Originally Posted by engfireleft
First of all, as Ray states they haven't said anything at all.
Actually, Ray posted a link a few days ago to the Toronto Star article that quotes Mr. Vilven as having spoken to the media, although even then they got part of it wrong:
Last year, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Air Canada’s contract with the pilots’ union, the Air Canada Pilots Association, was discriminatory. On Friday, former pilot George Vilven received a phone call.
“It was the director of flight operations. They were offering me an entry-level job on the smallest plane, an Embraer, that does regional flights. That’s what new hires start at. I said I wouldn’t do it.”
Vilven was forced to retire at 60 and is now 66. He wants to know why, if he’s fit to fly a smaller plane, he can’t go back to the Boeing 777 (the largest in the fleet at the time) he used to fly between Hong Kong and Vancouver as senior first officer. It appears from the offer Air Canada made, that he would get the same salary as when he retired.
The union, Vilven said, is out to get its older pilots. “The union has decided that they’re going to make it (the work) so distasteful that we wouldn’t want to come back.”
Toronto Star: Air Canada pilots say they still face restrictions