New Emirates order....

[BILL LUMBERG]

Price? Plain & simple huh? Not sure the Italian bankers in the 1st class suites on our MXP-JFK agree but there you go.

On Sunday Dubai based airlines ordered 311 Boeing aircraft. Great for American jobs and great for Emirates pilots particularly FOs who don't want to wait 20+ years to LHS of 777/380.

Btw, why haven't you guys answered my DAL 777 DOH questions?



fv

LOLOLOLOL Italian Bankers??

Maybe ya got some Irish bankers or Spanish bankers and maybe some Icelandic Bankers and once they nosedive into insolvency, they can scrounge up enough cash for a ticket in coach.....

Oh and how do upgrades work over there? Go ahead and answer that? Out of Seniority? However the Canadian Check Airman feels that day?
Go ahead fill us in, when they will upgrade.....Kingfisher and Skybus had large plans too....until the wheels fell off.

 

[Andy]

LOLOLOLOL Italian Bankers??

Maybe ya got some Irish bankers or Spanish bankers and maybe some Icelandic Bankers and once they nosedive into insolvency, they can scrounge up enough cash for a ticket in coach......

Bill, I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one ROTFLMAO over fareview's statement.

 

[dicko]

Cheap labor! How many thousands of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis legally work 12 hour shifts for "a sack of rice" in Dubai et al? Take a look behind the scenes, it ain't pretty.

Brutal isn't it ? It gets worse too - imagine people living below the poverty line, working sixteen hour days and relying on food stamps to feed their families.

New hire U.S. Regional F.O.

 

[dicko]

Italian Bankers??

Maybe ya got some Irish bankers or Spanish bankers and maybe some Icelandic Bankers and once they nosedive into insolvency, they can scrounge up enough cash for a ticket in coach.....

Maybe we should remember whose "bankers" led the charge into this recession. It was ours. I'm betting they still ride in Emirates first class suites on the way to Dubai. If they can't get a seat then they might slum it in a Delta lie flat. Not quite the same though. You know how they think.

Ask Boeing what their offer was to the unionized mechanics in Seattle last week - 'Dump the pensions or we build it elsewhere'. Wings built in Japan etc. None of these people give two flying fuks about pilots or anybody else for that matter.

Why carry their water for them ? This isn't about patriotism, this is about money.

 

[Green]

That sure will be a lot of planes flying within Africa! You WILL rule the skies there! Enjoy it! And, LHS living in the ME to Conakry is worse than RHS to Paris, while living in the US. Ask your pal TP---he's GONE, and he was initially your biggest and most well known advocate on this board and PPRUNE. The ME has just started to melt your brain, and it will continue until you leave.


Bye Bye---General Lee

Guess what General. Ek flies to Paris. As well as Nice and Lyon. We fly just about everywhere. Including Africa. Believe it or not some people become pilots to see the world. Not just a few destinations in Western Europe that you seem to prefer. But for the EK pilots who like that there are plenty of layovers to be had all over Europe. But I'm sure your astute logic will stop the EK expansion in its tracks. Can't wait to get my Antonov type

 

[General Lee]

Guess what General. Ek flies to Paris. As well as Nice and Lyon. We fly just about everywhere. Including Africa. Believe it or not some people become pilots to see the world. Not just a few destinations in Western Europe that you seem to prefer. But for the EK pilots who like that there are plenty of layovers to be had all over Europe. But I'm sure your astute logic will stop the EK expansion in its tracks. Can't wait to get my Antonov type

Thanks Green. You also get to see nasty cities like Khartoum, Conakry, all night India turns, and Lahore. The big thing for you is, you really have no say where you go. Did you see the complaining from the EK guys about schedules on PPRUNE? Talk about unhappy. You can try to bid, but there is no certainty. That sux for you. I am senior in my category, so I can pick and choose where I want to go. I saw a 6 day trip to Asia to ferry a plane out of Singapore. I got it. I go to Western Europe regularly, and got Rome next month. I even picked up a Quito, Ecuador because it was on the open board and I hear its interesting. At the same time, I can go to Las Vegas or San Diego if they pop into open time. Guess what? You can't. But wait, you will go there sometime in the next decade, even though the ME heat will have melted your brain by then.... Ennnn...joy it...



Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[johnsonrod]

My dingle is bigger than your dongle! Typical FI thread creep and personal slams...

 

[jonjuan]

Brutal isn't it ? It gets worse too - imagine people living below the poverty line, working sixteen hour days and relying on food stamps to feed their families.

New hire U.S. Regional F.O.

Soooo, you support what's going on in the sand?

 

[jonjuan]

Guess what General. Ek flies to Paris. As well as Nice and Lyon. We fly just about everywhere. Including Africa. Believe it or not some people become pilots to see the world. Not just a few destinations in Western Europe that you seem to prefer. But for the EK pilots who like that there are plenty of layovers to be had all over Europe. But I'm sure your astute logic will stop the EK expansion in its tracks. Can't wait to get my Antonov type

Layovers in all of those places in Europe and yet they must dread going back "home" to the sand box. Must be "fun." All to claim being a widebody pylot. Are all the wives all-in regarding staying there for years on end? Gotta think many would desperately miss their families in the western world.

 

[General Lee]

Layovers in all of those places in Europe and yet they must dread going back "home" to the sand box. Must be "fun." All to claim being a widebody pylot. Are all the wives all-in regarding staying there for years on end? Gotta think many would desperately miss their families in the western world.

Well, when the pilots are out flying across the globe with loads of hotties, the wife and kids try to go for a walk, and not pass out due to the 110F heat, 98% humidity, and blinding dust and haze. Butttttttttt, at least the pilot gets to Skype back to Dubai from Tehran..... Fannnnntastic!


Bye Bye---General Lee