pretty lucky to have an easy commute to my base from pretty much anywhere east of the Mississippi (and the ability to transfer to any one of like 10 bases out west).

 

[jynxyjoe]

....ahhhhh, okay. Sorry but I had forgotten, haven't watched the show Since highschool. Back in like 94/95!

Goodtimes!

I leave for a few days and you all go B5 on me? Nice

There is a hole in your mind.

 

[Firebird2XC]

Yeah... I guess you have a point there. :crazy:

.. and you work for a soul-crushing, small-town destroying evil empire.

 

[falconvalley]

Not to mention being GA!! (clenched fist shaking)

 

[RICHARD5]

Awesome...another thread that devolved into trying to figure out which regional is crappier.

I was just now thinking EXACTLY that.