Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1309432)

NAHHHH,

ALPA is too busy trying to keep Pilot minimums as low as possible to help DCI management. After all, if Congress, despite ALPAs resistance, were to raise minimums, Pilot compensation might have to rise and we wouldn't want that, would we? :confused:

I guess ALPA was absent the day they taught supply and demand in school.

Scoop :cool:


From todays ALPA blast:

ALPA, joined by Airlines for America and the Regional Airline Association, wrote FAA Acting Administrator Huerta to urge the agency to grant flight-hour credit to current pilots based on their airline training and experience as they draft new regulations to raise certification standards for newly hired airline pilots. This flexibility is important to ALPA pilots who have been flying for a CONSIDERABLE (Really?) amount of time, but who may not meet the requirements needed to possess an airline transport pilot (ATP) certificate. An ATP certificate will be required by law for all pilots in FAR 121 operations effective August 2, 2013.
Granting experienced and professional pilots credit for their training and employment experience will allow them to qualify for a new “restricted” ATP that will ensure ALPA pilots remain in the air and do not experience a break in employment as a result of the new rules.
ALPA also urged the FAA to act quickly and issue a final rule on the ATP requirement before August 1, 2013. Read the letter.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1309721)

I grabbed this info off flight aware just because I was curious. Now I admit this is only one or two days in mid December and does not reflect a years worth of operations.

So fwiw...

http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...id/Temp5-2.png

Now let's pretend for a moment the numbers are not only right but indicative of the overall situation. To me it makes me not like JVs because of what I see there with us and AF in JFK and ATL. Even though I know we make some flying up in ORD or PIT in the like.

For the VA JV, I can see what they're doing. But it's the JV with AF that makes me worried that's where we'll head to especially since we might not have many token cities because of LHR slot controls.

I don't know, just my two cents.

Originally Posted by PilotFrog (Post 1309710)

I'd like to hear the opinion on these JV from AF pilots or Virgin Australia pilots. I wonder what they think of these things. Do they actually talk about it and say we are stealing their routes and jobs and such? I wonder if the AF guys aren't happy they lost some of their routes to us like PIT and SEA ( not sure if that is true just examples).

Originally Posted by sinca3 (Post 1309539)

What an A-hole comment to make about your fellow pilots, those you supposedly work either for or with?
Since the merger how much has the combined pilot group grown?

Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 1309568)

Slow, I think you just got paged over at the TOTD thread.

You medalled.

Go quick, or you'll miss the anthem.

Originally Posted by UncleSam (Post 1309828)

Just pulled from DLNet

December 11, 2012


Richard praised Air Line Pilots Association’s Lee Moak in a Street.com profile that called Moak a visionary union leader who helped pave the way for significant changes in the state of labor relations in the industry that have benefitted Delta pilots.

Richard praised Moak’s relationships with Delta executives and added that "his father was a marine sergeant and Lee was a marine fighter pilot, so when you're talking about someone with discipline and determination, you're talking about Lee Moak. He is also polite, and that makes him effective.”

The story outlined how Moak’s approach to contentious issues such as Delta’s restructuring and contract talks stepped away from the traditional adversarial tactics in order to create a healthier airline that offered more opportunities for Delta pilots.

"I think that Lee has broken the mold and proven that when we all cooperate, the industry does better and the employees do better,” Richard continued. “(At Delta) we have moved from a regulated era of 'us vs. them' to 'we're all in this together,' and we trust each other and work together to make our airline successful.”

Moak, a 55-year-old native of Tulsa, Okla., who resides in New Orleans, was elected chairman of the Delta ALPA chapter in August 2005, a month before the carrier began its restructuring. He served three terms until January 2011, when he took office as ALPA’s national president.

Originally Posted by FedElta (Post 1309833)

Hmmmmmmmm??