Ion-athan

That's all you have to say?

Have you noticed my friend that the ME blog is the only blog that has more than 90 viewers everytime you log into PPRuNe? (asia one coming second). Have you wondered why?

Do you guys have a problem? We have a commity that is representing us. Did you ever bother sending an e-mail to them? Did you know that our LV slots will change again without our opinion like they did in the first place? Did you know that 330-340 rqsts never granted? Maybe we should fix these things first that improve our lifes. Then you will not be spending so much time in PPRuNe.

Why don't we all demand for our GF pilots webpage to be up and running were voting could take place in things that are affecting us.

And you guys are here arguing about GF3 and GF9 and if we stop it what will be the consequense etc.

WHO CARES let them do their job because no matter what you say here will never reach their ears. Start worring on how to make our lifes better.

I am no UR or what you call this person. I am just a guy working under the same roof as you.

Cheers

touk

don't know about you Ion... my requests are almost always granted...

Albergineman

But not are my requests for long time now.

As far as I can see, the new LV slots are providing an additional chance to have your leave request as close as possible to your needs, specially those who are at the end of the LV seniority list, a.k.a. C group.

What is going to be unacceptable is separate our 52 leave days in four slots as shown as the new slots. Be aware that some slot combination are not possible.

Our contract states that our 52 leave days can be divided in two of 26 in cases of shortage and or company requirements.

If the management reads this forum or not, nobody can assure, but for sure all the few good information we find here reach the management in some way, can be via e-mail or personally.

Radar Contact

A9CAD head to the paint job, will be here very soon!

olbie

I for one think the 4 slots idea is great.

I understand that some would prefer to keep 2 26-days slots but please let's keep the option of having 4 slots!

brassplate

the new font SUX

Skybeds

In the Bahrain airshow GF has some surprises for the public .

behramjee

Ok good news...GF is back to triple daily for BAH LHR BAH for the IATA Summer 2010 season as GF 3 and GF 6 have been reinstated in GDS.

DesertHawk

Ion-athan- I agree with your general idea but there is not reason to change if they dont have to. in general our Fleet guy is satisfied with ongoings at GF and from what he says even the rostering. nothing will change until the senior guys force it which does not seem likely.

boiler

Nope. The GF5/8 will be canceled as I have previously posted. It will be back to double daily.

Panama Jack

Sooo. . . . any info on what is going on with Gulf Air Trade Union?

On Tuesday they said they would be on strike today (Thursday):

Gulf Daily News » Local News » Airline employees threaten to strike

Then on Wednesday they said they were actually organizing a sit-in (what exactly is a "sit in"?) during their Lunch hour break and denied that they were organizing a strike:

Gulf Daily News » Local News » Gulf Air union plans HQ sit-in

I understand that less than 1500 of GF's 5000 employees are members of GATU. I am wondering in what area of staffing the membership is significant and what effect a full-fledged strike by GATU would have on the airline?

Mephistopheles

Great now anything wrong with the paperwork or if its not put in the correct box will be met by a nice call from the office asking for an explaination. As usual the managers(term used very loosely indeed) cannot deal with the problem of FOs not completing the paperwork correctly head on & have to put it on all of us. Why can't they just call the responsible parties or better yet train the few useless FOs upto standard. I guess from now on I have to keep looking over the FOs shoulder inflight whilst he completes the paperwork & then escort him/her to the relevant box & make sure the envelope is delievered. I wish that that was the only problem but none of the managers want to confront our biggest problem, which yet again is the fast decline in the maintenance status of the aircraft.

brassplate

as always, they divert all the attention to the little people in the company to cover the REAL problems with the airline, them.
especially the marketing and the commercial departments who are almost always impossible to nail down as the single biggest cause of ALL THE WOES OF THE AIRLINE.

Ion-athan

Did you read the GDN few days ago?
The company last year had 660 cancelations and 11000 flights were delayed. WOW!!!!!!

Did you know that we are paying SIA 9000000 $ every year for only A checks? The rest is additional. So far we have paid an additional 1000000$

That sounds like a recovery plan to me

But on the other hand what can we do. We are just some poor CPT & F/Os.

boiler

The statistic means nothing unless you know what was the total number of number of flights GF did. If we assume GF did 100 flights per day (and probably more in peak summer), then this means a total of 30% of all flights were delayed. A bit on the high side, but not uncommon. I am not sure if it is even possible with a fleet as old as the one GF has do any better.

sheryas777

Why not go on strike,when the support is indirectly offered,not only from some outsiders and those trying to fuel the fire,but from two top senior management,who represent two major and largest political parties.Gulf air is has been going towards week management,because its going to a wrong direction,and the slogan used is Whom do you know,not what do you know. To be promoted and liked you need to be an active member of one of those two parties,otherwise........

Skybeds

GF should get top of the line maintenance company even if it is check A.Because the airline takes pride in their well maintained fleet (even though the aircraft are not really well maintained)

Radar Contact

A9C-AD will be supporting a Bahrain Airshow livery, looking sexy!

Will be shown on Thursday, expect some pictures

Da Do Ron Ron

I am a little mystified as to the reason for the air show bearing in mind that the Dubai Air Show is not that long before.

Talking to a few contractors working on the site it is a huge amount of Do Dahs being spent on the show including a new runway at the Sakir Air Base.

Anyone shed any light on this ???

Panama Jack

A few years ago, everybody wanted their own airline, ski-hills, water parks, fantasy luxury islands (mission accomplished) so now everyone wants their own airshow. Expect the Doha Airshow, Muscat Airshow and Kuwait Airshow to debut within the next few years.