There, fixed it for you.

 

Yay ... when I'm in my mid fifties ... in the right seat of an MD88 ... I will try to remember that although my career progression has resembled that of a TWA pilot, it could be worse .

In other, kinda funny, news I was booking travel for my side business. Delta came to $539. Hit [SUBMIT] (funny how you have to "submit" ) and the site came back with "the cost of your iteniary has changed ... $565 ... hit continue ... . Still a whole lot cheaper for the client than firing up my airplane, so [CONTINUE] ... billed $589, but I cot a "freee" economy discomfort. If it were my money and not part of a half million deal, I'd go nuts. As long as I work at Delta I will support the "home team" with the business from my Company. For the average joe this has to be infuriating.

What other business increases the price of the product $50 between mouse clicks and gets away with it? Oh! You would like to talk to a person? That's $25 to $50. Checked bag? Pay us ... and watch half the airplane enjoy their's for free ... . Apple and Ferrari could take lessons from Delta. ...

~ end bemused rant ~

 

Yeah, that what it says on APC. He told me he made $92/hour. Many of his facts were incorrect - ie, he was sure our 401K plan was 17%...I corrected him, then he said I was wrong. OK. He was a very angry man...the captain was much more calm.

 

But just imagine the Roman underboob!

 

Sounds like the Captain was "senior to the merger."

One of our MD88 DGS guys was a LCA for TWA on the MD80. Good guy ... he's been on a rough road ... likes working for Delta.

 

Hmmmm, maybe he means including DAL's 14% DC and AA's 11% DC?

 

Neat. I've moved "up" 800 numbers since the sli, but am way junior to where I was with only 1.5 years with the company. Myself and my north compatriots with 12 years longevity are looking at a displacement off a junior narrowbody on this bid.... I'm continually glad at the rush to sign the TA with workrule givebacks...

 

Actually the evil monopolies we're "taught" about at the NEA/Pravda schools were in most cases government sanctioned monopolies. The railroads and steam ships (just google Fulton and his insane 6 ship monopoly until Vanderbilt got free market access restored with tremendous results) and the very isolated but highly successful free market railroads that were able to pop up here and there.

Fast forward to today and Lehman is allowed to liquidate to the great benefit of Goldman, which happens to have a revolving door (both ways) to the highest levels of government finance regulators, and an ever increasing one way reliance on taxpayers for endless bailouts and its pretty apparent that little has changed. Yet the unionoids waste capital on idiotic nonsense like cardcheck and bloated TARP bailouts of UAW contracts rewrapped in working class hyperbole as "saving the entire auto industry from the evil forginers" who, by the way, are building car plants here as fast as they can. Even the ones from the "cheap labor" countries. But not with the UAW as a rule, so government weight has to be thrown around to centrally plan everything, for great success.

 

With 757's banded with narrowbody pay too, which is a good deal lower than 9% below DL rates which is banded with the 767. They have around 160 of them too, so that's actually a pretty big deal.

 

Preaching to the choir, I'm in the bottom 3% of the list..... nothing good has happened seniority wise in 5+ years.

But the NEXT BID....