Delta may shrink

[On Your Six]

General, no one cares about your schedule!

Thanks for speaking on everyone's behalf jacka$$. Who elected you spokesperson? I personally found it interesting.

 

[On Your Six]

Looks like Delta is doing some pruning... 9 REDUNDANT lounges gone

Delta closing nine business lounges

Delta Airlines (Atlanta) has announced that it will be closing nine of its VIP lounges (eight Crown Room Clubs and one BusinessElite Lounge) in the United States and England. Although the airline justified the closures with the need to manage costs due to hefty fuel prices, a spokeswoman for the carrier said the move also is designed to align Delta’s worldwide offering of clubs to its locations Delta slated for closure are at airports serving Boston, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Seattle, San Juan, Phoenix, Denver, Honolulu, and London. Most of those airports have multiple Crown Room Clubs and will retain at least one location.

 

[CRJ puppy]

Delta closing nine business lounges

Delta Airlines (Atlanta) has announced that it will be closing nine of its VIP lounges (eight Crown Room Clubs and one BusinessElite Lounge) in the United States and England. Although the airline justified the closures with the need to manage costs due to hefty fuel prices, a spokeswoman for the carrier said the move also is designed to align Delta’s worldwide offering of clubs to its locations Delta slated for closure are at airports serving Boston, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Seattle, San Juan, Phoenix, Denver, Honolulu, and London. Most of those airports have multiple Crown Room Clubs and will retain at least one location.

For example, little ol' cvg has two crown rooms AND a business elite lounge! I'm surprised that all 3 lasted this long!

 

[Avi8tor2000]

Enjoy it while it lasts. Frequency will be cut on your RJs, and we ALL know RJs are not as profitable these days. Make sure you get those chicks' phone numbers, maybe they can come visit you sometime. And, I have 16 days off this month thanks to 2 6 day trips to Europe and a quick 2 day to Bogota. I have plenty of time to look at FI. And my layovers lately have been just fantastic. Great food and great people. The sights have been fantastic as well. You have a great one, ya hear?


Bye Bye--General Lee

Talk, talk, talk. Enjoy the inside of your hotel room. Trying pulling the curtains open once in a while--the natrual light puts a whole different perspective on the room. I have 16 days off a month too, however I choose to spend them camping, hiking, and rock climbing as opposed to typing endless posts on a website. Again, I hope wasting so much of your life was worth it up to this point. I truly hope you find something better to do with your time that is more rewarding in the end. You can't honestly look back at all those countless hours of pounding away at your keyboard as time well spent, can you? Think of all the better things you could have been doing. Kinda sad when you think about it...? I mean that.

Whatever petty response you have back for me won't be read for some days. Headed out into the backcountry for a few days with some friends. Google "friends". Totally awesome concept.

 

[Avi8tor2000]

Doubled.

Bye, bye!

 

[General Lee]

Talk, talk, talk. Enjoy the inside of your hotel room. Trying pulling the curtains open once in a while--the natrual light puts a whole different perspective on the room. I have 16 days off a month too, however I choose to spend them camping, hiking, and rock climbing as opposed to typing endless posts on a website. Again, I hope wasting so much of your life was worth it up to this point. I truly hope you find something better to do with your time that is more rewarding in the end. You can't honestly look back at all those countless hours of pounding away at your keyboard as time well spent, can you? Think of all the better things you could have been doing. Kinda sad when you think about it...? I mean that.

Whatever petty response you have back for me won't be read for some days. Headed out into the backcountry for a few days with some friends. Google "friends". Totally awesome concept.

Wow, you got it. I ALWAYS stay in my hotel room.......riiiiiiiight.

And wait, you are on FI right now, so you are not outside hiking, etc. How can that be true? Regardless, enjoy your 16 days off a month, like I will. I enjoy what I do, and I really enjoy where I go. And, I enjoy this board, which is why I frequent it often. Go enjoy your "friends"---did you meet them on one of those "Live Talk" phone lines you see on TV late at night? Was it "free to try?" Probably.....


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Tanker Clown]

Thanks for speaking on everyone's behalf jacka$$. Who elected you spokesperson? I personally found it interesting.

But you're the same fool who finds anything shiny interesting.

 

[JJs Cantina]

To the General:

So I took a little time and looked at a lot of your posts. Most are very lengthy. I think I could safely call an overall average post length 500 words. I don't know how well you can type, but I will get you the benefit of the doubt and say you can type 40 correct words per minute. (That value based on the fact that you are old, and not a professional secretary.)

So lets get started...

500 words per post divided by 40 c.w.p.m. = roughly on average 12.5 minutes you spend per post.

Now 12.5 minutes per post multiplied by 10,916 posts = 136,450 minutes

136,450 minutes = 2274.17 hours = 94.76 DAYS!

YOU HAVE SPENT OVER 3 MONTHS OF YOU LIFE TYPING ON FLIGHT INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS.

 

[FBN0223]

And your point is.....

 

[General Lee]

To the General:

So I took a little time and looked at a lot of your posts. Most are very lengthy. I think I could safely call an overall average post length 500 words. I don't know how well you can type, but I will get you the benefit of the doubt and say you can type 40 correct words per minute. (That value based on the fact that you are old, and not a professional secretary.)

So lets get started...

500 words per post divided by 40 c.w.p.m. = roughly on average 12.5 minutes you spend per post.

Now 12.5 minutes per post multiplied by 10,916 posts = 136,450 minutes

136,450 minutes = 2274.17 hours = 94.76 DAYS!

YOU HAVE SPENT OVER 3 MONTHS OF YOU LIFE TYPING ON FLIGHT INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS.

That's not really true. I don't usually take my computer on trips, so when I do post I usually post 20-30 times within a few hour session (I do errands in between, or go work out, or bike, etc). I also type really fast, so I think your figures are off. Maybe 75 days instead of almost 95. But the thing is, I really enjoy it. Why do people krap on people who do things they ENJOY? Sure, I do other things too, and my wife works workdays, but I enjoy viewing this website, and will continue to do so.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[JJs Cantina]

And your point is.....

If you read the post, and in conjunction knew how to think, you could figure it out all by yourself. Now, I am going to let you try this on your own. If you still have some problems after that, I will start to give you some hints.

 

[FlyinGuy]

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[ACL65PILOT]

To further clarify my statement on page one.
We gave up scope simple as that. We wanted something else, pay bennies, etc. It does not matter now since we have given up scope, pay and bennies. Management won both times. They hold the Aces.
If we want to get scope back to where it needs to be, we will have to give something up. Why, because there is no way that any management for any airline is going to do that. They will not roll over and just say OK.
I think that we squandered our one true chance where management really wanted something from us. (NWA/DAL merger) We could have done something with scope, but now that LOA 19 is two days away from being passed, our chance is gone. In the next round of talks we are trying to fight to many dogs at once. One more time scope will be a back burner issues as we are protecting our six from each other, and not worrying about the fact that more and more of our international premium flying as well as out small gauge flying are being farmed out right before our eyes.
To get verbiage that we want in a PWA to protect both ends of this career would take us giving up something we currently have. As I stated before there is no way that we can or will do that. Hence my first post.
It is not my line of thinking, it is the way that negotiations occur. We will not be successful in that plight. Are you willing to take five or more years of this PWA to get that flying back, probably not. Most are only concerned with the here and now and cannot see five to ten years down the road. That is the line of thinking that has put this entire profession where it is today.

 

[9rj9]

To further clarify my statement on page one.
We gave up scope simple as that. We wanted something else, pay bennies, etc. It does not matter now since we have given up scope, pay and bennies. Management won both times. They hold the Aces.
If we want to get scope back to where it needs to be, we will have to give something up. Why, because there is no way that any management for any airline is going to do that. They will not roll over and just say OK.
I think that we squandered our one true chance where management really wanted something from us. (NWA/DAL merger) We could have done something with scope, but now that LOA 19 is two days away from being passed, our chance is gone. In the next round of talks we are trying to fight to many dogs at once. One more time scope will be a back burner issues as we are protecting our six from each other, and not worrying about the fact that more and more of our international premium flying as well as out small gauge flying are being farmed out right before our eyes.
To get verbiage that we want in a PWA to protect both ends of this career would take us giving up something we currently have. As I stated before there is no way that we can or will do that. Hence my first post.
It is not my line of thinking, it is the way that negotiations occur. We will not be successful in that plight. Are you willing to take five or more years of this PWA to get that flying back, probably not. Most are only concerned with the here and now and cannot see five to ten years down the road. That is the line of thinking that has put this entire profession where it is today.

How true, scope as DAL knows it will be traded away to save a few jobs. Comair and others will pick up the 100 and < aircraft all in the name of saving a few capt slots at mainline. Sold out before and will sell out again.

 

[General Lee]

How true, scope as DAL knows it will be traded away to save a few jobs. Comair and others will pick up the 100 and < aircraft all in the name of saving a few capt slots at mainline. Sold out before and will sell out again.

I beg to differ. I think UPS will face more cargo cabotage from ANC before we give up a 100 seater. No way. We did a HUGE jump from 70 to 76 seats though, so I guess that would make you think we will go to 100 for a few extra schekles..... Riiiight.


Bye Bye---General Lee