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Snow delay [del.icio.us] 2007-04-17 14:13:51 In late February, 'spring' is a distant dream and it is a crappy, snowy night in the big smoke. And lots of snow means the runways get slick and the whole operation slowly grinds to a halt.
Airlines in bankruptcy land [del.icio.us] 2007-04-08 21:26:11 What a surprise (not) to find this printed and posted on the "company news" section of the bulletin board at the YVR crewroom.
Charles Leocha wrote this op-ed for MSNBC about the 'bankruptcy
tactic' used by US airlines and the consequences. Read more:Airlines
David Ho's bad month [del.icio.us] 2007-03-28 00:25:20 Harmony Airways finished this month by announcing it will end scheduled services April 9th and layoff most of it's 350 employees pending restructuring. Read more:David
Why Airlines need Trunk Monkeys [del.icio.us] 2007-03-26 11:44:54 It isn't that far-fetched to think we will see 'TrunkMonkeys
' deployed on airliners in the future. Every Pilot could use a couple of these, if only for the entertainment value. Read more:Airlines
Cantarell [del.icio.us] 2007-02-22 13:05:37 The problem is that it's production is declining at a forecast rate of 15% per year despite the efforts of Mexico's state-owned oil company, PEMEX, to enhance production using various techniques.
Ground Zero - New York City [del.icio.us] 2007-02-20 19:01:23 Ground Zero is one place which carries a significant meaning for the many people that still visit the site today and remember the events of September 2001. This picture is taken in front of 1 Liberty Plaza facing 2 and 3 World Financial Center to the west Read more:New York
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ACE and WJA report 2006 results. [del.icio.us] 2007-02-14 12:02:22 Holly Hegeman asks "What happened to Net Income?" when looking at Air Canada's 4th quarter news release. Not sure why telling shareholders how much money they made (or lost) has to be such a circular exercise but here are the numbers for 2006 courtesy of Read more:report
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"Keep AC Strong" tale ends [del.icio.us] 2007-02-04 11:50:32 The release of the decision Air Canada Pilots Association v. Air Canada Ace Aviation Holdings Inc., 2007 CanLII 337 (ON S.C.) brings to a conclusion the "Keep AC Strong
" campaign by the Air Canada Pilots Association.
Mandatory Retirement [del.icio.us] 2007-01-24 10:42:14 Commencing January 8, 2007 the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will hold a hearing to determine whether the policy of mandatory retirement at age 60 contained in the Collective Agreement and Pension Plan negotiated by the Air Canada Pilots Association with Read more:Mandatory
The Jetstream [del.icio.us] 2007-01-15 12:06:51 With the winds 240 degrees magnetic at 153 knots the jetstream is our friend tonight, giving us an additional 97 knots of groundspeed.
Volcanic Flyby [del.icio.us] 2007-01-01 14:15:12 Mount St. Helens huffs and puffs as we fly southbound in the mid-30's on the way from Vancouver, BC to Los Angeles. Its easy to see which side of the volcano blew away and imagine the force and the noise when it erupted in 1980. Read more:Volcanic
Inside the Wage and Pension Re-opener by Phil A. [del.icio.us] 2006-12-23 12:27:48 This article was written by Phil A. after the wage re-opener arbitration was completed in September 2006 but prior to the release of the award by Douglas Stanley in October 2006. The wage uplift was 2% on July 1, 2006, with an additional wage increase of Read more:Pension
Extremely Low Flying by a French KC135 2006-12-17 21:55:00 Jim I. found this on the 'net.Apparently a French
KC135 video taken near Moussoro, ChadWhat can I say? Fun to watch until you catch a wingtip...Amateur d'AvionUploaded by James93Related:KC-135 Stratotanker - Wikipedia
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The Cartoon Dept. [del.icio.us] 2006-12-05 13:30:02 It looks like employer-pilot relations at American Airlines are...available in cartoon form. Read more:Cartoon
JFK Departure 2006-12-04 11:34:00 It's easy to get worn down of the early mornings, late nights and weekends away from the family. But it's also nice to sit back and take in a great view if only for a few moments and realize that life in the pointy end of a plane does offer something that ground-bound office dwellers can only dream about.So I give you a view of the Big Apple yesterday morning at 7:30ish AM. JFK is an easy and relaxed place at that time of the day and for a Sunday in December New York City is a peaceful and pretty place.The Flight Path (more or less):Left turn out off Runway 22R JFKJFK with Manhattan in the distanceManhattan, Laguardia Airport, Central Park, The Empire State Building, The Statue of Liberty.And we are on our way back home to the west coast of the continent. 6 hours to go.Related:JFK and area - Google Maps
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Who lost the most? 2006-11-25 11:28:00 The IAMAW was not amused by the Wage Arbitration Settlement with Air Canada in August 2006. At the time Jim Coller, IAMAW District Lodge 140 President and Directing General Chairperson, said “I believe the award released by Arbitrator Don Munroe failed to recognize and seriously undervalued the contributions made by our members during the restructuring of Air Canada.”Arbitrator Douglas Stanley issued a Wage Re-opener Arbitration for the pilots at Air Canada in late October 2006 and ACPA decided not to comment about the award. So how do the pilots feel about it? Suffice to say the size and scope of the award didn’t meet the expectations of many pilots and disappointed most.I’m not about to point fingers or assign blame for what happened because I wasn’t in the room when the union and the company made their presentations. Reading the Arbitration leaves me with the impression that Air Canada presented a case that it was still in a fragile state. Air Canada wasn't achieving its
The Tatoosh Wildfire 2006-09-11 01:34:00 You know it's a big forest fire when you can see the smoke plume from 200 kilometers away. Here are some pictures of the Tatoosh Wildfire burning on the Washington State - British Columbia border east of Vancouver. The top of the smoke plume was 25,000 feet as we flew over the top. The fire size is 4000 hectares or 10,000 acres as of today.Wildfire News - BC Ministry of ForestsFire crews pulled from aggressive Tatoosh blaze - canada.com - Sept 8/06Rain helps firefighters battling B.C. blaze - canada.com - Sept 10/06
Air Canada – Canadian Airlines Pilot Merger, a chronology of events. 2006-09-09 11:52:00 This is an update of a posting from October 2005 adding the more recent merger-related events
.Air Canada
pilots aka OAC (Original Air Canada) pilots are represented by the ACPA (Air Canada Pilot
s Association) merger committee.The Canadian
Airline Pilots aka OCP (Original Canadian Pilots) are represented by the ALPA (Air Line Pilots Association) merger committee.September 1, 2006The Canadian Industrial Relations Board issues Decision 360 dismissing an ACPA request to reconsider Decision 349 issued on March 10, 2006.In part the Board stated:[21] The original decision at paragraphs 106-108 gives some indication of what might result in a legitimate change to the collective agreement’s seniority terms. What, in the face of this request, perhaps needs greater emphasis is what will not. An integration of seniority lists involves competing interests, particularly where there is a majority group and a minority group. If the process simply involved letting the majority choose their preference Read more:Airlines
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North American Airline Stock Quotes, News and Pilot Pay 2006-01-27 09:05:00 Click on the 5 day chart for stock quotes, news and other financial information from 'Yahoo.com'.To look back 6 months using a variety of technical indicators a link to Stock
charts.com is provided.Click on 'Google News' for recent news from multiple sources.The Toronto 'Globe and Mail' for todays stock quotes, company snapshot, estimates and recent news releases.For up to date information on pilot salaries, fleet and airline data click on the 'AirlinePilot
Central'link.Google Finance for news, stock quote and financial information about each company.Misc. Pay links and Oil price information from various sources at the bottom of the page.ACE companiesACE Aviation Holdings Inc.6 month stock chart / Stockcharts.comAirline news / Google NewsFinancial data / Globe and MailGoogle FinanceACE Aviation Investor RelationsACE Insider Holdings and TransactionsACE Executive Compensation for 2005Aeroplan6 month stock chart / Stockcharts.comAeroplan news / Google NewsFinancial data / Globe a Read more:North
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Pay Survey Of North American Airlines 2005-11-29 17:16:00 A more recent pilot pay survey is available here.Pay is probably the easiest thing to measure when comparing airline collective agreements. What I'm trying to show with this survey is where Air Canada pay fits in relation to the other major carriers in North
America. Remember that pay alone doesn't adequately measure whether one pilot group is doing significantly better than another group. The survey doesn’t show some of the different methods companies use to compensate pilots. Many carriers, Westjet for example, include a profit sharing scheme as a significant part of the total compensation package. Comparing medical benefits, pension plans, share purchase plans, differences in tax rates and other variables unique to each carrier are beyond the scope of this survey.Survey Assumptions:The pilot flies 80 hours a month. Most pilots will see a seasonal variation in the number of hours flown each month. In Canada, scheduled carriers tend to be busier in the summer and slow down in the Read more:Airlines
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, North American
AC8911 - CRJ Aircraft Recovery Operation 2007-05-30 01:06:00 This CRJ was damaged on May 20/07 at Toronto Pearson after landing.Here is what Jazz said after the incident:May 20 /CNW/ - Air Canada Jazz confirms that an incident involving a CRJ100 occurred today at Toronto Pearson Airport.Air Canada Jazz flight AC8911 arrived from Moncton carrying 37 passengers and 3 crew members. After landing, while moving from the active runway onto the taxiway, the main landing gear buckled. Passengers and crew were not injured and subsequently were released following medical examination.Air Canada Jazz is cooperating with investigating authorities. No further information is available while the incident is under investigation.Here are a few pictures of the subsequent aircraft recovery.The aircraft on the taxiway with nosewheel extended and main gear collapsed.Engine blade damage from flap/wing ingestion.Left main gear.Right main gear. Notice there is more flap damage (scraping) on the right side.The crane moving to position.Lifting the aircraft on to the trail Read more:Recovery
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Goodbye Wingfiles, Hello SmartCockpit 2007-05-25 11:21:00 Photosource: xddoroxI'm not sure what lead to the demise of Wingfiles.com but it seems to be disabled. For those of you that used it in the past, you'll know it as a useful place to find technical information from many sources on transport aircraft flying.I stumbled across this site and it looks like an able replacement. Smartcockpit.com covers a broad range of subject areas centering around flying transport and corporate aircraft.My aircraft covers systems information on a wide variety of aircraft types from the biggest commercial jets to corporate jets and turboprops. A random click through this section indicated many sections are not complete, but there is a surprising amount of information there and hopefully you will find what you need.The section most similar to 'wingfiles' are the Flight Operations and Safety section. These areas cover many topics focusing on flying technique and safety.The other section of interest is Weather. Links to worldwide National Weather Centers are Read more:Goodbye
, Hello
The new 777 2007-05-18 14:24:00 Some great air-to-air video of the new 777. Enjoy!From cachesk at youtube:These in-the-air images of Air Canada's brand new B777 were captured along the Pacific coast by a specially outfitted Lear Jet. In a carefully choreographed ballet, the smaller jet floated above, below and around Air Canada's newest and largest aircraft to capture this beautiful footage over the Pacific Ocean, the Rocky Mountains and the city of Vancouver. Related:Boeing 777 - Wikipedia
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