Maybe but from a pax perspective “sorry bad wx, your flt is canxed, good luck on stdby status for two days” or “here’s your refund (what the lcc’s often do” is much worse than delta’s “sorry your fly delayed due to wx for 12 hrs.... see you in ten hours”. At least the pax know they will get where they want to go and when without spending hours at the airport waiting for possible stdby flt status.

Yet they made a $2billion pretax quarterly profit anyway......

https://youtu.be/ILQvGAj3VRY

Rev on.....

Drops Mic.....

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But but but pilots know best!!!

5 days of IROP a year? Nope.

Jetblue: “Hold my beer...” [emoji23]


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Meanwhile in my category (atl7erb) we have had KLOAs offered every month this summer, and excellent reserve coverage. I’ve worked as little or as much as I’ve wanted and it’s been fantastic.

Coincidence or conspiracy?

New Corvette

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Third green slip for the month

Bid reserve, fly GS’s for payback days. Extra $$ and same number of days off. Win win.

Well he is a pilot, ran the operation with more pilots, and still made a ton of money. I think that was the point if the comment.

Pilots that bid reserve want more pilots so they fly even less, senior pilots who whiteslip and greenslip want less pilots so they can make more money, the average pilot group is somewhere in the middle.

Thursday was the longest taxi I have had in JFK in 18 years and I am told ATL was groundstopped. I think this was a weather not a pilot event.

Neither.....its density.

Trying to. I tried to go at 60, but my 60% FAE wasn't there. Green slips should be an anomaly. Not a way of life. It's all guys talk about. With conflict would make more sense. Time off is what the job used to be, you know, quality of life. Lip service now. We have nothing over those ladies of the night.

They've offered KLOA's in my category too since May, yet there offering sometimes 5-7 GS's everyday, because there splitting trips due to not having the RSV coverage

I agree. Greenslips are an anomaly. IMO, When it's feeding season it's best to take advantage of the opportunity to make extra cash then enjoy the extra time off fall and winter when flying is slow. Easier to nonrev then too.

When I'm your age I have similar goals. I hope to have enough streams of income that a Greenslip isn't worth my time. But for now each Greenslip is a significant increase to my Net Worth not to mention the investment gains down the road.

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I think you have a short memory. If you had a longer taxi than the days when they lined us up on 2 taxiways and 13R to depart 22R, then DAL is gonna get fined. I sat there 3+ hours numerous times.


Or you have been blessed.

Some guys want time off... some want the money. Why is it hard to believe that some guys want to make bank while they can? I hate being in Florida in the summer. Hot, humid, hurricanes... bugs.... If I could fly more I probably would. Fall is football season. THAT's when I want off. You yankees want to sit on your deck in the summer drinking beer or whatever. I do that in the winter.

With conflict only makes sense for certain categories though. Pretty sure they wouldn't work in big ones... but I guess it is dependent on manning...

Were not going to get fined. Went back to the pad and offered a chance to get off. Clock reset.

I was #40 for TO at JFK once back in my RJ days.

Ah, the good ol' pre-DOT3 days.

Right! Yet you see guys lose their minds over some ideas that would be good for the majority, because it MIGHT reduce GS...

Sounds like the last few months pushing out of JFK in evening headed to Europe. Or a few months ago when they sent us all the way down to PF onto 13R to get in line for takeoff on 4L.

Oh, good news, now theyre landing both runways. Now you're really 80 in line.

My favorite story was related to me by another pilot (can't remember who) about flying to Nice. Delta 89 was called up by ground control and told he was number 89 for takeoff....

My favorite flight number was KBP. Car guys will get it. "Delta 88"

Only the old(s) people

I still have a stick '55 coupe that they will have to pry out of my cold dead hands.

Massive IROP predicted for ATL tomorrow. OCC can't catch a break

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well i mean it's partially self induced so there's that.

NYC going on right now

When did IROP’s get colors? Yellow? Orange? Am I supposed to know what these mean?

Green slips made me 200$K ytd, 3rd yr 73 fo

Weird flex but ok

YTD? As in you've made 200k so far, just over half the year gone?
So you'll make 380k this year? I call "fake news"

That does seem high if its based off of GS alone. OE trip drop buddy bidders that overlap their entire sked with GS though could actually pull that off.

Plus ps....and the gswc multiplier.

I believe it if you include profit sharing. Makes me feel veryyy lazy though.

I’ve skirted by this entire 4 day trip criss crossing the country without a single leg leaving late or getting in late. Felt like I was sauntering through with crap blowing up around me, but somehow unaffected.

But day 4 is upon us, and the brilliant minds planned day 4 to 8+ hours block in thunderstorm season (where if I hold and divert, I’m done wherever I land), and it’s ATL’s turn the through the gauntlet. It’s all about cutting out the pads, though.

Yes counting everything including ps. I’m sure gs will dry up soon so probably 300 not 380

Are you NYC73NB?

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I was thinking the same thing.