Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 1260456)

Its real simple.

Carry the pilots agenda forward.

Be willing to do the above when the majority position is not yours

Defend your pilots without any assumptions in the CPO.

Be willing to take the heat to make a difficult call when you cannot share all of the facts, then explain your position as to how you voted and why after the facts are known/after the vote

Be transparent as possible with your pilots, and honest when you can't

Welcome others opinions and points of view. When they are contrarian to yours, do not be dismissive nor isolate them. (Inclusive nature to our business)

As for the minutia on each and every issue, the cheese moves, facts change, and taking a hard line position sets you up to defend your ego/former position or save face when presented with new facts that should change you position. In these situations, seek out direction by providing as many facts without bias to your membership. If the direction comes back different then where you assumed it would, lead by the direction provided to you from your pilots.

You cannot make 100% of the pilots in your base happy. Its impossible. When that happens, be honest with them. I had a chance to sit down with my Vice Chair and have an honest discussion with him a few weeks ago. I may disagree on how a vote went, but an educated well thought out decision is all any of us can ask for. I respect his decision, and it was one he did not make lightly. That is all any of us can ask. Hes a great guy that has done really good work for our pilots. I thank him for taking the time to sit down and have a conversation with me, and for having the ability to think critically.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 1260456)

Its real simple.

Carry the pilots agenda forward.

Be willing to do the above when the majority position is not yours

Defend your pilots without any assumptions in the CPO.

Be willing to take the heat to make a difficult call when you cannot share all of the facts, then explain your position as to how you voted and why after the facts are known/after the vote

Be transparent as possible with your pilots, and honest when you can't

Welcome others opinions and points of view. When they are contrarian to yours, do not be dismissive nor isolate them. (Inclusive nature to our business)

As for the minutia on each and every issue, the cheese moves, facts change, and taking a hard line position sets you up to defend your ego/former position or save face when presented with new facts that should change you position. In these situations, seek out direction by providing as many facts without bias to your membership. If the direction comes back different then where you assumed it would, lead by the direction provided to you from your pilots.

You cannot make 100% of the pilots in your base happy. Its impossible. When that happens, be honest with them. I had a chance to sit down with my Vice Chair and have an honest discussion with him a few weeks ago. I may disagree on how a vote went, but an educated well thought out decision is all any of us can ask for. I respect his decision, and it was one he did not make lightly. That is all any of us can ask. Hes a great guy that has done really good work for our pilots. I thank him for taking the time to sit down and have a conversation with me, and for having the ability to think critically.

Originally Posted by XtremeF150 (Post 1260483)

Looks like all the A's are out if you go in the back door. Still no B's.

Originally Posted by iFlyer (Post 1260500)

How do you back door the schedules again?

Thanks, iF

Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 1260505)

Go to DLNet > Crew resources and Scheduling
Pull up the Previous month's results.
Lets say you are looking at September, then in the URL replace all instances of Sep with Oct making sure to match case...

Voilà

Cheers
George

Originally Posted by orvil (Post 1260433)

It's a code share. Had an acquaintance just go. She went through Seoul. Took KAL from there. Said it was an easier routing loadwise than NRT.

Would love to go someday.

Originally Posted by iFlyer (Post 1260500)

How do you back door the schedules again?

Thanks, iF

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1260517)

That's how you do it.

There's actually a October Bid Awards link now showing up on DeltaNet but it only has A's so far.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1260580)

Ah shucks, the twice annual Buzzpat vs Newk battle is ON.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8...3ym1o1_500.jpg

Originally Posted by Roadkill (Post 1260552)

For a moment I thought you asked how the schedule back-doors you, and I was going to say that it just does it naturally via the seniority bidding process ;)

I noticed some A reserve went very senior-- the very last guy in SLC 73NA got a line this time, and the 2nd to last guy in LAX73NA. Hmm, this gets me thinking I may not be bidding this right...