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Old 04-04-2013 | 11:07 AM
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So how the heck does a RES pilot buy a future rotation? Check out the daily coverage for nyc7erB.

Old 04-04-2013 | 11:35 AM
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Wonder about the effectiveness of putting out PR long before the investment is available for customer's use. Can you imagine Ford advertising a "new car, but wait, it will be available sometime in 2015."

Might it be better to finish the product, then invite everyone out to see and use it? Instead of surprise and delight, customers are more thinking ..."haven't they been talking about that forever? Wasn't it supposed to be done ...."
Old 04-04-2013 | 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by buzzpat

There's a rumor out here that we're working the gate issue as well. Involves some gate swapping with UAL. Can't come soon enough.

And terminal 5 is in dire need of an overhaul....and I like the new eating options. Its real food.
True enough. It's still so foreign a concept to see an airline actually invest (literally billions) in the product and passenger. Gotta have the pax to need the pilots though. Plus you'll have more food.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with AAL with the merger as far as LAX too. The master plan for PHX is going to leave someone with a ton of room to play someday...
Old 04-04-2013 | 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by cni187
So how the heck does a RES pilot buy a future rotation? Check out the daily coverage for nyc7erB.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0VNHe5fq30">YouTube Link</a>
That is weird. And how do you go 4000 deep to find an inverse assignment (I.e. no green slips) on a Thursday?
Old 04-04-2013 | 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by SailorJerry
That is weird. And how do you go 4000 deep to find an inverse assignment (I.e. no green slips) on a Thursday?
That inverse assignment was from Monday the 1st. So why was it posted on today's trip coverage? Weird!!
Old 04-04-2013 | 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by cni187
That inverse assignment was from Monday the 1st. So why was it posted on today's trip coverage? Weird!!

You can always call and ask. On here, it's just speculation.

I've known them to buy a trip for a res who hasn't flown in a while. If they're fat on reserves, it's actually cheaper than sending them to the sim.

The time/date stamp changes if they go back to modify the rotation. I saw one the other day that had an award time after dept time (actual, not sched)

I wish they would always put a note on one when they've done something funky. Would probably save them from answering a few phone calls
Old 04-04-2013 | 12:11 PM
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If they did, in fact, buy the trip out of seniority, I think anyone with a WS or GS that was bypassed is pay protected...like dirtdriver said, just call and ask.

If it doesn't sound right, ask for a supervisor. I called a while back and it sounded like the scheduler was making something up. (He was.) I asked for the supervisor, who apologized for the "new guy being trained in."
Old 04-04-2013 | 01:26 PM
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doh... I read that LAX announcement and was chanting the entire time, 'get more gates, get more gates." Only to find we're getting renewed finishes commensurate with the Hollywood/LAX customer base Oh well, it's something and will improve pax out there I hope. But I felt like the farm kid at Christmas opening up his last tall present hoping for a BB gun, and getting a shovel, again.
Old 04-04-2013 | 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by cni187
So how the heck does a RES pilot buy a future rotation? Check out the daily coverage for nyc7erB.
Don't know how much that category is flying, but the last trip "purchased" from me was for a guy needing consoladation.

Possible in this case?
Old 04-04-2013 | 01:47 PM
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Is it me, or has there been higher than usual carry-out reshuffling at the end of April?
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