I saw one dude walking thru DTW earlier this week that, dear God, needs to be one of those 200. Only thing he was missing was a cane. I think he was heading toward the 74 flying to Taipei.:eek:

Buzz;

Seriously, that is some mean Carl discrimination.:D

Couldn't have been Carl, and I checked. Looked a lot like a really old Barney Phyfe...Fife...Phife....you know, the Mayberry dude.

Carl, that wasn't you, right? My dreams of gladiators would be shattered!

So it begs the question, FTB, do you bid for a regular line in Sep? As a guy who's in the middle of the pack of the reserves I have to wonder what Sep holds. I got a feeling some more senior pilots are going to reserve in Sep.

In Delta political news, the Georgia Transportation Tax increase TSPLOST went ker-SPLAT with 65% of voters saying:
(1) Hell No to a 17% tax increase
(2) Why don't we use the transportation tax on fuel sales on transportation instead of using it in the GA general fund?
(3) Why is the new transportation tax funding a new stadium to replace our new'ish stadium?

Delta was one of the leading contributors to the tax increase effort, although Company communications failed to explain why employees (or anyone else) would want to support it. The beltline initiative probably deserves funding. Light rail makes no sense due to the number of single family homes sitting on large lots. We simply don't have the population density to make a car-less commute a real option.

Delta could have saved their money and used it to buy and bust another airline. Maybe they did it to find favor with Mayor Kasim Reed. Who knows? Seems like more financial folly from the political bleachers.

I am thinking about it.

it was a nice run while it lasted. Gave me time home with the kids. Seems theyre out to correct reserve inefficiencies. I have a feeling I could be home more not doing reserve.

What's funny, I got a feeling this fall will be my worst schedule to date, after five years and four on this jet. I am right near the same percentage I started at when I MD'd to the 88 but my bidding power is dropping. I used to think if you could hit 80% in category and didn't mind reserve you could have a decent QOL, now you need to be a good bit higher. Under the prebucket system 95% wasn't that bad.

And that brings up something. Going to the ER as a new hire was not out of seniority as one guy gleefully told me. Um, you can train our of seniority or flow out off seniority or furlough out of seniority, but if pilots are not bidding a category and theyre having to hire into it, that's not out of seniority. And I'm sorry for you if you found joy in that realignment of categories because you had to wait ten years to hold the ER when it was far smaller.

Sounds like political payback

Such a cynic. Have you never been to Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Kasim Newk Kelleher International Airport? :confused:

Man, where do you come up with this crap? 250 guys retiring early, 30 more MD90's coming, 88 717's coming, 737-9's coming, and in 2013 age 65 retirements kick in (although very slowly). Only way you're getting displaced is if you're on the DC9 & that's a good thing. You're either going to go to a much nicer airplane (717) or to a higher paying airplane. Win win.

Got one better for you. I'm going through security in STL the other day and there is a captain in front of me and he asked me if I had to take my glasses off to go thru security. I said I wasn't wearing glasses & he says I thought you did. I realized he was confusing me with his FO. His FO looked nothing like me, but he was wearing glasses. They were on day 5 of their trip heading to DTW. Talk about a guy that needs to retire. When you can't even remember what your FO looks like after 4 days it's time to hang it up.