Washington Post Crash Pad Article

FlyChicaga said:
Seriously???

We have 5 hour airport standby. Paid for four hours. The union tried to get it changed to 4/4, but the company said no.
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Ours are 9.....and unpaid. If that doesn't change in this TA, I'm gonna be asking some serious "why not" questions on the road shows. That's just redonkulous.
 
Honestly I was not trying to brag. I was trying to pass along information so you know what we have, then you can ask, "Why don't we have this?"

There ya go, pattern bargaining.
 
FlyChicaga said:
Honestly I was not trying to brag. I was trying to pass along information so you know what we have, then you can ask, "Why don't we have this?"

There ya go, pattern bargaining.
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Yeah, I know. I wasn't trying to bring everyone down and throw a one man (or 1300 man) pity party, either, so I apologize if it came out that way. I'd be happy with what ASA has in the 8 hour RR with a 4 hour credit. I'd actually credit more doing that than I did on my last 3 RR shifts where they used me for an overnight.
 
kellwolf said:
Yeah, I know. I wasn't trying to bring everyone down and throw a one man (or 1300 man) pity party, either, so I apologize if it came out that way. I'd be happy with what ASA has in the 8 hour RR with a 4 hour credit. I'd actually credit more doing that than I did on my last 3 RR shifts where they used me for an overnight.
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At XJ we have the same thing. When they are low you can pick them up in open time for PP as well.
 
Sadly the only people this committee is interviewing are the airline executives and spokespeople. Hmmm, I wonder who's side they're going to take? I find it halarious when Phil Trenary states,

"regional pilot pay is very much the same as it was 10 or 20 years ago,"

as if it's a good thing. He doesn't mention regional pilot pay still sucked 10 to 20 years ago as well.

The saddest part is how Trenary defends the low pay by saying,

"do not ever equate professionalism and competence with pay,"

makeing it look like he is defending pilots' apititudes, while he's really saying that pilots don't deserve anything more than the miserable amount regional crews already make.
 
Someone didn't think it through when letting a reporter take pics of the property. They should have kept it a little more anonymous. I guess a code inspector read the article.

Now is the time to start a crashpad in Dulles if you have the capitol. Just make sure you keep it on the hush.
 
Hernandezcfi said:
Yep. People still need crashpads regardless. Just grease the neighbors and keep it on the low.
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There's bound to be some fallout as the crashpad phenomenon becomes known.

Regardless, showing people that airline crews aren't in 5 star hotels eating steak dinners everynight and sleeping in a naked sweaty pile of four or five peeps is a start.

Fun, glamorous, lifestyle? Whut?
 
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