Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-26-2013, 04:08 AM
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No Sailing, I heard right, twice. Maybe the RUMOR is wrong. That's why they call it a RUMOR.
05-26-2013, 04:16 AM
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Vikz09,
Got off my backside and contacted my neighbor, an independent agent. His company represents at least a dozen companies. Printed out my coverage. We'll get together to go over this after the holiday.
Thanks for the discussion. I've been procrastinating.
Got off my backside and contacted my neighbor, an independent agent. His company represents at least a dozen companies. Printed out my coverage. We'll get together to go over this after the holiday.
Thanks for the discussion. I've been procrastinating.
05-26-2013, 05:08 AM
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Subject: Domestic only pilots in 7ER category
Background: Some pilots who were on the 767 domestic categories did not want to fly international trips for various reasons. Although their seniority allowed them to be in the 7ER category, they intentionally flew bid the domestic category to avoid international trips. With the combining of the two categories into a hybrid category, these pilots might be assigned long haul international trips. At the same time, many pilots in the 7ER category are having difficulty maintaining theater qualifications. The inability for pilots to maintain theater qualifications is becoming a problem for management and will only get worse as a greater proportion on the 7ER flying is now domestic.
This resolution seeks to explore the possibility and possible benefits to both pilots and management of establishing a process where pilots can volunteer to be domestic only inside the 7ER category.
Whereas, combining the 767 domestic category with the 7ER category has forced pilots who prefer not to fly international to either choose the 7ER category or take a pay cut to a lesser paying category and
Whereas, the 7ER category now has a substantial number of domestic rotations which makes it problematic for some pilots who want to fly international to maintain their theater qualification and
Whereas, pilots can be assigned international flying due to reserve assignments, inverse assignments or recovery flying even though they do not want to fly international, while other pilots may want that flying and
Whereas, there is a cost to the company to maintain a pilots theater qualification and
Whereas, due to the size of the 7ER category it will become more difficult and costly to maintain a theater qualification and
Whereas, the time and costs to establish and maintain a theater qualification for a captain who does not desire to fly long international flights would be better utilized establishing and maintaining the qualifications of those who do,
Therefore be it resolved, that the pilots of Council 44 direct their representatives to present a resolution at the next regularly scheduled MEC that explores the feasibility and benefits to the Delta pilots of establishing a “domestic only” sub group inside the 7ER category.
Background: Some pilots who were on the 767 domestic categories did not want to fly international trips for various reasons. Although their seniority allowed them to be in the 7ER category, they intentionally flew bid the domestic category to avoid international trips. With the combining of the two categories into a hybrid category, these pilots might be assigned long haul international trips. At the same time, many pilots in the 7ER category are having difficulty maintaining theater qualifications. The inability for pilots to maintain theater qualifications is becoming a problem for management and will only get worse as a greater proportion on the 7ER flying is now domestic.
This resolution seeks to explore the possibility and possible benefits to both pilots and management of establishing a process where pilots can volunteer to be domestic only inside the 7ER category.
Whereas, combining the 767 domestic category with the 7ER category has forced pilots who prefer not to fly international to either choose the 7ER category or take a pay cut to a lesser paying category and
Whereas, the 7ER category now has a substantial number of domestic rotations which makes it problematic for some pilots who want to fly international to maintain their theater qualification and
Whereas, pilots can be assigned international flying due to reserve assignments, inverse assignments or recovery flying even though they do not want to fly international, while other pilots may want that flying and
Whereas, there is a cost to the company to maintain a pilots theater qualification and
Whereas, due to the size of the 7ER category it will become more difficult and costly to maintain a theater qualification and
Whereas, the time and costs to establish and maintain a theater qualification for a captain who does not desire to fly long international flights would be better utilized establishing and maintaining the qualifications of those who do,
Therefore be it resolved, that the pilots of Council 44 direct their representatives to present a resolution at the next regularly scheduled MEC that explores the feasibility and benefits to the Delta pilots of establishing a “domestic only” sub group inside the 7ER category.
05-26-2013, 05:13 AM
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Let's see.... GRR. MKE long overnight only. DCA long. MLB is good just for the hotel restaurant. CAK? IND. I like IAD. Because of family I want PHF overnights to be 30 hours again and then I want a PHF only subgroup within the 88.
I'm having a mental block on the others because I just did an awesome one recently and can't remember.
NOT GPT. They screwed up a good thing there and who wants to go to a place the gate agent shows up to start working 3 minutes to PUSH time and you push late and gives you the big "screw you guys" attitude.
I'm having a mental block on the others because I just did an awesome one recently and can't remember.
NOT GPT. They screwed up a good thing there and who wants to go to a place the gate agent shows up to start working 3 minutes to PUSH time and you push late and gives you the big "screw you guys" attitude.
05-26-2013, 05:15 AM
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Orvil,
Good for you, once you go through the quote process PM with any questions or if you want me to look over the coverage for a second opinion. Not sure what state your home is in but be sure they do a home replacement cost estimator and see if the have at least 100% guaranteed replacement cost or at the very least expanded replacement cost (usually 25 or 50%) above the full replacement cost. Replacement costs from a fire usually exceed the original face value of the policy!
Good luck!
Good for you, once you go through the quote process PM with any questions or if you want me to look over the coverage for a second opinion. Not sure what state your home is in but be sure they do a home replacement cost estimator and see if the have at least 100% guaranteed replacement cost or at the very least expanded replacement cost (usually 25 or 50%) above the full replacement cost. Replacement costs from a fire usually exceed the original face value of the policy!
Good luck!
05-26-2013, 05:57 AM
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05-26-2013, 06:02 AM
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I've been sifting through the PWA this morning and can't seem to find what I'm looking for so I thought I ask the board. I have a week a vacation in June that is kind of screwing up the rest of my schedule. I'd like to either move the vacation up a few days or just get credit for the vacation and work a trip over that vacation.
Has the "vacation any" started yet? And if it has, is it too late to use it since June has been awarded? Is it too late to move the vacation too?
Has the "vacation any" started yet? And if it has, is it too late to use it since June has been awarded? Is it too late to move the vacation too?
05-26-2013, 06:08 AM
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I've been sifting through the PWA this morning and can't seem to find what I'm looking for so I thought I ask the board. I have a week a vacation in June that is kind of screwing up the rest of my schedule. I'd like to either move the vacation up a few days or just get credit for the vacation and work a trip over that vacation.
Has the "vacation any" started yet? And if it has, is it too late to use it since June has been awarded? Is it too late to move the vacation too?
Has the "vacation any" started yet? And if it has, is it too late to use it since June has been awarded? Is it too late to move the vacation too?
05-26-2013, 07:04 AM
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I've been sifting through the PWA this morning and can't seem to find what I'm looking for so I thought I ask the board. I have a week a vacation in June that is kind of screwing up the rest of my schedule. I'd like to either move the vacation up a few days or just get credit for the vacation and work a trip over that vacation.
Has the "vacation any" started yet? And if it has, is it too late to use it since June has been awarded? Is it too late to move the vacation too?
Has the "vacation any" started yet? And if it has, is it too late to use it since June has been awarded? Is it too late to move the vacation too?
You are screwed. It's too late to 'fix it' now.
The time to 'fix' your vacation is during the PBS bidding, before the monthly awards. With PBS you can slide your vacation inside the month, but not to another month. There is a "Vacation Move Up" process for that, to change months, but it's another page inside iCrew you'll use to do that, but it's too late for June now.
And no, you cannot fly over your vacation days.
05-26-2013, 07:42 AM
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Is the "domestic only" sub-category for the ER being considered only applicable to ATL, or all bases?
Last edited by RetiredFTS; 05-26-2013 at 07:43 AM. Reason: phat fingers on small pgone, see?
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