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Originally Posted by scambo1
(Post 1336465)
Gotta love "hub" maintenance.
I'll admit to being something of a "flag rules" and theatre restrictions hamstrung pilot, so enlighten me...Was there any discussion about refusing the airplane or does all that stuff on the -88 not limit your "performance?" |
Originally Posted by sailingfun
(Post 1336469)
No auto spoilers, no autobrakes, no autoland? That was every flight in the 727! How did we survive!
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Originally Posted by dalad
(Post 1336473)
How long have you been on the Maddog? Even I remember that if you lose one the other two don't work either.
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
(Post 1336442)
Its funny if the company intended to do that they would publish false reports in their 10Q ect.. It really makes no sense when you realize that wall street loves capacity constraint. You would think the company would amend the reports to reflect the additional retirements to please wall street.
"This is FTB at Spackler Airlines. Hello everyone on today's investor call. We're serious about capacity discipline and have been able to delivery a unit revenue premium over the past few years to the industry. We have posted better operating and financial results than anticipated in 2012, We are committed to sustainable and growing profitability for our investors and given our better than expected operating and financial results in 2012, we believe that if we can continue to execute our business plan, and barring an economic downturn or other unanticipated even, we could begin to grow our mainline fleet by 70 airframes over the next five years." FTB investor call 2013: "Although the economy didn't have a downturn, it didn't have an upturn either and due to multiple unanticipated events, we foresee only a need for 30 more jets at mainline, and that is only a definite maybe. We may not be able to grow at all if we are to sustain our necessary unit revenue premiums." SEC: "You said you'd grow by 70 airframes in this report back in 2012, now you say 30, you filed a false report, you're all going to jail." ? Couldn't that mean they filed false reports to the SEC when they said they'd only have 49 used MD-90s, not 65? |
Originally Posted by Elvis90
(Post 1336519)
No, I forgot to stop by Starbucks or Caribou. No potable water, no coffee.
No Coffee? That's a No.Go item for me! :eek: |
Originally Posted by Elvis90
(Post 1336533)
One year, and I'm aware of that, but if you're going to rant, you might as well make it good. We stayed one hour in the terminal after all the passengers were off to write down statements and have the police take our contact information...the FBI will investigate this as an inflight disturbance caused by a large, loud-mouthed drunk guy that irritated everyone.
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Originally Posted by dalad
(Post 1336537)
No rant here, I just remember that being one of the convoluted problems with that aircraft.
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
(Post 1336499)
That kind of MEL on the 88 is not limiting. Not convenient if it knocks you out of CAT III and you need it. Had that happen one time, steady CAT III conditions and we had to go hold with all of the non CAT III guys which at the time was the RJs.
It felt like you got sent to the kids table at Thanksgiving. :D Now one thing I feel for the 9 guys about is how often you have to say "unable to go direct" when cleared direct and you have no FMS. The funny thing about having no FMS, is that the way we do training, cough cough, you'd swear that VNAV could never be on MEL let alone both FMSs. It's kind of nice when it is out in a way. |
Originally Posted by Columbia
(Post 1336472)
Add in paying for hotels during training and uniforms is another.
An entry level pilot will be paid at the rate monthly of: 1. $3,377.96 effective July 1, 2012. 2. $3,665.09 effective January 1, 2013. 3. $3,775.04 effective January 1, 2014. 4. $3,888.29 effective January 1, 2015. First year pay in 2014 once qualified is $68.08. First year pay in 2015 once qualified is $70.12 Second year pay in 2015 DC9-7ER is: $96.58-110.96 Retirement is 15% in 2014. 2.5 mos. entry pay is $9437 9.5 mos. at 75.5 avg. reserve pay im 2014 is $48,830. Retirement contribution would be $8740 Yes, the lodging after indoc and uniforms aren't paid... That's a hair over $67,000 without ever breaking guarantee or factoring in per diem or profit sharing, for a pilot starting on Jan 1, 2014. |
Originally Posted by forgot to bid
(Post 1336500)
Sometimes if someone is going to let you move up a number, you get out of the way.
But you're not one of those Timbo. ;) |
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