Originally Posted by Delta1067

There is a different code for inverse assigned trips and the pilot who was assigned the trip was on short call today. So a reserve pilot on SC had an A#1 next to his assignment.

Originally Posted by PilotFrog

I have a question about the 24 hr rest, what if in the 23rd hr you have a beer?

Originally Posted by 1234

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.

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Pre-merger was a different kettle of fish ...Sailing, your airline bought my airline, took it's flying (code), bankrupted it, then spun it off to a non union carrier who immediately engaged in illegal self help by transferring the aircraft we now flew for Delta to it's non union side of the operation. My hiring achieved what ALPA would have sought via it's Merger and Fragmentation Policy back in the day that a Delta MEC member handed me my first copy of Flying the Line nearly fifteen years ago (while working on the Bid Restricted SO SLOA, to get jobs for Delta pilots, btw)

For the rest of you, like 1234; the logic makes sense on a short term basis. Of course if the only sandwich shop in the terminal doubles its prices it will make a profit. The long term picture is that the City will lease three other sandwich shops space in the terminal and they will enter the market for Bologna on Wheat ... eventually driving down profits for "sandwich capacity reductions is our leverage." Worse, since the new entrants have no legacy costs their will have a cost advantage on the "capacity reductions are our leverage" Bologna vendor.

As stated clearly by Bastian and Anderson, our continued shrinkage is driving up unit costs. This fact makes us less competitive long term.

Sailing always gets angry when someone contrasts the growth at other airlines with what appears to be a slow liquidation of what Delta Air Lines was. It is imagined "as long as Sailing got his," the rest of us should literally be happy to clean his garbage from the flight deck until we retire two years after he does.

Originally Posted by Roadkill

Word to the wise: If a Delta ticket agent swears for 10 minutes that "Fly for Less" tickets are refundable (Fly for EVEN Less are not per the webpage, but Fly for Less are supposed to be), and you buy some as a backup for your family vacation because Delta doesn't give you even one PS for family vacation a year, and you try to cancel them 3 day early to get your $$ back as promised...
... you're going to get seriously bent over.

And when they decide to charge you the "change fee" of $150/ticket instead of the cancel fee they promised would apply if $29 per ticket, and just give you a credit towards some future flight instead of the actual refund as promised, don't even THINK about questioning them.

And if you even TRY to discuss it and bring up the fare rules and pamphlets linked to the Fly for Less page to support that you should get your $1900 back as promised when you bought the "refundable" tickets, which you wisely printed to be sure you could get the promised refund, you're going to get threatened with having your Non-rev privileges being revoked.

Last time I EVER try to fly on Delta for $$, or try to give them my business. That 20% "savings" as an employee was the most expensive ticket I never used in my life, and getting threatened by a ticket agent to shut up and take the loss was just unbelievable. NOT a huge fan of my company just now.

Originally Posted by duder

Originally Posted by nwaf16dude

Hey, how much pay do I lose if I have to pd a reserve day?