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I am tired of talking about trip parking. Suffice it to say, on the -er, 330, 765, 777, and 747 whenever there are two pilots who can swap their piece of the rotation each other, it doesn't have to go through open time.

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Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 1273624)

It is 87 presently, and though it is line holder average, it is a "pay-hour" average for the preceding 12 months, not necessarily a "line value average" ...

Heyas Shiz,

The "87 hour average" is calculated by dropping all lines that are below 70 hours.

There were several months where folks were getting sub-70 hour lines (and pay), and none of those lines went into the average.

Nu

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Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1273680)

Those two guys you were talking about must be best friends, Academy Classmates, Wife Swppers, F15 pilots, or all of the above, not that there's anything wrong with that...

I don't have any friends like that, I guess that's why nobody calls me? :D

In the words of Henny Youngman;

Take my wife...Please!

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Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1273653)

I'm trying to swap something into that hole."

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l4ysctoT97...t_she_said.gif

that's what she said

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Originally Posted by NuGuy (Post 1273713)

And not counting reserves that account for what percentage of the pilot group? I think I have broken 87 hrs once in the last 12 months, and that was picking up extra flying on a month I had vacation credit. OTOH, how much is 16 days a month (4 days a week) plus all the after hours stuff worth?

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Originally Posted by sink r8 (Post 1273589)

here is the bottom line for me, and i wish it were true for all: We shouldn't have any kind of private swap system. We should remove the absurd reserves required restrictions that caused people to run away from swp, and we should have a 21-st century single market for pcs, where seniority and transparency rule every transaction, and a swp is not assigned a lower priority than a drop/ws, but handled as a simultaneous conditional drop and pick-up withn the same priority. It would all fit within max pick-up, with a bow-wave, and we could all fill up throughout the year, to a reasonable amount that would be more in line to the pilot profession than the oldest profession. i believe this to be so important that i am using caps, boldface, all at once. And let me add, for effect, some exclamation points!!!!! I really mean it!

+1

Good post, sink.

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Originally Posted by flyallnite (Post 1273659)

I've given up trying to predict what airplane will go where, I've been fence sitting on a bid and probably the only people more confused than I am is crew resources. I mean, what widebody can you reasonably count on being stable? They shift flying all over the place now.

I wonder too if the days of point to point Europe flying are over for good, or just on hiatus until the economy picks up again. And when it does, what sort of airplanes will we have flying it? The older ER's are about 1991 vintage, so they've got about 10 years left in them.

While it may not make any difference on GH's aircraft/route roulette, remember that about 1/3 of the widebodies have been parked for modifications during the slow season the last two years. That continues this year. Winter 2013/14 will be the first time we have a relatively full complement of international aircraft available, so you'll probably see even more marketing shifts next year. All else being equal, there should be more pilot block hours.

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Originally Posted by flyallnite (Post 1273659)

JFK is extremely important though. I think we'll see DL flying bigger metal to the business markets for now, and trying to steal some customers from UCal and AA. But when you see markets like IST just vaporize, it's pretty disconcerting.

IST has been a high traffic, low yield market for us for a long time. Turkish recently joined Star Alliance and now has network connections on both ends of the trip. We only had network connections on the JFK end. Our European O&D premium traffic evaporates in that scenario. Much of the secondary city flying we used to do has been limited by Europe's lousy economy, strike 2. That's why you're seeing more focus on connections over AMS and CDG. And high yield business travel dried up to places like Cairo and Amman.

I hope the economy comes roaring back and we see PtP growth out of NYC again. I'm not counting on it in the near term, though I did just buy some Spanish bonds on a short term yield play...

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Originally Posted by flyallnite (Post 1273659)

That Haneda slot time out of SEA looks pretty painful... who are we connecting over here at 6PM Pacific time? The slot times need improvement or that route will fail too. PVG... no idea. I hope it's a winner, and they bump it up to a 330 or a 777.

That crappy timeslot was a result of the US/Japan "open skies" agreement. We can't connect in HND. JAL/ANA can't make full utility of their hubs their either, so it levels the playing field. If they were able to, you'd see NRT go away, just like FRA did. And that's what the Japanes governement wants.

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Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1273644)

If SEA is gonna be the new NYC, that means that the international flying there is gonna get whacked mercilessly. Just sayin'

Just remember that NYC has grown from about 850 pilots pre-merger to nearly 1500 pilots. Ask MEM, CVG, DTW, MSP and ATL if they think that's been "whacked" mercilessly...

I know, I know, you don't get to do NCE anymore, which isn't nice. But your base doesn't look to bad from a different perspective!;)

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Originally Posted by Palmtree Pilot (Post 1273456)

No worries, not much anyone can do about it. I understand as I fly also, but we carry extra starters with us.

Ahh, now I get it. Didn't realize anyone was flying around with Coffman starters anymore. My advice would be to hire Jimmy Stewart ASAP and avoid the Sahara at all costs.

Actually, I don't get it. What the hell are you talking about?

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Originally Posted by Herman (Post 1273470)

CaptCrunch... exact same thing happened to a "friend of ours" recently, except the phone call came from a rather irate female scheduler named "A" around 0430 for a 0730 show. It just makes me "SICK" that we have to compromise when Sched screws up. Oh well...rules are rules...I just want to make the world a better place! Cheers H

Already addressed. On reserve, I make it a point to check. ICrew or call the VRU as close as possible to 1501 ATL time. Works good, lasts a long time.