Originally Posted by
newKnow
Let's see....
As a Former North Pilot, I'm having trouble keeping track of the many reasons why we are so poor at this whole "merge" thing. Let me see if I can get all of them:
1.) We call in sick too much.
2.) We don't single engine taxi enough.
3.) We leave too many APU"s running at the gate.
4.) We complain too much.
5.) We don't follow established procedures enough.
6.) We overfly MSP too much.
7.) We take all the good "South" flying.
8.) We move into all the good "South" bases.
9.) We leave you all the horrible bases to fly out of.
10.) "Our" flight attendants are mean to you and the customers.
11.) We are too distrustful of management.
12.) We are too distrustful of our union leaders.
13.) We are not patient enough in waiting for change (for anything).
14.) Our negotiators invented the term "super premium widebody flying"
These above reasons are all fine and dandy, but can someone tell me when I can stop being a North pilot, and when I become a Delta pilot?
New K Now
1. It's cold up north NYC guys are sick more too.
2. Tell Carl to man up. Do you really need more than one engine on a 744?
3. Frozen power cords up north. They are thawed out down south.
4. You are pilots, we all complain. If we had completely new procedures and manuals we'd complain about them. We don't so we complain about bases and flying.
5. 1,001 new procedures all trained via e-mail and CBT. I'd say it's going well.
6. I do too. Usually from SFO to NYC.
7. No, you take some Africa flying also.
8. If just a few more of you move, I'll hold a line in DTW or MSP. Or maybe DC9A.
9. Nope, you took NYC also. Probably more than ATL.
10. Not at all, but keep the rumor alive. I'll tell my fNWA FA story in the next post.
11. As it should be.
12. As it should be.
13. T h i n g s m o v e s l o w e r d o w n s o u t h. We haven't made the technology leap yet.
14. OK, that was funny. It'll be funny for years.
You are Delta pilots and have been from day one.