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04-18-2015, 01:28 PM

#41

EdGrimley

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Who needs widebodies when we got friends like this?

04-18-2015, 01:49 PM

#42

Piklepausepull

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Boy that -900 looks so much better than that ugly troll -800!

It would look even better with Delta painted on the side, in BIG letters!

04-18-2015, 01:57 PM

#43

Bainite

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BenderRodriguez

Pretty sure the math works for more and more on the list to be making WB captain, AND to be making it far sooner than those of us now in the seats did.

Really? I'm at 17 years and still 2300 numbers below most junior NYC 7ER capt. How long between your hire date and first opportunity to hold it?

04-18-2015, 02:29 PM

#44

Sink r8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Bainite

Really? I'm at 17 years and still 2300 numbers below most junior NYC 7ER capt.

That doesn't sound right. Either you don't have 17 years, or you're no more than 1,000 numbers out on the last AE's.

04-18-2015, 02:32 PM

#45

Sink r8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BenderRodriguez

Edit: 7ERA is down to 7000.

Try ~8,100.

04-18-2015, 02:39 PM

#46

BenderRodriguez

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Bainite

Really? I'm at 17 years and still 2300 numbers below most junior NYC 7ER capt. How long between your hire date and first opportunity to hold it?

Correction: bottom NY 7ERa is 8100. I held it at 17 years. The plug is a 99 hire (I have no idea if he is N or S.)

Curious. Why are you still a MD FO? I would think you could hold captain on a LOT of things. If the -ER weren't a dying category, you could probably hold it sooner, but I know a ton of senior guys that are gonna ride it into the desert. Hopefully when the 330s start getting here it will entice some to move on, and you will hold it soon.

04-18-2015, 02:40 PM

#47

BenderRodriguez

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Sink r8

Try ~8,100.

Yeah I was looking at the July conversion. I corrected it in the ensuing post

04-18-2015, 02:42 PM

#48

BenderRodriguez

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Quote:

Originally Posted by EdGrimley

Who needs widebodies when we got friends like this?

Those airplanes in DAL colors will guarantee the demise of NRT even faster.

04-18-2015, 02:44 PM

#49

BenderRodriguez

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

That's just not true t. The 744 is our second lowest cost airframe at Delta. They're not parking them because they're unprofitable. They're parking them because the cost to give them their upcoming heavy checks will take too much time to recoup.

The current price of fuel is making them even more profitable now. Unfortunately, that doesn't help the cost of the heavy checks that would need to begin in 2016.

Carl

Edit: They might be profitable at the moment, I'll give you that. But. You are maintaining that the payback for those checks is too far out. Therefore, they would no longer be profitable. Sorry if the truth hurts. Enjoy your view from the perch while you have it. I am glad that the company is getting ahead of the issue instead of being reactionary. And ALPA has nothing to do with the decision. Imagine that. Maybe if 747 captains didn't make so much we could keep 'em longer.