Gotta like guys who don't call in sick when they are sick. "I got allergies.". Funny how I caught those same allergies just 2 days later.

Didn't Delta have a 35+ yr perfect attendance pilot retire? ;)

They can paint it. But, it doesn't mean they will come.

My apologies for asking, but, exactly how does one "see" in DeltaNet how and to who the G/S trips are being handed out? Thanks.

Icrew, open time, daily trip coverage.

What if the "displacements" are to higher paying seats? Is that still a bad thing?

Very well could be. Displace/recall people displaced to lower seats to squeak through this summer without hiring. Recall on this AE and hire for next spring summer to the lower paying seats. We will see Monday.

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There was always a GS trigger after it went to double pay sometime before the 86 contract. The original GS was double credit. If you flew a 4 day trip on a GS you had to drop 2 4 day trips as a result. Huge for manning! Sometime before 86 it went to double pay no credit. The trigger was 70 hours at that point. In the 1113 contract it dropped to 1.5 pay no credit and the trigger floated with the cap. The big change to the trigger however was vacation and training did not count toward the trigger so in many months it was impossible to get a GS. When we got the 2X back we also got those changes to the trigger removed and vacation and training now count toward the trigger number. Originally all GS were in seniority order then it was limited to 2 in seniority order. Now its down to 1 GS in seniority order.

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They are in a bind. They should have hired the 150 guys they wanted in the first quarter. When virtually all discretionary funding was cut for the first quarter and most for the rest of the year they were not able to hire. The result is they are going to have to do a lot more training then if they just hired a few guys to fund the 717 copilot seats. You saw some of that result in the last bid when they were not able to fill all the positions because it created to much training.
The powers to be decided that making a first quarter profit and a record profit for the year are more important. I know it has to do with wallstreet and interest rates ect.. but I don't know the specifics. As a example of the cuts all winglet installations are also canceled for the remainder of this year.

It must add to the complexity that many of the pilots returning are relatively senior, post merger, and able to take positions which result in the need to displace pilots to staff junior positions.

So how many are being pushed off 330, 7ER and 737 to staff "new hire" positions? How will they ever get them trained in time?

When our SLI was complete it was observed many pilots on bypass would gain a windfall on their return. DC9 reserve / junior lineholder was now 7ER lineholder with restoration of some longevity. For those caught below, it adds up to another couple of years of downward movement or stagnation.

As usual, the "good deal" is one year away. Wonder if the Company is still doing one year LOA's?

I understand the reason the company is now requiring documentation towards the 5 year rule for mil leave is complaints from junior pilots that some mil leave pilots were returning to the line when under the rules should not have a seniority number. Certainly it makes a huge difference to a bottom feeder if the company adds 150 pilots to the middle of the list verses hiring 150 pilots to the bottom of the list. I don't think the company has offered any long term leaves since 2010. The number of pilots taking long term military leave has dropped like a stone with the cutbacks in funding at the reserve/ANG level. In the past when a pilot came back off a 3 year mil leave another pilot often went out on a mil leave so the effect was mitigated. Today guys are coming back with no one going out. In addition during the dark ages of 2001 to 2004 most of the pilots furloughed had about 10 years of active duty. You need 20 to get a full retirement. The math makes it easy to understand why now we have a lot of guys coming back.