Originally Posted by MD114Ever

"0" talked to our recurrent class today. Most of his time was spent showing us the orginizational tree. A waste of time, but it was eye openning to see how many Capts we have in various forms of management.

The few useful tidbits he shared were as follows:

-His best guess for age 60 legislation to pass is Jan '09. Anyone 63 or older will not retrain but will get passover. I think he said they had to bid back to the front seat (meaning a bid had to be open?).

-MD11/MD10 will be in the HKG FDA within 2 years. Flt Mgt wanted them on this bid but the bean counters didn't agree.

-777s arrive in Jun '09 and 1st revenue flight in Aug '09.

-757s are on schedule. No delays.

-No hiring for 12-18 mos unless the FDAs go unfilled. The hiring is based on a 3 year forcast and China is flatter than forcasted.

-DC10s gone in 2010. A decision must be made to either draw them down to one remaining hull with 10-15 crews till the end, or draw them down to 5 hulls and then shut the whole fleet down.

His feelings seemed to have been hurt by the union's response to his DSA and Fatigue emails, however he never acknowledged that his communications skills were severly lacking on those emails.