Wrong again, the company could have grown the DCI 76-seat fleet to 255 under the old PWA, not anymore, now the max number is 223. That's a reduction in the number of the largest super jumbo RJs. Added bonus is that the number of 70-seat aircraft that DCI could have flown was also reduced from unlimited down to 102 and if Delta executes on its now public business plan, the overall DCI fleet dramatically reduced with system block hour percentages moved to mainline from DCI.:)

5:15 or higher min day (for any company activity- including training).

night override

vacation 4 hrs (or higher) a day

for starters:

• 6 hrs min pay/day for any company assigned activity.
• Good progress making vacation go from 3 to 3:15, but vacation should be 6 hrs/day or its not really "vacation"
• Training 6 hrs/day to have equal pay to protect line-holders and reserves alike.
• Sitting in a hotel, in the back of a plane or short-call is for the company, thus should fall under the 6 hrs/day minimum
• Sign-in after 22:30 reduces to 3:00 min for that day as does a release before 10:30 on the last day.
• Reroute, recovery and all other non-scheduled flying beyond the footprint of the original rotation is payed at double time.
• All non-assigned or traded flying lives in one pot and goes in and out with transparency and in seniority order.
• Bring back the bow-wave.
• Delta pilots perform at a minimum the same share of JV-flying as the JV-revenue/profit share for Delta. Reviewed annually, 3 month cure. Financial penalties for non-compliance.
• MBH to DBH needs to be brought up to 1.92 or greater to really capture the 25% reduction of DCI.

Cheers
George

You do realize you're making yourself look quite foolish?


Nahhh.. you don't. Keep at it!

70 seat RJs were not unlimited. They were included in the 255 cap as a large RJ is defined as 51-76 seats.

"Beach" refers to higher density widebodies that fly mostly leisure paxs from Japan to Hawaii. NWA had a couple of 747-200s that were configured with more seats than all the other 747-200s.
Planning said the 767s would only fly from then west coast to Hawaii and onto Japan. I believe Guam and Saipan would also see these a/c from NRT.

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Hmm, what's the max number of 76-seat RJs the company could be authorized under the old PWA. Let me see. 255

What's the max number of 76-seat aircraft the company could be authorized under the new PWA. Let me see. 223

I'm guessing you didn't do well with reading comprehension.

But you said reduce the number of 76 seaters... We have 153 now and that is maxed out until mainline gets above 767 airplanes.

The PWA now provides a segway to growing them without increasing the mainline fleet count above 767 AND without parking 1:1 70 seaters to get there.


But, yeah... you're right. 223 is less than 153, right?

You seem to think that going from 255 51+ seaters to 325 51+ seaters is no big deal because all that matters is 76 seaters. That's as if to say the 70 seater is as much a threat as a B1900, E-120 or CRJ-200?

The 70 seaters are a big deal because... their big too.

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This comes back around to the danger of going with the MBH : DCI ratio alone. Under the old contract to get to 223 76-seaters you'd have to grow mainline. Now you just meet a ratio, and if that ratio is too low, well then you don't have to grow mainline very much at all (if any) compared to the old contract's fleet size requirement.

You can't go it alone... with a ratio. Especially since the ramifications of changing a ratio is far more murky than changing a fleet size requirement.

Question:

Everyone i've spoken to seems to be really happy with their Serengeti sunglasses so I went to the Stopover store in MSP down by the lounge and they had the display of sunglasses. So I tried them on and all their frames seem to be quite small (i've got a big head). Anyone know if the store down in ATL by the lounge on A concourse has a Serengeti display with large frames? If now...any suggestions on a good place to go look at them in the NYC area?

Thanx.