acl65pilot

As I understand it, the slot was awarded on a city pair, not an airline. We had to commit to stopping DTW HND to move it. With that comes the ability for others to bid on it. AMR reportedly wants to move their slot too, and is supporting our request.

76drvr

I believe the issue is that DAL is losing money with DTW-HND, so it is cancelling service and attempting to use their HND slot from SEA. This opens up the bidding war.

For me it is quite simple. There is no downside with us keeping a HND slot, there is a downside with losing a HND slot, therefore I took 1 minute out of my day and sent Lahood a message.

80ktsClamp

Ditto... DTW HND is gone, so its in my interest ( and all of ours) to take a couple minutes and do it.

ShyGuy

How the heck did ATL become a Fifi base?

80ktsClamp

There is almost as many fifi departures out of there as DTW... but only 1/4 the amount of pilot slots. Sure would like to see some more love for ATL fifi in the coming bids. I can hold a line on the ATL ER and 737, but am 20% away from holding one on fifi.

scambo1

On a related note, if you plan to send the letter, the selection you want to click is the one that sends it to LaHood, not congress. The link is set up for the Hood letter to be easy. If you click on congress, its a bunch of gobbledygook.

NuGuy

FWIW, having the committee structure beholden to only the MEC admin is a bad idea. If you get a MEC Chair that is trying to drive an agenda, you can essentially get the committee structure to back up whatever message he wants to send, right or wrong. You get only one side of "the message" from the people the reps need to depend on for being the subject matter experts, and you might not necessarily get the whole picture.

There is a LOT of bureaucratic intertia that goes along with that.

For committee heads, there needs to be a vetting process that goes beyond "here is the guy I want, you need to confirm him". We do that for the big stuff (merger, NC, etc), but it should be extended to every committee. I lets a little air into the process, and you might get some really smart people step up who don't have their ticket punched.

Nu

ShyGuy

Why not bid ATL ER? Same base, a reg line, and a pay increase?

Or have you adopted my saying, "if it's Boeing, I ain't going!"

Boomer

Nevermind, it won't matter in two weeks anyway...

80ktsClamp

I'm frozen until next year. We'll revisit things then.