Airline Pilot Central Forums - Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?

Yes, I work 6+ days of MLOA a month which cuts into my DAL reserve available days. My DAL work months are around 24-25 days, so I have fewer X days as well.

On my paychecks I'll get $75-$500+ coded as USERRA. I've been told this money is to "make up / offset" for monies "lost" from the Company savings plan (the 2%/12%) since my income earned at DAL is less. Essentially the amount of money paid into my savings plan is the same whether or not I use MLOA in a given month.

nwaf16dude

09-01-2012 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1254572)

There are exempt orders. Delta makes no effort to really check. I know several people who were not on exempt orders but made the 20 and came back. There are a lot more out there now. Bucking, Yes you do get made whole on retirement at Delta in addition to drawing the military retirement. I don't however know about the 2.5 to 4 million comment. They certainly did not get that kind of money from the government or Delta. They get cut a check for the exact percentages all pilots got in the DC fund based on their assumed earnings plus interest.

When I came back I was right at the limit, including periods that were exempt. I had all my documentation available to make sure they couldn't refuse my request for re-employment. When I made the request, no one even asked the question. I wouldn't count on them ignoring it, but in my case they didn't seem to really care how long I had been gone. I did get some retirement money when I got back. Don't remember exactly how much, but I do remember it was a lot less than I'd hoped it would be. Oh, and after 7 years on either furlough or mil leave, the only thing I could hold a line on was the same seat I left from.

acl65pilot

09-01-2012 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 1254549)

Only a small amount of what? Hiring? When did they imply that would happen?

They didn't. The window is not open and the Trim Tab addresses this erroneous rumor.

Hoser

09-01-2012 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1254527)

correct. It was a charter. They went from tcl to dfw and brought then airplane empty to atl.

roll tide roll!

acl65pilot

09-01-2012 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by FedElta (Post 1254521)

hey Guys,

One of my non-dependent kids just traveled Atl/Sea on a 3B yield fare , round trip. She missed the return leg, and when I went to the travelnet to re-book her return leg, The entire record locator had been removed.

I had to pay another yield fare to book her return leg, and I can find NO way to apply for a refund on the original return leg. I have been to the travel history page, and everywhere else I can think of....no luck.

ESC is closed on the weekend.......any ideas, or info would be appreciated .

Thanks,
BG

No. Check the bottom. If its not on there call the 800 number

scambo1

09-01-2012 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1254492)

Many if not most pilots on long term Mil leave are there on a voluntary basis. They are staying on active duty in order to get their 20 years in for government retirement. At that point they can return to Delta and Delta is required to figure out a assumed earnings number for pay while they were gone and reimburse them all retirement money they missed at Delta and pay interest on that amount. Its a pretty good deal if you can work the timing. You come back to Delta perhaps now a Captain with a full military retirement and medical you are drawing on at the same time plus full reimbursement for any Delta retirement you missed. Delta has been very generous in not enforcing the 5 year rule on mil leave to allow this to happen. Other employers have enforced the rule.

In gerneral, I agree about many mil leaves being willing to stay on orders. However, just a minor point of order...If the orders are in support of a war or contingency - either on the orders or supported by a letter from an O-6 or higher - the 5 year Mil leave clock isn't even started.

iaflyer

09-01-2012 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by FedElta (Post 1254521)

One of my non-dependent kids just traveled Atl/Sea on a 3B yield fare , round trip. She missed the return leg, and when I went to the travelnet to re-book her return leg, The entire record locator had been removed.

I had to pay another yield fare to book her return leg, and I can find NO way to apply for a refund on the original return leg. I have been to the travel history page, and everywhere else I can think of....no luck.

ESC is closed on the weekend.......any ideas, or info would be appreciated

The key here is the ticket number. You can look at the bottom of your "My Reservations" part of TravelNet, at the bottom might be "tickets with no reservations". If there is a ticket listed there, that might be the place to reuse it or refund it. Or look on the credit card that was used to purchase the yield fare, I think on the credit card statement it will list the Delta ticket number. The numbers start with 012 and are I think ten digits.

Once you find the ticket number that's the key to refunding it or using it again.

Otherwise, the ESC can probably look it up when they reopen on probably Tuesday, because no one at Delta is working the weekend, right? ;)

gloopy

09-01-2012 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 1254581)

They didn't. The window is not open and the Trim Tab addresses this erroneous rumor.

I meant "they" as in the person who the OP said they (he?) flew with. I like they better than he/she s/he or whatever.

Not that there's anything wrong with s/he's or whatever.

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buzzpat

09-01-2012 01:15 PM

Could one of you whiz kids (ie, FTB, Clamp, Bar) pull up the flight track of DAL 2209 from MSP-SFO last night? You wouldn't believe the route we took at 1:30 AM.

The final segment.

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