Originally Posted by
buzzpat
Seriously, I'm retired military and have other irons in the fire, so, my experience is this: flying commercially ain't what it used to be but it's still better than most. I do it because I love to fly, I like most of the guys I fly with, and I like the jet I fly. I also hope that our next contract will allow me to be less dependent on the other income I've had to rely on since I chose this "profession" in the first place. Take the stuff you read on this forum for what it is....just a bunch of pilots with too much time on their hands. That's what makes it fun.
This place is really like a very big bar. Lots of tables, lots of people, it's unfortunately a BYOB kind of place and the strip club aspect is not very strippy and rather two dimensional. But hey, lots of people talking, sometimes you have to shout to be heard, occasional fights that would normally result in beer buying and apologies. LOTS of shop talk and opining about how to fix the world... at least the industry.
It's just that if anyone mentions something about life before and after a merger then it can resemble what happened to a buddy of mine who flew car dealership guys around to auctions in a Navajo. He was driving a van one day with 4 buyers, 2 Israelis and 1 Syrian and 1 Lebanese. Somebody mentioned the word Holocaust and well it got ugly. He pulled over on the side of the interstate to pull them apart. That can be this place.
But hey, I've got the second good book on my desktop. The one and only CA 09-12. Put that in the search window of deltapilots.org and download all 1,100 page and 11MB of it. Then bring up a topic and key word search it and it'll go through the PWA, get to know your contract, transition for NWA pilots to DAL contract info, when scheduling calls, etc. Great lamens explanations of the stuff.
That said, every question should be asked and thus we can discuss. There was, gosh was it Sink that created those threads about get to know your contract after Latest and Greatest had that massive house fire a year or so ago? Maybe I should go look but I bet they expired.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Hey, underboob is good, my wife likes those juvenile acts
Uh, I'd be in big trouble if ever caught, so for me and those of you who:
Originally Posted by
DeadHead
I only come to this thread for the pictures.
may I suggest the laptop privacy filter:
Just slip it on, slip into bed, post at will and stare at Capn's post-it-note girl all ya want.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
It is apparent when they stated they wanted to get out of the RJ business, they meant owning them, not flying them
As I have said, most of the RJ flying terminates by 2020, and Pinnacle's new contract in 2022. Go look on the 10K. The number of RJ's gets paired down quite quickly in the latter half of the decade. To solve the issue, we just need to hold firm at a min, with a commitment from the company to not write new agreements, or modify or extend the existing ones. That alone solves the issue. These current RJ's are going to be obsolete when the new gen stuff like the C-Series arrives. The CASM on these RJ's will kill em.
I will say it's interesting to see some of the take back's we've done lately from the DCI. And I'm not talking as a whole but rather looking specifically at 2 places in PHF and ORF. I mean we're flying, at least to PHF, sometimes with half empty 88s but we've increased the number of 88s to 3 sometimes 4 per day from 4 or 5 CRJ2/CRJ7s two or so years ago. My buddy pointed out that ATL-AUS has gone from 1 mainline jet to all mainline with 757s mixed in.
If RJ's are out there flying BNA-PNS, OMA-MCI, STL-ELP, more power to them. That's what they should've always been doing. Not ATL-MDW/ORD or what have you.