Gosh, wouldn't it be great if the MEC told us that (if it's true)?

Wait, what am I thinking. That would require the ability to communicate.

 

.... my wife said, after talking with Ed Bastian and Richard Anderson, that she has decided to outsource her conjugal responsibilities ... that we should not consider sex with other partners "swinging," after all, Delta gets it on with everyone and ALPA doesn't call it infidelity.

 

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I appreciate that our MEC doesn't shoot from the hip with over emotional communication like you would prefer them to. Sometimes they overdo the restraint, but I can be a good thing when properly managed (same with constructive engagement).

 

Perhaps I need to negotiate with my wife on the scope on my commander and his two friends that are always hanging around?

 

promiscuous airlining?

 

they're now required to make PAs.

every fifteen minutes.

 

Ah yes... Reminds me of the time I was a lowly DC-9 FO working a flight from MSP to MOT (that's Minot, ND, for all you civilized folks..) Anyway, we get handed a -9 with an MCO'ed AUX HYD pump, which carries a HUGE HUGE takeoff weight penalty. (Interjection for anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of flying a Douglas product... The AUX pump basically exists to retract the landing gear in the event of a right engine failure on takeoff. It does other stuff, but that's the big ticket item.) Anyhow, being a good (well, not good necessarily, but marginally competent) FO, I looked up the MCO, noted the HUGE HUGE takeoff weight penalty, and suggested we talk to dispatch about getting another plane.After all, given the HUGE HUGE weight penalty, we'd be able to take about 30 people (which equals 10 North Dakotans) out of Minot once we got there. The good Captain agreed, and promptly called the dispatcher. The good dispatcher agreed, and promptly got us a new airplane. Easy as pie, until it came time to deplane....

At which point, the good Captain got on the PA, told the passengers we had a mechanical situation that required us to change airplanes, and then proceeded to tell them everything they did not EVER need to know about back up hydraulics, engine failures, gear retraction, and second segment climb requirements. I wish I could say I was making this up, but the words "flaming ball of wreckage" were actually spoken....

The original plane was full. The replacement plane was not. Good times.

 

If Delta keeps it up; concomitant with the loss of employment, my wife could frankly give a flying fornication which cockpit Captain Al and the Twins find themselves in. She'll just be happy if they're making a livin' however they can.

One of those evenings when I lift a glass of the cran-grape stuff to the Eastern pilots who just shut the airline down once they figured out management was siphoning the place dry.

What complete garbage to climb in bed with Branson a year and a half after he was bragging that he would put us, or United, out of business. United did not cave ... .

 

well, that'd be a great YouTube video that will easily trump the Fly Button boarding video.

is there anyway to block a PA in progress?

 

Yep. Key the mike from the Flight Deck. I used to try to time my "prepare the cabin" announcement perfectly with the pleasant First Officer at the end of the video ... except my voice at 06:30 in the morning has to be two octaves below hers.

"WELCOME ABOARRRD ..."