Crew stuck In DR now free to leave

[upup89]

I thought there was a thread about this but can't find it. Feel free to merge.

After nearly 8 months the Canadian Pivot Airlines crew can now return home. Welcome news.

Canadian flight crew detained in Dominican Republic since April now free to leave

www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[DropTank]

That's why you carry an extra $1000 when you go through customs there.
Just in case.

 

[turbojet28]

That's why you carry an extra $1000 when you go through customs there.
Just in case.

I will never forget a crusty old captain once telling me to “never go south of the border without $1,000 somewhere in your bag”. I thought he was just crazy at the time, but he probably was just wise

 

[turbojet28]

Also, is there any sort of precedent for an ALPA-sanctioned or some other form of organized operational boycott for situations like this? Got to imagine if pilots just refused to operate there until their brothers/sisters were freed, this would be resolved in a matter of hours. As someone who operates to DR (a lot), this story is very concerning.

 

[nibake]

Also, is there any sort of precedent for an ALPA-sanctioned or some other form of organized operational boycott for situations like this? Got to imagine if pilots just refused to operate there until their brothers/sisters were freed, this would be resolved in a matter of hours. As someone who operates to DR (a lot), this story is very concerning.

Same here. I feel like we should have just stopped service there until things got sorted out.

 

[///AMG]

What a nightmare. But hell yeah, glad they finally are getting out of the pen.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Also, is there any sort of precedent for an ALPA-sanctioned or some other form of organized operational boycott for situations like this? Got to imagine if pilots just refused to operate there until their brothers/sisters were freed, this would be resolved in a matter of hours. As someone who operates to DR (a lot), this story is very concerning.

Same here. I feel like we should have just stopped service there until things got sorted out.

Giving pilots too much credit. You'll get a far louder outcry about, "they taking my 2-day DRs away!" Hmmpf!!


Never get between pilots and their convenience. We are way too big a bunch of whiney cry babies to have that sort of unity. Not to mention, ALPA has line pilots today that were scabs. Any real union would taken them out to the back of the barn and........

 

[///AMG]

I'm simply asking, but wasn't ALPA required to take the CAL guys back as part of the agreement? I mean both of us were barely real humans at the time, but perhaps the old guys can splain it