johnso29

I thought so. Thanks for the clarification.

Sink r8

I didn't read the same letter you did, evidently. But if I were actually in charge and making mission statements... I wouldn't choose a standard that is completely unattainable to anyone that actually has to deliver results in this environment. But then again, if I wanted to be in charge at any cost, I'd pick a standard vague enough, and flashy enough to capture the imagination of the hungry (and angry) masses, with the full knowledge I could never, ever deliver it. By the time I got judged agianst the yardstick I recommended, enough time would have passed to give even my most pathetic excuses a chance to fly.

Even in the best of times, just to restore payrates alone, it would take an amazing raise, the likes of which no one has ever dared utter in public sober, to restore this profession to what it was.

Besides, some things will prove nearly impossible to regain, and some are a terrible idea. Like a retirement plan that's not in your name. And the planes won't go .87 anymore, and neither will the flight attendants. Considering the age, gender, and cost of flight attendants nowadays, here is one area I don't want to see retsored. But I digress...

Howgozit

I did the same thing on the last bid, I had put in DC9B -L and my next choice was recall back to the 320. Needless to say I am still on the DC9 and on reserve.

forgot to bid

Sweet, those 2007 hires on the 765 will get $117/hr and if displaced go back to the 88 holding good lines at $117/hr. Not bad.

Couple of Auburn guys in that 765 2007 lot, including one hell of a good roper. We once were hanging out in IAH at the Houston Rodeo when he was on reserve, scheduling called pleading for him to get to the airport asap and go with whatever he was wearing because it was just a test flight on a E120. So he walked in the crewroom looking for his ride to the mx hangar in his wrangler shirt, wrangler jeans and boots, "somebody looking for a test pilot?" He might have even had his hat, I can't remember. So awesome.

And I got to drive his decked out for farm work F250. Close as FTB could come to being a cowboy.

acl65pilot

FtB;
Remember that when displaced they will get the difference in what the person one junior to them will hold and what they bid. So technically that will be 10 dollars from the 765 to the ER. Still will be nice getting paid 10 buck more to fly the 88!

Good guys all around. They will have a blast.

acl65pilot

FtB;
Lets take you to the Ft Worth Rodeo next year. Sure we will have so opportunities for a few shots with Big Bird and all of the cows!

forgot to bid

HA HA, shows what I know!

Oh boy, they'd know from my tennis shoes I don't belong. Supposedly so would've all of Europe so I didn't wear tennis shoes, only to realize Europeans do to.

But I do know this, if you had 3 cowboys looking the same from head to boots all riding in the front of a truck, how do you know which one is the real cowboy... its the one in the middle. So he doesn't have to drive and he doesn't have to get out and mess with the gate.

Thank you! I'll be here all night trying to find pictures bigger than 80s to post.

acl65pilot

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johnso29

Man, that stinks.

Reminds me of a DC9 CA I was flying with before I came back to the 320. He wanted to go to NYC 7ER so he put in a VD because there was a surplus of DC9 A's in DTW. Too bad he put NYC M88 on his card because that's what he got. I thought DOH!!!

acl65pilot

Well if you put a Y" in L/H it will look at the 85% as the cut off based on the 22D.3 report for the total number of pilots at the end of the conversion. I ALWAYS bid a specific number or percentage.