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09-08-2025 | 08:11 AM
#5601
What's a weekend?
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From: Widget FO
The reason I ask is there's no realistic time frame for the -10, the -8 is in production and I think the Chinese refused some. So there's more likelihood of a quick delivery. I don't think the company has approached ALPA on pay so they can set it and we get to fly it cheaper until that's resolved. They would likely punt and make it part of the sect. 6 PWA negotiation. (A321 CEO and NEO went through this IIRC)
09-08-2025 | 08:13 AM
#5602
Gets Weekends Off
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We do. We staffed and planned to have the Max in service this year. That's why the 73 was so fat across the board all year. They gave the Max training to, at the least, APDs. There was a plan to put it into a CQ cycle, maybe one extra sim day, in the 9 months before expected delivery
09-08-2025 | 08:15 AM
#5603
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From: Widget FO
09-08-2025 | 08:17 AM
#5604
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In a pinch they could probably do it faster. Everyone is going in their early month and I doubt it takes 2 hours in the sim. Two crews per sim period
09-08-2025 | 08:28 AM
#5605
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From: Widget FO
it’s been a few years since I did MAX training but it was fairly in depth. Things could’ve changed since then and every program is gonna be different. Obviously they later hammered home MCAS vs regular speed trim and some of the other differences. I dumped all that stuff when I learned French.
09-08-2025 | 08:32 AM
#5606
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it’s been a few years since I did MAX training but it was fairly in depth. Things could’ve changed since then and every program is gonna be different. Obviously they later hammered home MCAS vs regular speed trim and some of the other differences. I dumped all that stuff when I learned French.
09-08-2025 | 09:18 AM
#5607
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From: ir.delta.com
They could do it by base like they did in the MD-90 years ago. Only qual to base that the flying is built into rotations. I think the MD-90 was only CVG and one other base maybe DFW or SLC initially.
09-08-2025 | 04:16 PM
#5608
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09-09-2025 | 02:16 PM
#5610
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