New Atl Base For S5

[8HourPilot]

Blah Blah blah, my RJ is better than yours. You have got to be kidding me. You have obviously been around the regionals a bit, looking at your A/C types....you know your planes and we know ours, that is really the bottom line. I'm quite sure that .70 is almost never an option...certainly not when heavy. I'm also quite sure that I have no earthly clue what your 700 will do, and no dont know what the 170 will do. The whole airline should be judged on one mistake cause ASA folks Never screw up. Come on man.

You really need to change that picture....because we ALL KNOW that is NOT you! By the way...I will look for your Dumb@ss in SLC!
Of course the best answer I heard in SLC ATC....Shuttle....say speed... and like a proud papa...he yelps out 300kts....what do you need? ATC comes back and says, well since you are BELOW 10k you need to be at 250kts.:laugh: I almost died laughing...hope he filled out a NASA report! I know, for you guys anything over .70 or 280kts is a big deal...on the 700, 335kts or .83 AND our fuel burn is STILL better than yours....nice try though!

 

[8HourPilot]

Go for the 3 out of 5

Hah, you get on him for comparing speeds and you quip back with comparing passenger comfort. And now I retort with saying the CR7 looks cooler. So there. Do we win or shall we try for best 3 out of 5?

 

[wmuflyguy]

Thats why when ATC asks them their speed they say .70 and everyone begins to laugh. They slow down to make up the difference in fuel burns then they jack-up the ATC system for everyone else.

Been behind a Comair CRJ lately? Our new PPAS speed system is something else. I love being asked to say speed and say something like Mach.64 or something like 235-240kias at cruise.

Or when they ask us to Maintain 250kias and I have to ask if they want us to speed up, since we are doing 240.

We are paid by the hour. Why should we have to waste gas if we are on time, jsut so you can get to the gate 2 mins early.

 

[Texx]

We are paid by the hour. Why should we have to waste gas if we are on time, jsut so you can get to the gate 2 mins early.

Enjoy it while you can and make as much as you can until Momma, dal, cuts you loose.

 

[Anonymous2]

I was always a big fan of good ol' T-tails anyways. Every plane looks awesome in its own way.

 

[skytrash969]

Yep, it's all about you. Never mind the guys behind you that are trying to get home on time to their kids game or the FED EX and UPS guys. As for the slowing down, you might be the only one asking.

As for the 700 burns, just goes to show ya that you have to go slow to get your numbers. I don't hear DAL complaining about our burns on the 700 at .83.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......my airplane is better than yours........waaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[richav8ter]

So sorry. Things are lookin ok from here. I'm a new hire, Atl native, and I was not looking forward to movin' to Yankee land

 

[Yudso]

I don't see what the problem is. This is a win-win for everyone. Now our ugly flight attendants don't have to commute from the atl, and you don't have to look at them commuting on your planes.

 

[DOVPILOT]

Does that mean they are hiring even more?

No! Other bases shrinking, with displacements....same old sh!t diff day.

 

[John Pennekamp]

Enjoy Ghetto'lanta. Hopefully y'all will edge us out into a new base. You can have ATL!

 

[flyer172r]

Every plane looks awesome in its own way.

Even the Beech 1900?

 

[Tarzan]

Even the Beech 1900?

Or the Shorts.... It's like a Rubic's Cube on crack.

 

[Atccfi]

I have heard from Senior management here at DL that they were not impressed with the E170's actual numbers compared to what was advertised with respect to fuel economy and range etc fully loaded, and said they were actually losing money on those longer flights. They decided it would be better to place the E170 on mostly shorter routes from ATL that compete with Airtran 717s. Yes, I know there are still some routes that are long for those E170s, but the majority of flights are now under 600 miles. The DTW/IND/MZT/CHM flights to SLC were not cutting it.


Bye Bye--General Lee

Can you say 175s for DL this time next year.....

 

[bizzum]

Dude you really need to get a life. Why do you care how fast the 170 goes? So you go faster.. you get there quicker.. you make less block.. happy now? Maybe you just need to impress the girl at the bar by saying your plane is faster, I dunno maybe you just have a small penis and need to compensate :smash:

I know one thing for damn sure, I would much rather fly on an E170 for 2 hours rather than a CR7 for 1:50; the pax comfort level can't even be compared , they're on two completely different levels. Nothing like seeing 70 people standing beside their a/c, freezin their a$s off in mid winter waiting for there "gate checked" bags :erm:

I guess I would rather be flying ASA's 700 than RAH's 170, being that I would be making $7hr more....

 

[WSurf]

Can you say 175s for DL this time next year.....

You see that plane on the ramp and just have to shake your head on what they are flying them for! Sad, just Sad!

 

[B727FA]

You see that plane on the ramp and just have to shake your head on what they are flying them for! Sad, just Sad!

Silly you, talking about OO's -900's again?

 

[Tomct]

Silly you, talking about OO's -900's again?

Dude...atleast READ the quote he used before you try and turn this into Skywst bashing!:erm::laugh:

 

[B727FA]

Dude...atleast READ the quote he used before you try and turn this into Skywst bashing!:erm::laugh:

Dude...I know the point of the post. My point is that people have said the same thing about the "bigger and shinyer" jet that is the -900. A person will make a "slam" on anything to "advance" their agenda.

 

[Tomct]

Dude...I know the point of the post. My point is that people have said the same thing about the "bigger and shinyer" jet that is the -900. A person will make a "slam" on anything to "advance" their agenda.

No, the way I saw it was that he said..."it was a shame to think HOW LITTLE they were making to fly the BIGGER...SHINYER jet!"

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Isn't it a shame what we are ALL getting paid to fly whatever plane we fly?