Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
09-02-2012, 04:29 AM
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09-02-2012, 04:34 AM
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: MD FO
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With all this reserve talk I figured I'd share my summer experience as a jr 88B in ATL. I acknowledge that I am jrand therefore I shouldn't complain. This is more sharing then anything else.
June: over 90 hours and one SC. I did yellow slip at the end of the month and bank.
July: flew ALV (I think 82 hrs) and one SC and got the last week of the month off.
August: about 100 hrs and one SC. Got a green slip as a bottom reserve and was called about a second. Never yellow slipped.
I was able to make some extra cash on my own accord but next summer I will be flying every single day to ALV+15 without a choice. That sucks. On top of that, I will now only get 12 days off during each of the three busiest months.
As you can see, I don't get too many SCs because I can't get a single weekend off and I am always assigned a rotation before I get a SC or the credit that should go towards a SC (assigned a rotation that starts more then 12 hrs from the start of SC). If there happens to be a day later in the month that I am in the second bucket (having flown about 8 days already) and am not assigned a rotation, I get SC because I haven't had any yet. Now I will probably fly before a guy who hasn't flown at all, simply because that guy was in the next bucket for SCs.
June: over 90 hours and one SC. I did yellow slip at the end of the month and bank.
July: flew ALV (I think 82 hrs) and one SC and got the last week of the month off.
August: about 100 hrs and one SC. Got a green slip as a bottom reserve and was called about a second. Never yellow slipped.
I was able to make some extra cash on my own accord but next summer I will be flying every single day to ALV+15 without a choice. That sucks. On top of that, I will now only get 12 days off during each of the three busiest months.
As you can see, I don't get too many SCs because I can't get a single weekend off and I am always assigned a rotation before I get a SC or the credit that should go towards a SC (assigned a rotation that starts more then 12 hrs from the start of SC). If there happens to be a day later in the month that I am in the second bucket (having flown about 8 days already) and am not assigned a rotation, I get SC because I haven't had any yet. Now I will probably fly before a guy who hasn't flown at all, simply because that guy was in the next bucket for SCs.
09-02-2012, 04:53 AM
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Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,057
With all this reserve talk I figured I'd share my summer experience as a jr 88B in ATL. I acknowledge that I am jrand therefore I shouldn't complain. This is more sharing then anything else.
June: over 90 hours and one SC. I did yellow slip at the end of the month and bank.
July: flew ALV (I think 82 hrs) and one SC and got the last week of the month off.
August: about 100 hrs and one SC. Got a green slip as a bottom reserve and was called about a second. Never yellow slipped.
I was able to make some extra cash on my own accord but next summer I will be flying every single day to ALV+15 without a choice. That sucks. On top of that, I will now only get 12 days off during each of the three busiest months.
As you can see, I don't get too many SCs because I can't get a single weekend off and I am always assigned a rotation before I get a SC or the credit that should go towards a SC (assigned a rotation that starts more then 12 hrs from the start of SC). If there happens to be a day later in the month that I am in the second bucket (having flown about 8 days already) and am not assigned a rotation, I get SC because I haven't had any yet. Now I will probably fly before a guy who hasn't flown at all, simply because that guy was in the next bucket for SCs.
June: over 90 hours and one SC. I did yellow slip at the end of the month and bank.
July: flew ALV (I think 82 hrs) and one SC and got the last week of the month off.
August: about 100 hrs and one SC. Got a green slip as a bottom reserve and was called about a second. Never yellow slipped.
I was able to make some extra cash on my own accord but next summer I will be flying every single day to ALV+15 without a choice. That sucks. On top of that, I will now only get 12 days off during each of the three busiest months.
As you can see, I don't get too many SCs because I can't get a single weekend off and I am always assigned a rotation before I get a SC or the credit that should go towards a SC (assigned a rotation that starts more then 12 hrs from the start of SC). If there happens to be a day later in the month that I am in the second bucket (having flown about 8 days already) and am not assigned a rotation, I get SC because I haven't had any yet. Now I will probably fly before a guy who hasn't flown at all, simply because that guy was in the next bucket for SCs.
How many MD90's do they have left to enter the system? Does anyone know what % increase in the pilot block hours will result from the additional 90's and when the deliveries will cease?
09-02-2012, 05:33 AM
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Joined APC: Feb 2008
Posts: 19,611
With all this reserve talk I figured I'd share my summer experience as a jr 88B in ATL. I acknowledge that I am jrand therefore I shouldn't complain. This is more sharing then anything else.
June: over 90 hours and one SC. I did yellow slip at the end of the month and bank.
July: flew ALV (I think 82 hrs) and one SC and got the last week of the month off.
August: about 100 hrs and one SC. Got a green slip as a bottom reserve and was called about a second. Never yellow slipped.
I was able to make some extra cash on my own accord but next summer I will be flying every single day to ALV+15 without a choice. That sucks. On top of that, I will now only get 12 days off during each of the three busiest months.
As you can see, I don't get too many SCs because I can't get a single weekend off and I am always assigned a rotation before I get a SC or the credit that should go towards a SC (assigned a rotation that starts more then 12 hrs from the start of SC). If there happens to be a day later in the month that I am in the second bucket (having flown about 8 days already) and am not assigned a rotation, I get SC because I haven't had any yet. Now I will probably fly before a guy who hasn't flown at all, simply because that guy was in the next bucket for SCs.
June: over 90 hours and one SC. I did yellow slip at the end of the month and bank.
July: flew ALV (I think 82 hrs) and one SC and got the last week of the month off.
August: about 100 hrs and one SC. Got a green slip as a bottom reserve and was called about a second. Never yellow slipped.
I was able to make some extra cash on my own accord but next summer I will be flying every single day to ALV+15 without a choice. That sucks. On top of that, I will now only get 12 days off during each of the three busiest months.
As you can see, I don't get too many SCs because I can't get a single weekend off and I am always assigned a rotation before I get a SC or the credit that should go towards a SC (assigned a rotation that starts more then 12 hrs from the start of SC). If there happens to be a day later in the month that I am in the second bucket (having flown about 8 days already) and am not assigned a rotation, I get SC because I haven't had any yet. Now I will probably fly before a guy who hasn't flown at all, simply because that guy was in the next bucket for SCs.
09-02-2012, 05:35 AM
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However you should be very happy at how the early out program ended up. The 191 that left are far more valuable to your career then the projected 250 to 300. If your smart you would not even consider swapping the 191 were losing for the 300 they hoped were going.
09-02-2012, 05:42 AM
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Joined APC: Jul 2010
Position: 7er
Posts: 1,673
There has been zero back filling thus far. Other than reserve pilots getting double raises, I haven't seen much value so far.
09-02-2012, 05:47 AM
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Posts: 1,316
We're all hoping the next 365 AE will have backfilling and movement on the FO side. Oh well, my seniority number just jumped 34 and it looks like I'm back to sitting around all week growing a beard.
09-02-2012, 05:56 AM
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Position: A-320A
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I think 80's right. Internet Brands who is the owner of this site does all that stuff. We have one guy on their staff that runs this site for them. They are the ones you would need to ask about the ads you are seeing. Us mods do this stuff for free and really have no idea what the corporate guys do.
09-02-2012, 06:09 AM
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You do know the contract was signed on 1 July and that the early retirements don't really start until 1 Oct? The ER list was only final 2 weeks ago. You should also know that the contract does not control the economy. We are not in a growth mode at the airline and are not projected to be in one for several years. The pilots who might have ended up furloughed perhaps will see more value in the program then you have after 2 whole weeks. There are more bids to come. The program by the way cost us nothing in the negotiations. It was a throw in by the company. I guess we could have said no way we don't want the ER program but then we would have to add a Forest Gump quote.
09-02-2012, 06:10 AM
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Did anyone else read about this Chinese Communist Party official and his inebriated wife assaulting a flight attendant on an Air China flight? If it weren't for the Internet and social media, nothing would have been done. Makes me glad I live in the land of the free and home of the brave.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/09/02/chinese-military-official-shamed-after-attack-on-flight-attendant
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/09/02/chinese-military-official-shamed-after-attack-on-flight-attendant
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