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Old 06-25-2013, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Check Essential
If its that bad, maybe the moderators should consider locking this thread.
All they have to do is read the first five pages of this thread, and the last five. Back to lurking, this thread has definetely become useless. This is no snapshot of the pilot group at DAL. Maybe 10 posters with 7000 plus posts, with FTB in the lead with almost 15000.
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Old 06-25-2013, 01:06 PM
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Can Delta Discriminate Against Overweight Flight Attendants? - Forbes
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Old 06-25-2013, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
Well, it kinda is.

This board is suffering the equivalent of a "slow news day." What's the Latest and Greatest? Eh' reliable and safe transportation of people by polite happy employees using old, but well maintained, tools while slowly outsourcing work to lower cost service providers ... in other words ... nothing all that exciting.
Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson is in the travel spotlight today after he gave up his seat on an oversold Delta flight so that a mother could make it home to Atlanta, WXIA TV of Atlanta reports.

The mother – Jessie Frank – was flying from Washington Reagan National Airport to Atlanta on June 13. Unbeknownst to Delta employees, Frank was anxious to make it home to Atlanta in time to pick up her 12-year old daughter, who was at a Georgia summer camp for kids with Type I diabetes.
LOCAL REPORT: Delta CEO gives up seat for mom late to pick up daughter (WXIA TV)

But Frank's travels didn't go smoothly once she got to the airport. Her two-hour flight turned into an entire day at the airport after a series of delays and cancellations, and she began to fear she'd not make it back in time to meet her daughter.

By the time Frank was ready to board her now late-day flight, she says she was No. 8 on the stand-by list – with zero seats available. So Frank was surprised when the gate agents called her and told her to board.

Frank says she and her luggage were escorted to her seat by a man with a "vaguely familiar" face, but she initially didn't think much of else of it and settled in.

It was only as her flight prepared to land in Atlanta that the pilots announced the Delta CEO was riding in the cockpit jump seat as "a special guest." Frank says that's when it hit her about who that man with the familiar face was.

FACEBOOK: An open letter to Delta CEO Richard Anderson
She was so moved by the event that she posted an open letter of thanks to Anderson on Facebook. The June 17 letter has since gone viral, and now the story is making the round in the media.

"Suddenly I realized that 'familiar face' was not an off-duty pilot," Frank writes in her letter. "It was you, the CEO of Delta, vaguely familiar from the safety video. It was you, Richard Anderson, who gave up your seat for me.

It was you, the Delta CEO, who helped me with my bag. It was you, acting just like an ordinary Mr. Anderson, who showed me to my seat."

"You, Richard Anderson, the CEO of Delta, did all that for me, just an average, middle-aged, woman with, as far as anyone at Delta knew, no special reason to get home," Frank continues her in post. "But more importantly, it was all of your employees that day that did so much helping me to get home – and now I know why. Because Delta is led by you, Richard Anderson, a dedicated and inspiring leader who so clearly demonstrates, at his very core, that he leads by example, and does not set himself above all those who allow this airline to exist."

Delta officials confirmed Frank's account to the New York Daily News, but said he wouldn't comment further because he wanted to avoid the spotlight.
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Old 06-25-2013, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ITSALLGOOD
Different sources in Ops and network provide the following:
Both a aircraft order and request to hire pilots will be presented at the next board meeting.
Network source says 90% chance it is 10ish 330s and 30ish 321. Says Boeing could still make a last minute proposal which might change things.
Hiring should be for roughly 400 additional bodies in 2014. New hires would be 400-recalls. Still saying classes to begin late fall.
Confirmation will be late July or early August. AE will quickly follow board's decision.
400 recalls??? I thought we only had roughly 200 left
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Old 06-25-2013, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by MrBojangles
400 recalls??? I thought we only had roughly 200 left
400 - recalls = # of new hires.
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Old 06-25-2013, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by RonRicco
Cue the hounds in 3,2,1 and then wonder why so many have left this board.
Originally Posted by johnso29
Yup. It used to be fun. But many people are turned off by the insults and non stop bickering. A lot of people(besides slow, sailing, alfa, and PG)have stopped posting or left.
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This site has lost a lot of the balance that it used to have, too bad. I like to hear both sides of any story and I draw my own conclusions.
Two things. First is that this new MEC isn't funding FPL for the usual keyboard warrior suspects. Second, people like slowplay, sailingfun, alfaromeo, pineappleguy, etc got called out for lying and spinning. In many cases, their own previous words were used to prove it. They weren't used to being treated that way in their echo chamber.

They no longer find it fun to post here for free, knowing that every word will be scrutinized and they'd be held to account. That's why they're not here anymore...not because of the nonsense theorized by RonRicco etal.

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Old 06-25-2013, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by dalad
Maybe 10 posters with 7000 plus posts, with FTB in the lead with almost 15000.
Don't knock it until you've tried it.



BTW It's 14,593 posts. Of which, 13,500 had a picture.
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Old 06-25-2013, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler
They no longer find it fun to post here for free, knowing that every word will be scrutinized and they'd be held to account.
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Yeah, maybe they just lost the argument?

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Old 06-25-2013, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by tsquare
No, this board has become boring. Sorry, but it has.
That's because there isn't anything fresh. For a year every AE looks the same. Every quarterly report looks the same. Every rumor of new aircraft ends the same. Every codeshare and joint venture announcement looks as muddy as the last. Every trend vector stays on path.

There just isn't anything to work with.

I guess if you wanted you could pick a fight? That always breaks the monotony. And let's face it, people tune in for a good argument just like the average person watches NASCAR for the crashes.

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Old 06-25-2013, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
Don't knock it until you've tried it.



BTW It's 14,593 posts. Of which, 13,500 had a picture.
But only a few as good as ... (notice how I stayed with the theme)



From the same creative geniuses that were selling the Teal Garnd Am

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