johnso29

Lol. I was about to post the same thing.

Bucking Bar

As a union, our concern is labor. I do not particularly care what kind of airplane it is, who owns it, or where it operates. My concern is with who flies the airplane.

There are several road maps to recapture. I've written several. The very first step is to educate our pilots on the value of unity and turn around our political will.

When we have the political will, we can find a way. After all, the giants who made our union started with nothing. They created lists, fought management to gain legitimacy and scoped 100% of their flying from nothing while increasing pay to levels approaching 400% more than we have now. It can be done, it would be easier for us than it was for them.

Amish Pilot

Thanks for all the help everyone, I finally got QCQ disk to run. I down loaded the latest flash player and it still didn't work. Then I remembered someone posted, try CrossOver. I went to the programers website and they let you try it for free for 30 days. So, I downloaded it and it ran the QCQ disk. My problem was I was not getting the full page to load. The blue nav bar on the bottom of the page was missing. So, if you have a MAC and are having problems, try this. The IT help desk is useless, maybe they should outsource the IT to Mumbai India. It shouldn't take a day and a half to get your QCQ done. Good Luck.

forgot to bid

thanks guys on the 88 to 9 info, I appreciate it.

KC10 FATboy

How do you tell PBS to only build you a Reserve line without even attempting a Regular line?

I thought I knew how to do this, but I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks.

sevenfiveseven

That is too bad. I ran the QCQ on my iMac without issues (no Crossover). Suggest try downloading again and reinstalling. Might work.

BTW, I have had issues with Crossover recently running XP programs on Mac. Also, if you did not see the special on MS Word for Mac - check out the Employee Perks section for the deets.

Bucking Bar

Fly the MD88 or 777.

johnso29

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) -- Russia's gold-medal celebration went into overtime. And that prevented them from boarding their flight Thursday morning, a day after they won the World Junior Hockey Championships.

About 30 members of the Russian contingent were asked to get off a Delta Air Lines Inc. flight to Atlanta after boarding for takeoff early Thursday morning, an airport spokesman said.

"To ensure the safe operation of the flight, the crew of Flight 1266 denied boarding to 30 passengers who were traveling together and displaying unruly behavior," Delta spokeswoman Susan Chana Elliott said. "The passengers are being rebooked on a future flight."

Russia overcame a three-goal deficit in the third period to stun Canada 5-3 in the gold-medal game Wednesday night. It was the country's first gold medal since 2003.

An hour and a half after the upset win, several Russian coaches and trainers came on the ice -- one holding a bottle of Crown Royal Canadian whisky and others sipping from paper cups -- to pose for pictures in front of the scoreboard that had been lowered to ice level after the game.

The players, all 20 years old or younger, had left the ice.

Buffalo Niagara International Airport spokesman C. Douglas Hartmayer said after leaving the flight, the group headed to the baggage terminal to collect their belongings, which were taken off the plane.

Tournament officials had no immediate comment.

The Russians enjoyed a wild on-ice celebration once the final horn sounded, players throwing their gloves and sticks in the air as they jumped off the bench to mob goalie Igor Bobkov.

The celebration eventually spilled over into the media interview area, where team captain Vladimir Tarasenko and teammate Yevgeni Kuznetsov hugged and chanted "We're champions! We're champions."

The Russians proved to be the comeback kids during the 11-day tournament. They reached the final by overcoming third-period deficits to win their previous two games.

They weren't counted among the favorites in a tournament that featured Canada and the defending champion United States. Russia was also coming off an embarrassing sixth-place finish last year.

Associated Press Sports Writer John Wawrow contributed to this report.

sailingfun

This is not quite correct. If you get a chance ask to speak with a station manager at a consolidated station. You will learn that we charge DCI for every single service we provide. Its a huge profit source for the mainline. If the CLT station sprays the frost off the wings of a ASA jet in the morning they are charged 750.00 dollars. They are charged for every departure for the agents time. They are charged for baggage handling and all other services. By consolidating they have reduced the overall head count at many stations. They plug the DCI flights in between mainline flights when workers were watching TV In the lounges and then they charge the DCI airlines for everything we do. This has a substantial positive effect on the bottom line at many stations.
If you bring the flying back to the mainline you lose that revenue stream. If anything the consolidation may have shifted the cost equation more in favor if keeping the flying at DCI.

Bucking Bar

Sailing,

We agree the numbers have changed. We do not know how the numbers have changed. Statistically, the cost delta did go to zero with consolidation. I'm just sayin' we need to run the numbers. Neither of us knows what the regionals pass through to Delta under their F4D contracts. ALPA's never asked to see those contracts. Even if we plan a status quo Section 1, we still need a value on our outsourcing.

It is work well worth doing in preparation to contract 2012. Stick ACL under a NDA, put him to work.

A side point is if Delta saw value in consolidating the rampers, gate agents and others, why not the pilots?