Turkey's done.

 

You love that metric. You like to measure from Delta's position as a stand alone airline to prove your point. Your measurement is as relevant as a housewife telling her children to "eat all of your dinner because children are starving in Africa."

We are Northwest airlines in all but name. The people running the show are doing the job exactly as they did at Northwest and we are continuing along Northwest's capacity trend.

Move your metric (and your projections) to the end of 2009 and measure again.

If you are comfortable stagnating where you sit, or got a left seat before the music stopped, good for you.

( FWIW ... my request for leave was refused three times ... need longer than 10 months to get a contract gig overseas ... this is just my usual post merger fall displacement pattern ... displacement bid ... leave request ... displacements ameliorated by holding more pilots at higher levels than projected ... stay for another year ... get older & stagnate )

 

Good thing we're overstaffed.

 

The reserve availability list has 3 pilots on it. I'm sure those pilots already have trips assigned either today or tomorrow. I've never seen the list that small. Glad I'm not on reserve this month. Hopefully, I can get a green slip later this month.

 

Bar, Since the day you started on the forum you have not had a good thing to say about Delta airlines. You have attacked every aspect of the airline and the job. The only mystery is why you have not moved on to all those greener pastures you constantly post about and why you came here in the first place. The world economy is in collapse. The US is in almost as bad shape. Jet fuel is near historic highs.
We have no one on furlough. No furloughs are being discussed. We might even hire this winter. We are going to be expanding the mainline fleet. I fly on jumpseats all the time with regionals. Every single time they want to know how to get hired at Delta. Given the world situation and where most airlines are at these days there is a reason they want to go to Delta.

 

OK. You're allowed one reset.

 

Perfect!

 

Smoking Joe: "And that SERP thing we pulled off? It still makes me so [deleted] [deleted]..."

Michelle [interrupting]: "I know. Me too."

Smoking Joe: "I noticed"

Michelle: "[deleted] off, Joe!"

[2 deep, contended sighs]

Michelle: "You think those girls are voleyball players?"

 

"...Well, look again. Do you see any water on this release? Do you see a single mother-[bleeping] drop of deicing fluid on this release? Now, clean that [bleep] up you got all over my cockpit, and get your towels and your tampons off my window, and I'm going to show you it is possible to have a tidy Maddog cockpit, and to get the crap to flow back out the window!"

 

Considering the fact that we are actually making money (quite a bit) as a company, there is absolutely no discussion of furloughs, and for once in my airline career, I actually feel relatively secure with the long term prospects (I don't feel like at any given moment they are going to furlough me again), I would rather stagnate where I am, making a pretty good living, instead of grow, grow, grow, only to have our company then shrink big time and get furloughed again, for another 5 years.