Pinnacle/Colgan/Mesaba Final Ruling Docs

Um, yeah, you forgot one: Saab CA was #3 group. All the CAs got the first 3 groups, the FOs the bottom 3 groups. In summary, the ones who made out like absolute bandits are all the Colgan Captains hired in 2007, 2008, 2009. Doesn't matter if they were Q400 or Saab. They single-handedly just got to jump over every single FO on the seniority list. Essentially, my fear came true.

On the flip side of the coin, the real losers are the long time Saab FOs at Mesaba. Some of these guys have been there from 2004, 5, 6, and 7, and are now below all jet FOs. I'll admit, that sucks, and is not fair to them.

Congrats to you super-junior Colgan CAs, sherpa, woncie, and all the other ones here. You got your super-seniority jump over people who were physically senior to you.


I am not from 07 or later. Even so, I lost about 12% points relatively. The guys after feb 08 that I know lost like 25-30% relative.

you are not correct, so should definitely do more listening then talking.
 
I am a SEP 08' hire and lost 20% on the new list when looking at it from a relative point of view, however, with the fences I don't think it will be a bad thing....I hope!

Nice flyin with you the other. lets do okonomiyaki soon!
 
i lost 10% but overall nothing has changed. at least this buys me a lot more time before my name is on page1
 
You were in the unfortunate group that took the largest hit in realitive. The good news is we have a good Q fence. It provides for 193 Colgan Q CA slots minimum and currently we only have 149. That leaves 44 extra CA spots that will go first to us if 1)We take options on new Q's or 2) The company decided to increasing staffing on current Q's. These spots esentially provide 44 upgrades for Colgan pilot for any new Q growth regardless of attrition.


Plus when people finally start to vacate positions for other jobs/airframes CJC guys will have first dibs at the Q spots. This award is very intelligently designed to allow some movement while protecting what each group had.
 
So if everyone "lost", who "won"?

Bloch did. Duh! He charged overtime from May 15 to June 16, exactly a full month of overtime extra salary from our pockets. He knew this from day 1, he wanted to drag it out to make some moola $$$$. The clear winner, therefore, is obviously Bloch. :)
 
Bloch did. Duh! He charged overtime from May 15 to June 16, exactly a full month of overtime extra salary from our pockets. He knew this from day 1, he wanted to drag it out to make some moola $$$$. The clear winner, therefore, is obviously Bloch. :)


He is paid a flat rate regardless of time length on the award. Please get facts before lobbing the grenades.
 
Bloch did. Duh! He charged overtime from May 15 to June 16, exactly a full month of overtime extra salary from our pockets. He knew this from day 1, he wanted to drag it out to make some moola $$$$. The clear winner, therefore, is obviously Bloch. :) :sarcasm:

Lemme help here
 
So if everyone "lost", who "won"?

The Company! We worked out butts off in negotiations to get complete freedom between certificates with NO fences. This was a huge ability to move around the system and provided a massive disincentive against displacements due to the high training cost. Now, not so much.

I actually don't have a huge beef with the integration, but 5 year fences seems ridiculously high for a regional.
 
The Company! We worked out butts off in negotiations to get complete freedom between certificates with NO fences. This was a huge ability to move around the system and provided a massive disincentive against displacements due to the high training cost. Now, not so much.

I actually don't have a huge beef with the integration, but 5 year fences seems ridiculously high for a regional.

5 year fences seem to be the "easy way out" for some arbitrators.
 
No way this is going to take 5 years for guys to start integrating between companies. Colgan might have roughly 100 fo's on property who were hired prior to 7/10.
 
No way this is going to take 5 years for guys to start integrating between companies. Colgan might have roughly 100 fo's on property who were hired prior to 7/10.

That is a good problem to have, that all of our pre July 1st pilots will upgrade way before the 5 years and allow upgrades to become available to the other groups.

And I agree with you. Colgan has some comfortable minimum CA positions in this award and with any type of attrition we will see all of our pre July 1 guys in the left seat in the next couple to three years. This is just my guess and dependent on not having a total colapse in this industry or company.
 
Tell you what; send this guy a PM and tell him about your issues. I was actually planning on taking some sort of action on that post...until I read your demands. Go pound sand.

Mature from a moderator? Go pound sand?
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I just find it interesting that a Q CA is grouped with -200 CAs but a Q FO is grouped with Prop FOs. That would have eliminated that huge gap of all the jet FO slots that has no Colgan pilot integrated in.

Of course there is a ~400 slot gap for pinnacle for all the prop FOs and a ~300 slot gap for the Saab CAs. But its a much larger group with much smaller gaps.
 
I just find it interesting that a Q CA is grouped with -200 CAs but a Q FO is grouped with Prop FOs. That would have eliminated that huge gap of all the jet FO slots that has no Colgan pilot integrated in.

Of course there is a ~400 slot gap for pinnacle for all the prop FOs and a ~300 slot gap for the Saab CAs. But its a much larger group with much smaller gaps.

I was silent when the -200/Q rates were brought forward but can say that the colgan folks get 9L Q spots prior to 9E. You may be more junior but you get first dibs on the CA slots. I'm still very concerned of XJ Saab displacements and being kicked out of a 9E -200 CA spot by a junior guy in the process.
 
Mature from a moderator? Go pound sand?

Feel free to make some unwarranted demands of me and I'll gladly tell you the same.


I suppose that I am kind of immature for my age though. *shrug*
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I just find it interesting that a Q CA is grouped with -200 CAs but a Q FO is grouped with Prop FOs.

I was wondering that too. How did they decide that CA should be grouped:
1. 900
2. 200/Q400
3. Saab
But FOs:
1. 900 & 200
2. Q400 & Saab

From an XJ perspective it would have been nice to have those 900 FO spots ahead of the rest of the FO spots. From a 9L perspective it would be nice to have some spots mixed in with the 200's. From a common sense perspective it should have either been the same as the CA or all the FO spots equal because really an FO spot isn't much different between the 4 planes.
 
I just find it interesting that a Q CA is grouped with -200 CAs but a Q FO is grouped with Prop FOs. That would have eliminated that huge gap of all the jet FO slots that has no Colgan pilot integrated in.

Of course there is a ~400 slot gap for pinnacle for all the prop FOs and a ~300 slot gap for the Saab CAs. But its a much larger group with much smaller gaps.

The Jet FO category has the most to worry about, speaking mainly about PCL FO's. Pinnacle is currently way over their minimum CRJ 200 CA requirements per the decision. Mesaba is short 12 so the next 12 200 vacancies will go to Mesaba. After those 12, both PCL and MSA will have met or exceeded their minimum required CRJ 200 CA spots. From that point on, CRJ 200 CA vacancies will be open to any pilot and be awarded in seniority. This is where the Saab CA group #3 comes in. That group is made up of mainly CRJ 200 CAs, Q CAs and Saab CAs. If any Colgan Q or Saab Captain takes the CRJ 200 vacancy it will open up a vacancy in their Saab or Q seat. That vacancy would then go to a Colgan pilot first since Colgan is under their Saab and Q minimum positions. This would cause a leap from group 3 to group 5 and the Pinnacle FOs in Group 4 are stuck.

Pinnacle FOs need to hope that Colgan Q and Saab Captains in group 3 pass on the 200 so that it falls down to group 4 for the RJ FOs to bid on.
 
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