Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
03-18-2013, 06:59 PM
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03-18-2013, 07:01 PM
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The instructors are hired by Fleet Captains. They have to be right people regardless of seniority. By invitation.
03-18-2013, 07:03 PM
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03-18-2013, 07:11 PM
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Predictions on A.E:
Sleeper: NYC 320A: Goes down to 8000 on seniority.
Shocker: Atl B717A: Junior CA 6800 or so.
Inexplicable:The amount WB FOs that bid narrow body captain. (It will probably be mainly north guys doing this as we had a tendency to hire more public school kids than on the south side.)
The Unbelievable: With all the shake up and WB FOs bidding narrow body CA the 747 goes insufficient bidders from the north guys on the B side, allowing the first South FO on the airplane. (Can you say rest break controversy!)
Guaranteed: *****ing about the results.
Sleeper: NYC 320A: Goes down to 8000 on seniority.
Shocker: Atl B717A: Junior CA 6800 or so.
Inexplicable:The amount WB FOs that bid narrow body captain. (It will probably be mainly north guys doing this as we had a tendency to hire more public school kids than on the south side.)
The Unbelievable: With all the shake up and WB FOs bidding narrow body CA the 747 goes insufficient bidders from the north guys on the B side, allowing the first South FO on the airplane. (Can you say rest break controversy!)
Guaranteed: *****ing about the results.
I'm thinking the sleeper category will be DTW 738 CA. I think people will be amazed how junior that goes.
I agree the 717 will go more senior than originally thought (again, for both A and B).
I don't see many international WB First Officers bidding NB Captain. (and by "many" I'm talking the ones senior enough to hold pure international lines).
The 747 has a certain aura about it and if you're a F-NWA DTW based DC-9 FO, why not throw your name in the hat for that? You're getting displaced anyway, there's no freeze, and you have bragging rights to a 747 type rating!
Definitely agree there will be *****ing... and plenty of it!
03-18-2013, 07:12 PM
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03-18-2013, 07:15 PM
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They are serious about reducing costs. Give door pay to the pilots and your going to have to give it to the flight attendants. Big cost increase. You also now have to develope a new pay and scheduling system that tracks two different metics and integrates both into DBMS. that will require lots of programming and certainly some aircraft hardware changes.
03-18-2013, 07:21 PM
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They are serious about reducing costs. Give door pay to the pilots and your going to have to give it to the flight attendants. Big cost increase. You also now have to develope a new pay and scheduling system that tracks two different metics and integrates both into DBMS. that will require lots of programming and certainly some aircraft hardware changes.
All north aircraft already track MCD and cargo.
03-18-2013, 07:30 PM
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03-18-2013, 07:33 PM
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They are serious about reducing costs. Give door pay to the pilots and your going to have to give it to the flight attendants. Big cost increase. You also now have to develope a new pay and scheduling system that tracks two different metics and integrates both into DBMS. that will require lots of programming and certainly some aircraft hardware changes.
2. Flight Attendants have zero affect on latency.
3. The new ACARS should make door pay a relatively simple programming change.
03-18-2013, 07:53 PM
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Latency is about reducing costs for the company.
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