Cohiba

We augment all the time in the Caribbean. Meal & a Movie...guys are making a comfortable career out of it. The company hates it because they remove 2 revenue seats from the inventory on each leg. Now we're not making it a 3 pilot leg for other reasons...you'd have to make the 737, MD, 320 an int'l category (and that may be your arguement). But Meal & Movie is augmenting just an expensive method. At the end of the day...the only reason Delta (or any other company for that matter) isn't augmenting is because it is expensive and costs $$. They have to balance the crew cost with a hotel cost verse the loss of revenue from passengers. As Carl says..."follow the money."

GogglesPisano

I highly recommend the ALPA app.

Purple Drank

I'm glad the DALPA propaganda machine has found its sea legs again. Look how many popped out of the woodwork. Someone calls out bureaucratic waste/abuse, and the entrenched functionaries start squealing like stuck pigs.

Cohiba

That's exactly what needs to happen. You should always do the right thing and try and call. But...Flt Ops really needs to get some new resources (software and means to communicate). They were pursuing Apache (the HP re-write of DBMS) but dropped it (I can't imagine buying anything from HP--5 CEO's in 2 years) and now they're back to square 1. Until SD gets enough ammo to show RA how this affects the ops, we're stuck with lousy comm and software that is seriously lacking. Personally...I try and do the right thing and then I give up and do what I personally think is reasonable. During the ATL SnowJam, one of my SLC buddies calls up and practically having a meltdown at the inability to contact Delta. I asked how long and how many times he'd tried. 5 hours, 9 times and on hold for over 45 min. I told him to hang up, grab a cab and look for an InterContinental hotel. Not his problem. They'll call when they need him...there's no pilot lounge and it doesn't seem reasonable to sit for that long. Then he was upset he was going to have to pay....Just be reasonable, they'll reimburse. They'll be po'd but if SD has tangible evidence to show the problem...they'll throw $$ at it pronto.

tsquare

They definitely brought their "A" game...

sailingfun

They filled 13 positions for 7erb in SEA. Check the reinstatements. I did not look at how many left but probably 3.

Oops I see you posted 3 did bid off so they filled exactly the 10 posted positions.

tsquare

If the NY7ER/B goes much more junior, it will have newhires.... How wild is THAT?

flyallnite

Wouldn't be the first time... and it's been problematic. If it paid like it once did, problem solved!

iaflyer

Crazy! It was a crazy time, I tell you. My first year at Delta was pretty great - for many reasons. I'm going on 6 and still love it here.

index

Au contraire. More than 5,700 (and growing) disagree with your premise.