Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
10-11-2011, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
Who was that congresswoman or senator to be who made the comment "It is great to be here today with the great unwashed"? Not realizing what that really meant.
Katie Couric: It?s great to be traveling America among ?the great unwashed? Hot Air
10-11-2011, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Timbo
And just think of the fun the A320 Reserves will have, trying to cover all 3 airports! 
Hello? Yellow Cab? I need a ride to Laguardia... no wait, now it's Newark...No, no, now it's JFK, and HURRY!
Hello? Yellow Cab? I need a ride to Laguardia... no wait, now it's Newark...No, no, now it's JFK, and HURRY!
How do NYC crews handle that? Because I see 4-days that start and end in EWR on the 88 that show at 0600 and end at 2300.
10-11-2011, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Gearjerk
That's pretty funny:
It’s not as bad as it sounds. She didn’t mean it in a “these ignorant peasants sure do smell when they haven’t bathed” way. She meant it in a “I love to chat with these ignorant peasants no matter what they smell like” way. She’s a people person, guys. Accept it.
10-11-2011, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
When Ferd goes to the amusement park:
10-11-2011, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by sinca3
Best airline commercial I've seen yet!
Don't know how to embed the video so here's the link:
British Airways - Our advert 2011: To Fly. To Serve. - YouTube
Don't know how to embed the video so here's the link:
British Airways - Our advert 2011: To Fly. To Serve. - YouTube
Pro pilot too. Like it.
But these two are great ads:
10-11-2011, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by N9373M
Forrest Gump, wilst being interviewed by Dick Cavett, with John Lennon on his right.
I gotta get a life, although it was filmed in my home town, Fightertown - Beaufort, SC. (as was The Great Santini, The Big Chill, and some Streisand film - she complained about the "noise")
I gotta get a life, although it was filmed in my home town, Fightertown - Beaufort, SC. (as was The Great Santini, The Big Chill, and some Streisand film - she complained about the "noise")
Prince of Tides was the Streisand film...my little sister is an extra on one of the beach scenes, and your Gump film was filmed there also (Actually Hunting and Fripp Islands)
10-11-2011, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy
Denny, I googled "Delta Air Lines Form 5500". Up popped a link to download that off the "Disabled Delta Pilots & Survivor's Association" website. If you reference that, it pretty much validates what slowplay said earlier. As of 6/30/10, the D&S has about $1B in assets, but $1.8B in liabilities, with the majority of those liabilities to pay current survivors and future survivors of current retirees. Considering, its substantially underfunded at present, it seems a bit unfair to drain the fund further to pay me a future survivor benefit, unless, of course, we want to negotiate to greatly increase the funding. But that would be significant cash, and I'd rather have that in my paycheck, rather than the D&S Trust.
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10-11-2011, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by gloopy
So do we still get the LGA slots no matter what, or is this some nefarious SWA scheme to make us think we are getting them, ramp up and invest tons of money, only to be told to give up more slot charity to "most favored airline" or the deal's off?
As for any 320 bases in the future, a whopping zero percent of that is net growth unless we order more 320's, which we apparently are no where near doing. So this swap or anything else still looks like a capacity neutral reshuffle with the only potential winners being DCI and probably Alaska somehow. Unless we're getting a lot more 90's (or equivalent) as that fleet growth barely seems to make up for the 9's going away as it is.
As for any 320 bases in the future, a whopping zero percent of that is net growth unless we order more 320's, which we apparently are no where near doing. So this swap or anything else still looks like a capacity neutral reshuffle with the only potential winners being DCI and probably Alaska somehow. Unless we're getting a lot more 90's (or equivalent) as that fleet growth barely seems to make up for the 9's going away as it is.
10-11-2011, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by johnso29
Incorrect. You can increase the pilot block hours/utilization of the airplanes and that requires more pilots. You don't necessarily need more airplanes to hire pilots.
Unproduct... oh wait, slot swap went through... greenslips!
10-11-2011, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Lifeisgood
I heard as soon as the first sim is unbolted in MSP they are ready to rent A320 sim time in Miami. So the moving itself should not be a issue.
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