If Delta were to hire...

[Max Powers]

Crap what was the main thread started as?

 

[twobits]

If Burger King were to hire......

 

[General Lee]

Long of the short of it. Delta is not hiring. They won't be hiring this year. They likely won't hire next year. 2012 is a good option, just depends how they restructure the airline. DALPA should take back RJ hiring, but give preferential hiring to ALPA brethren that Delta pilots are displacing (ASA, Compass, Comair, etc...). I know GL will say no way to Comair, but..... Comair pilots went on strike for 89 days to protect their contract. why would you not want somebody with balls like that as a fellow striker one day? .... and if you want everything that you have had taken away, that will be the only way forward. Remember, no matter how good you think employee relations are now, that you are still working for an airline.... and an airline run by NW management (remember their mechanics?).

Delta is getting smaller, and for pilots that only matters if retirements do not occur; which they will in due course. Prices will go up, available seats will remain the same or go down, and at the same time bigger planes will replace smaller planes (MD-90 over DC-9). Industry power at play. The truth hurts sometimes, but at least if you believe they are not hiring anytime soon that you do not have to live in a world of illusion.

Big NO for Comair. I don't know any DL-S pilot that would vote for allowing a pref hiring for them. Maybe ASA since they did help our furloughed pilots after 9-11, but not Comair. I don't know how that would work with SkyWest owning them now, but it looks like CPZ and Mesaba are the main options now.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[JAM-BRO]

I see a lot of Green Slips this summer...

 

[ACL65PILOT]

A lot is an understatement. That is how they plan to operate the sked. Now add in IROPS and everyone will be getting em.

 

[jonjuan]

A lot is an understatement. That is how they plan to operate the sked. Now add in IROPS and everyone will be getting em.

Why not say no and force 'em to hire asap?

 

[Truckdriver]

We need an automotive gas tax just like Europe! Imagine 6 dollar a gallon gas. People would actually drive sensible cars and the actual price of crude would plummet due to decreased demand from USA. Airlines which are mass transport would not have the same tax and would not only have cheap gas but lots of customers clamoring for a seat due to the expense of driving and the desire to get out of their Smart cars.

Yeah, good idea. Then every middle class American can have less money to buy food and provide for their families. I agree that something needs to be done, but having middle class working Americans pay to move America into a non-carbon based economy is not the right course of action. The best short term solution is to convert to CNG cars. Costs are minimal compared to running out and buying a new hybrid car, CNG is affordable for middle class Americans, and we have a vast supply here in the U.S. to get us down the road to the Hydrogen economy. Sorry for contributing to the thread drift here, just not a fan of doubling the costs of getting to work for those of us who work.

 

[Linedriver]

Why not say no and force 'em to hire asap?

Why would you want to do that? Seriously.

It would be to our detriment for Delta to hire - they are staffed for the summers and keep the surplus during the rest of the year. Enjoy the extra pay then enjoy the time at home.

I would agree with you if there were furloughs still out there but that isn't the case.

Green-slip good; furlough bad.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Why not say no and force 'em to hire asap?

I will let you use your deductive reasoning on that one.

The 49ers mean anything to ya?

 

[asadonkey]

Drill baby drill....Oh wait that is what we are doing and you mean it's not working???? Hmmmmm.. maybe we can be more efficient and decrease the need for fuel. HOW??

We need an automotive gas tax just like Europe! Imagine 6 dollar a gallon gas. People would actually drive sensible cars and the actual price of crude would plummet due to decreased demand from USA. Airlines which are mass transport would not have the same tax and would not only have cheap gas but lots of customers clamoring for a seat due to the expense of driving and the desire to get out of their Smart cars.

Oh wait Fox news, tea beggars, the oil industry and any other anti-govt entity doesn't want this so no luck on this common sense solution.

By the way have you ever noticed every tea "beggar" is most likely and unemployed old white male who is sucking off the nipple of the govt.

Sigh...here is a socialist moron that can solve the worlds problems without any regard to the free market economics that allowed capitalism to provide wealth and opportunity to hundreds of millions of folks.
Let me ask you..."what is a sensible car?" (his quote) Hitlers VW Bug?
It blows my mind how quickly people will line up like sheep to follow a socialist directive that has killed and repressed hundreds of millions of people. Hey buddy...... It will work this time... lol
maybe time to look deeper into your own party, obama and your boys will not lead you to the promise land, but history tells you will line up and march for sure..... off the cliff Mr. Lenin

By the way fool, remember the "war for oil" Iraq BS conspiricy that got you on CNN? I am ready to assume power and take the oil HOOK ME UP