ALPA Defeats Emirates in Rent-A-Code Scheme

[Varmint]

Varmint, the USA is a land of second chances. That's what makes it great. You can go BK and SURVIVE. In the ME, you get thrown in jail after being raped. Am I lying? And, the products are improving.


Bye Bye---General Lee

You are not lying, you are skewing the facts in your favor and leaving out half of the story to try to make it look like your point of view is the obvious choice.

Yes, you go to jail if you can't pay but the rest of the story is that......the owners of the company here will go to jail if they can not honor their debts. It would be nice to see all the crook US airline CEO's from the last decade in the slammer, wouldn't it?

By the way, what is with the Vietnam bashing. Have you ever even been to Vietnam? Direct question....direct answer.

 

[Varmint]

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bottom_line/2013/09/massport-offers-15m-to-emirates.html

 

[Golden Falcon]

I'm convinced the current expansion rates of local "economies" hence the airlines are not sustainable...think most realize this..."spending money like a teenage girl with her first credit card" comes to mind...

 

[Golden Falcon]

I'm convinced the current expansion rates of local "economies" hence the airlines are not sustainable...think most realize this..."spending money like a teenage girl with her first credit card" comes to mind...

 

[8sugarsugar]

Back on topic, how funny would it be if Emirates joins forces with Delta? Three flights a day into JFK, more to come.

All into Terminal 4, easy connections, pre-cleared in Dubai for easy connection for Delta Domestic.

Poor First Officer 'general lee'

 

[Freebrd]

you are skewing the facts in your favor and leaving out half of the story to try to make it look like your point of view is the obvious choice.

That's all Jenny Leigh does....

By the way, what is with the Vietnam bashing. Have you ever even been to Vietnam? Direct question....direct answer.

Jenny likes to bash others, mostly regional pilots and SWA pilots, causing her to get parked for awhile. Guess she's picking on expats now. Welcome to Jenny's world! :nuts:

 

[General Lee]

Back on topic, how funny would it be if Emirates joins forces with Delta? Three flights a day into JFK, more to come.

All into Terminal 4, easy connections, pre-cleared in Dubai for easy connection for Delta Domestic.

Poor First Officer 'general lee'

Doubtful. And, the DL pilots have to agree to any Joint venture, and your airline isn't very popular over here with pilot groups, or even certain airlines that made public your EXIM bank deals.

Also, I can hold Capt now on a couple narrowbodies, but I make more as a widebody FO (ability to pick up or swap trips (things you can't do really) is easy as a senior FO in category).


Good try 8sugarsugar, and enjoy Kabul. I won't be going there, or Khartoum.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[8sugarsugar]

he admits he's an FO, finally!

Widebody? I thought 767 was a light twin?

 

[Freebrd]

Jenny's the widebody, guess from all those sundaes he consumes.

 

[General Lee]

he admits he's an FO, finally!

Widebody? I thought 767 was a light twin?

Huh? Never stated I was a Capt. And your Joint Venture idea would be interesting, primarily because when that is established, a ratio is set up to divide revenue on particular flights. DL would have to fly 50% of the flights between certain city pairs between hubs of both airlines. So, your two daily 380s from DXB to JFK would turn into one, with a DL 744/777 on the other flight. That could get interesting. Too bad most airline people dislike your airline. Quit the handouts from the EXIM bank.....

And, I prefer flying a "light twin" 767 while living in the States over flying your 380 or 777 with few trip trade opportunities, and a max of 5 days off in a row when not in a vacation month. That sucks. No wonder Typhoonpilot is tired of it. That and the "interesting" laws.....


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[8sugarsugar]

oh poor first officer jenny, will never be a widebody captain...tear in my beer

 

[General Lee]

oh poor first officer jenny, will never be a widebody captain...tear in my beer

Really? How do you know that? 4500 guys senior to me will retire over the next decade, meaning I will be a widebody Capt. Where will you be in the meantime? Probably Khartoum, Douala, Tripoli, Tehran, Sana'a, Kabul, and other lovely spots. That would absolutely suck, and you have very little say in where you go. Trip trades are almost non existent, and you can fly 90 hours of hard time each month, whereas most of our INTL longhaul trips have lots of credit time built in. What does that mean? It means you fly a lot, to many undesirable places, with no say or bidding power, and you get to come back to a super hot, traffic filled city that your family wishes was closer to family back here. That sucks!


You keep saying "poor" GL. Do you mean poor paywise? That just isn't the case. Do you mean because I don't fly your mighty 777-300ER or A380? I wouldn't fly any of your planes or any Gulf carrier out of the Sandpit. Typhoonpilot leaving shows there is an expiration date to your happiness there. He was probably very senior, but wanted out. That should say something to you.

"Poor little Sugar Sugar"---- I can't wait for you to come back and apply to LCCs to hopefully fly turns to FLA..... Good luck!



Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[General Lee]

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bottom_line/2013/09/massport-offers-15m-to-emirates.html

You forgot Kabul, announced the same day? Who gets to go there? Can you trade trips or drop those? Not according to people on APC, and they aren't happy. How's Khartoum and Tripoli, btw?


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[General Lee]

You are not lying, you are skewing the facts in your favor and leaving out half of the story to try to make it look like your point of view is the obvious choice.

Yes, you go to jail if you can't pay but the rest of the story is that......the owners of the company here will go to jail if they can not honor their debts. It would be nice to see all the crook US airline CEO's from the last decade in the slammer, wouldn't it?

By the way, what is with the Vietnam bashing. Have you ever even been to Vietnam? Direct question....direct answer.

Skewing the facts? About the Aussie lady who was raped and then jailed? I don't think so. Go on YouTube and watch her interview. As far as BK goes, some CEOs and CFOs do go to prison when illegal activities were involved. Look up Enron.


I tried to go to Vietnam when DL did go there from NRT, but eventually it was cut. My problem with what your friend did was he went over there and got SIC. Not PIC, but across the globe for RJ SIC.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[Green]

General,

It's a waste of time to correct your misinformation. But just in case someone is reading your posts and thinking about going to EK I will correct a few of your mistakes. It is quite easy to trip trade. I do it every month. The maximum days off in a row for trip trading is 7 not 5. Not sure where you heard that. I am in the middle of 7 off right now. So you are simply WRONG.

The middle east destinations you mentioned are all turn arounds. You don't layover in DOH, KWI, Tehran, etc. So for pilots who like to be home every night they are perfect trips. You can be home virtually every day of the month if you swap your layovers for turns. If you like layovers then EK destinations beat DAL hands down. No comparison. Your clapped out 767 cannot compete with the variety on the EK777 fleet. Take a look at an EK route map.

We have Rest Days here as well. it's not considered an OFF day even though you don't go to work. So my usual 14-15 OFF days plus my 2-3 rest days means a normal month is 16-18 OFF days using a US scheduling system. Add in 42 days of vacation per year and our rosters are not that bad. I have been averaging about 750 hours per year.

There are lots of things wrong with EK but you consistently post misinformation. And dude if you are living the Delta dream (ice cream sundae and all) why are you spending every waking minute on FI? Life must be amazing for you to have the time to break 18,000 posts.