Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
02-10-2013 | 07:57 PM
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Leine,
How's the Diesel 9-osaur treating you? I almost wish I could fly her one more time before the fleet is parked.
How's the Diesel 9-osaur treating you? I almost wish I could fly her one more time before the fleet is parked.
02-10-2013 | 08:06 PM
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It's a great airplane. Really the last of it's kind for our careers. I'm glad I got the opportunity to do one more time around. Just come jumpseat for one leg (or 5) and you'll happily head back to your cushy ER seat
02-10-2013 | 08:09 PM
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Don't FTB!
Btw - DON'T FORGET TO BID!
02-10-2013 | 08:14 PM
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But you're probably correct!
02-10-2013 | 08:14 PM
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Where's 80kts? On baby doody?
02-10-2013 | 08:30 PM
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Nope! But the crew resources memo stated it won't be 1:1.
I assume the 900s will be delivered with it. About 30 of the 800s don't have it. My ever increasing juniority and the perennial rsv that has come with it has given me more than enough opportunities to survey the cabins of the Delta fleet in all the deadheads that get bestowed upon me. 
Fair enough... the light at the end of the tunnel is the airplanes showing up, but that's been damped a bit by hiring somehow continuing to always be "next year" and the "next bid" being the positive one. I guess I'm getting a bit fussy waiting for things to turn around.
I didn't know we had 73N's without IFE. Are you saying the 900's won't have it? Or we have some without now? I flew it for over a year, but didn't spend much time in the back - mercifully.
I agree there are many aspects and none can be fixed overnight. C2012 did not "make all my wildest dreams come true." All I'm continuing to say is:
1. I think we're better positioned for good things than we were prior to this contract
2. Things will get moving as the airplanes show up. It takes time to implement and we collectively have short attention spans and little patience.
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3. We gave up some efficiencies in the work rules that the roadshows clearly laid out. We got better scope, work rules and extra $ in return. Overall I weighed it to be good enough to vote for and so I did. To each his own.
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1. I think we're better positioned for good things than we were prior to this contract
2. Things will get moving as the airplanes show up. It takes time to implement and we collectively have short attention spans and little patience.
and
3. We gave up some efficiencies in the work rules that the roadshows clearly laid out. We got better scope, work rules and extra $ in return. Overall I weighed it to be good enough to vote for and so I did. To each his own.
Good night all - my wife's giving me the "get off the internet" stinkeye
02-10-2013 | 08:32 PM
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02-10-2013 | 09:15 PM
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02-10-2013 | 09:31 PM
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Jerry,
I'm not trying to dodge your question but I've spent a significant percentage of my career on reserve as a First Officer on the 727/737 and DC-9.
This month I bid reserve by choice, though I'm about in the middle of the category. I live in-base and the changes to the reserve system make it a viable choice from a QOL perspective.
02-10-2013 | 10:38 PM
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3601-3610 and 3744-3773 have seat back IFE. 3701-3743 have the flip down TV sets. So technically all have IFE. Only some look like a JetBlue plane. My understanding is that the -900s will come with Rubik's cubes installed at each seat.
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