Let's Hear the Specific Changes You Want?

[Sea Eggs]

Let's make a list of specific changes you want?

[cxorcist]

A management team that sees us as part of the solution not part of the problem.

How about a management team that is as committed to the long term success of the airline as they are to their own bonuses??? Yeah right, like that's going to happen.

PS - Repainting the airplanes is not the solution.

[Shep69]

Pretty easy. Stable rosters (meaning real rostered trips that stay that way) and some form of very limited long call reserve (whether you call it A days or whatever) which is seldom, if ever, used . This seemed to work pretty well for years and years while maximizing productivity for everyone. And letting the company flow out assets over several months versus only tomorrow or today. While also allowing an ability to deal with unforseeable contingencies (vice rostering problems of your own making which is what we are seeing now). A win-win.

I do not think the company fully realizes the damage it has caused by the perceived 'flexibility' of ever changing rosters and trying to use a form of 'continuous reserve' to cover for manning shortages. This 'flexibility' is not and never has really been there--especially in an operation that crosses many time zones with long haul ops, and it only serves to break what assets were still working up to that time. While also dramatically increasing workload for the schedulers as schedules continuously collapse.

For those hard of hearing, anytime you see an 'R' before a trip that is by definition an unstable roster. We are largely creating our own traps and our own roster instability.

So stable 'owned' rosters would go far toward maximizing what you can do with what you have.

It would also be nice for the powers to be to understand that we deal with an hours (not days) driven process and large gaps between long haul trips are not only desirable but often necessary.

Or for those needing a simpler explaination

Flying = good

Sitting on call = bad

[mtc]

O days,
Free reserve,
Delays into G days with ZERO compensation.

One of those has to go at least.

Nothing stopping rostering of 20+ days per month.

Down route 1 in 7?? Wtf is that.

[Captain Dart]

I want the fuel hedging team to go 'hill walking with Ivan' and the whole lot of them never to darken the door of Cathay City again.

[Oasis]

Softer pillows downroute please.

Why don't you bring your own, Barbara?

[Average Fool]

I'd like the flight number cards in despatch to be all the same colors.

[AQIS Boigu]

In order to battle that non-existing fatigue I want a Nespresso machine at dispatch.

Beats that urine coming out of that other coffee machine.

[Cpt. Underpants]

I want the DFO's office in dispatch. No door.

[shortly2]

It's no wonder why we are getting right royally rogered. None of us really know what we want and anyway we all want something different. They don't have to divide and conquer, we are already schismed, (if that's a word), anyway it's what we are.

[MENELAUS]

I'd like our uniforms tailored by Heinrich Himmler's tailors', Hugo BOSS.

[geh065]

I'd like a mint chocolate with my crew meal.

[MENELAUS]

Yes seconded. After eight mint.

[MENELAUS]

And stretched limos with bar and dancing girls to and from all crew hotels forthwith

[Yonosoy Marinero]

All the seasons of 'Seinfeld' on the IFE, dubbed in swedish.

[The FUB]

I d like to be treated with the same respect as when I first joined. (Last century)

[mrfox]

I d like to be treated with the same respect as when I first joined. (Last century)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaLzwMBHMps

[Yonosoy Marinero]

I want to break free
I want to break free from your lies
You're so self satisfied I don't need you
I've got to break free
God knows, God knows I want to break free.

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[Hugo Peroni the IV]

I want another engagement survey; like the last one that highlighted the total mediocrity of our management yet saw nothing change for the better afterwards.

[Glass Half Empty]

So true so true

[MENELAUS]

I'd prefer to have a survey about having an engagement survey

[McNugget]

I'd prefer to have a survey about having an engagement survey

Then a survey about Glob's survey.

If memory serves correctly, January marks the two year anniversary of when the 'plan' to deal with the survey results should have been released to employees. This was according to an email from our esteemed leader after the 'pretty appalling' results.

[Sea Eggs]

How about respect?

The boys and gals at Westjet are not unionized but yet, their employer treats them with respect.

WestJet to pursue more widebody aircraft following pilots’ approval

http://atwonline.com/airlines/westjet-pursue-more-widebody-aircraft-following-pilots-approval?NL=ATW-04&Issue=ATW-04_20161228_ATW-04_489&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_5_1&utm_rid=CPEN1000000456167&utm_campaign=8030&utm_medium=email&elq2=e735b65d201f4dc2ad02a3e4e055836c


Canadian low-cost carrier (LCC) WestJet has been given the go-ahead from its pilots to acquire additional widebody aircraft.

Calgary-based WestJet currently operates four Boeing 767-300s from destinations in Canada to Hawaii and London Gatwick. The carrier, which was founded in 1996 and operated an all-737 mainline fleet for most of its existence, has said its initial widebody, long-haul flights that began in January 2016 have been a success. As a result, WestJet has signaled its intention to acquire additional widebody aircraft to launch more long-haul routes.

But the airline’s labor agreement with its pilots did not allow it to add more widebody aircraft. WestJet has remained non-unionized through its existence. Most WestJet employees own stock in the company and the consistently profitable airline has engaged in regular profit sharing, which has largely led to labor peace at the company.

The carrier’s 1,380 pilots are represented by the WestJet Pilots Association, which collectively bargains on behalf of the carrier’s flight deck crew, but does not consider itself a union and is not affiliated with any larger unions.

In November, the airline’s rank-and-file pilots overwhelming voted to reject a new agreement that would have allowed the carrier to add more widebody aircraft. WestJet negotiated changes, and a revised agreement was put up for a vote in December. The airline said the pilots accepted the new deal in voting that concluded Dec. 23.

“This agreement … now allows us to proceed with plans to expand our widebody operations to new destinations in the future,” WestJet said in a statement. “We will now turn our attention to acquiring additional widebody aircraft.”

WestJet’s pilots have been the target of a unionization campaign by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the largest pilots’ union in the world. “I’m going to go down fighting to prevent the unionization of WestJet,” WestJet CEO Gregg Saretsky recently told the Calgary Herald, arguing it does not make sense for “middle men” to get between airline management and the carrier’s employees.

[spleener]

I want the fuel hedging team to go 'hill walking with Ivan' and the whole lot of them never to darken the door of Cathay City again.

This......

[broadband circuit]

How about every other department and employee being held to the same level of accountability as we are.

I know it's an old cliché, but to be honest, if we did our jobs as poorly as some of these clowns, there'd be tails in the sides of mountains......

[400 Jockey]

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