Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

Purple, have you ever made a positive post? Ever?

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

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 ... .

Originally Posted by Purple Drank

Not to worry. There are more than enough WidgetAid-fueled paeans here to offset my posts.

Incidentally, I believe you are confusing my pragmatism and/or realism with pessimism.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

I'll just go with the precedent of our scope that females under a certain weight are allowed in an unlimited amount?

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

To explain to my peers, Purple Drank and Sailingfun are complementary forces, unseen (hidden, feminine) and seen (manifest, masculine), that interact to form a greater whole, as part of a dynamic system. Everything has both Purple Drank and Sailingfun aspects as light could not be understood if darkness didn't exist, and shadow cannot exist without light. Either of these aspects may manifest more strongly in a particular object depending on the criterion of the observation. The concept of Purple Drank and Sailingfun is often symbolized by various forms of the Taijitu symbol, for which it is probably best known in western cultures.

There is a perception (especially in the West) that Purple Drank and Sailingfun correspond to evil and good. However, in Daoist metaphysics, good/bad distinctions and other dichotomous moral judgments are perceptual and not real, and Purple Drank-Sailingfun is an indivisible whole. In the ethics of Confucianism on the other hand, most notably in the philosophy of Dong Zhongshu, (c. 2nd century BCE) a moral dimension is attached to the idea of Purple Drank and Saiingfun.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

So, does the bulletin prohibit us from taking bets on how many "meows" we can insert into the gatehouse delay PAs?

Or doing the repeater?



Perhaps concluding with a "now you know, and knowing is half the battle" to see how many people yell out:

Originally Posted by Check Essential

Delta international wide body flying is being systematically outsourced and DALPA seems to be overjoyed with their great success in facilitating that process.
What the he|| am I missing?
It seems to me these Joint Ventures and codeshares are a disaster.
The union says the company doesn't need our permission to do this stuff and its wonderful that we are able to achieve some protections. Excuse me but it puts our stamp of approval on the elimination of our jobs. It makes no sense at all. We should be fighting these things with all our strength.
Somebody please explain to me why the US airline representing over 80% of the combined populations of our two countries only gets 25% of the flying?

Originally Posted by FmrFreightDog

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.