2015 Pilot Discussion.

[dariencc]

LAA pilots stampeded by PHX gold diggers sliding into LAX.
APA hosed the entire deal, especially the 321 pay in an attempt to manipulate. DFW and ORD 787 F/Os - get ready for your new new American west captains. They will be happy to explain how they saved you.
Get ready LAX! Capn' Aux will be next in the 787 or Triple!

The weak APA leadership actually caved and advocated the Nic. Their support helped move the needle toward the Westies and away from their own F/Os. Thank God Wilson and Roghair are out of office. They had to have rocks in their heads.

Westies are flooding into LA and Dallas. It's a bloodbath for the American right seaters. What a travesty. Great job, APA! Morons.

 

[Claxon]

Here come the PHX Pilots over the San Gabriel's.......
Riding in their burned out 320 s
Nice trade, 1981 319 for a 2016 787!

 

[dariencc]

Cap'n Aux can't wait to get that 787 bid at LAX. The attention starved lad is already brainstorming ways to be noticed by the degenerate Hollywood set as he carries on with his antics in the terminal.

Can't wait to see the first wild, spontaneous "flash mob" in T4.

 

[Claxon]

How long until AUX makes films with Brice LeCarre about the APA?
The former LAS rep Ray Burkett is salivating over another chance to do his fellow pilots a good turn.....back for more FPL

Get ready LAX AND DFW!




http://upgrd.com/aerospace/love-foolosophy-us-airways-and-american-airlines-announce-merger.html



Although Phoenix has large population density, and a high-volume of O&D traffic, it is a low-yielding hub. US Airways can sustain it at present since the airline follows an extremely lean/low-cost model, but once it merges with American, the combined carrier will see its cost base rise. With a more bloated structure, the airline will be unable to support the same level of nonstops and frequencies out of its PHX hub without raising fares, which will result in hefty turnover to lower-priced options on other carriers such as Southwest (the #2 airline in Phoenix) and the airline will fall out of favor among locals. In a best-case scenario, Phoenix will be shrunk to serve 50 or so cities at max, with a few key Canadian, Mexican and Hawaiian markets retained.


Rohan

aero'space

 

[dariencc]

How long until AUX makes films with Brice LeCarre about the APA?
The former LAS rep Ray Burkett is salivating over another chance to do his fellow pilots a good turn.....back for more FPL

Get ready LAX AND DFW!

Brice LeCarre's portly wife was quite proud of her sleazy antics as a member of the F/A's combined East/West negotiating committee. USAPA graciously provided the F/As with confidential information that helped them in their dealings with the company at the time of US East's successful Barbell acquisition of AWA. They, of course, were honor bound not to share that information with other parties. The portly Ms. LeCarre immediately gave the information to "Brice" and it showed up in the Westies' case before arbitrator Nicolau.

The great irony of all this is that the portly Ms. LeCarre became a significant factor in the revolt against the absurd Nicolau delusion. The full story of her maneuverings was widely disseminated by USAPA during the certification vote. It enraged the membership and helped to push the new union on to victory. Her fleshy, smug grin quickly became a frown.

Ray Burkett is already in 330 school in Charlotte. More proof that all those Westie posts about how they had no interest in our widebodies were complete bull****. No big surprise. We knew all along. Enjoy training, Ray!

 

[Black Swan]

This new format is strange.

Looking at LAX and DFW awards. You have to wonder who was advocating for the Nicolau at the Legacy side. The TWA and LAA F/O groups were destroyed by APA merger. None of it made any sense. With the East attrition, LOS or DOH with fences would have been the way to go. The Nic stance was a numbskull position.

 

[dariencc]

I would be getting ready to drive to work in LA and fly to Asia on a shiny new American 787 if it wasn't for your sleazy group and their bogus do over. But no worries, fool, I will be out the door of this craphole in less than a month. Can't wait to walk int the office and tell our new eastie chief pilot to go straight to hell because I quit. Good times.

Consider yourself lucky to even be here, "jackass." The Phoenix to LA exodus has already begun and the AA F/Os are bearing the brunt. Now you're complaining because you think that even more Westies should be flooding in there to fly the widebodies, including yourself. Forget about it.

Remember all the ridiculous posts from the Westies denying that they were interested in the East widebody flying to Europe? This is more proof that they were lying. A few gullible East quislings like Munn even believed them.

Fortunately, the East had the unity and backbone to stop the insanity. Captain Mike Cleary and his stalwart group of USAPA leaders brushed off the likes of "lax to asia" and kept them where they belong. Too bad for the AA F/Os that their leadership was not up to the task.

 

[dariencc]

Mark C. Doyal is one of the West pilots who has gone to the DFW crew base. This has not been well received by the AA F/Os, who see years of career stagnation ahead of them.

F/O Doyal will be a favorite among the AA Captains he works with. He will be able to explain to them his double victim status as a result of an unfair FBI polygraph exam process and the USAPA slam down. The Captains will nod enthusiastically as they curse themselves for not memorizing the phone number for Project Wingman.

They will begin Googling the name Mark C. Doyal and will come across this.

Polygraph Statement of Mr. Mark C. Doyal
I had always wanted to be an FBI agent. With that singular goal in mind, I enrolled in Southwest Texas State University in the fall of 1988. My major was Law Enforcement with a minor in Economics. I graduated in December 1990 and I took the written FBI exam that next January. I passed and was scheduled for an interview in March of 1991. The interview went great and I achieved a perfect score. However, the FBI determined that I needed more experience and informed me to re-apply in two years. I immediately took the Law School Admissions Test and applied to South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas. I was excepted for the class beginning in January 1991. I was fortunate in that I was able to obtain employment on a full time basis with the Harris County District Attorney's Office - Economic Crime Division. I remember my new boss asking me after he interviewed me what I planned on achieving with a law career. I immediately responded that I wanted a career with the FBI. Everyone who I met knew that that was my goal.

Working full time for the District Attorney while attending law school at night was tough, but I knew I had to get the right kind of experience and education to make myself the best possible candidate for the FBI. Upon graduation from law school (Dec. 1994), I re-applied with the FBI. I was scheduled to take the written exam on a Monday following the Bar exam. I again passed the written exam and had to wait to be selected for the interview. I wrote letters nearly every month to the applicant coordinator asking to be interviewed and explaining what I was doing each month. Finally, I was selected to be interviewed in Kansas City in July of 1996. Seven of us in our region were selected to go, but only two of us passed the interview process. Myself and another girl. I was on top of the world, knowing that I was about to realize my dream.

The polygraph exam was next, August 7, 1996, in San Antonio, Texas. I knew I had nothing to worry about, since I had never violated the FBI's drug policy and I had not lied on my application. The agent administering the polygraph noted during the pre- polygraph interview that I had attended a university that he believed was a "party school" and that I needed to tell him what drugs I used when I went there. I stated that I had taken none, that I didn't live on campus, I lived in another city, and that I was an older student and wasn't influenced to do such things. He repeated that that couldnít be the case and told me again to tell him what illegal drugs I had done. I countered again that that just wasn't the case and that I was telling the truth. This went back and forth for about 10 minutes and he seemed to be getting upset that I wouldnít admit to taking drugs. Finally he stated that if I was lying he was about to find out. I was upset at the unbelievable accusations he was making. Up until that point I had been treated with the utmost professionalism by the FBI staff, now I was being treated like an accused criminal. After the polygraph was over, he told me I had failed. I almost passed out in disbelief

I wrote several letters to FBI Director Freeh, and in October of 1996 I was polygraphed again, by another agent with the first agent who polygraphed me present. The results were the same, he told me I had failed. I just could not believe it. I had not lied on the polygraph. Even the first agent that had polygraphed me told me as I was leaving that he now believed me, that I was telling the truth. I wrote the Director several more times to no avail, my application was terminated in November of that year. My dreams were shattered.

Finally, as a side note, I later applied with the Secret Service. I did just as well in the testing and interview stages as I had with the FBI. When it came time for the polygraph, the agent administering it asked me if I had been polygraphed before. I told him yes, and under what circumstances and the results. He thanked me for my honesty, unhooked me from the polygraph without testing me and told me that he would have to contact his superiors for their advice. I could not believe it. Two months later I received a form letter stating that I was no longer competitive with the other agent applicants. I am a licensed attorney, professional pilot, have law enforcement experience and with top scores but I was not competitive? Obviously I had been "black balled" by the erroneous polygraph results from the FBI.

I will probably always be effected by the injustice of what happened. I wrote a final letter to Director Freeh this summer asking for another polygraph. I even offered to pay all expenses associated with retaking it if I were to fail. I guess I still haven't accepted that you can fail a polygraph while telling the truth. Or the fact that the FBI could make this kind of mistake. I had always looked up to that agency as the pinnacle of professionalism. I received the same form letter back that I had received almost two years earlier. It is a shame, since all I wanted to do was to have a chance to serve my country and make my family proud.

Sincerely,

Mark C. Doyal

 

[dariencc]

700uw continues to lurk, nursing his wounds after the Nicolau humiliation. Years of pompous, false posts boasting of his expertise in labor law left him with nothing to say in the end.

Now he feverishly takes notes from his latest Anthony Robbins "self improvement" scam course and keeps himself on a sugar high by devouring packs of Twinkies, meticulously prepared, baked and packaged by his former colleagues at the factory.

 

[dariencc]

Oscar Jazz is still lurking, too. Just can't give it up and admit to himself that his Nic taunting only helped to bury his West friends. If they'd ignored him and his hero MacIlvenna, they might have kept JR Baker in office and taken, however reluctantly, the deal at Wye River.

Thanks for the help, Armando.

 

[dariencc]

Anyone miss this know-it-all gasbag?

Like I've said before, USAPA eliminated the two sides necessary to reach any agreement to modify the Nic. Once the company accepted Nic and said it met the requirements of the TA, it was no longer a "bargaining position" and by eliminating the separate West representation USAPA made it impossible to alter the Nic as it was the accepted seniority list (no longer a "bargaining position") per the TA.

 

[dariencc]

Such a cool guy.

 

[Jeepney]

Such a cool guy.

Okay. We got the shot. You can let your breath out now.

 

[Phoenix]

Anyone miss this know-it-all gasbag?

Good find. Too bad he retired at 60. It was obviously a disappointment not be a Capt anymore for him.

Whatever happened to him? Is he still alive? Hope he is enjoying retirement!

 

[Black Swan]

I heard he cracked up a motorcycle and was seriously injured some time ago. Although we did not see eye to eye, hopefully he is doing OK.