Welcome to Flightinfo.com
- Register now and join the discussion
- Friendliest aviation Ccmmunity on the web
- Modern site for PC's, Phones, Tablets - no 3rd party apps required
- Ask questions, help others, promote aviation
- Share the passion for aviation
- Invite everyone to Flightinfo.com and let's have fun
Welcome to Flightinfo.com
- Register now and join the discussion
- Modern secure site, no 3rd party apps required
- Invite your friends
- Share the passion of aviation
- Friendliest aviation community on the web
-
J
Call to Action... Our futures
True...and who is to say that we aren't trying. As for the bad FA attitudes, while they are deplorable, you can thank the lawyers and the "Age Discrimination!" lobby for a lot of that. When is the last time you saw a group of 55yr old + FAs on any Asian or ME carrier? But if the US carriers... -
J
Wall Street airline selloff
Do you guys honestly think that if McCain or Romney had won either election, that this fiasco in Iraq would be going on the way it is? Give me a break. Guess what? The ISIS terrorist don't give a rats ass about the president's "concerns" nor do they care about "UN resolutions condemning such... -
J
Delta has mid contract improvement TA
These are a VERY bad idea. Want to feel like death warmed over and have to pull off the side of the highway on your way home so you don't fall asleep at the wheel? I don't. The real problem is the fact that the 6 hours is block to block and the hotel rest is reducible. On a nice night with no... -
J
delta upgrades?
Oh we are! Every other airlines' captains have dark epaulets with four gold or silver stripes. Only at DAL do we have gold or silver colored epaulets paired with five black stripes. While they look identical to all the other epaulets, we at DAL "know" just how special our five-black-striped... -
J
Delta doing test flights in JNU .. 757 svs now !!!
We probably won't. I realize that AS has a lot of proprietary data and approaches that aren't available to anyone else. This is a marketing shot across the bow and not much else. Should be interesting to see at the end of the summer how it all worked out. -
-
J
delta upgrades?
It also depends on how important it is for you to wear five black stripes on your epaulet. If you want to commute to reserve in NYC on a narrowbody, and spend all your on call days in a crashpad, it may be less than five years. If you want to be based anywhere else and not be super-junior, then... -
J
Mindset of the typical US Airways east pilot?
Is there a Candid Camera or MTV Punk'd episode coming up, because I cannot imagine this being for real. Check out the email address at the end of the letter. [email protected]? That has to be a joke, or the writer is the biggest tool this side of the Atlantic. -
J
Leave SWA for AA or Delta?
Some of them did, but others who retired early have been kicking themselves for years now. I knew a 757 captain who retired early at age 52, and got $400,000 in his lump sum. Between the change to Age 65 and a successful merger, he would have been a mid-level 7ER/A330/765/ captain easily making... -
J
Delta posts a record $1.37 Billion third quarter profit, also small refinery profit
Somewhere out there is a business case study in how you fix a broken system. At both PMDL and PMNW the ramp operation was a joke--never anyone to block you in, and when they finally showed/sauntered into position (after numerous radio calls) then there was not a gate agent to hook up the jetway... -
J
Delta vs Southwest??
First, get hired. Then, make the best decision you can with the information you have at the time, and don't kick yourself if you didn't have a crystal ball. For example, I know a guy who quit SWA a few years ago to get hired by UAL, who then got furloughed! He is back at UAL now. Who knows... -
-
J
Unical SLI is out...
looks like Cal was looking for a AWA STYLE WINDFALL. M No, they did exactly what the arbitrators told the AAA East NOT to do. They swung for a home run and struck out. The UAL side took the "prudent" course, didn't ask for the moon, and got a reasonable result. The greater bottom line is... -
J
Wow, Delta's Earnings
So.....20 crewmembers have to let you go first because you choose to commute and are too cheap to get Global Entry (it costs $20 a YEAR). I would have let you go in front of me, as we all need to sort of take care of each other, but you seem like a rather entitled sort. -
J
The End of USAPA is finally upon us
Nice attitude. Hey, if you think and desire that pilots should always dwell in bitterness and bile for their entire careers, always muttering how they got screwed by the merger, everything is always someone else's fault, etc, rock on. If you are bound and determined to be a miserable... -
J
The End of USAPA is finally upon us
At best you are only partially correct. We had similar dates of hire AND similar equipment and complementary route structures. We also had--believe it or not--union leadership that was committed to making sure that the newer combined entity moved forward and emerged stronger than the two... -
J
The End of USAPA is finally upon us
Every pilot in any merger thinks the universe was out to screw him personally. I have yet to meet a NWA guy who is that unhappy with the DAL merger, especially given their "Green/Red" dysfunctional history. I still contend that DAL has had better mergers than any other examples out there... -
-
J
The End of USAPA is finally upon us
Your knowledge---less than zero. Let's see. I know guys hired in the late 70s/early 80s at WAL who were furloughed by that "great" airline for six years. Then they got recalled just prior to the DAL merger in 1987, to get huge jumps in pay and quality of life. Some "screw job" there. As for... -
J
Delta parking 10 75s. 717 delivery "fluid"
Hey you are probably right. We are also retaining some of our newer (relatively speaking) 757s for years to come; most will be fitted with lie-flat seats to fly JFK-LAX transcons and the like. All good things eventually come to an end. The 757 really is a great plane. SWA is a great airline... -
J
Delta parking 10 75s. 717 delivery "fluid"
What about "757s are getting old and are leaving" don't you understand? The bottom line is that many of our oldest 757s from both premerger NW and DL, were built in the early 1980s. They are coming up on hugely costly heavy maintenance checks and are already nearing the end of their aircraft... -
J
ALPA/TWA Duty of Fair Representation Award
You got a source for that ludicrous number? (MSNBC, Michael Moore, or the website of any organization that has the word "justice" or "progress" in it doesn't count). -
J
A/C order question for Delta guys
As someone who loves flying the 757, but doesn't love deadheading in the back of one, I sympathize. Why did you put the 757 ahead of the M88? I always prefer the 2x3 configuration on that aircraft. Only one out of five seats is a middle seat. -