CMP and JCR
 

Last night's CMP update if you read it right says there will be no improvement to rosters by 4th QTR 2020 as planned. This is due to the "many" already identified delays to JCR coming online.....

So much for CMP being the panacea for everyone's ills. I was sceptical from the start but so many crews thought it was going to be great.... Just look at the ASRF report exponential increase let alone the resignations.

Move beyond!

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Seriously??

I am taking 3 weeks leave to go skiing, and my (nurse) wife has taken 4 (yes, four) days leave to get the same amount of time off. Admittedly there might be a Christmas in there, and she had to "request" a particular shift before and after, but there it is. Yet another example of how we allow our masters to shaft us big time.

Pre COSAP 94 (8 weeks leave) might have been worth boasting about.

For the first time in about 20 years the company were getting a bit desperate last month. Then a bunch of guys volunteered to be forced into training. The rosters won't be getting better any day soon now, they'll just do what they want with the pilots that are left. Many more are leaving of course but rather than persuade them to stay, the company will sweat the assets still here, which will continue until the next recession when the turnover reduces and the company can consolidate. The opportunity for change has just been squandered, as ever, by a minority of selfish pilots.

JCR - Really?
I'm from the government and I'm here to help you...
Your cheques in the mail...

CX already got what it wanted in this deal, that's the end of it. Period.
You will get no more, zip, nada, ZERO.

Save your energy for packing up the 700 sq/ft apartment and moving home to a new decent employer.

Loop, I don't think 6 or 8 Captains (out of 3000+ pilots) going into training has put paid to the company's desperation.

When was the last guidance or a reminder on CC? What are our aims, again? And before Dan says there isn't any need for a reminder, just do it, all troops need to have a clear and precise goal - and we don't have one!

They won't offer improvements because of our CC, they will just continue to find a work-around, as they have done forever.

We need to recapture the CC spirit with a clear, concise and coordinated campaign, not a boring re-hash of the same **** I have been doing for 20 years - IT'S NOT WORKING. "But it's having an effect" I hear you say - no, it's not: Swires moved up God knows how many places on the Rich List, our Directors continue to get bonuses, and our aircraft continue to get parked. NO-ONE CARES! Think we are "doing CC" by turning up to the dispatch desk at the right time, having spent 25 minutes looking at the iPad in the comfy lounge? Correct CC would see the cockpit crew in seperate busses every time.

Let's not keep doing the same thing over and over again thinking that we are bringing the company to it's knees. Do it smarter, not longer. If the membership could see how the GC is conducting it's business right now, they would run a mile. Stop shooting yourselves in the foot.

"Oh, but we can't just give up, they'll never offer us a negotiated RPs then!" Giving up, and reorganising into a new CC campaign are not the same thing. And besides, once Global RPs are negotiated, what then? Find another reason to stay in CC?

Fix the GC, fix the industrial sub-committee, fix the AOA. Only then can we start to think about what we are trying to achieve.

So there you have it.

There's pilots who would like to go into training but have refused the "forced" training position on principle and integrity.

Then there's pilots who would like to go into training but play the "forced" line in their colleagues in order to further their own selfish gains.

So there you have it, if you do the right thing and choose the hard morally correct path that is bound by principles and integrity you end up hurting your career and your own goals. While those that choose the easy path of self servitude, further their careers and goals.

It sends a clear message. Screw your course mates, your son's and daughter's future for your fast track gains. Who was it from Swire that said nobody ever got far in business by sticking to their principles.

I know what I would rather be.

So it's even worse than I thought: our well-thought strategy is now going to fail because 12 new trainers are going to join the existing 210 trainers, out of a pilot group of 3000+?

By the by, Rat^2: how many trainers have you guys personally asked to resign their positions?

added: If the success or failure of the AOA has come down to 12 (or 24, or 36) people's actions alone, then this just reiterates my view that we are in an untenable situation that needs a complete reset.

Agree that a complete reset is required. A bit like Australia's Labour party, who have just lost their third "unloseable" election.

We lost when B scales were introduced, then C scales, then COS99 and COS18. With a whole host of other losses in between; all the while maintaining the same "winning formula" of contract compliance.

Cancel everything, and have six months of town square meetings, or better yet talk to every member, but please find a new way forward.

I believe all the training codes are now not available for viewing.

SCABS are exactly what they are and they need to be named. The AOA also needs to provide a list of their names to all unions worldwide ( particularly The Teamsters in the USA ) and then when one of these SCABS lands a CX plane in North America that is where it will stay. Grounded.