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J
Delta reduction
Your post sounds like the talking points from a graduate program at Berkeley. Have you ever considered that Northern Europeans may be "happier" due to reasons that have no relationship whatsoever to "health care" and tax policies? Who actually took the "happiness" poll? I've read numerous other... -
J
717's to DELTA
General, Don't knock LOS until you try it. Other than holidays (Thanksgiving) the trip is not a junior trip at all. Let's see...it is a "four day" that doesn't sign in until 9 pm on day one, and finishes at 0530 on day four. It is worth nearly 25 hours, and you sleep halfway there in the... -
J
American pilots weren’t allowed to strike, so instead they did something clever
Depends. At DAL our FOM specifically states that if the Capt calls for something that is wrong, the F/O is to point out his error. If the Capt still insists, the book states that his command is to be obeyed. If the F/O does his part, my guess is the FAA won't bother him at all. Before everyone... -
J
Comair to cease operations
I am not without sympathy for your position. However, to the DAL folks the real problem is that your small number of hardcore lifers DEFINED your union. For all the discussions of "most guys don't feel that way" the problem was that any correspondence from Comair pilots usually involved your... -
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J
Operation "BOB"
What you also need to understand is that NWA's "BOB" was due to an egregious portion of the contract that DAL mgmt tried to ram down our throats in BK, but were unsuccessful in doing so. Bottom line is that we are paid by the actual block time, or scheduled block time, PER LEG. So...to make it... -
J
Article states Delta made $863 million in bag fees, and $766 million in change fees
Yep. I used to think the change and bag fees were bad ideas, until I saw the following exchange between a passenger and a gate agent. Pax: "I'm scheduled for the flight to LGA an hour from now. I was wondering if I could get on this one instead?" Agent: "That will be a $75 change fee." Pax... -
J
1261 days to go!
I hope you are right. However, stand by for some BS like "The Fair Treatment for Experienced Pilots Act" that will miraculously wend its way through Congress come this fall. -
J
Swa atl ops
It IS old. SWA is a great company. I'm happy to be flying at DAL, though the pay should be a lot higher. I predict SWA will be successful in ATL...but DAL will be just as successful two or three years from now as we are today. Vigorous competition is what both airlines need to "stay honest."... -
J
New AGE limit discussion
There are many many example of "arbitrary" age discrimination in this country. ..Air Traffic Controllers must retire at 56-even though I am sure there are many competent controllers who could still do a great job at 57. ...You must be 16 to get a driver's license--even though there are no... -
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J
The American crawl is back....
Here is why you are wrong. Have you ever been on an interstate following two semi trucks driving side by side at less than 50 mph, not letting anyone pass them? I have, several times, and it's maddening--road-rage-inducing almost. I don't know why the trucks decided to drive slow. Perhaps they... -
J
DeltaNet Seems to Work on Safari Now
iCrew also now works on the iPad, "stock" Android browser and Google Chrome. Delta Technology is slowly not becoming a contradiction! (I think the NWA presence has been a good thing here, and I'm a "south" guy). -
J
Operation Orange
There is a greater chance of an asteroid crashing into the Washington Monument in the next 30 seconds than for "Operation Orange" to ever being in the collective consciousness of more than 1% of the nation's airline pilots. -
J
Outsourcing (True Story)
Usually seeing some headline with "true story" in parenthesis next to it almost guarantees it is some piece of fictitious BS. I'm sure you could google the exact text of this "true story" and get 10,000 hits. There may be some good points, but Ford has been solidly profitable for some time now... -
J
Life on reserve at swa
As a non-SWA guy, pardon my interruption (and I mean that respectfully) but if reserves at SWA always fly a bunch, why not just build more regular lines to begin with? Or, given the large number of flights SWA has throughout the system coupled with one aircraft type (until recently at least)... -
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J
Delta 3rd Quarter profit
All the anti-SWA and anti-DAL postings kill me. I'm a proud DAL guy, enjoy flying international, and am cautiously optimistic about the future. SWA is a great airline with a great pilot group as well. I hope both airlines make piles of $$ for decades to come and remain great places to work in... -
J
deep sea fishing in Costa Rica
Correctomundo. I don't know of anyone who has gone on a "deep sea fishing" trip to Costa Rica that didn't have some nighttime "fishing" planned as well! -
J
Question for AA Pilots
What kills me is that pre-9/11 there was a case of an Alaska Airlines flight when a crazy passenger (who later was found to have no criminal history, but had encephalitis) busted through the cockpit door of an MD-88, and the captain made a PA asking the pax to restrain him while the F/O held him... -
J
US Airways Sues Pilots
But how could that be? After all, there is no concerted delay or slowdown, and the lawsuit is all the paranoid imaginings of an evil management. Right? Right....? -
J
TWA Lawsuit
You bitter TWA guys kill me. For starters, the guys who really screwed you were the APA, but not a hint of criticism is leveled at them. I remember when the TWA acquisition was first announced, and a couple of AA buddies told me point blank "we're gonna staple the whole lot of them." But ALPA... -