Bainite

And cool pilot shades are required indoors now as well...keep up man.

johnso29

The way I understand it is that the # you enter is the lowest % you're willing to accept. So if you input 60%, you're telling them you do NOT want that category if you're LOWER then 60% in category.

I'm not sure about your second question. I know in general 75% is a safe bottom line % to hold a line. There are exceptions though. When MSP M88 first opened I believe it was well over a year before anyone below 50% could hold a line. I believe 75% in the ATL 320B will NOT hold a line either.

iaflyer

You haven't been?

Oh right, the MadDog. You can wear whatever you want in the MadDog sim.

I think there's a movie coming out this weekend about your latest CQ:

Roadkill

Anyone else having problems logging into that ALPA SMRA site? Every time I've tried I get the message "an error occurred. SMRA module is not available right now."

Guntrain11

I missed the first half hour and came in just before the network guy started. Everybody was cautiously upbeat overall. Nothing really new (including the cold pizza). About as many guys in civvies as in uniform, mostly from the 4th floor and CPO.

Domestic will grow slightly. B717 deliveries on schedule for August, in service for September. B737-900's enter service most likely in October. Some older 757's coming out and a lot of RJ's coming out. Frontier rumor debunked. Said that this management team evaluates just about everything (including Frontier) and that almost all the evaluations result in no action.

Europe will shrink a little more, with AF/KLM shrinking more than us. They pick up MSP-CDG for 3 months, we pick up 4 routes year round (2nd BOS, EWR, DTW and one other one I don't remember). Guy said they don't keep score by route but by capacity and financial performance. More hub flying, less secondary city flying. Going to focus CDG to be like AMS. Taking a few 7ER and making them "high density" for certain JFK and beach flying.

Pacific growing. SEA will be the Asia gateway and will grow some more. LAX will get more feed for international connect, but won't compete in domestic markets where we don't have an advantage (like LAX-IAH, DFW).

Latin growing. Constrained by Brazilian government.

Running 6 side by side mod lines for lie-flats and international configuration. 2014 first year with full widebody fleet in service. Widebody RFP in late 2013. 787-8 definitely not coming. Overweight, underranged, and underperforming. 787-9 is potentially better option but still not proven. Dickson went to Toulouse and flew A350 sim...really liked it if it lives up to promise. Anderson going next month. Likes the competition between manufacturers. Said Airbus incorporated lessons learned from A380 design into A350.

Crew Resources guy: DC-9 will stay until heavy maintenance due. Real problem staffing the airplane. Had to move a sim and can only train 2 crews per month. Flight ops would have preferred a/c parked to train pilots on other jets (MD-90 deliveries). ATL, MSP like 3 and 2 day trips, DTW and NYC like long trips (go figure). Trying to match flying to base desires. Still working with RCC to improve QOL.

I didn't take notes, so that's going from memory.

Jughead

I can't watch either one. Version 1 has been removed, and version 2 won't load. Maybe the "FLY" button touched a nerve with somebody.

80ktsClamp

As someone who carries a cute and tiny rollaboard bag, I find the new video degrading and insulting.

Timbo

I just now logged into DL Net to show the vid. to my wife, the "Fly Button" at the end is now GONE! It just fades away after Capt. Mustachio says his thing. That was quick!

My wife (a former DL F/A) thought the rest of the video was pretty lame, as far as comedy goes. She showed me this one she saw that is a little more 'cute', from Air New Zealand, Hobbit theme:

The Hobbit Air New Zealand An Unexpected Briefing #airnzhobbit - YouTube

WingLeveler

I am beginning to wonder if there is a correlation between those who find this 'button thing' insulting and those to whom I am lying through my teeth when I say that flying with them for four days has been a pleasure.

Sometimes pilots take things too seriously. Life is short. Enjoy the ride.

WingLeveler

P.S. Before the haters start hatin', know that professionalism and humor are not, in fact, mutually exclusive concepts.

80ktsClamp

The MD88 guys get the red shirts!