Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
06-21-2011, 02:05 AM
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06-21-2011, 02:57 AM
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I'm so excited to be on the ground floor of Spacklair!
Uniforms?
Uniforms?
06-21-2011, 03:04 AM
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So wife is a big American Idol fan, or fan when Cowell ran the show. Anyways, the best year in my opinion was when they had Chris Daughtry and Kathrine McPhee. Well, low and behold getting off a flight I JS'd on there is Mr. Daughtry. Super nice guy being very nice to adoring fans in the concourse in ATL. Then it just so happened that we walked down the concourse but of course I say nothing, I'm in uniform and well, I never say anything to celebrities.
But I wish I had asked "Hey, do you mind taking a picture of me so I can show my wife a picture of me taken by Chris Daughtry!"
Nobody would've been amused, except me.
Oh, Kathrine McPhee, yes, here:
But I wish I had asked "Hey, do you mind taking a picture of me so I can show my wife a picture of me taken by Chris Daughtry!"
Nobody would've been amused, except me.
Oh, Kathrine McPhee, yes, here:
06-21-2011, 03:33 AM
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Dow was 8281 on Bush's last full day. When BHO took the oath on Jan 20, 2009 it closed down 332 pts to 7949 that day. Went down further to eventual low of 6469 on Mar 9, 2009 for that year.
Oil was $38.74/barrel (today $93.68).
National Avg price for a gal of gas that week: $1.83 (today $3.65)
Oil was $38.74/barrel (today $93.68).
National Avg price for a gal of gas that week: $1.83 (today $3.65)
Dow in the week of Sep 15, 2008 was 11,421 (Lehman Bro Ch 11)
Dow in the week of Nov 3, 2008 was 8943
QE1 and 2 started late Nov 2008
The US Federal Reserve held between $700–$800 billion of Treasury notes on its balance sheet even before the recession. In late November 2008, the Fed started buying $600 billion Mortgage-backed securities (MBS).[33] By March 2009, it held $1.75 trillion of bank debt, MBS, and Treasury notes, and reached a peak of $2.1 trillion in June 2010. Further purchases were halted since the economy had started to improve. Holdings started falling naturally as debt matured. In fact, holdings were projected to fall to $1.7 trillion by 2012. However, in August 2010 the Fed decided to renew quantitative easing because the economy wasn't growing robustly. Its goal was to keep holdings at the $2.054 trillion level. To maintain that level, the Fed bought $30 billion in 2-10 year Treasury notes a month. In November 2010, the Fed announced it would increase quantitative easing, buying $600 billion of Treasury securities by the end of the second quarter of 2011.[3
06-21-2011, 04:16 AM
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Any reason why would keep an order like this secret?
Personally, I've could have seen the discounts, as a result of the 787 delays, compounded into a pretty good deal on some B777 or the next generation B747-8. DAL typically doesn't like being the launch carrier, but seeing as this is the next generation replacement aircraft to an aircraft type currently on property, there could be something to this.
Just not sure as to why they would want to keep it a secret, and as being a public company I figured it would only be a matter of time before it needed to reported.
Personally, I've could have seen the discounts, as a result of the 787 delays, compounded into a pretty good deal on some B777 or the next generation B747-8. DAL typically doesn't like being the launch carrier, but seeing as this is the next generation replacement aircraft to an aircraft type currently on property, there could be something to this.
Just not sure as to why they would want to keep it a secret, and as being a public company I figured it would only be a matter of time before it needed to reported.
It would be nice but in reality, I don't think we will hear anything about wide body orders until sometime in mid 2012, right before C2012 openers.
We need a large aircraft at a good price to compete against the Emirates of the world, so it is a possibility.
06-21-2011, 04:27 AM
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As long as the orders end up at mainline I really could care less.
06-21-2011, 04:53 AM
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Heyas T,
Not digging at ya, but there seems to be an overriding generalization by guys that the only way to do things is the one way, and even the way that other airlines do things, despite being successful at it, can't possibly work because of the way the some guys have to squeeze it into THEIR experience, rather than the experience of the people who actually used BOTH systems.
We've already been through this with a number of topics, where once it's explained the way things REALLY worked, the same guys go "huh, yea, I guess that would work pretty well." Some of those topics already discussed include the APA process for bidding, paperwork, and now we get to do it for seniority list instructors.
Certainly, after all the things we gave up in BK, somehow the requirement to use seniority list instructors anytime the motion was on was considered pretty important by the fNWA guys, because we kept it in the contract.
Anyway, enough of that rant. Here's how instructors worked at NWA, with no judgment on other systems:
1) It was a combined department. Training/checking. You might just do OE, or just Sims (which included training, and doing MVs, LOEs, etc), line checks, or all of the above. APDs also did training, and ordinary events along with type rides.
Because it was a combined department, there was a VERY tight feedback loop between the line and training. OE was a complete NON event. There was ZERO "you'll get that on OE". The way you flew the airplane was identical to the way you flew the sim. There were no fiefdoms because there weren't any "fiefs".
There was ZERO variation between instructors. The way you learned things was identical from IP to IP, and from sim to OE.
2) You could only become an instructor for an aircraft that you currently held. If you got displaced, you lost your instructor gig, too. If you got a bid for a new airplane, you lost your instructor gig. You were free to sign up for your new airplane, but no guarantees.
3) You were a line pilot who instructed, NOT an instructor who flew the line once in a while. IPs doing sims were expected to be "in the box" 6 months out of 12, but which 6 were up to the training department (they'd take your requests "under advisement"), but when things were slow, you might fly 8 months. More often you'd do 2 months in the sim and 2 on the line.
4) A regular month was 16 events. Max was 19. "Seat support" counted as an event. Two events a day had restrictions. Events 17,18, and 19 were "overtime" and paid %150.
5) Pay was the max for the month, obviously for the airplane you held, with a $600 override. Hotels were provided, as was PS to work.
Last I heard, SLIPs were worth 350-500 pilots in staffing.
NU
Not digging at ya, but there seems to be an overriding generalization by guys that the only way to do things is the one way, and even the way that other airlines do things, despite being successful at it, can't possibly work because of the way the some guys have to squeeze it into THEIR experience, rather than the experience of the people who actually used BOTH systems.
We've already been through this with a number of topics, where once it's explained the way things REALLY worked, the same guys go "huh, yea, I guess that would work pretty well." Some of those topics already discussed include the APA process for bidding, paperwork, and now we get to do it for seniority list instructors.
Certainly, after all the things we gave up in BK, somehow the requirement to use seniority list instructors anytime the motion was on was considered pretty important by the fNWA guys, because we kept it in the contract.
Anyway, enough of that rant. Here's how instructors worked at NWA, with no judgment on other systems:
1) It was a combined department. Training/checking. You might just do OE, or just Sims (which included training, and doing MVs, LOEs, etc), line checks, or all of the above. APDs also did training, and ordinary events along with type rides.
Because it was a combined department, there was a VERY tight feedback loop between the line and training. OE was a complete NON event. There was ZERO "you'll get that on OE". The way you flew the airplane was identical to the way you flew the sim. There were no fiefdoms because there weren't any "fiefs".
There was ZERO variation between instructors. The way you learned things was identical from IP to IP, and from sim to OE.
2) You could only become an instructor for an aircraft that you currently held. If you got displaced, you lost your instructor gig, too. If you got a bid for a new airplane, you lost your instructor gig. You were free to sign up for your new airplane, but no guarantees.
3) You were a line pilot who instructed, NOT an instructor who flew the line once in a while. IPs doing sims were expected to be "in the box" 6 months out of 12, but which 6 were up to the training department (they'd take your requests "under advisement"), but when things were slow, you might fly 8 months. More often you'd do 2 months in the sim and 2 on the line.
4) A regular month was 16 events. Max was 19. "Seat support" counted as an event. Two events a day had restrictions. Events 17,18, and 19 were "overtime" and paid %150.
5) Pay was the max for the month, obviously for the airplane you held, with a $600 override. Hotels were provided, as was PS to work.
Last I heard, SLIPs were worth 350-500 pilots in staffing.
NU
Thanks for the dissertation though..
06-21-2011, 04:54 AM
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06-21-2011, 04:56 AM
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Which one of you "in the know" can say when the AE results are going to be out?
06-21-2011, 04:59 AM
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