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TANSTAAFL
Newbie here - be nice. This sure seem like a more spin free zone than the web boards
Do we have any official comments, either MEC or Co. regarding the Japan so-called Open Skies?
The fact that the news page on DAL net, and a press statement were issued by DAL on Sat should tell you how important this is.
We are still in deep talks with the Japanese government about JAL, so I would not expect too much talk until the decision on that deal is made.
Other than divining the press statements by Anderson et al, do we have any flavor of the way the JAL deal is going?
Nope, and you will not. If you know, you are under a NDA and will not even tell your pet lizard.
Also curious for those more familiar with the system is the count pilots holding a preference page in iCrew a reasonable predictor of AE outcome?
Heck no. Those are only AE's and not VD's or MD's. Simply put, you will not have any idea the way this bid is going to go. Bid what you want and want what you bid.
I have told our new Chair here in 44 that we need to see pilots with VD and MD preferences above us in a given category, PPL bidding it etc. I also told him that if we could get the company to agree to a set amount of backfill, etc, we should have a spot award. This last take a ton of computing power so probably is not likely.
In the end with 12000+ pilots with 12000+ wants, desires, and expectation, it is impossible to know where you will go. Only Number 1 know he will not move a little.