Delta hiring freeze?

[vectorvictor]

A husband and wife certainly is a family. Not everyone in this world wants kids, and it's not the inevitability you make it seem.

Glad it works for you, but it isn't for everyone.


I think you may have gotten yourself into the wrong business...

Wz up bud. I agree. I think there should be a waiting period for married folks to have kids. Give you a chance to get to know each other before having to clean puke off of the microwave. I suggest using other people's children as test subjects for short periods of time.

VV

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Having kids is no different than raising a dog that slowly learns to talk.

 

[WSurf]

Having kids is no different than raising a dog that slowly learns to talk.

LOL Too Funny

 

[General Lee]

General you only have a wife with no kids. You will see soon son that a overnight is a overnight is a overnight. Who the hell wants to fly to the middle east anyway?

Wait until you have a family. You will never ever wanna fly to those cities and be thousands of miles away from your loved ones. I love the fact that I have a couple of overnights that I can rent a car and drive 1hr to my house and spend my overnight home with my wife and kid.

All those cities sound cool as hell, but once you have a family being away from home sucks and all overnights are the same.

Your whole outlook and the crap you type will all change once you have a kids.

That could be the most ignorant thing I have ever read, this from someone who doesn't fly above FL180 and lives in the back woods. And, you really have no clue if I have any kids or not. Maybe my wife just had one, maybe she didn't. You never know. I actually get more time at home flying 3 day trips worth 20 or more hours, and I can do them back to back, since there is no 30 and 7 rule in INTL flying. Get educated my friend, and set the altimeter to 29.92 passing 18,000 ft (FL180).

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[General Lee]

Well, you must forget I'm on the ATR. Love Hilton Head, and Myrtle Beach is pretty good too. Next up is Panama City. No Flint for me. Days off? I've seen lines go up to 18 days off on the jet. I usually get 12-16.

But have fun eating goat and avoiding dysentery in the armpit of the world. I'm sooooooo jealous. Carry on, General.

Do you think we ever actually stay in bad places? Our hotels are 5 stars primarily because of security reasons. That is a good thing. Ever been to Buenos Aires? It is like going to Europe, but warmer (due to our Winter is their Summer) this time of year. Beautiful women too. How about Frankfurt? (We stay in Weisbadden) Beautiful, and the Wintertime festivals are really nice. Hardly anyone gets dysentary anymore, primarily because people know where the bad restaraunts are. There is always good intel about food and things to do. Even in Africa we have deals on safaris, and only stay in very nice hotels that all the European Airlines stay at--like Air France.

Also, I go to PFN every Summer, and I have probably ridden on your bird.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[General Lee]

I bet that 777 bunk smells like the sleeper in an 18 wheeler rig.

I have been up there (jumpseating) and the 777 crew rest area is actually pretty nice. The 767ERs are also getting their own "pill box", and they are nice too. It beats trying to sleep next to first class passengers in your own seat. I would say it is ten times better than it used to be. We also get first class meals and can watch a first run movie if we want. Not too bad, and a 3 day worth over 20 hours is pretty nice.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[ACL65PILOT]

I myself, am going Int'l next summer so that I can back load trips. Being gone for nine to 12 days a month is not bad. I like the fact that I could commute from anywhere in the country to Int'l at DAL. Doing in once or twice a month is better than doing it every week. I have a family and our decision is to have me gone more at one time and less as a whole. Int'l does put you farther away from family, but it gives you more quality time at home.
One six day and a three day or two, or one 12 day a month will suck while doing it, but at least I will be home long enough to do more than change the underwear out of my bag.

 

[General Lee]

I myself, am going Int'l next summer so that I can back load trips. Being gone for nine to 12 days a month is not bad. I like the fact that I could commute from anywhere in the country to Int'l at DAL. Doing in once or twice a month is better than doing it every week. I have a family and our decision is to have me gone more at one time and less as a whole. Int'l does put you farther away from family, but it gives you more quality time at home.
One six day and a three day or two, or one 12 day a month will suck while doing it, but at least I will be home long enough to do more than change the underwear out of my bag.

It is your choice. You are going to be away for 3-6 days anyway, but now you are at the Trevi Fountain in Rome or you can be downtown in Denver. You can do 4 legs in a day and end up in Miami, or you can have an expensive beer in Dublin. It is called having options.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[ACL65PILOT]

exactly. It is why I turned down my SWA interview. It is about each pilots personal choice.

 

[scarlet]

Yeah and how do you feel when you get there at 4:30-5:00 AM(your time-8-10Am their time)and hotel room not really, and sleep for several hours, which is about 2-3pm when you get out of bed and have to be back in bed in about 8 hours for the van in 15 hours when you get up from the nap? Tell the truth. Yeah you communte into your Dominicle and get in about 2 hours before duty in about 1-2 pm (got up at 8am)then check in at 5 or 6 pm and then make an annoucment ladies and Gent. flight time 8-12 hours to go=and when you get there you are blood shot red eyed wearing sun glasses through the airport.=FUN

 

[ACL65PILOT]

I have no issue with that. Yeah some days it does suck, but I can tell you. I will take a few cat naps and a 15 hr flt any day over a 16 hr duty day in and out of ATL socked with delays.

 

[WSurf]

That could be the most ignorant thing I have ever read, this from someone who doesn't fly above FL180 and lives in the back woods. And, you really have no clue if I have any kids or not. Maybe my wife just had one, maybe she didn't. You never know. I actually get more time at home flying 3 day trips worth 20 or more hours, and I can do them back to back, since there is no 30 and 7 rule in INTL flying. Get educated my friend, and set the altimeter to 29.92 passing 18,000 ft (FL180).

Bye Bye--General Lee

Touch a nerve? Come on General you know you don't have any kids. Hell, how could you? Anyone that has kids wouldn't have time for 9,620 Post on FlightInfo.

Don't live in the back woods remember. I've got a house on the water with a dock.

 

[Tarzan]

Get educated my friend, and set the altimeter to 29.92 passing 18,000 ft (FL180).

Bye Bye--General Lee

Wouldn't it be passing 17,999 feet?

 

[John Pennekamp]

Touch a nerve? Come on General you know you don't have any kids. Hell, how could you? Anyone that has kids wouldn't have time for 9,620 Post on FlightInfo.

Don't live in the back woods remember. I've got a house on the water with a dock.

You know he ordered his wife online from Russia with love, right?

 

[General Lee]

You know he ordered his wife online from Russia with love, right?

Actually Kiev, Ukrane(we fly there and Moscow). Really, INTL flying and the option to go back to domestic anytime you want is a good thing. You and Wsurf will have to have a beer at the Tiki Hut at HHH and talk about how much fun it is to fly to Tri-Cities.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[General Lee]

Touch a nerve? Come on General you know you don't have any kids. Hell, how could you? Anyone that has kids wouldn't have time for 9,620 Post on FlightInfo.

Don't live in the back woods remember. I've got a house on the water with a dock.

No, I just love hearing "a layover is a layover" from a guy who has crappy layovers. (except the Tiki Hut HHH) Maybe you have a couple more favorites, like the Pizza Hut in Fayetteville, NC, or the 7-11 at Salisbury. I don't know.... Someday maybe you will expand your horizons, out of the SE or Mid Atlantic, and try that E190 in PHL. I think it is great you live on the water with a dock. I live within a mile of a Sushi restaraunt. You know, "bait."

And, maybe you haven't noticed but I do spend a lot of time late at night on this forum. You can only guess why. (and I am sure they are great guesses) Enough said.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Spidey]

No, I just love hearing "a layover is a layover" from a guy who has crappy layovers. (except the Tiki Hut HHH) Maybe you have a couple more favorites, like the Pizza Hut in Fayetteville, NC, or the 7-11 at Salisbury. I don't know.... Someday maybe you will expand your horizons, out of the SE or Mid Atlantic, and try that E190 in PHL. I think it is great you live on the water with a dock. I live within a mile of a Sushi restaraunt. You know, "bait."

And, maybe you haven't noticed but I do spend a lot of time late at night on this forum. You can only guess why. (and I am sure they are great guesses) Enough said.

Bye Bye--General Lee

How many hours can you get in a 3 day trip?

 

[ACL65PILOT]

well the NRT turn is about 26-28 for a three day.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Actually Kiev, Ukrane(we fly there and Moscow). Bye Bye--General Lee

General.... do you and your bride have a common language or does she just listen? :beer:

 

[Speedtape]

General.... do you and your bride have a common language or does she just listen? :beer:

The rumor is, that she speaks some English.
" Are you finished, yet, comrade (aka little feller)?"

 

[WSurf]

Maybe you have a couple more favorites, like the Pizza Hut in Fayetteville, NC
Bye Bye--General Lee

Come on GL I love Fayetteville, NC overnights. Parents live there and they pick me up at the airport each time I go there. Never been to that hotel however.

 

[WSurf]

And, maybe you haven't noticed but I do spend a lot of time late at night on this forum. You can only guess why. (and I am sure they are great guesses) Enough said.

Bye Bye--General Lee

Well Hell there's your problem right there. You should spend less time late at night on these forums and more time bangin out your wife. I am sure everyone on this forum would agree if your wife started giving you alittle a$$ we'd all be better off. LOL

 

[John Pennekamp]

Actually Kiev, Ukrane(we fly there and Moscow). Really, INTL flying and the option to go back to domestic anytime you want is a good thing. You and Wsurf will have to have a beer at the Tiki Hut at HHH and talk about how much fun it is to fly to Tri-Cities.

Bye Bye--General Lee

We will. As hard as it is for you to believe, some of us have ABSOLUTELY no desire to "cross the pond".

Cheers, Salud, or whatever they say in Ukraine when they give you your new wife.

 

[John Pennekamp]

And, maybe you haven't noticed but I do spend a lot of time late at night on this forum. You can only guess why. (and I am sure they are great guesses) Enough said.

Bye Bye--General Lee

My guess is that the "hot wife" made you sleep on the couch.

 

[John Pennekamp]

General.... do you and your bride have a common language or does she just listen? :beer:

I doubt if she can even get a word in edgewise.

 

[WickedPissa]

That could be the most ignorant thing I have ever read, this from someone who doesn't fly above FL180 and lives in the back woods. And, you really have no clue if I have any kids or not. Maybe my wife just had one, maybe she didn't. You never know. I actually get more time at home flying 3 day trips worth 20 or more hours, and I can do them back to back, since there is no 30 and 7 rule in INTL flying. Get educated my friend, and set the altimeter to 29.92 passing 18,000 ft (FL180).

Bye Bye--General Lee

You get edjumacated my friend. The Dash goes above FL180. You are just a loser that for close to 3000 waste of time posts, gloats about how great his job is to everybody, yet spends his whole life on flightinfo.com. Just the fact you get aroused by going over 180 is messed up. Why don't you go vacation or spend family time with all your mega Delta bucks rather than give all the people trying to get on with majors crap?

After further review, you have almost 10,000 posts. Get a life.

 

[Gr82Aviate]

You get edjumacated my friend. The Dash goes above FL180. You are just a loser that for close to 3000 waste of time posts, gloats about how great his job is to everybody, yet spends his whole life on flightinfo.com. Just the fact you get aroused by going over 180 is messed up. Why don't you go vacation or spend family time with all your mega Delta bucks rather than give all the people trying to get on with majors crap?

GL has close to 10,000 waste of time posts....

 

[WickedPissa]

GL has close to 10,000 waste of time posts....

I edited it too late. Nice.

 

[Spidey]

well the NRT turn is about 26-28 for a three day.

Yeh, flew a nonstop from Tokyo to DC once-a pretty long boring day. Flew from DC to Honolulu, 1 hour on the ground, then back to DC. Now that's a turn. That kind of stuff used to be fun, and it would be exciting if ya hadn't done it before, but on a scheduled airline, it's gotta get very monotonous. Pay's good, and that 777 looks cool, but it's not too envigorating. Thanks for the answer, and good luck. The lee guy posted about 3 times in a row that he gets 20 hours in 3 days, alot of it sleeping. And he gleed about all the places he's been. A little too much eager. Ya know what they say, act like you've been there before. And the lee guy better be careful, about sayin where he goes-Trevi Fountain has become a hangout for transgender pickups. Not a good situation, no way.

 

[No.W.]

Funny thread...but seriously....

To each his own. There are many reasons to make the decisions we make. I have to remain at SkyWest for at least the next 4 years because my wife is in residency in SLC...with only 4 days off a month...I can't afford to commute and "waste" a day with her(if our marriage is going to be a good one). Would I like to stay somewhere exotic one every trip and make more money? Is the sky blue? However, OTHER things also contribute to the decisions I make for my career. Thus, I'll address my choice in 4 years...a lot can happen in that 4 years and if SkyWest is still around, I'll have 9 years of seniority. Having been furloughed and having suffered through crappy reserve, I think I will be leaning toward leveraging that 9 years and remaing here. Like I said, it'd be fun to fly bigger planes, with cooler overnights and for more money...but those things don't matter as much to me as good schedules(sooner rather than later), not commuting, and...the big one...not hanging off the end of a seniority list.

Like I said, to each his own.