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Old 07-28-2013, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Vikz09
Rumor Alert!

Talked to a friend today who is in the 717 program. He was told that the hiring number was going to be well north of 300 bodies for 2014. Of course no official word but it sounded like it was closer to a 1000 than 300.
I've heard the same, but who's to say it's not just propaganda to keep us appeased during this rough IROP riddled summer?
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Old 07-28-2013, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by capncrunch
For everyone with jury duty:

In my home state, hopefully in yours, when they send you jury duty notice, they give you a date that you are obligated. It also says if you cannot do that date, write in the date you can, send it back and they'll make that your jury duty week. Every time I write in Christmas week and they give it to me. When I get the new notice with Chriatmas week, I send that to the company and Walla, no workie on Christmas week. The big bonus is that no lawyer or judge is going to work that week either and you never get called.
Cue PG in 3,2,1...
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Old 07-28-2013, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by MrBojangles
I've heard the same, but who's to say it's not just propaganda to keep us appeased during this rough IROP riddled summer?
So how exactly will this rumor affect your performance? I can't imagine I'll operate my aircraft any different after hearing the rumor then I did before.

If anything I suspect the opposite is true. The company is downplaying hiring and airplane orders are "replacement" because Wall Street hates airline capacity growth. RA is doing the best he can to get our stock price up in time for the next merger.
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Old 07-28-2013, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
83 hrs of straight res flying and I still had 2 days of CQ on top of that.

thank goodness for the cq or id been out on a 4 day instead of a 3 day helping to keep hiring to a minimum.

I wonder what alv+15 cost in upgrades and hiring?


FTB,

As you know reserve usage is category specific. Here are the hours for the LAX 737B for the Monday 29 July availability date:

23
0
25
21
26
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21
34
33
37
0

Then again green-slips have been few and far between out here lately.

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Old 07-28-2013, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by capncrunch
You must be on an International category, we were told the ALV+15 concessionary giveaway will not effect domestic reserve pilots.
I'm at 90 hrs. Just finished a double deadhead to satisfy 30/7. Why hire! ATL 88
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Old 07-28-2013, 04:37 PM
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RE: Microsoft Surface Tablets.

Can we start an APC petition to save management from making a huge mistake?
Is there nobody in Delta's IT department with a clue?
Windows 8 sucks. The Surface sucks.

Its not too late.
I know management is wedded to Microsoft but they need to face reality.
The writing is on the wall. Microsoft tablets are like the Sony Betamax VCRs.

Would it be possible to organize an "intervention"?
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Old 07-28-2013, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Wilbur Wright
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If anything I suspect the opposite is true. The company is downplaying hiring and airplane orders are "replacement" because Wall Street hates airline capacity growth. RA is doing the best he can to get our stock price up in time for the next merger.
Yeah, airlines are lying about capacity and nobody on wall street is smart enough to add. GMAB.
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Old 07-28-2013, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by boog123
Yeah, airlines are lying about capacity and nobody on wall street is smart enough to add. GMAB.
The can add up the orders and "announced" retirements, but there is no deadline on when all the airplane retire. How many times have the DC9s been scheduled to retire?
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Old 07-28-2013, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Check Essential
RE: Microsoft Surface Tablets.

Can we start an APC petition to save management from making a huge mistake?
Is there nobody in Delta's IT department with a clue?
Windows 8 sucks. The Surface sucks.

Its not too late.
I know management is wedded to Microsoft but they need to face reality.
The writing is on the wall. Microsoft tablets are like the Sony Betamax VCRs.

Would it be possible to organize an "intervention"?
Although Windows 8 (Iteration 1) was a bust...especially "RT" that was the worst of both worlds (tiles with no start menu and couldn't run cornerstone apps such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc), the upcoming Windows 8 "Blue" will fix these and allow you to run software you run on your PC. If that is the case and it's small and light, it will kick iPads butt. Just like the iPhone, iPad was ahead of the game when it came out but the more you use it the more you realize how limited it really is IMHO. Each to their own though.

Microsoft Windows Blue Will Bring User Improvements and Support for Smaller Tablets to Windows 8 - ABC News
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Old 07-28-2013, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Check Essential
RE: Microsoft Surface Tablets.

Can we start an APC petition to save management from making a huge mistake?
Is there nobody in Delta's IT department with a clue?
Windows 8 sucks. The Surface sucks.

Its not too late.
I know management is wedded to Microsoft but they need to face reality.
The writing is on the wall. Microsoft tablets are like the Sony Betamax VCRs.

Would it be possible to organize an "intervention"?
If pilots could intervene heinous management decisions, this would be a whole different business.
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