Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1299541)

And I'll use 747s.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U.../Spacklair.jpg

And go back to hot flight attendants.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cx5c8F9OgT...y_toxic480.jpg

And you're damn right I'll have these Captains doing PA's every 14 minutes.

http://cdn1.hark.com/images/000/475/...2/original.jpg

^^ And my gate agents will be dressed for success.

Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 1299497)

+777

Cheers
George

Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1299452)

"You are nothing more than a cost to be minimized."

I still remember exactly when the salty 727 Captain told me that as I was walking through the mighty 727 picking up trash and opening eyeball vents.

I was a total rube, fresh out the US Navy, and a brand new hire 727 Second Officer, so obviously I did not believe him - DAL was a great company and they hired me as a future CAPT and a leader.

I also still remember when I realized he was 100% correct and came to the conclusion that I was a naive idiot. It was when I received my furlough notice. The furlough was not what bothered me, it was post 911 and the industry was on its heels, but the fact that DCI was hiring thousands of pilots as we were laying off over 1000 Pilots was what bothered me.

Then his words came back to me "You are a cost to be minimized." And we were being minimized alright, to the tune of 50 to 80 mainline pilots per month.

That brings me to today's topic de jour - Gatehouse PA's and Uniform inspections. So what is the statute of limitations on being screwed over by management? Should we all be Happy campers now since Leo and Fred are gone? Are we all over our pensions being terminated? Should we be? Or is this management shuffle simply part of the game, Management screws over Labor and then is replaced by a new "Labor Friendly" management team and we are supposed to start over eager and fresh faced.

Well here are my thoughts on this issue;

Uniform Inspection - Who gives a crap, we should all wear our uniform within standards because we knew this was expected of us when we were hired. I wear my hat (and I am not even bald) and really don't care about this - it is a non-issue in my mind.

Gatehouse PAs to me are a totally different issue. I will wait and see what DALPA has to say about this and I am an FO so I don't really think I will be making any gatehouse PA's anytime soon.

But I am sorry that is when I am usually foraging for food since I only get a crew meal on over a 5+30 block even though that can easily lead to a 7 or 8 hour time period without food.

I admit the company has been pretty good about improving our contract outside section 6 via the SOT etc but what are we getting for this? How about crew meals and 1 positive space vacation pass yearly? We always hear "What are you willing to give up for that?" every time we push for something - well "What is Delta willing to give us formalizing additional Pilot duties?"

Just my 2 cents - Scoop

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1299564)

How does a stock Toyota Tundra pull a 250,000 space shuttle?

Does that ruin that truck?

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1299585)

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.

:D

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1299553)

How does "Ladies and Gentleman, we're going to begin boarding for our first class passengers or are those traveling with small children and need extra time boarding may do so at this time. Again, we are boarding only first class passengers and those traveling with small children."

some how goes through that microphone and comes out the speakers as..

"Everyone up and RUSH THE DOOR, IMMEDIATELY, HURRY UP, PUSH AND SHOVE EVERYONE, EVERYONE RUN!!!! DO EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET ON BOARD AS FAST AS YOU CAN... THIS IS THE LAST HELICOPTER OUT OF VIETNAM!!!!!!!!!!!!"




So as the Captain explains, "Ladies and gentleman, we were just informed by the crew of the inbound flight that the aircraft has a mechanical issue and our Maintenance department is looking at the issue right now and will give us an estimated time for it to be fixed. As soon as they give it to us I'll pass it along to you."

Passenger hears: "This airlines crappy pilots broke the plane. Their mechanics don't know how to fix it and probably aren't there. I'm going to be late. Really late. This sucks."

Deadheading Bucking Bar hears: "MD-88."

;)

Although knock on wood, the 88 has been very good, I do celebrate when the 90 gives us a headache free flight.