Delta MD-11s coming out of the desert?

[klhoard]

Song flying

General Lee,

I know that the Song airplanes are flown by Delta pilots, but all other employee groups have been separated from mainline Delta.

Are the Song flying lines bid along with the regular flying, or is it a separate "bid pack". . .

I guess the question I'm asking: is a "Song" 757 pay /workrules /ect. the same as a "Delta" 757 from a pilot's perspective. Do the other employee groups have heartburn with this?

Just curious. . .

 

[Ty Webb]

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[General Lee]

Klhoard,

No, currently the Song flights are inter-mixed throughout all of the regular bid packet trips. All 4 757/767 bases (ATL, CVG, SLC, LAX) have trips that have Song flights. Usually you start on a mainline flight from your base and end up the first or second day in NYC or somewhere in FLA---where you pick up a day or a couple days flying the Song flights, and then the last day you fly a mainline flight back to your base. It gives the company a lot of flexibility to be able to use any of the 757/767 pilots out there for Song flights, although I bet eventually there will be separate pilots flying those at a lower pay rate, but the ability to fly 5-10 more hours to make up the difference----which is what we did at Delta Express on the 737.

Bye Bye--General Lee