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Old 10-29-2012 | 01:08 PM
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This one is a nail biter....

Old 10-29-2012 | 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Roadkill
Stuck in the NE. 49 hr layo now if I'm lucky. But nothing is open and no transport avail. Walked to a couple bars and almost got airborne holding onto my inverted umbrella. So tired of trying to find true info on what flts are still on to get home. Starting to get painful and the power hasn't even gone out yet.


Roadkill?
Old 10-29-2012 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
As much as you b1tch and moan about the maddog, forgive me if I chuckle at your potential MD. Karma Bar, karma.
Old 10-29-2012 | 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by shiznit
This bid does absolutely nothing for me, but ....of course, the NEXT bid will be the big one.
80, please, please don't yall be all skeptical. Shizzle is all like trying to positivize this bid, to the point where he's opened up on on some major exclamatizing, and yo be be bustin' on that positivizin'.

The bid be all good cuz there be fity-fi captin' positins'.

Never mind da (un)back-fillin' on this mo-fo, cuz they maybe won't be backfillin' none. But yo best be positivizing this mofo.

Mofo!

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Old 10-29-2012 | 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
This one is a nail biter....

I watched that for around 2 minutes waiting for one to break lose.
Old 10-29-2012 | 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by johnso29
I watched that for around 2 minutes waiting for one to break lose.
It happens at 15:30, just keep watching...
Old 10-29-2012 | 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
Flight ops would like to hire to smooth out the training and lower displacements. Last I heard the powers to be above flight ops are against that plan so I expect no hiring until next fall. The good news is that this was a net positive bid and starting with the next bid we will be staffing for the shift of over 1000 jobs from DCI to the mainline. Those bids will be ongoing for the next 3 years.
Except there are 857 pilots trained as well as we were,available to be hired, and every airline needs about, oh 5,532 outstanding pilots to replace their 5,532 outstanding (old) pilots retiring in the next 17 days.

Or so.

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Old 10-29-2012 | 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Sink r8
Except there are 857 pilots trained as well as we were,available to be hired, and very airline needs about, oh 5,532 outstanding pilots to replace their 5,532 outstanding (old) pilots retiring in the next 17 days.

Or so.


I tried to do the math on that. I really tried.
Old 10-29-2012 | 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by gloopy
I tried to do the math on that. I really tried.
I do be working on a margin of error or of +/- 0.175%.
Old 10-29-2012 | 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
With a very quick bit of research on DBMS, he's on a long trip right now and very much current.

He was out sick for a while, but it was normal sick time (where you continue to bid normally), and then went to SLOA which is the normal progression of things. No lines were bid when he went unqualified and on SLOA.

Suck on that, bigbus.
No skin off my nose, the position he's in is junior to me. On the Big Bus the FOs have to be type rated and have a current First Class medical so I can doze in my beautiful bunk. AA just got his medical back. He didn't have one for nearly a year and hadn't flown a trip since mid-2011 until this month. My grip is that somebody at the company allowed him to keep bidding when normal people would have been kicked out of the system onto disability. He got a whole bunch of trip drops that should have been sick leave. Favoritism?

Wonder if the guys making that decision are the same type as those that testified against my bunk in the arbitration? It sucks that our own are working against us. Hope they have fun when they're flying.
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