Delta, Northwest Focus On Joint Pilot Contract

[tbkane]

Puff to correct your post the rj 76 seat airplanes only have to go to 70 seats if I get furloughed again. Currently there are 483 hired with another class starting tomorrow...

 

[737 Pylt]

Don't worry JP......someday you too can be a real airline pilot if you keep working on it....

No he can't! And neither can you. That's why you're stuck at a regional for your life. Your lawsuit failed miserably like your pathetic airline career!:laugh: :laugh:

737

 

[Superpilot92]

They could put a pair of the new lie flat business elite seats and go with a three class configuration :laugh:

I understand the "flow through" Mesaba has only allows the same number that have flowed up to flow back down and NWA has not taken any of the Mesaba pilots. One List is better for mainline pilots too - not that I'm expecting it to happen.

You're right on the 1 for 1 but we have a mesaba flow through guy in class right now so the other part was wrong. There may have been 3 but only one was brought into class and the other 2 were given numbers but will come to class later from what i heard. But there is at least 1 mesaba flow through in class for sure.

 

[comrcap]

That may very well be the case. In Compass' case there is language in the NWA contract that prevents a sale until certain mainline fleet requirements are met. I don't know what restrictions Comair or Mesaba may have. Of course anything can be negotiated.

Comair has no scope. We were raped by our Parent DELTA

 

[FDJ2]

Comair has no scope. We were raped by our Parent DELTA

I believe CMR was acquired in 1999. How many RJs did CMR have in 1999? How many do they have today?

 

[johnsonrod]

Comair has no scope. We were raped by our Parent DELTA

How many Comair CRJs were financed by Delta?

 

[N2264J]

That is not so unusual...Delta even publishes the backgrounds of the pilots in new hire classes and maintains stats that you see copied on the web boards.

Oh, I think it's very unusual, as in odd. Serious question: What's the point for a line captain to log that information when the company publishes everybody's background?

And you're asserting this type of obsessive-complusive behavior is common among Delta captains because they haven't hired in a while? Really, this is just peculiar. Fascinating but strange.

 

[N2264J]

And you know very well that had the CMR MEC introduced a resolution supporting the hiring of DAL furloughs without resigning their seniority numbers that is all it would have taken. Management may not have done it, but the sentiment would have been there...

So empty gestures, pandering, and window dressing is ALPA's answer?

 

[N2264J]

...Since we started hiring, i also keep track of where our new hires are coming from. It ain't rocket science...

On this, we can agree. I think it's more like Rainman.

 

[PuffDriver]

On this, we can agree. I think it's more like Rainman.

The funny thing is that is all you have got. Resulting to calling somebody rainman. I write down flight times, and names for everybody, so as to annotate it into my logbook. Since we started hiring, I also jot down the airlines they came from once I noticed a trend developing.

I wouldn't even have mentioned it, Mr D.O., unless you had brought up the "reason" Delta doesn't seem to be hiring Comair pilots, and seems to be hiring ASA pilots in abundance. You were just ready to make an incorrect, blanket statement that everybody should just take for being true. Well, somebody called you on it, and you got spanked as you should have.

Funny thing about you regional guys is that you can just never admit that you were wrong. I daresay if your leader had, there would be many more Comair new hires in our ranks despite the "overwhelming cost".

Hook, line, sinker

 

[PuffDriver]

So empty gestures, pandering, and window dressing is ALPA's answer?

Deflect, divert, deflect, divert...nothing to see here

 

[737 Pylt]

So empty gestures, pandering, and window dressing is ALPA's answer?

Sure beats filing a lawsuit while trying to steal another airline pilots' seniority off his own list, eh sport? Or is that "CAPTAIN" sport?
How goes that resume polishing sparky?:laugh:

737

 

[PuffDriver]

Oh, I think it's very unusual, as in odd. Serious question: What's the point for a line captain to log that information when the company publishes everybody's background?

And you're asserting this type of obsessive-complusive behavior is common among Delta captains because they haven't hired in a while? Really, this is just peculiar. Fascinating but strange.

Obsessive-compulsive? The point of logging the rotation and time is for logbook records, you know that pesky little thing that keeps track of your time. If a prospective employer ever wants to check, they've got the trip number, the day, and the name of the f/o. Since we started hiring, and with the many new-hires my fleet type flies with, I also jot down their carrier/military affiliation.

Now, not being able to admit when you are wrong, what disease is that? Because you've got it, and I suspect that you may take it all the way to the crash scene someday.

 

[~~~^~~~]

Oh, I think it's very unusual, as in odd. Serious question: What's the point for a line captain to log that information when the company publishes everybody's background?

And you're asserting this type of obsessive-compulsive behavior is common among Delta captains because they haven't hired in a while?

Well... many of the pilots at Delta have interesting and diverse backgrounds... I've met several over the years with Astronaut experience and a few Mach 3+ patches. When they say they attended "The Academy" it usually isn't "Delta Connection Academy."

As for the "Rain Man" type of ability - man don't I wish. I could use a little "Rain Man" action on my type oral

 

[PuffDriver]

Well... many of the pilots at Delta have interesting and diverse backgrounds... I've met several over the years with Astronaut experience and a few Mach 3+ patches. When they say they attended "The Academy" it usually isn't "Delta Connection Academy."

As for the "Rain Man" type of ability - man don't I wish. I could use a little "Rain Man" action on my type oral

Trust me, you won't. It isn't that bad. Every oral I've taken here, I've always felt after that I was WAAAYYYY over prepared.