Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 1303010)

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

Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 1303018)

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?

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1303076)

There are many reasons I voted no on the contract, but that was one of the biggest. We are still 30 minutes below the crappiest of regional airlines on our vacation pay.

Originally Posted by Ferd149 (Post 1302956)

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

Originally Posted by Denny Crane (Post 1303106)

Hi Ferd,

Just thought I'd use your post to comment on this subject. I just flew a trip and deviated from DH yesterday. I was able to change my seat to an economy comfort seat via the "seat change" link after you access your seat via your record locator on Travelnet. My FO tried to do it by going direct to delta.com and it would not allow him to do it but he was able to do it the same way I did via "seat change" link on Travelnet.

Denny

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1302719)

So, Alabama vs Georgia, who does an Auburn fan cheer for?

That's an easy one.

We cheer for the Georgia dome to implode.

http://affordablehousinginstitute.or...e_imploded.jpg

:D

Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1303119)

That's exactly how I do mine, and it works, weeks in advance...but as someone pointed out above, I use the Company Business link to list, not the Crew Travel link, which requires your rotation number, etc. Not sure if that makes a difference, sounds like it might.

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1303140)

Yep, here's the skinny. Just spoke with someone. If you book company business PS, it opens seat selection to include EC. If you book your DH thru crew travel, you have to be within 24 hours for EC to open up. I'm inside 24 and just made the switch.