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Fixed it......

gloopy

Time to punish AS with half a dozen narrowbodies of our own LAX-SEA and taking both BOS-SEA away from them by seat duping our own metal. The extra capacity wouldn't make a dent in yields to our massive system over all, but would severely punish them for their insolence.

Or we could just lie down and take it and worry about next quarter's numbers as if that's all that matters.

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especially since AK is apparently a major pillar of American's proposed turnaround plan....

gloopy

True, but do we really want to fund something like that? So some pilots will get to "touch drop" a pair of 12 days for every week of vacation (and they get at least 5) while junior lineholders might get 5 or 6 extra days and reserves will get 3 or 4 extra days? No thanks.

The problem with vacation is its insanely, insultingly low credit. having a 7 day period on your line that only credits 21 hours is worthless. All it does is guarantee which days you will have off for the month and then throws a couple more days off for the average bidder. Vacation needs to be at least 5 hours a day, and ideally 6. But a minimum of 35 hours of credit for a week of vacation is mandatory. That's a powerful block on your line that will actually give you at least an extra week off, at all seniority levels, lineholder or reserve, and does so fairly and equitably for all pilots rather than the all or nothing system a touch drop would bring.

We could then get optional remedies like no reports prior to noon on the day after, waiveable by the pilot in PBS (to enhance line building options if the pilot chose it) etc.

With the low pay scales, inadequate work rules and horrible scope we have, the last thing we need to be fighting for at contract time is the restoration of little micro empires that a few jailhouse lawyer pilots can scam for extra months off or regular lines with triple pay with comparitively no benefit to the majority of the pilot group.

We already got rid of all recovery from OE trip takes, which in and of itself is fine, but we can't let it lead to the buddy bid with LCA's and greenslip a similar line for triple pay or even entire month off, month after month schedules. That's not savvy pilots getting one over on the CEO's bonus account; that's a handful of inside traders featherbedding at all of our expense.

gloopy

9350 or $1.00, whichever is lower.

johnso29

Very well. I'll rephrase my statement. We as moderators have zero influence over the ads on APC.

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Of course you have zero influence on the ads. That's a red herring.

Did you know about the ad before it was posted? Were you instructed to plug it?

very peculiar timing for one or more mods to bring up the topic, unsolicited, on this thread.

BigGuns

Now I don't know the context here, however Facebook's privacy policy does state anything posted on Facebook is public domain. This from Facebook's privacy policy: "...Just like when you share information by email or elsewhere on the web, information you share on Facebook can be re-shared. This means that if you share something on Facebook, anyone who can see it can share it with others, including the games, applications, and websites they use...."

I understand taking the high ground, and posters should use discretion, but no reason to close a thread....

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Yep, once you put it on FB, consider it in the public domain...

newKnow

Think about it from the possible liability aspects.

Facebook has tens of billions of dollars, lots of insurance, and lots of lawyers.

APC does not.