Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
08-01-2013, 04:44 PM
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I was rerouted twice today due to a shortfall in the ATL M88B category. When you look at reserves required and available, it's typically around 50/25 about 5 days out, ten 55/0 the day or two prior. The 717 transition has drawn a lot of pilots out and leadership has failed to appropriately plan ahead for the summer schedule.
17 green slips awarded so far today & still counting. This is a weekday and the beginning of the month too!
17 green slips awarded so far today & still counting. This is a weekday and the beginning of the month too!
08-01-2013, 04:45 PM
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It also, in effect, takes seniority out of the bidding process.
08-01-2013, 04:58 PM
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Our "everybody manning" compensation system with no premium pay or penalty to the company is a contract section we need to work on. It's one of those things that I never really thought of until this last month because we have always been overstaffed since I have been here. New bid strategy in summer will be to award latest shows with earliest finishes and least TAFB to minimize the reroutes.
08-01-2013, 05:19 PM
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08-01-2013, 05:20 PM
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08-01-2013, 05:28 PM
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08-01-2013, 05:57 PM
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Our "everybody manning" compensation system with no premium pay or penalty to the company is a contract section we need to work on. It's one of those things that I never really thought of until this last month because we have always been overstaffed since I have been here. New bid strategy in summer will be to award latest shows with earliest finishes and least TAFB to minimize the reroutes.
08-01-2013, 06:02 PM
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Based on how negotiations went regarding the reserve portion of our contract I'd prefer our negotiators stay away from discussing any changes to the PWA regarding reroutes. They'll only make it worse. But we'll be told how great the changes are and it didn't cost us that much in negotiating capital.
08-01-2013, 06:19 PM
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08-01-2013, 06:23 PM
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As far as I can tell from reading the PWA, yellow slips are supposed to trump availability buckets.
Perhaps I'm missing something?
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