Delta is getting ready to hire!!!

[ACL65PILOT]

As for the jetways. They are required to be outside of the FAA approved clear zone so the aircraft can taxi in. It is part of our FAA approved procedures.

 

[Mach 80]

Re: jetways:

ok, thanks.

 

[Noserider76]

Bid may be delayed slightly. Nothing too sigificant, but not on the 16th. To DAL guys this is nothing new. The whole when and what of AE's is such a moving target.

MSP will get bigger, NYC may grow as there will be 10,000 block hrs on the 88 in March and beyond if the swap get approved, and ATL will shrink this time around. Even if you get killed on this AE it appears that the Aug 2010 AE will right some of the cuts in ATL.

I am looking at how the ER movement in NYC will be then, the 777 in DTW then the 320 in MSP. We will see how many guys in ATL decide that a commute is better than a 3K a month pay cut.

Would have been nice if they had done the 765 move to NY and the ATL 767 to ER conversion pre-SOC. Now those guys are kind of SOL with their equipment thrown into the big pool.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Would have been nice if they had done the 765 move to NY and the ATL 767 to ER conversion pre-SOC. Now those guys are kind of SOL with their equipment thrown into the big pool.

I guess it will help even every thing out.

 

[xray678]

MSP will get bigger, NYC may grow as there will be 10,000 block hrs on the 88 in March and beyond if the swap get approved, and ATL will shrink this time around. Even if you get killed on this AE it appears that the Aug 2010 AE will right some of the cuts in ATL.

Yeah, but the problem is some of the guys bumped out of ATL may never get their seats back as NWA pilots migrate south.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Yeah, but the problem is some of the guys bumped out of ATL may never get their seats back as NWA pilots migrate south.

Yep, and I am one of them with a house here, but you will never hear me complain about it. Why? We voted for the JPWA and it now is what it is. It serves no purpose.

BTW, never is a long time. I would say 2-3 years for most seats above a 7537.

 

[Diesel-9]

I suspect the worlds most successful airline merger is going to screw a lot of Delta S pilots out of their seats.

IMHO the south pilots would have been better off at a stand alone Delta.

Really. Where would the old DelDa be getting D.I.P. financing about now? You did a lousy job restructuring in Ch-11. Have one of the worst cash/revenue ratio's. NWA had one of the best. The SLI was a wash and DelDa gains every year from now on. Sorry USAir didn't buy you.

 

[jonjuan]

Yeah, but the problem is some of the guys bumped out of ATL may never get their seats back as NWA pilots migrate south.

They took our jobs!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLni3wbndls

 

[General Lee]

Really. Where would the old DelDa be getting D.I.P. financing about now? You did a lousy job restructuring in Ch-11. Have one of the worst cash/revenue ratio's. NWA had one of the best. The SLI was a wash and DelDa gains every year from now on. Sorry USAir didn't buy you.

Just remember NWA had all that extra money because you gave it away to keep those pensions, that you still have, along with the money again. (Yeah, I know---70 hours min vs 75, double pay over 80, healthcare costs, blah blah) I tend to think we could have gotten dip financing from a lot of sources. Look how United is still around along with USAir.....

Look, we shouldn't fight anymore, but some people are sensitive. When it comes to getting bumped out of a base, people usually take it personally, and it really isn't supposed to be like that. It's called seniority, and things happen. Look at 9-11. That was out of nowhere, and it affected a lot of people at the airlines. Mergers happen too. Deal with it. Overall, we will all do better eventually.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[xray678]

BTW, never is a long time. I would say 2-3 years for most seats above a 7537.

Oh wow, just 2-3 years to get a seat back in ATL? Gee, I feel better now.