Any "Latest & Greatest about Delta?" Part 2
07-19-2025 | 04:19 PM
#8841
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[QUOTE=crewdawg;3929930]Pick up a 3 day SS and drop a regular 3 day. Frees up more time to enjoy real life. Or just work 3 more days for the same pay.
If they are offering SS, then it’s not easy to drop trips unless I’m missing something.
If they are offering SS, then it’s not easy to drop trips unless I’m missing something.
07-19-2025 | 04:42 PM
#8842
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Joined: Oct 2021
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I don't believe SS change anything about dropping normal (non-SS) trips. Once awarded, SS have restrictions on how they can then be dropped. I.E. once you get one, you can drop it, but you can't swap out of it. SRH pg 47.
07-19-2025 | 04:51 PM
#8843
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Joined: Apr 2025
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From: Left lane in the Skyhop
Lmao! I was curious so I peeked (you can see who liked posts)... forum member Beernutt went back and "liked" almost all the posts he's ever made. Including ones made long before the likes became a thing.
I agree it's is a silly and unnecessary feature for a forum like this.
I agree it's is a silly and unnecessary feature for a forum like this.
07-19-2025 | 04:58 PM
#8844
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I believe this is what is referred to as living rent-free in that person's head. Congrats on influencer status!
07-19-2025 | 05:19 PM
#8845
Roll’n Thunder
Joined: Oct 2009
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From: Pilot
I think his point was if scheduling is mass-dropping SS then the category is critically short staffed. That means no blue days where you could straight up PD a rotation of any length. Your only option to free up days would be some sort of swap or more likely use your APD or IVD on a day you don’t want to pick up a SS.
07-19-2025 | 05:28 PM
#8846
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07-19-2025 | 06:00 PM
#8847
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I think his point was if scheduling is mass-dropping SS then the category is critically short staffed. That means no blue days where you could straight up PD a rotation of any length. Your only option to free up days would be some sort of swap or more likely use your APD or IVD on a day you don’t want to pick up a SS.
If SS are issued, it has no direct affect on the swapping/dropping of trips for pilots that don't participate in them.
In fact, I could go on a limb and say that SS are being issued on trips that are statistically less likely to be picked up by shorter-notice WS. I.e. the crappy trips. The driver being that they know the "good" trips will be plucked up by WS as they become shorter notice. SS being used as a massaging function rather than strictly an understaffing function. As for mass-dropping SS... who knows?
Has anyone seen a juicy easy credit trip awarded as a SS?
Last edited by Verdell; 07-19-2025 at 06:23 PM.
07-19-2025 | 06:13 PM
#8848
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Joined: Apr 2018
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I think his point was if scheduling is mass-dropping SS then the category is critically short staffed. That means no blue days where you could straight up PD a rotation of any length. Your only option to free up days would be some sort of swap or more likely use your APD or IVD on a day you don’t want to pick up a SS.
07-19-2025 | 07:18 PM
#8849
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Joined: Jan 2014
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the company is going after reserve payback days. Lots of rolling thunder in the NB cats and this is how the company is trying to weasel out of it.
07-19-2025 | 08:02 PM
#8850
Roll’n Thunder
Joined: Oct 2009
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From: Pilot
I mean I guess, but it feels like going after an ant hill with 10 sticks of dynamite. For one thing, they just gave out a TON of premium pay. Multiple pages of SS awards of full 3, 4, and 5 day trips. Does that save some GS? Maybe, but most of those GS would have been for 1 and 2 day broken rotations. Plus now you’ve got most of the WS mafia out of pickup time for the month so you’re still going to be using reserves up which is again going to drive GS’s. I feel like this amount of SS is going to cost the company much more than if they had kept with their normal mode of operation.
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