Airline Pilot Central Forums - Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?

In the past, the EC seats weren't available to us or the frequent flyers (they are still trying to sell them) until 24 hours prior to departure. So, list yourself, get the best seat you can then at 23:59 prior to departure go back into delta.com and reselect your seat. I forget where I read this, but I didn't discover it by trial and error:)

However, I thought this was fixed in the last contract. For the last 2 or 3 months, I've gotten an EC seat right off. A quick call to the CP Support Center will also get ya a good seat and really answer the question.

Ferd

This is how I think it works:

Crew travel - You can upgrade to EC if within 24 hours of flight time.
Company Business - You can upgrade to EC anytime.

I think this is why guys are recalling having selected EC greater than 24 hours out in the past. I just had a DH (Crew Travel) and was restricted until 24 hours.

Scoop

Bucking Bar

12-01-2012 07:29 AM

Anyone else want to make a resolution to rename Section 1, "Lindsay Lohan" ?

Scoop

12-01-2012 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 1302708)

More in the link
U.S. airlines need to focus on long-term growth in international markets | Airline Biz Blog

Cheers
George

Makes sense to me. I never did understand the DAL mindset of we can't compete with XYZ so we are leaving that market. The whole West Coast comes to mind. Eventually we are going to have to compete successfully with out competitors or we will no longer exist.

Retreat to fight another day. Absolutely makes sense.
Retreat to once again retreat another day. Does not seem very farsighted to me.

Scoop

gloopy

12-01-2012 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1302761)

When in Rome do what the Romans do,

When in a college town, drink like the college kids...

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...tural-lite.jpg

Oh hell no.

gloopy

12-01-2012 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1302770)

a natty light keg is a sign of a good time and frugality.

No its not. Its a sign of very bad things to come. At least for the next 24-36 hours after you drink it.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/word...n-Calendar.jpg

See, there it is. Third baktun from the left.

Gees, what's next...guys buying their own usatoday?

Don't go there. Just don't even go there.

Scoop

12-01-2012 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1302763)

Just had a UAL 777 CA buddy of mine telling me how much better their new contract is compared to ours.....really?

I hope so, but that's not what I get from reading the intel so far.

And, they still have guys furloughed, right?

Some of there stuff is better some is worse. I don't have their TA handy but these two come to mind:

Better at UCAL - 16% toward retirement.
- 6 weeks of vacation.

I'm sure there are others as well.

Scoop

gloopy

12-01-2012 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1302969)

Anyone else want to make a resolution to rename Section 1, "Lindsay Lohan" ?

Cause its always getting dragged into court, because it has a lot of holes in it, or did Samantha Ronson get hired at Alaska?

gloopy

12-01-2012 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1303004)

6 weeks of vacation.

Meh. We don't need more vacation weeks, we need better vacation weeks. I think UCAL is in the 3:40-ish range per day, which is better than our 3:15 but it really needs to be at least 5.

A 35 hour week is a powerful block of credit on your line that actually gets you 7 extra days off. 21-22.5 hours usually gets you 3, maybe 4, and is in the sweet spot for making the long haul guys unblockable.

If there was a 7 day trip that reported at 00:01 on day 1 and released at 23:59 on day 7, we would be all righteously indignant about how it needed to pay at least 35 hours, yet with vacation we accept 22.5? A "week" of vacation gets you an extra 3 days?

johnso29

12-01-2012 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1302761)

When in Rome do what the Romans do,

When in a college town, drink like the college kids...

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...tural-lite.jpg

I just threw up in my mouth. :p

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Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1302769)

Auburn of course!

I'll be trying to reclaim some of my tuition for my kids, one beer at a time! I hope they bought something better than Natty Lights for the party!

Ah. One of FTB's posts had 3 or 4 cities in it. I wasn't sure where you were talking about. :D

johnso29

12-01-2012 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by CVG767A (Post 1302892)

That domestic flying was farmed out long ago, and it's been at a stable level for a while. We lose passengers to these code share partners...but we gain some, too, so the net result isn't as big as some would like to infer.

What has changed in the last few years, though, is the amount of time we're allowed to pick up. I don't know what category you're in, but I routinely fly with guys that fly in excess of 100 credits hours per month.

If the average block hours flown would go down to 80 hours, we would need 1000 more pilots.

I find that very sad. Very, very sad.

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