Apparently the UA Cats do....Nice win against #9 Iowa. :)

This isn't the HS board.

Just two cents to throw in the pot. Vector at NWA 2007..... DOWN.

Vector at Delta in 2007........ DOWN.

Vector at New Delta in 2010....... UP.

I don't want to go back to the NWA I worked at of 2003 thru 2007, and I doubt any Delta pilots want to go back to Delta the way it was in 2003 thru 2007.

Our pilot groups sacrificed mightily and have created the company we now all work for through sacrifice. With leadership, solidarity and faith in ourselves, there is no reason to look back. Around the corner, and in two years we have a chance to bargain with our combined sacrifice to share the gains of what we have earned. Our choices in how and by who we are lead should be the focus of this pilot group, not who had what in a miserable decade beginning Sept 11, 2001.

Just my two cents.

Well Said!

Yeah I'm real excited to be going there today....

Auburn Tigers, Clemson Tigers, I couldnt lose. :D

Its not so bad down there. I just got back from an fcf flight in GDL. Had a blast. Kinda fun flying a maddog around with only 10 mechanics on it. Mechanics took us out to eat at a restaurant by lake Chapala....best steak I've had in years for only 100 pesos.

If you want to be the police on this issue it goes both ways, don't tell me I got a huge raise when it didn't happen. Stick to the facts or is it ok for guys to spew incorrect things aslong as it refers to fNWA stuff. I certainly do not claim to be an expert on the DAL contract and fDAL issues, but I do know the fNWA stuff, how much I made then and now. I suppose you would sit idle and not say a word if I stated incorrect facts about what you are actually experiencing. I'm ready for this kind of banter to be over but will stand by to correct things that are not true or miss stated especially when I have the goods to back it up. So to use some of your addage, it is getting old hearing the garbage from your side as well. Clean up your garbage and we'll clean up ours and move on.;)

Yeah, saw the highlights on the late news..........the kitties did look good!!

I only saw the highlights of the ASU/UW game. The Devils looked good returning kicks. Great return that fell a yard short just before half and a bad pass interference call in the end zone.......coulda-shoulda-woulda.:(

This ^^^^^^^^^^.

We're all wearing the same uni these days and we're all using the Delta call sign. Let's get it on.

BTW, having some great experiences flying with the fNWA FA crews. Great people.

Me too. Done some BOS-LGA shuttle with some fdal BOS FAs. They took great care of us and were fun. :)

^^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^

Cheers
George

You know how to rally a crowd around here? Its not cheerleaders nor Erin Andrews, which I'm not sure anyone really noticed, its a little red meat:

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/20/im...T_AIRLINES.jpg

YouTube - Southwest Airlines Commercial: Battle Cry

DALLAS, April 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association is pushing for the Department of Transportation to disallow the permanent exchange of several hundred slots between Delta Airlines and USAirways at LaGuardia (LGA) and Washington National (DCA) Airports. This unprecedented anti-competitive deal would create hubs dominated by Delta at LGA and USAirways at DCA, giving them unchecked market and pricing power.

"The pilots of Southwest support our Company's request for a free market process to take place regarding these open slots in two very key destinations," said Capt. Carl Kuwitzky, SWAPA President. "But we also support the benefit to the public of a low-cost carrier providing true competition for flyers in these markets."

On March 22, after the DOT comment deadline closed, Delta and USAirways announced a revision to their proposal: they would agree to divest some slots, but only if they could hand-pick four smaller airlines to be given those slots. Southwest Airlines was purposely excluded from an opportunity to bid.

"An economic expert estimates that Southwest's service to LGA and DCA would save the public approximately $200 million, annually, if Southwest were given the opportunity to acquire the slots," continued Kuwitzky. "This proposal is a back-room deal specifically designed to keep Southwest Airlines and its low-fare model away from these airports permanently."

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Southwest’s average passenger airfare is $124.90 one-way, and the average passenger trip length is about 859 miles.

Southwest Airlines has consistently received the lowest ratio of complaints per passengers boarded of all Major U.S. carriers that have been reporting statistics to the Department of Transportation (DOT) since September 1987, which is when the DOT began tracking Customer Satisfaction statistics and publishing its Air Travel Consumer Report.

The airline adopted the first profit-sharing plan in the U.S. airline industry in 1973. Through this plan and others, Employees own about 8 percent of the Company stock.

The airline is about 83 percent* unionized.
(This percentage represents a total Employee headcount of fulltime and parttime, active and inactive Employees who are unionized.)

Southwest Airlines is a member of the FORTUNE 500.

The Ronald McDonald House program, cornerstone of the Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities, is the primary corporate charity of Southwest Airlines. Annually, the Company sponsors the Southwest Airlines LUV Classic golf tournaments whose proceeds benefit various Ronald McDonald Houses and have totaled close to $11 million over the past 24 years.

In April 2010, Southwest Airlines ranked #4 among airlines and #12 among all industries, on FORTUNE Magazine’s annual list of the World’s Most Admired Companies.

In March 2010, Southwest Airlines was awarded the Diamond Award, at the Air Cargo World awards ceremony, with the highest overall airline score leading all airlines in the Performance and Value categories.

In February 2010, Business Week released its 2009 Top 20 Best Companies for Leadership list—Southwest Airlines ranked #2!

In January 2010, Southwest Airlines was recognized by Vault.com for having one of the Top 10 Internships in America for 2010.

In December 2009, Southwest Airlines topped the list of the 50 best U.S. places to work by Glassdoor.com.

In November 2009, Southwest Airlines was named Best Low Cost/No Frills Airline in the OAG Airline Industry Awards. Additionally, Southwest Airlines was named as a finalist for Best Airline based in North America.

In November 2009, Southwest Airlines was recognized with an InfoWorld 100 Award for its Automated Outbound Messaging (AOM) system.

In November 2009, Zagat named Southwest Airlines Best Value–Domestic; Best Consumer Ontime Estimates–Domestic; and Best Luggage Policy–Domestic.

In November, 2009, Southwest Airlines was recognized as Favorite Domestic Airline and ranked #1 in Best Customer Service, Best Airfare Prices, Best On-Time Service, Best Baggage Service, and Best Value Frequent Flier program, among others, in the 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards by Smarter Travel.

In November 2009, Southwest Airlines was listed as one of the Top 50 Companies Recognized as Leaders in Corporate Social Responsibility by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and Reputation Institute.

In October 2009, Nuts About Southwest was awarded “Best Blog” for the third year in a row at the PR News Platinum Awards.

In September 2009, Southwest Airlines ranked #179 out of 500 in Newsweek’s Green Ranking of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the US. Within the category of “Media, Travel & Leisure” Southwest ranked #17 out of 35 and was the highest ranking airline!

In August 2009, Southwest Airlines was named Best Domestic Airline, Best Domestic Airline Customer Service, and Best Low Cost Carrier by Executive Travel magazine’s 2009 Leading Edge Awards.

In June 2009, Southwest Airlines was named to MSN Money’s Customer Service Hall of Fame.

In April 2009, Southwest Airlines received the “American Brand Excellence Award for Travel,” and was recognized as the “2009 Grand Award Winner” in the City Business Journal Network’s Brand Excellence Awards.

In April 2009, Southwest Airlines was included in BusinessWeek’s ranking of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.

In March 2009, Southwest Airlines was ranked #3 on CampusGrotto’s list of Best College Internship Programs.

In March 2009, Southwest Airlines was Ranked #1 in the category for Airlines in Institutional Investor’s magazine poll of America’s Most Shareholder Friendly Companies.

In 2009, Southwest Airlines was named the top U.S. airline on the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index.

Southwest Airlines was recognized as a 2009 Corporation of the Year by MANA, a National Latina Organization.

Southwest Airlines was named the seventh most admired Company in FORTUNE magazine’s ranking of the 50 Most Admired Companies in the World; the only U.S. airline to make the list and the 13th consecutive year that Southwest has been named to the Most Admired List.

For the 11th consecutive year, Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards took top honors and was awarded first place in Best Award Redemption category at the 21st Annual Freddie Awards. The Best Award Redemption category was introduced in 1998 and no other frequent flyer program has ever won! In addition Rapid Rewards placed in the top five in five other categories, including: Program of the Year; Best Website for southwest.com; Best Member Communcations; Best Bonus Promotion; and Best Customer Service.

Southwest Airlines Cargo was recognized for its excellence in air cargo for the sixth straight year, named “Airline of the Year” by the Express Delivery & Logistics Association (XLA). Southwest Airlines has placed on XLA’s Airline of the Year list for nine consecutive years. In addition, Southwest Airlines Cargo won XLA’s award for Excellence in Web Site and Technology.

This thread is now "Latest and Greatest at Southwest?"

And this:

http://i.dtinews.vn/stores/news_data...0508123238.jpg

New hire pay, $22/hr, FO pay tops out at $44/hr.

And according to their Flight Attendants and Pilots, they've got enough money to buy Delta Air Lines and just might do it.

It pained me to post it, but it was worth it. :cool:

I wonder if that's a DAL or JB 320 in their latest launch of stupid commercials. Not really sure, but at least it's comforting knowing SWA rampers can do basic math. :rolleyes:

So gate agents are denying the jumpseat to feds?

You may want expand a little bit. :confused:

I did not know they could. If they are on a "Must Ride" and the Cockpit JS is on MCO, they get to bump a pax in the back. That may be wrong, but that is the way I have seen it done before.

I do not know where SKW Inc or their pilots get the notion that they have enough cash on had to buy DAL. Our Market Cap is at 8.820 billion. Last time I checked they did not even have 1/8 of that in cash. Now when DAL was at 4 share anyone could have bought us. Plus, I beleive we have over 788,908,765 outstanding shares.

Just saw this in another thread. Now I'm really pi$$ed.............Less than 24 hours ago I purchased a Telex 850. Karma is a cold hearted mudder sometimes:D

Memo I got about the FAA informing Delta Dispatch of ASIs being denied the jump seat.

I'm no economic expert, but wouldn't a free process be selling something you own without the government getting involved?

Hey!? What did I say about 65? Ferd, you can stay as long as you want... the question is if you'll make it to 65 enjoying those NRT nights with Carl and Denny...

:D

http://www.carmenyuen.com/blog/blogp...decadance2.jpg

That's not NRT FTB....that's the crew lounge in LAX. Hopefully, nobody bid to come here on the AE. It sux.:eek:

GMAFB - free market process - like having the WH and DOT stack the market in your favor like they did in EWR?

That is just the market cap. To buy the company, the buyer must add in debt. $20 billion or so in DAL's case.

My point was to give the market cap for the outstanding shares. You can buy a company without buying out all of the debt, but you do have to take it over.

In the end the point was that it would be almost impossible for SKW to buy DAL without the boards concurrence.

HA HA!

How about this?

http://www.yorkblog.com/flipside/los...slation-2.jpeg

Actually they don't. All anyone needs to do is purchase or otherwise control 51% of the voting shares and the company is theirs. The good news is that I believe our management would implement some employee based poison pill plans that would make it very difficult for anyone to get 51%.

Carl

Well, except for the amazingly close semblance to Carl, this is me giving my book speech to an adoring college crowd. Actually, they're not so adoring normally, but the girls are hot. I wax eloquent.;)

Anyone know if we can Zed Fare or ID90 on the BA flights from JFK to London City? It is on that 318 that is only configured with Business seats. I know the -400 is flying there with lie flat seats, I was just curious. TIA

The information on TravelNet for a ZED fare on BA says that the BA 1 / 3 and 2 / 4 (which are the JFK-London City and back) are embargoed for Zed Fares. Good idea though!

Either way it would be alot cheaper to fly JFK-LHR and take the train from LHR to downtown. Just not as comfortable.

newK's previous life:

http://verydemotivational.files.word...ice-agents.jpg

Complete with a mustache made out of justice.

Any DL 747 drivers:

I'm thinking about going to TLV this week out of JFK (I'm a connection pilot and flights look good on travelnet, I read on travelnet the long runway there is closed, and it may be weight limited.

How many seats are common (I don't need exact just looking for a ballpark) to be left empty on a weight limited flight like that? are we talking 10, 30, or 70+?

Just trying to get a handle on how much of a 'seat buffer' I would need.

I hate to hijack the thread, but, Does anyone have an android phone? I am trying to view I-Crew on my phone and I get a simple accelerator ..... msg when trying to view my sched. PM if you know how to get this to work. Thanks and sorry.

There is no such thing as a thread hijack on the "Latest and Greatest."

A-330 dive
 

How about an Airbus hijacked by its own computer?

Qantas passengers to sue Airbus over plunge terror
Sep 20 08:04 AM US/Eastern

Dozens of Qantas passengers and crew are launching a multi-million dollar case against Airbus and a component-maker over a terrifying mid-air plunge which left scores injured, a lawyer said on Monday.


The Airbus A330-300 was flying at 37,000 feet from Singapore to Perth in October 2008 when the autopilot disengaged and the plane nose-dived, plunging 650 feet (200 metres) and throwing passengers and loose items around the cabin. After the pilots brought it back to altitude, the plane went into another plunge and dropped another 400 feet. More than 100 people were injured.


He said he believed the captain of the flight, a former "top gun pilot from the US Navy", had not flown since.
"He has told me that when the plane went out of control, the computer would not give him back control of the plane and he said it was in a dive," Wisner told ABC Radio. "All he could see was the ocean. He has never been as frightened as he was at that point despite all his prior military aircraft training."

Full story:
Qantas passengers to sue Airbus over plunge terror