Gilligan's Island was built for Delta, mainline, long before ASA was there! It was built back in the early 90's, to accomodate the 'new' fleet of MD88's, back when the DFW base was nearly as large as ATL. At one time, DFW had nearly every category based there, from International L10-11's flying to Frankfurt and London, DC8's, 767/757's, 727's, MD 88's, and 737's. I think there were about 2,500 Delta pilots based there at the peak.

Then Mo'Ron decided to run away from DFW...rather than compete with AA.

And, in another Mo'Ron moment of brilliance, he passed on buying Pan Am's South American ops out of MIA...opting instead for the trans atlantic routes, which put PA into bankrutptcy in the first place. Shortly after Mo'Ron bought Pan Am, Delta started losing money, big time! At one point I think I heard we were losing $3Million...PER DAY!

BRILLIANT! And, he's still getting his Delta Retirement money!

 

How do you back door it? I didn't even see a link yet for Aug bid awards.

 

I was just on DLNet, all the Aug Capt.s are posted now. In the future, if you want to 'back door it', you have to click on another month, ie, for August, Aug won't be there yet, so you click on July wide reports, (or June or May), when that window opens, you go up to the headder bar, and in the address line, where it says JUL/jul you simply replace that with AUG/aug and hit enter.

If the bids are done but not yet posted, that will let you in, through the back door...not that there's anything wrong with coming in the back door, the dirt road, the Hershey Highway...

The last 6mo. or so they have been getting them run and posted much faster than say, two years ago. Now a days, they are all done and posted to DL Net, both seats, by the 14th. I'm sure Dec. and Jan will take longer, as everyone is trying to get off for Xmas and New Years Eve, so there is much more unstacking that needs to be done.

The real reason they are getting done much faster than say, 5 years ago, is because we are very much overstaffed in most catergories, so they have adequate reserve coverage for lots of stacked up open time. If/when that changes, (through attrition) I expect the runs will take longer than they do today, as the computer will have to work harder to assign all the open time without violating the ROE's and MU's.

 

IIRC, DL had about 35% of the DFW O&D market when Allen pulled up stakes and left. Stagnant, but respectable and DFW area would have loved the competition to AA.

Never understood why DL didn't buy up EA, ex-BN, South American route authority. The BN were just counting seniority numbers and how'd they fit into EA, when the EA MEC said something like, "who said we were taking pilots?". So much for the milk of pilot's kibdness.

GF

 

US Airways becomes AMR creditor - Businessweek

this is related to the SkyWest MRJ order....


Cheers
George

 

Had a high up maintenance guy on the jumpseat the other day, and he said they were buying md-80's from AA for spare parts for our 88's. I asked if that meant we weren't going to be parking any anytime soon, and he said if we were parking 88's we would use them for spare parts.

 

Hope ur senior to me when they poison your food. Just kidding. Pretty bold inthat you are eating there. Never know what the cook is doing to your food.

 

Back door ain't workin today. I keep getting prompted for a username and password.

 

Its working for me. B's aren't out yet though.

In fact, just checked, and there is already a link for Aug Awards. A's only.

 

I'm thinking there's a miscomunication somewhere, sounds like you may not be putting the "AUG/aug" in the right spot, but when I have done the back door, I've never gotten a request for a username, etc.

But as Buzz said, they have updated DL Net so the AUG page is up now, so all you have to do is wait until they get the rest of the B's posted. The back door thing is only useful -before- they have loaded the next mo.'s page to DL Net.

What happens is, they keep running all the catagories until they are done, but they don't stop doing runs to post the completed ones. At the end of the day (which could be as late as 11pm sometimes) or if there is a break in the action, (lunch) or when all runs are complete, they'll take the time to update them to the DL Net.

They don't like to stop checking and doing runs, just to post the ones that are completed. That's why you will see a whole bunch of them show up all at once, not one at a time, usually after their lunch break, or at the end of the day.

I'm sure they are doing eveything they can to get them all done tonight, so they won't have to get up and do more runs tomorrow morning.