I agree, the folks above need to knock it off.

 

This is exactly correct.

 

What??? Who in their right mind would advocate for only offering the MBCBP to a certain segment? I am assuming that you are saying that the company could pay the catch-up once reaching those parameters, and that's a unique solution that is actually a pretty good idea. I don't know why you would restrict it to those with over 20 though. THere are lots of pilots that won't achieve that milestone, so why penalize them?

 

I'm not trying to add any further to the dumpster fire this thread had devolved into. I will simply note 3 things: 1. limiting the MBCBP in nonsensical. It's just a tax-deferred account which literally costs zero to the cmpany or to other pilots. Did you mean Min Balance? 2. As I have said before, something like a COLA update for the PBGC, or paying the "catch up" contributions is something I could have gotten behind (and I think a lot of others would have too, unlike the toxic topic of the "Minimum Balance"), and would have been a very reasonalbe ask for those who lost the pension, North or South. I guarantee JB and his ilk would NOT have been satistfied with that though. And 3. It's all irrelevant. Folks are literalluy arguing over spilled milk. It's like arguing over whether Germany should have gone after Stalingrad. No amount of bloviating will change anythinbg at this point.

For heaven's sake, instead of spamming all these threads, can someone PLEASE just start a thread for those who actually want to beat thier chest about this stuff, so the rest of us can just ignore it or mark that thread as "READ".

 

So when’s the mock-award gonna drop and will someone under the age of 40 get WB-A in NYC on the 330?????

 

So... Any news on 2023 AE's?

 

No more complicated than a Toyota! You are screwed. True story: My wife's Sienna minivan is getting some steering components replaced so I tell her to get a price on the spark plugs. This is about 10 years ago. Price comes back something like $300. "$300 for spark plugs!" Being a former motorhead, I think 'll do it myself. Worst $300 I never spent. In my best Homer Simpson Voice "Stupid tranverse mounted engine!!!!!" Well to get to the rear 3 plugs you have to pull the windshiled wipers, windshield wiper motor, whole windshield wiper bay, intake manifold, a support bracket, and whatever else I am forgetting.

But it was fun.

Scoop

 

MX shops are no panacea. Car went into limp mode, so I tossed my scanner on it. Said “low turbo boost”, so I pop the hood and look for the obvious. The intake manifold had come apart and had a hole you could put your fist through. Getting it in and out looked complicated, so I took it to shop and told them what the problem was.

3 days later I get a call “well, we’ve confirmed that the intake duct is the issue, and we’re going to order the part”. I’m like “Really? What gave it away?”. I get that they have all kinds of people coming in claiming all kinds of issues, but this was pretty obvious. It’s otherwise a pretty good shop.

 

Was that a lyrical reference to the song Paralyzer by Finger Eleven? It's appropriate for this thread given the album title is Them vs You vs Me.

Now back to drifting this thread like a Nissan. Or would you prefer we stay tracking like a Miata?

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Is there a limit on the number of times that you can submit for an AE? For instance, can you bid for DTW one month, then bid to ATL the next month?