The Polish blonde? Very hot.

 

You think your contract is solid.. That's funny right there....plus these aircraft do not come until 2017. Alot can change from this time till then.

 

KC,

Apple realized their mistakes with their new map and now have a google maps app which you can get in the istore. Problem solved and back to the way it used to be a few months ago!

As far as highlighting something goes (to insert,etc), it's not your fat fingers, you just haven't realized the proper way of doing it! Simply put your finger in the proximity of what is to be changed, and hold it there for a second or two. Then a little magnifying glass thingy will pop up and ta da, easy as warm apple pie!

I just changed over to the iphone back in June, and wouldn't consider going back. Usually when something doesn't seem right, I've found that it's usually my lack of understanding the proper mechanics for making it happen with the iphone and ipad. Hope that helps a little!

Just today learned the "5 finger closeout" and the keyboard "split" with the ipad. I've had that thing for over a year!

 

I do actually. And I think we have a pilot group that understands how to stand their ground with scope. Explain to me what section of our contract is so weak as to allow an affiliate to operate a "non-permitted aircraft type"?

What's gonna change?

 

News channel was on sometime today and the queen of the house sees the scroll at the bottom mentioning something about a contract agreement with United & Continental. So what did I hear? "42% pay increase? Why didn't I get that?"

 

If I read our scope correctly, Skywest will no longer be within the constraints of our scope clause ala Independence Air when they take delivery/fly the MRJ90. I think it's going to hurt them but what do I know. If it does happen, what does Delta management do, bring in a different DCI to SLC to compete with Skywest? Who knows? They have to be thinking about it after last weeks announcement..........

Denny

 

*scratches head* CPZ or XJ/9E? I've seen a few of our guys look a bit slovenly - and I'll admit, I occasionally skip ironing my shirt for 4am shows in Minot - but haven't seen anyone with wild, outlandish grooming or attire. I've seen it from some other regional guys (including DCI), but not CPZ or XJ - so far.

 

The only way would be to somehow backdoor it by Skywest acquiring a stake in Chautauqua and flying the planes there, but that's a bit of stretch.

 

As long as we are willing to trade in scope, management does whatever it wants. Creating "bargaining leverage" for the preferred group of union members.

My bigger concern at the moment is our production balance deficit in the AF JV. Widebody scope failures have a much greater impact than medium narrowbody scope failures. Those are our jobs. I dont know why we would fight an arbitrary pay cut, but can not even write a letter protesting the deficit in our widebody flying..ve

 

As I posted before the union is very aware of the deficit. There is however a lot of rumors that have been posted here and on other forums that are wrong about how the deficit occurred.
Adding Alitalia to the JV via the AF bailout would have put the company out of compliance with the EASK metric. the additional Alitalia flights dropped the EASK metric into the 46 to 47 percent range. We signed a LOA to allow the Alitalia bailout (lots of political aspects involved in this) which allowed that lower EASK however gave the company 3 years with a 1 year fix period to come back into compliance with the original EASK. Essentially we said yes you can have Alitalia but you must grow our operation in the next 3 years to offset their flights. The company agreed because they planned more expansion in Europe. That goes against the forum wisdom that the pulldown in Europe is about the JV's and not the economy.
As everyone knows we did not expand in Europe with the economic collapse. Our EASK portion of the flying has remained essentially the same meaning AF/KLM have also pulled back at about the same rate. The company however did not add the additional flying percentage wise required and it appears they do not intend to do so and will be out of compliance at the end of the 36 month measuring period.
It is anticipated that this will be incorporated in the talks concerning the VA joint venture. Talk to your reps if you have thoughts on what we should ask for because of the non compliance.