DAL73n

Also, I've been told the 737-700 doesn't make money domestically - we only have it for high altitude (Quito) South America Flying. Remember,without the DC-9, A-319 and 737-700 the smallest a/c on property is the MD-88 - which I believe holds 144? and the -90 which holds 150. Long way from these down to a 76 seat RJ to right size for various markets - SCOPE, SCOPE, SCOPE!!!!!!!!!

DAL4EVER

Wall St. Journal reports:

Delta Air Lines Inc. is poised to get the green light for a $1.2 billion overhaul of its outdated terminals at JFK...

I don't have the online version so maybe someone could post the rest of the article.

firstmob

Agree , maybe something good is coming our way.

sailingfun

You can relax. Thats not the fleet plan or the model. They are buying up to 60 MD 90's and just put online a bunch of 700's in the last two years. They are also taking delivery of some 737-800's that were going to be sold. I think two in the last quarter and perhaps more next Spring.
Having said that they have no interest in a 100 seat aircraft. I doubt they will ask to fly one outsourced even as a throw away in their contract opener. They simply don't want the aircraft. The last 100 seat aircraft Delta ordered was in 1983.

johnso29

The CRJ900 is very uncomfortable. The exit seats are the worst. I'm only 5'10 and the seat must be 5 inches from the back of my knees. The headrests don't even stay, they just slide right back down. The tray tables in 1st class unfold out of the armrest, & they're such pieces of crap they droop in your lap like a v so your drink constantly slides to the center and tries to spill. The whole thing reminds me of a tyco toy.

johnso29

Can someone answer this? The reserve coverage chart accounts for trips in open open time, yes? In other words, if it shows 12 trips in open time and -2 reserves for the day does that mean there are 10 reserves available that day?

DLpilot

Recovery preferences are for 23K. You need to go under the Reserve On Call Preference Qualifiers/Yellow Slip. The computer will process it. You always want to have qualifiers in when you are on reserve or pick a specific trip. You can't do both though.

Cycle Pilot

I heard from a pretty reliable source that an announcement about JFK will occur within a week.

TurboMD88

Res Req are what the company determines it needs to run the operation as defined in section 23W of the PWA.

Res Avail are the reserves left at this point in time using all reserves to cover known open time.

Lets say you see the following.

Res Req Res Avail
12 2

That means that we have 12 reserves available. After Crew Skd covers all the trips in that base they will have 2 pilots left to cover additional sickouts, jury, DIF, MLOA, etc. after that is said and done most likely they will not have any reserves left to set up on shortcall. So if trips remain or open up they will use another Bases reserve pilots to cover the trips left in open time. If they have no reserves in other bases then they will move the trip back to the original base and Greenslip to cover.

Also for a P/D you need the Res Avail plus 1 to get the P/D.
If you are using your APD then the number of Res Avail must be at least 25% of the Res Req. In the above case it would be denined. You would need 3 and the APD would be approved. Next look at section 23I of the PWA it list holidays that two days before and 1 day after the major holiday a APD can be denined regardless of the staffing. Superbowl included ;-)

Fly safe!

Boomer

Nope. Pretty sure she volunteered to go through the Oogler so she can avoid the Magnetometer altogether.

That way she doesn't need to remove all her "hard to reach" piercings.