Originally Posted by More Bacon

Here we go again. Pathetic.

STOP DOING MANAGEMENT'S JOB! I'm paying DALPA to man up and negotiate, heatedly if necessary, to improve our contract--not roll over and whine about why you can't deliver.

Are you suggesting we should refrain from seeking improvements so we don't annoy the company? That this contract must be cost-neutral? Are you saying DALPA won't ask for anything the company won't like? That's what it sounds like to me.

This is what we have to look forward to: excuse after excuse from DALPA rationalizing why they are powerless to negotiate the improvement we have demanded.

DALPA folks have been collecting FPL and some very cushy bennies. Now it's time to produce. You WILL produce...or you will be replaced.

Originally Posted by Ferd149

If a husband says something deep in a forest with no one around.........is he still wrong?

Plus, best bumper sticker I ever saw - "I do everything the voices in my wife's head say to do"

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

The same reason the captain america I flew with last week didn't want to get deiced out of DTW because "at 80 knots it'll just blow off."

I got to practice some good CRM on that one, yikes!

Originally Posted by scambo1

No sierra;

I dont like TV, my wife likes to sleep with the tv on. So, she goes to sleep to some E lameness, I change the channel to top gear and turn down the volume and now she's an insomniac and its my fault. Weeemun!

If there was a Closer marathon, my wife would sleep through the whole thing, no matter how many days it was on. Switch to dogfights and BOOM, its like an alarm clock went off and she's up on the wrong side of the bed.

I don't really try to understand it Newk, I just accept that it is my fault. I'm ok with that

Originally Posted by DFW Refugee

YES...PLEASE DO!!!

You can't crash half a cockpit, and you will also be
spending a lot of time doing post-incident paperwork
and interviews. Voice your professional concerns and
get it on the tape. Your comment indicates you know
what should be done...your Captain...not so much.

Be Safe!

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

I can understand 80 is something you see as reasonable but what is your category?

For me, 80 is too high for mine. What would I like to see? A calculation that is category contingent on a monthly basis. Some months a 4 day and SC imho should put one in bucket 2, maybe not in others. Which that'd be laughable on the 777.

So category contingent, not just using two categories for the entire fleet. According to ALPA the reason 80 was selected was because it'd be equal to five or six days of flying and a short call. My problem with that is five or six days of flying and a short call is 60-71 points, not 80. And again at 71 points that pilot is ahead of someone with 0, so if they get a 4 day they're going to end up with 115 before they get the "reprieve" the buckets are supposed to give and the pilot with 0 flies. That to me is too large a difference on a NB domestic category.



You can be very senior in this company and still be a plug in a category. Right now, I'm pretty senior as it is when it comes to reserve on my category. Getting more senior wouldn't give me any different schedule and it'd only change the RUO some. I don't agree with this in principle anymore than I agree with giving line holders ALV and the month off because of seniority.

I'd rather see a good QOL obtainable on reserve at 80% seniority in category rather than requiring one to hit 60% seniority.

This way one can move up and have a QOL throughout their time here rather than just when they hit the top 5% and can finally say "I'm finally senior today." Kind of the same as Timbo's argument that it'd be better to pay high early and decrease with time. Not saying inverse scheduling with seniority but it makes a point, why make this a ladder when it could be stairs? Jetway stairs... to an 88.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

The same reason the captain america I flew with last week didn't want to get deiced out of DTW because "at 80 knots it'll just blow off."

I got to practice some good CRM on that one, yikes!

Originally Posted by Molon Labe

Check Essential, where did you get that it is awesome? Possibly at totally demotivational.com or despair .com ?Any way I have a great spot to hang such a poster...