Timbo

You know, I've never really been a fan of her music, but I'm starting to appreciate some of her...finer points!

Cogf16

My head is about to explode(as it does this time every year) as I go thru the options, including the 248 pages of DPMP! I've got two teenage boys and a working wife. I've done Gold HRA and leaning towards that this year. You think DPMP is a better choice? I might have shoulder surgery next year as well. Thanks for the thoughts in advance.

Doug Masters

Mesabah's picture is oversized but in this case there is no foul.

Timbo

Call screw scheduling and beg for a trip. If you can find one in open time with a nice long layover near a place you'd like to be, put in a 'yellow slip' (trip request) for that one. My first month on the line, November 1985, based in MIA, the head of crew scheduling gave me a trip with a 24 hour layover in BOS on Thanksgiving, just so I could go to my parents house in NH for T-day! I didn't even ask him for this trip, he saw it come open, he knew I was from NH, and personally called me up to offer it to me! It was a wonderful thing having small bases with crew schedulers you interacted with every day.

The terms; yellow slip, white slip, green slip all came about 30+ years ago, when Delta did everything with a pencil and a piece of paper. If you wanted to pick up a trip, if you were a line holder you used the white piece of paper to request the trip, reserves used the yellow piece of paper, and if you wanted to work 'overtime' you used the green piece of paper. These papers were only 1/3 sheets of a normal page, thus the 'slip' term came to be.

You had to be present, to physically write it out and submit it into a drop box at the crew scheduling desk, or if you were tight with a crew scheduler, you might be able to call him and have him submit it for you...and you'd buy him a bottle of something expensive come Christmas, of course!

BUT...back then, there were very few commuters, because Delta had a lot of small bases, and every base had it's own crew scheduling desk, where you physically signed in, on a piece of paper, for your trip (pre DL Technology and it's computer days, i.e. pre-2008 ) so you were always in a place where you could submit your slips, or you called your "Friend" in crew scheduling.

I was 727 engineer on a trip one time when the copilot was complaining about a trip he'd been assigned. The Captain looked at him and said, "Who's your buddy in Crew Scheds?"

The F/O says, "I don't have buddy in crew scheds..."

The Captain said, "There's your problem."

nwaf16dude

If you want to find a bunch of free time on Saturday and Sunday, read "The King of Sports" and "League of Denial." Huge numbers on NFL players are injected with Toredol and other drugs just to get through the games.

Kinda lost interest in football.

scambo1

Ditto. Nice nip!!!

scambo1

Cog,

My head exploded, we are still cleaning the walls. IMO, there a far smarter guys than me on this topic, but IMO again, if you are gonna have surgery, DPMP let's you choose the best doctor in the country to do it and covers it after the deductible. Higher premiums are a small price to pay for that...

scambo1

It's actually a required control + picture.

And when you do enlarge it, it looks pierced...

horseface

Question for the wizards of section 23 and the 117 loa...

I am on vacation until the day before Thanksgiving, start res on Thanksgiving.

I believe I have no req'd sched check the day before, right?

Is noon the earliest I could be assigned to report on day 1 of res after vacation?

I should probably know this stuff, but only do reserve in months that I have vacation.

thanks to all

hockeypilot44

I used it one year. It is a very straight forward insurance plan. The big thing I learned when I had it was that you didn't have to worry about being in-network. They treated in-network and out-of-network exactly the same. The high premiums make it over-priced though unless you actually have to use it for a big medical procedure, but then it's worth it. To anyone having a kid next year or getting surgery, get the DPMP. This is a no-brainer. I don't care what the planning tool says. I am speaking from experience. If the chances of having a major medical event are slim, then the DPMP premiums are high enough that it is probably not worth it. This is my opinion. I stress every year about picking the wrong health plan.