Would this also apply to Delta's requirement to check your schedule by 2am on your first on call day?

Seems like I remember this scenario being discussed before:

If you voluntarily check it at 3pm the day prior, all is well. If you wait to check it at 2am on your first on call day and you are assigned a morning short call, then you just interupted your required rest.

Capt. Hook

 

It's Official (well a press release and talking points from the long time silenced guys in network):
Cheers
George

 

Absolutely!! APC reunion time

 

I'm not a DL pilot (just like reading this thread), so I don't know your rules. In my opinion if the company requires you to do something (call or acknowledge a schedule change) on a day off, and that is written someplace FOM, CBA. Than that is not rest.

My current DCI carrier insists on calling you the day before a set of reserve days to assign you a reserve period (all short call). It isn't written anywhere that you HAVE to answer and depending on who you talk to what your responsibility on day 1 of reserve isn't really clear if you haven't acknowledged your reserve window. I've asked and no one seems to give or a a second though. Luckily it never was an issue for me, yet.

It was specifically in the FOM and CBA at Comair that you had to call in or check your schedule the day before reserve stint. So it seemed like a pretty easy arguement that you had a responsibility to the company. I have no idea who makes the decision. (POI, FSDO, etc)

 

I haven't been "here" at Delta long, but it seems to me that they are adding a lot of mainline flights. Maybe even more than when we started using the slots out of LGA. Great news.

Might it be that they were waiting for the result of the AA/US merger, saw were weren't getting anything out of it, and decided to grow a little?

I hope this isn't temporary. Maybe this is just the beginning.

I sure hope so.

 

New Delta Ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Mse...syPDCNRjqSV7yA

 

Hmmmm - No wonder these guys were not included in the DALPA salary survey comparisons.

Must be nice - but is it sustainable?


Sky-High Perks: This Airline Pays Pilots $260K: Video - Bloomberg


Scoop

 

Attached the wall bracket, took a while but I was just being anal about measurements for once in my life. I had already tested the microwave so now I just picked it up, walked it over, kid threw up in his sleep. Wife takes care of that, then he threw up on her. So I help. Pick microwave back up later, put it on the bracket, awesome, holding, feed power cord through, start screwing in the top screws and... one bracket fell off one of the screws and fell inside the microwave. Dead in the water. Take it back apart and drive it back tomorrow. @#%@#%@!.

 

Hopefully this is also the beginning of the end of the Alaska codeshare. I think Marketing and network finally woke up to the reality that they are NOT our little regional feed and through the "enhanced" agreements with American and Emerites...that they are a competitor and should be treated as such. My prediction: when we start taking deliveries of the 717's and 900's next fall/winter, we won't be parking the older 320's and 757's as scheduled....but that we will continue to replace Alaska capacity on the West Coast, ultimately ending the codeshare completely by this time next year.

 

So are these 17 routes officially replacing current ALK feed, or are these new routes altogether?

I got the impression that the majority, if not all, of the new feed would be serviced by mainline aircraft.