Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
04-22-2010, 08:40 AM
No longer cares
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: 767er Captain
Posts: 12,109
I think if it auto shuts down and is still on fire, pulling the fire handle probably won't do much... I know they don't pay me enough to run near a burning airplane to pull a handle that may or may not work... that's why they invented fire trucks with water cannons.
04-22-2010, 08:42 AM
No longer cares
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: 767er Captain
Posts: 12,109
04-22-2010, 08:44 AM
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2009
Posts: 5,113
So, I'm going to say I was refering to only the first third of the curse. "Interesting times" in the airline industry easily qualify as "chaos" anywhere else. I didn't read Dante's Inferno, but I would imagine our little industry probably gets its' own level of hell.
04-22-2010, 08:45 AM
Underboob King
Joined APC: May 2005
Position: Guppy Commander
Posts: 4,412
Honestly i thought that had all moved over to Fidelity already so it was nice to find out a had a few K still in my old account. However i'm not excited to know that we're paying mx fees on those accounts while we wait for Delta to allow the transfer to fidelity.
04-22-2010, 08:50 AM
veut gagner à la loterie
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: Light Chop
Posts: 23,286
My thoughts are that the number of aircraft in DCI will naturally drop to the 450-500 range. The economics of the CRJ 200 is particularly poor. The company has been parking and will continue to park CRJ-200s, so why agree to allow additional 76 seat RJs in return for the company parking jets they were going to park regardless?
If Delta needs more 76 seat jets they can fly as many as they want with Delta pilots.
If Delta needs more 76 seat jets they can fly as many as they want with Delta pilots.
yall leave me alone.
And I'm not so sure someone wants to spend time at the big squared off table explaining that they left the APU running that time because they always leave it running. Heck, I'm surprised (but very happy) we even leave the planes powered up on the GPU when we leave. Previously airline would skin you alive if you left a plane powered up and the GPU died and the batteries died, didn't matter if it was a mx base or not. But again, I enjoy doing it.
04-22-2010, 09:00 AM
Can't abide NAI
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Posts: 12,037
So, what's Joe Biden doing? Watching Ferris?
So, Delta announced "Air Force Two" is in the TOC for a few days. Is this how the administration is keeping Joe Biden out of trouble?
04-22-2010, 09:03 AM
veut gagner à la loterie
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: Light Chop
Posts: 23,286
This is a big ****ing deal!
Last edited by forgot to bid; 04-22-2010 at 09:06 AM. Reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvoFHoGOtBM&feature=related
04-22-2010, 09:06 AM
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,899
Here is another thought that I have been pondering and I am curious to see what the group thinks: (That is a warning)
I have been thinking about a few things in regard to our DCI flying. These FFD or Cost Plus contracts are a big money loser for DAL. We have a limit of 255 on 70/76 seat jets. DAL wants to modify these contracts.
So;
Lets say DAL management came to D-ALPA with a proposal to allow a certain number of 76 seat jets. That number could be anything up to the 255 allowable number now. I will not pick a specific number, just up to that number. In return they will cap DCI at 300-400 total aircraft. It is a hard number and cuts DCI in half for allowing at a max 102 more 76 seat jets.
What are your thoughts on this. It is a victory to control scope as well as a concession to allow more 76 seat jets. What do you think of it? My gut is telling me that something like this may be the next paper across the table.
I have been thinking about a few things in regard to our DCI flying. These FFD or Cost Plus contracts are a big money loser for DAL. We have a limit of 255 on 70/76 seat jets. DAL wants to modify these contracts.
So;
Lets say DAL management came to D-ALPA with a proposal to allow a certain number of 76 seat jets. That number could be anything up to the 255 allowable number now. I will not pick a specific number, just up to that number. In return they will cap DCI at 300-400 total aircraft. It is a hard number and cuts DCI in half for allowing at a max 102 more 76 seat jets.
What are your thoughts on this. It is a victory to control scope as well as a concession to allow more 76 seat jets. What do you think of it? My gut is telling me that something like this may be the next paper across the table.
I'm with the others. The economics on the 50 seater are currently so bad that they will attrit themselves. Let them.
But even if they weren't, you CAN'T replace a A320 with 3 RJ200s. You CAN replace it with 1 E170. It's not the lower end of the RJ scale that is doing GROSS damage to the DC9/319 flying. Indirectly yes (and it still needs control), but not the wholesale replacement that the 76 seaters are causing.
For the company to offer the above deal, means that the lower end is in fiscal peril, and they're trying to sell refrigerators in the arctic.
Nu
04-22-2010, 09:08 AM
No longer cares
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: 767er Captain
Posts: 12,109
I'll stand at the end of that table with no reservations, and no worries.. If it were not a good idea, and if the safeguards were not in place to shut down the PAU in the event of a fire, then DAL would have us remain in the cockpit until ground power was applied and the APU shut down. This is not the military where we had to post a fire guard until the airplane was completely dead. Boeing and EADS or whoever designed these systems, did so with just such things in mind... walking away from it, and if it burns, it will shut down. I sleep well knowing this. This being said, I do wait maybe a few more minutes than I uesd to in order to give the rampers time to attach ground power/air, but in the interest of fuel savings, and not worries about the APU burning down.
04-22-2010, 09:19 AM
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2006
Position: Work
Posts: 507
Fool in the Rain...Nobody's Fault But Mine....the live version of No Quarter with the 10 min guitar solo...now that's Zep
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
