Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-02-2010, 01:15 PM
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93% of nothing is nothing. All depends on the ticket price. Would be nice to know which flights make money and which flights loose money. If a 5 buck increase runs a customer off to another airline, what the heck. Seems as if it does not matter how good you are or how nice you treat the pax, it's all about price. That is why I hate branding ourselves with the regionals that could care less and give us a bad name. SWA, Airtran,Spriit, etc hold 100% of their destiny in their hands and do not have a regional out there doing a crappy job for them. Show me the money there. What do we make off the regionals????
05-02-2010, 02:28 PM
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The NBA wants to play ball in Europe over the summer. The charter would run similar to NWA's Asia operation: DH over, fly, DH back.
The short call question is in regards to the legalities of consecutive short call assignments. Let's say you are on SC today until 10 PM. At 3 PM skeds assigns you another SC tomorrow AM. You are not released; you must still sit out SC until 10 PM. Can you be considered legally rested when you are technically on duty, even though they didn't use you? Questions are being raised about this practice.
The short call question is in regards to the legalities of consecutive short call assignments. Let's say you are on SC today until 10 PM. At 3 PM skeds assigns you another SC tomorrow AM. You are not released; you must still sit out SC until 10 PM. Can you be considered legally rested when you are technically on duty, even though they didn't use you? Questions are being raised about this practice.
I believe that the charter deal is not for NBA but instead a certain rock band that will be on tour. The trips will be built with dh on each side and put in the bid package however it will be management pilots that actually fly the trips. Pilots that get awarded the trips will be paid for them with no responsibility for recovery. (At least this is what I was told from a reliable source)
I don't know about the short call.
05-02-2010, 02:41 PM
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I believe that the charter deal is not for NBA but instead a certain rock band that will be on tour. The trips will be built with dh on each side and put in the bid package however it will be management pilots that actually fly the trips. Pilots that get awarded the trips will be paid for them with no responsibility for recovery. (At least this is what I was told from a reliable source)
I don't know about the short call.
I don't know about the short call.
05-02-2010, 02:45 PM
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05-02-2010, 03:03 PM
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05-02-2010, 03:32 PM
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Looks like UAL & CO will announce their merger on Mon but still no word on LGA slot swap.
05-02-2010, 04:27 PM
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Firstmob. Wait and see what this week brings. (Maybe the week after, but it should be good)
Mergers and slot swaps oh my.
Mergers and slot swaps oh my.
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05-02-2010, 04:45 PM
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I didn't think American had the rights to fly Europe like we did with the Pan Am routes. I thought we were flying them from one European country to another, cause the 319 can't really make a crossing.
05-02-2010, 04:53 PM
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A 319 can cross in a stop or two. They got here didn't they?
05-02-2010, 04:58 PM
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Management pilots will ferry the aircraft to be used and it will spend the summer there. The current debate centers on what kind of international training, if any, the baby bus pilots will receive prior to their flying. I don't know anything about losing the contract to American.
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