Bar would say that was the engineers who designed the MD-88.

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GS trigger with vacation
 

Wondering how the Green Slip trigger works when one has vacation during a month? Iow is it even worth trying for GS with vacation? Does it change if one is on reserve for the month?

Thanks in advance

FB

Your vacation time counts towards the GS trigger. That was changed like two contracts ago, the JCBA I believe.

Thanks dalad!

Freebird,

Got to Icrew>Pay/hours>Timecard>Display/Print Timecard.

About halfway down the page it will list your Credit applicable to the Green-slip trigger and also what the Green-slip trigger is for the month.

Remember even if you are short of the trigger you can still take 5 hours out of your bank to hit the trigger. You can even go negative in your bank to hit this trigger.

So yes, its worth it in a vacation month to put in for a Green-slip. Also lets assume that after taking 5 hours from your bank you are still, lets say 3 hours short of the Green-slip trigger. Well if you pick up a 13 hour Green-slip the first 3 hours will apply to meeting the trigger and the next 10 hours will pay as a Green-slip.

Scoop :)

I was worried no one would get that. ;)

Cause its always on anyway, amirite?

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Won't make Paris.

Whats the range on it? Arent they suppose to be in the 130 seat range? Looks like a nice plane. Maybe compete with Small Airbus..

The braintrust has said recently that CVG is "VERY profitable" (emphasis theirs) and I think we place way too much emphasis on geographical proximity of a "hub" not to mention the word "hub" is pretty etherial anyway.

USAir did poorly having "hubs" in PHL and PIT because they were so close to eachother. Jetblue does quite well having "hubs" in JFK and BOS even though they are so close to eachother, despite the fact that DL ran from a high yield recession proof market with an overbuilt terminal for no reason other than lack of ambition. Ditto for JB in MCO and FLL. Proximity is only a factor in arbitraty hubs, or what Gordon Bethune used to call "hubs on steroids" meaning poor O&D relative to their size. CVG has a lot of business traveler/fortune 500 accounts relative to its size and DL owns the O&D there and loads and yields are pretty good. Even the CDG flight works despite being wide open most of the time because of cargo, business pax and yields.

CVG may or may not close as a "hub" (whatever that means...we will always fly to CVG from pretty much every other DL "hub" and other markets as well) but if it does it won't have anything (at this point) to do with its proximity to any other "hub" because the arbitrary thru traffic excess is already gone. As of right now its flying profitable O&D and enough of it to justify being significantly larger than our presence in MEM. I can see a few more RJ routes out of CVG being consolidated back to ATL or DTW, although if the yields for the directs are there then they will stay. The core of that market capacity at this point appears to not only not canibalize the other hubs but provides a revenue premium and is more than self sustaining.

If CHA could support the loads and yields to justify 150+ flights a day all over the place we would have a "hub" there too, regardless of its proximity to ATL.