Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
01-16-2012, 09:15 AM
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Dont feel Bad Buzz,
Any time a team is north of 10-0 it becomes extremely hard not to get overconfident and blow it. All the media blowhards start talking about an undefeated season, some of the players probably start thinking they are a team of destiny etc.
The 24-7 news coverage with ESPN 1-99 must drive the Coaches crazy, but alas, such is the world we live in.
Scoop
Any time a team is north of 10-0 it becomes extremely hard not to get overconfident and blow it. All the media blowhards start talking about an undefeated season, some of the players probably start thinking they are a team of destiny etc.
The 24-7 news coverage with ESPN 1-99 must drive the Coaches crazy, but alas, such is the world we live in.
Scoop
Anyhoo, hey, is your schedule for next month still inhibited on ICrew? I can pull mine up on the Scheduling site but not in ICrew.
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01-16-2012, 09:55 AM
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You are listening to pilots rightfully complain about IT because of Icrew which is probably at the bottom of the IT's priority list.
Doing the big stuff like wifi and power outlets in terminals are huge plus stuff on delta.com. But talking to one person in management when they needed a customer oriented thing done to significantly improve their experience and they put in their request and were told it'd be done... in a year. Lots of corporations are like that though, Bellsouth was when my wife needed stuff done when she worked on the web store. Our IT probably need manpower. I have a feeling making Icrew safari capable was something requested a long time ago.
But to your point, our IT doesn't suck, I agree. It's just that the stuff we interface which isn't a priority I bet. But we need stuff to make irops better and automate day to day scheduling.
Doing the big stuff like wifi and power outlets in terminals are huge plus stuff on delta.com. But talking to one person in management when they needed a customer oriented thing done to significantly improve their experience and they put in their request and were told it'd be done... in a year. Lots of corporations are like that though, Bellsouth was when my wife needed stuff done when she worked on the web store. Our IT probably need manpower. I have a feeling making Icrew safari capable was something requested a long time ago.
But to your point, our IT doesn't suck, I agree. It's just that the stuff we interface which isn't a priority I bet. But we need stuff to make irops better and automate day to day scheduling.
01-16-2012, 10:20 AM
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We have to be able to compete and win customers. All of them too, not just HVC's. And we have to be willing to compete. We have to go after all the LCC's and dominate at least some of them. Pulling down seats to drive up yields also drives up our own costs and when other airlines are racing to add the seats we pulled out at lower costs something is going to give. Another merger will only mask this problem a little bit longer.
Each legacy needs to go after a LCC hard, no matter the cost because the cost of not doing so may be everything. You can't keep giving away marketshare to a lower cost competitor just to drive up yields in the short term.
01-16-2012, 10:21 AM
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Yep,
Normally I-crew runs a few days after the D-NET schedule release.
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01-16-2012, 10:24 AM
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01-16-2012, 10:39 AM
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You guys spent money on datalinked flight plans and SAT/CPDLC etc that we didn't, and we love it. Wait till you get the stuff we spent money on back then...........Bubba like
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01-16-2012, 10:41 AM
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01-16-2012, 10:42 AM
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I know about her.. I was just waiting for the inevitable gloating about something most know nothing about nor have any control over...
01-16-2012, 10:44 AM
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