Outstanding Chairman’s Letter
03-16-2019, 05:04 PM
#21
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Originally Posted by Karnak
Can you post the block hours for each?
Huh? A pilot can get what they request...then be unhappy about it?
First World Problems.
Huh? A pilot can get what they request...then be unhappy about it?
First World Problems.
Things are pretty good at DAL and getting better
, but the 12 month conversion is a turd. 
Like many other items in our PWA we can probably improve this and hopefully we will.Scoop
03-16-2019, 05:05 PM
#22
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Originally Posted by Herkflyr
Uh...we work in the airline industry. If you think that we have the right to show up on day one of our airline career, take a mental snapshot of the place and then say "yep, this is exactly how things will be 30 years from now"...you probably picked the wrong career.
There have been a lot of good points raised about some of the onerous provisions of the one-year AE, trying to mix in important family events with unknown training dates, etc. However, lamenting MDs as some sort of company hose-job is just petty. You might as well just complain "can you believe I have to spend 1/3 of my days on the road, sleeping in hotels?"
There have been a lot of good points raised about some of the onerous provisions of the one-year AE, trying to mix in important family events with unknown training dates, etc. However, lamenting MDs as some sort of company hose-job is just petty. You might as well just complain "can you believe I have to spend 1/3 of my days on the road, sleeping in hotels?"
03-16-2019, 05:34 PM
#23
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Originally Posted by tennisguru
I'm not lamenting MD's, please don't put words in my mouth, I sort of get how the industry works. I'm lamenting how this part of our contract lags pretty much every other airline out there. Even the regional airline contracts don't give their companies that much latitude to schedule training over such a long window with minimal schedule protections for the pilot.
03-16-2019, 06:44 PM
#24
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Originally Posted by gzsg
Hard to belly up to the bar when I don’t drink.
The MEC chairman asked me to go. I said no. Then he asked again and I went. Long brutal days. ALPA National is a joke. A complete waste.
The MEC chairman asked me to go. I said no. Then he asked again and I went. Long brutal days. ALPA National is a joke. A complete waste.
Originally Posted by gzsg
As usual you side with management 24/7.
Originally Posted by gzsg
Do you agree with our executives willfully and repeatedly violating our contract?
03-16-2019, 06:57 PM
#25
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Originally Posted by TED74
Sailing likes to tell us the horrors of other well-paying jobs. None that I know of ask their employees to risk skipping once-in-a-lifetime events (graduations, weddings, etc.) or completely bypass promotion.
Originally Posted by TED74
I appreciate your attempt to lower our expectations,
Originally Posted by TED74
It won't be hard to take back small bits of schedule control if it's the will of our union to prioritize this particular QOL-enhancer.
03-16-2019, 07:03 PM
#26
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Originally Posted by tennisguru
You forget there are many people on all of these big bids who are forced out of their seat whether they like it or not...
03-16-2019, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by GivemeVSP
SailingFud and Karnak will be here spreading all kinds of FUD and advocating us settling for less once section 6 negotiations begin...
03-17-2019, 05:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Big E 757
It’s pretty obvious that it’s getting close to section 6 openers, isn’t it?
03-17-2019, 05:25 AM
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Originally Posted by GivemeVSP
Yup, all the company tools are starting to show up once again to tell us how lucky we are to be here. Next, we’re going to hear the sky is falling and Greece is going to take the world economy down, and damn we need to hurry up and cave in to get a ‘deal’
Oh, wait.........
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