Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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Interesting-60 Minutes has a feature tonight about people who become rich by allowing Nat Gas to be sucked out of their property. Also, fwiw, interview with guy who was recently awarded CMH. First CMH survivor since Vietnam.
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I can tell you from personal experience, you do not get per diem or any "extra" that gets made on the trip. You do get to sit home with pay and no obligations. You can also white slip and get paid for both.
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What a bummer. I have been releasing large amounts of gas for years - and not only do I not get paid, but people actually seem put off by it.
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In the case of Crew Pass, it was ALPA that introduced legislation mandating that the TSA conduct real world tests of the Crew Pass system. It was ALPA that set up the Crew Pass system tests. When the one vendor chosen for the system tests tried to jack up their prices thinking they had a monopoly, it was ALPA that sponsored a vendors conference to force competition in the system and lowered the price by over 20 fold. Now ALPA has gotten the TSA to approve system wide implementation of Crew Pass, and it is now on ALPA's shoulders to find a way to fund it.
Scope is the Alpha and the Omega of anything and everything in this profession. Who cares if you have leading aeromedical or legal assistance if you're not employed to use it? What good are pay tables if your rate is zero because your job is outsourced? What good are retirement improvements if you spend less time on property or at lower paying categories because of rampant outsourcing?
Scope trumps all because its not only greater than any other issue, it is the foundation of every single issue.
And yet ALPA thinks the best strategy is to pretend it doesn't exist, ask for complete trust in the wake of the recent several decades of abysmal failures regarding the issue and focus on the tertiary.
Aviation Week Article
There was a good article about Delta on Aviation Week's website the other day. Link to it here, Delta Spends Big On Post-Merger Future.
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There was a good article about Delta on Aviation Week's website the other day. Link to it here, Delta Spends Big On Post-Merger Future.
I found a few things interesting, such as this:
"Having aircraft that are paid for and depreciated provides flexibility, if demand lessens, to park capacity at no cost. And Delta has used methods such as debt repurchases, debt restructuring and vendor contract renegotiations to reduce net debt to $15.2 billion, down from $17 billion in early 2010, with a target of $10 billion or less by the end of 2012."
Personally, I tend to like the direction the company is being led in and I think the guys & gals on the fourth floor are doing a good job. That being said, contract negotiations will be interesting to say the least. Management will with out a doubt come back to the pilot's with a reason for not having enough capital to fulfill our contract desires.
I think this will be the above reason/selling point.
The next year will be a bumpy one to say the least.
Curious to see what the ALPA negotiators come back to the pilot group with, I think in many ways this may be their last crack at proving themselves as a worthy national organization.
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