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Old 01-22-2012, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by orvil View Post
I need to get to George Town, Bahamas. Cape Air doesn't serve it. DAL Connection serves it from ATL, but only once a day. I was looking for back ups. I can get there through NAS on Bahamasair.
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Old 01-22-2012, 09:39 AM
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Rumor alert. Just had a DL jumpseater tell me he recently had a linecheck and the checkairman said he just went to some big linecheck meeting in Mecca and a VERY high up guy stated we were looking to maybe buy back the DFW hanger and maybe get some gates back. Aren't we getting some MD90s this year?
Ahhhh! I'd fly out of DFW in a heartbeat! Wouldn't be senior enough to even hold reserve, though!
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Old 01-22-2012, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Bill Lumberg View Post
Rumor alert. Just had a DL jumpseater tell me he recently had a linecheck and the checkairman said he just went to some big linecheck meeting in Mecca and a VERY high up guy stated we were looking to maybe buy back the DFW hanger and maybe get some gates back. Aren't we getting some MD90s this year?
I think it's a mighty big hangar for RJs, kind of overkill.

On a not so serious note, and this may make Bar go postal, what if we just bought AMR's MD80s?
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Old 01-22-2012, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Elvis90 View Post
Ahhhh! I'd fly out of DFW in a heartbeat! Wouldn't be senior enough to even hold reserve, though!
As long as you could hold reserve as a 764A or 777A then you're senior enough to hold DFW... M88 B... plug.
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Old 01-22-2012, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by PinnacleFO View Post
Pinnacles crj 200 contract with Delta includes 141 200's that expire in 2017. The 900 contract is for 57 900's that go to 2023. 16 of those airplanes are owned by pinnacle and we expect them to be sold back to delta soon so that they can 2 for 1 them with "another DCI carrier" to park 32 more 200's. Our q400's are not making money for continental nor are our saabs so if those rates are not changed those planes are gone too.
Leads me to the following question, if those things happen we are left with 141 200s and 41 900s all flying for delta, could that be a good opportunity at that point for Delta to repurchase a bankrupt regional carrier and basically absorb them over time through a flow type situation as they park 200's in an attempt to eliminate a regional carrier and bring more flying back into mainline? Its not me saying hey just buy us so that i get a mainline job, its more saying, if delta wants to park 200's, here is 141 of them right here and with the upcoming retirements as pilots retire, you retire 200's as well and bring those pilots onto a bigger plane (on probation for a year since they didnt have to interview) It would also make sense if they wanted to bring on the c series because that plane will pay less anyways.
Ok i just woke up, but what if.........

Absorbing PCL would trigger a couple of things. First of all they would have to pay DAL rates for those A/C to the current PCL pilots (who would become DAL pilots) which they won't want to do. DAL rates for 10yr CRJ-900 CA - $114/hr 10yr FO - $78/hr. Your current CRJ-900 10yr rates (according to this site) are $88/$45 respectively.

Secondly, I realize they have done flow through in the past with Compass but that was a remnant from Northwest. With a flow through DAL loses control over who they interview/hire. I'm not saying anything negative about either pilot group I just think the DAL hiring folks like to have that control. I wish we could fold in all the RJ flying to mainline, it would be better in the long run for all of us but you have to follow the money since that's what this business is all about. It's cheaper to operate the aircraft at a separate carrier at lower wage rates.

What will be key in the coming years is where the next order of 100 seat jets is placed. JetBlue and USAir have set a nice precedent having that size aircraft operated at a mainline carrier and I know most guys I fly with and talk to agree we have to protect/tighen scope first and foremost. Without an aircraft to fly there is no job and all the other aspects of our contract are irrelevant. Best of luck to you.
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Old 01-22-2012, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Bill Lumberg View Post
Rumor alert. Just had a DL jumpseater tell me he recently had a linecheck and the checkairman said he just went to some big linecheck meeting in Mecca and a VERY high up guy stated we were looking to maybe buy back the DFW hanger and maybe get some gates back. Aren't we getting some MD90s this year?
An LCA I spoke with this week was waiting for what the big news is as well. He didn't know what it was, but he was expecting something that was significant enough to be considered "newsworthy."
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:05 AM
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I miss Tebow.

There's just something about how an underdog can inspire the unexceptional.


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Old 01-22-2012, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid View Post
I miss Tebow.

There's just something about how an underdog can inspire the unexceptional.
Isn't that what we have the Maddog pilots for? Inspire Boeing and Airbus folks?
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid View Post
Bingo!

fwiw, on ATL88B 43 out of 49 pilots available tomorrow or 5 days or less have a raw score < 80. If you take into account that each pilot sits 2 SCs by now, then even by adding 10 points to each pilot you have 40 out of 49 with raw scores below 80. Meanwhile today a weekend, 0 pilots. 2 pilots are on the list but they're probably flying. Daily coverage shows 5 out of 8 trips today were GS.



Like Orvil said, no. No "selling of vacations", it's one of those provisions DALPA has in the PWA to protect ourselves from... ourselves.
Stop pointing that out to people. We have a good thing going here in ATL88B on reserve. I don't want to jinx it.
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by iaflyer View Post
Isn't that what we have the Maddog pilots for? Inspire Boeing and Airbus folks?
You speak truth.
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