Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
08-27-2012, 04:05 PM
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Tim, you're not doing much to sell me on super-premium wide-body flying! The crew rest facility seems pretty nice, but it sounds like you're screwed if you don't get any sleep on your break. I had a few TLV-JFK legs on the 767 where I couldn't sleep, and those were long, painful flights. I can't imagine one 4 hours longer without rest.
Yup. Getting good sleep on your breaks is crucial to long haul flying. More so if you have to commute home after a long day/night/day leg with very little sleep. I know I'm probably going to die while nodding off on my 85 mile drive home from MCO, after one of those long sleepless things.
If you do get good rest on your breaks, it's not bad at all, in fact, I feel much better when I get home, or on the layovers, than I ever did when I was flying Europe on the ER. I never got much sleep on that thing, with the F/A's bumping into me and dropping dishes in the galley, etc.
On an average leg I get quite a bit more, and deeper, sleep on the 777. It's only when going to/from Joburg, crossing the equator on a diagonal, 5+ hours in moderate chop, that it really hurts.
08-27-2012, 05:03 PM
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08-27-2012, 05:11 PM
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I recently researched this gem:
$12.50 per hour for a surface deadhead???
Is that even minimum wage? The airplane cleaners make more. PATHETIC.
On the bright side, 3rd straight day I've flown a (different) plane with an inop APU.
Execs are making huge bonuses for Delta's profitability and performance (reading between the lines on SD's latest "update"). Meanwhile, we're sweating out bull**** like this.
Maybe one day we'll grow a spine and demand to be paid what we're worth.
$12.50 per hour for a surface deadhead???
Is that even minimum wage? The airplane cleaners make more. PATHETIC.
On the bright side, 3rd straight day I've flown a (different) plane with an inop APU.
Execs are making huge bonuses for Delta's profitability and performance (reading between the lines on SD's latest "update"). Meanwhile, we're sweating out bull**** like this.
Maybe one day we'll grow a spine and demand to be paid what we're worth.
Take your bull**** elsewhere.
08-27-2012, 05:39 PM
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08-27-2012, 05:41 PM
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08-27-2012, 05:46 PM
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08-27-2012, 05:51 PM
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Although, if pink boxers and flip flops is good enough for the Army when fighting the Taliban, it should be good enough for "The Walk of Shame."
Bossman on way to lav...
Bossman on way to lav...
08-27-2012, 06:48 PM
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08-27-2012, 06:50 PM
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08-27-2012, 07:49 PM
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As for the A320, The Associated Press reports that more than 50 of the aircraft have suffered episodes resulting in multiple electrical failures since the aircraft entered service more than 20 years ago. Half of those episodes resulted in the loss of five of six cockpit displays. One such instance aboard United Flight 731 in January 2008 resulted in loss of cockpit displays and radios. None of the incidents have resulted in a crash.
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