Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
02-14-2012, 12:25 PM
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Yeah, he's a 73 CA in ATL now but is being bumped to the 717 in TPA. He was definitely not a happy camper. I asked him about the high percentage of AT guys that voted for it and his response was something along the lines of "when there's a gun to your head, you tell them what they want to hear."
02-14-2012, 12:26 PM
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Yeah... Anderson can have his multi-million dollar bonus. But as much as he wants his bonus, I want out of my bankruptcy contract. Re-instate my pay + inflation first, if we have so much of money to throw around for management bonuses.
It's not just Mr. Anderson who runs this company. If we make a mistake and lose an airplane, it can easily wipe out around half a decade of gains for an airline. We have more at stake everyday in the cockpit than what Anderson has on his desk.
It's not just Mr. Anderson who runs this company. If we make a mistake and lose an airplane, it can easily wipe out around half a decade of gains for an airline. We have more at stake everyday in the cockpit than what Anderson has on his desk.
02-14-2012, 12:50 PM
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"Where we belong?" is this our divine mandate? Give me a break.
What exactly do you base this on? What signs or signals indicate to you any potential to obtain the contract we demand? Because, minus that contract, Delta will never be "on top" with an underpaid, overworked, outsourced, and p!ssed off pilot group.
And keep in mind that DALPA's Stockholm syndrome-driven agenda is generally not a successful negotiating strategy.
Are you in management?
What exactly do you base this on? What signs or signals indicate to you any potential to obtain the contract we demand? Because, minus that contract, Delta will never be "on top" with an underpaid, overworked, outsourced, and p!ssed off pilot group.
And keep in mind that DALPA's Stockholm syndrome-driven agenda is generally not a successful negotiating strategy.
Are you in management?
Last edited by More Bacon; 02-14-2012 at 01:15 PM.
02-14-2012, 12:55 PM
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Yeah, he's a 73 CA in ATL now but is being bumped to the 717 in TPA. He was definitely not a happy camper. I asked him about the high percentage of AT guys that voted for it and his response was something along the lines of "when there's a gun to your head, you tell them what they want to hear."
02-14-2012, 01:21 PM
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I can tell you that every person that I know that works there does not pay any US taxes up to the 87.5K limit. They have tax attorney's here do their filings to make sure it is above board as well.
The ones doing the commuting contracts in Asia will not pay federal taxes but generally pay state income taxes if applicable.
Last edited by johnso29; 02-14-2012 at 01:57 PM.
02-14-2012, 01:39 PM
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It doesn't matter what any tax attorney does, as long as one never gets audited. Under the 'Physical Presence Test', the moment you go below the required 330 days out-of-country, you are liable to pay U.S. Federal Tax on all earned income (BTW, the exclusion is $95,100 for 2012). If you use a valid passport, the government knows exactly when you entered and when you left. Whether or not a tax attorney can make sure everything is above board, they can do nothing to affect when you log in and out of the country.
You take your leave here, and you take for seven day breaks somewhere else like Australia etc.
Last edited by johnso29; 02-14-2012 at 01:57 PM.
02-14-2012, 02:25 PM
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Could someone please post the highlights of todays Atl Base meeting?
Thx
Thx
02-14-2012, 02:27 PM
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"Where we belong?" is this our divine mandate? Give me a break.
What exactly do you base this on? What signs or signals indicate to you any potential to obtain the contract we demand? Because, minus that contract, Delta will never be "on top" with an underpaid, overworked, outsourced, and p!ssed off pilot group.
And keep in mind that DALPA's Stockholm syndrome-driven agenda is generally not a successful negotiating strategy.
Are you in management?
What exactly do you base this on? What signs or signals indicate to you any potential to obtain the contract we demand? Because, minus that contract, Delta will never be "on top" with an underpaid, overworked, outsourced, and p!ssed off pilot group.
And keep in mind that DALPA's Stockholm syndrome-driven agenda is generally not a successful negotiating strategy.
Are you in management?
02-14-2012, 02:38 PM
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I'll type it up.
The short version is that we're making tons of money and things are great, but we can't pay for (fill in the blank with what you want).
Longer version coming.
The most exciting "new" news is that they are going to develop the software to "page-nate" so we have "paigenation" which means we can use laser printers sometime in the next year, when the software gurus get around to it. There you have it ... the latest and greatest of Delta. The eventual retirement of dot matrix printers (I'm really not kidding)
Oh, and we will turn our first 737-900 back in to Boeing so they can use it to experiment with toilets. That's how excited we are about new airplane deliveries (not kidding about that either).
The short version is that we're making tons of money and things are great, but we can't pay for (fill in the blank with what you want).
Longer version coming.
The most exciting "new" news is that they are going to develop the software to "page-nate" so we have "paigenation" which means we can use laser printers sometime in the next year, when the software gurus get around to it. There you have it ... the latest and greatest of Delta. The eventual retirement of dot matrix printers (I'm really not kidding)
Oh, and we will turn our first 737-900 back in to Boeing so they can use it to experiment with toilets. That's how excited we are about new airplane deliveries (not kidding about that either).
02-14-2012, 02:49 PM
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I'll type it up.
The short version is that we're making tons of money and things are great, but we can't pay for (fill in the blank with what you want).
Longer version coming.
The most exciting "new" news is that they are going to develop the software to "page-nate" so we have "paigenation" which means we can use laser printers sometime in the next year, when the software gurus get around to it. There you have it ... the latest and greatest of Delta. The eventual retirement of dot matrix printers (I'm really not kidding)
Oh, and we will turn our first 737-900 back in to Boeing so they can use it to experiment with toilets. That's how excited we are about new airplane deliveries (not kidding about that either).
The short version is that we're making tons of money and things are great, but we can't pay for (fill in the blank with what you want).
Longer version coming.
The most exciting "new" news is that they are going to develop the software to "page-nate" so we have "paigenation" which means we can use laser printers sometime in the next year, when the software gurus get around to it. There you have it ... the latest and greatest of Delta. The eventual retirement of dot matrix printers (I'm really not kidding)
Oh, and we will turn our first 737-900 back in to Boeing so they can use it to experiment with toilets. That's how excited we are about new airplane deliveries (not kidding about that either).
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