Put the 70 in the percent column and don't even both with filling out the AE portion, unless you want a seat lock in whatever you pick up. By getting MD'd you will get to go anywhere you're senior enough to get into and you'll get no seat lock in case something you really want opens up in the future.
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The way I understand it, the system assumes you want to be #1 in catagory, or a percentage FROM the top. (100 pilots in the catagory, 30 reserves and you want to be a 'Line-holder,' 70% is the bid you place.)
Check on DeltaNet; Crew Resources and there should besome bidding guidance there; center of the page, towards the bottom. The 'other' forum should have a bidding guide too.
Unfortunately, he announced his retirement this year at 75. Hopefully, they can continue what he started.
It is easy to do that with the pricing structure he employed. They had a flat markup on everything they sold. My recollection was a 10% margin.
COSTCO= China Off Shore Trading Company!
In reality I really like the model. The checkers make 15 bucks an hr to start, and the dept managers are well in to six figures. Store managers are mid to upper six figures. Great store, but they do target the 100K plus crowd.
But seriously, there are people at this airline who don't commute. I imagine you're frustrated but by asking for special treatment, you're taking stuff away from those who live in base.
IA, there are many folks who simply do not have the choice to live in base as you seem to. For example, I am $250,000 upside down on my house that I acquired during a 6 year furlough. My military job that paid for my food during those 6 years just didn't happen to be in a Delta base, and I started a family during those long years away, so I had to get housing. Now I'm back at Delta, I'd love to move to my base, any base, but unless someone gives me $250k, I can't...
Here's something you get already that is $$$ and I don't: free parking at your base. I'd love to have free parking at my airport, but instead of every pilot getting a parking stipend to do with as they desire, the "non commuter prejudice" kicks in and only those living in a pilot (or flt att) base get this perk. I pay about $150/mo for parking.
I think we can agree that life for the commuter is nowhere near as nice from an airline perspective as for those who are ABLE to live in base... rather than demanding that those less fortunate than you not get any improvement in their lives unless you get a commensurate good deal, can you not look upon those less fortunate and say, "Ok, THAT is a pretty crappy deal, maybe a small mitigation of pain so they only have 5 times the pain as I do would be ok..."
IA, there are many folks who simply do not have the choice to live in base as you seem to. For example, I am $250,000 upside down on my house that I acquired during a 6 year furlough. My military job that paid for my food during those 6 years just didn't happen to be in a Delta base, and I started a family during those long years away, so I had to get housing. Now I'm back at Delta, I'd love to move to my base, any base, but unless someone gives me $250k, I can't...
Here's something you get already that is $$$ and I don't: free parking at your base. I'd love to have free parking at my airport, but instead of every pilot getting a parking stipend to do with as they desire, the "non commuter prejudice" kicks in and only those living in a pilot (or flt att) base get this perk. I pay about $150/mo for parking.
I think we can agree that life for the commuter is nowhere near as nice from an airline perspective as for those who are ABLE to live in base... rather than demanding that those less fortunate than you not get any improvement in their lives unless you get a commensurate good deal, can you not look upon those less fortunate and say, "Ok, THAT is a pretty crappy deal, maybe a small mitigation of pain so they only have 5 times the pain as I do would be ok..."
Agreed, but some like to use the few pilots that live on the beach in FL because they want to. I only know two or three of those.
The advanced entitlement is out. Just showed up in my email. Mem 320 getting whacked. Mem dc9 toast. Adding nyc a320 and atl a320 and 330. More details in the email.
My just before bedtime math says 350ish vacancies and surpluses......a wash. Movement off both the 747 and 777 though. )-;
The advanced entitlement is out. Just showed up in my email. Mem 320 getting whacked. Mem dc9 toast. Adding nyc a320 and atl a320 and 330. More details in the email.
It is why I wish RA would charge DC on one issue he mentions. Fuel costs, and the fact that domestic tickets have to have the fuel included in the tickets. We can not add a fuel surcharge on after the ticket price for domestic flights. We must do this. Every other industry can do this. Breaking out the fuel cost would be a major win for us.
Also no reason to hire if you are going to get a flow agreement with a big regional like is rumored on the DALPA forum!
ACL, can you elaborate on this? To save us the technical troubles of logging on to the DALPA forum? My wife only allows one and I choose this one.
How much are you guys getting used? I just took at open time and it appears that most trips have mostly 3-5 legs per day. I've grown lazy and am not sure I want to 4 day trips with 5 legs a day.
Anyone know how the commute is to NYC is from ATL?
Look in Icrew and pull up rotations
8002/06NOV
8021/03NOV
8013/28 NOV
8053/17NOV
8056/24NOV
9305/23NOV
and anything in the 94XX series.....ALL uncommutable EWR trips.
It sucks on the 88.
Don't know a whole lot about it but the ER unless you are top 1/3, you will be doing africa, domestic red-eyes, and uncommutable 2-days that you can't do back-to-back because of domicile rest.
765 is decent, as long as you like LHR, DTW, and MIA layovers.
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