Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
11-18-2011, 03:03 AM
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Only if they can post it will 800-900 training events. If it is way over that, they will probably wait until Friday or the next week to post it. They are in no rush, they expect training to start off of this bid in Jan. If they can stop a waterfall effect by retaining a few in a couple different seats, they will do that want wait on publishing the results.
11-18-2011, 04:06 AM
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Are you scared? 
Of an easy airplane that 1700 Delta pilots fly just fine? 
Oh wait, AE still open... yes, death trap for sure. Just let the pilot group know it'll make them sterile. Unless they are with their mistress. Which you'll never have as an MD-88 pilot. You don't have time between having to make up for your 65 hour lines or plethora of short calls, 23K flying and short overnights.
Death trap.
The MD-88.
Of an easy airplane that 1700 Delta pilots fly just fine? Oh wait, AE still open... yes, death trap for sure. Just let the pilot group know it'll make them sterile. Unless they are with their mistress. Which you'll never have as an MD-88 pilot. You don't have time between having to make up for your 65 hour lines or plethora of short calls, 23K flying and short overnights.
Death trap.
The MD-88.
11-18-2011, 04:44 AM
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Typical ... Some 747 jocks are sitting around a bar in Narita when someone says ... "hey, did ya hear Memphis clowsed" ... "oh Jeez o' pete" ... "ya betcha" ... then they all called to complain that they were given no notice about the base closure and they were in Asia ... not that this has anything to do with what 747 pilots bid, but the Company decided to give extra time so they can release the displacements over the Thanksgiving Holiday when there is no one around to complain to.
It is kind of "bi winning" thing ... win here, win there.
It is kind of "bi winning" thing ... win here, win there.
11-18-2011, 04:49 AM
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My explanation as to how the bid window got expanded remains the same, or at least that's the story among the bottom management types.
In the past Delta has carried a few extra in category over and no displaced as many as initially published. ACL tells me it is unlikely in this bid, but we can always hope.
... and once again, folks down at my juniority are talking about going elsewhere. Last time Delta held a few back in category and it turned out to be mostly talk.
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11-18-2011, 05:08 AM
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11-18-2011, 05:14 AM
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11-18-2011, 05:21 AM
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Where do you find this crap ftb?
11-18-2011, 05:35 AM
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Yikes! Not making fun at their expense. Having been boned three (or four, depending on the definition of "getting boned") times since the merger, it is easy to be sympathetic. Everyone hates a base closure. Especially when they are keeping the FA base and just shifting the cost of NYC lodging to junior pilots.
My explanation as to how the bid window got expanded remains the same, or at least that's the story among the bottom management types.
In the past Delta has carried a few extra in category over and no displaced as many as initially published. ACL tells me it is unlikely in this bid, but we can always hope.
... and once again, folks down at my juniority are talking about going elsewhere. Last time Delta held a few back in category and it turned out to be mostly talk.
My explanation as to how the bid window got expanded remains the same, or at least that's the story among the bottom management types.
In the past Delta has carried a few extra in category over and no displaced as many as initially published. ACL tells me it is unlikely in this bid, but we can always hope.
... and once again, folks down at my juniority are talking about going elsewhere. Last time Delta held a few back in category and it turned out to be mostly talk.
11-18-2011, 05:37 AM
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BTW, you mean this video? I think this is what happened to that 737.
11-18-2011, 05:40 AM
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I guess I just think they can see with the 767 going away and say the ER goes senior that MD'd 737 pilots will go to another airplane's initial and then return as soon as they can to the 737. Given that 757s and 767s will be replaced by 100-130 future 739s why MD off that category? That's going to cost a lot of money.
We are officially told that they "don't care" about the cost and they will hit their numbers for the sake of hitting their numbers (while handing out a ton of green slips on the airplanes being cut down).
This case might be different because they are determined to shift the cost of NYC lodging to pilots.
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