Elvis how many SCs did you sit?

FTB, I'm not on the Reserves Available list for the rest of the month. I technically sat one short call, but I had a trip assigned the night before by 7 PM. They assigned short call at other times, but switched it to a trip because it was outside 12 hours. So really I don't do short call in the summer months, just fly til I'm full.

Reserve guarantee for ATL88B in June is 76:30, and ALV is 78:30.

Just saw this rating of global airlines. Emirates at the top.

Ratings: Emirates named world's best airline

The top 10 in SkyTrax's 2013 World Airline Awards were:

1. Emirates
2. Qatar Airways
3. Singapore Airlines
4. All Nippon Airways (ANA)
5. Asiana Airlines
6. Cathay Pacific
7. Etihad
8. Garuda Indonesia
9. Turkish Airlines
10. Qantas

Virgin America had the highest rating of any U.S. carrier, placing 27th. Delta (No. 45) and JetBlue (No. 46) were the next American airlines on the list.

So I wonder how many other ALV plus folks are out there. Hmmm.

So with no SCs you could have been at 75 hours and zero SCs you'd be número uno for SC and go right back out on a trip while a few others sat at 20-30 hours. But I think they mentioned a fix was coming. But that was one of the dumb aspects of the new bucket system.

Not surprising. Emirates only does WB flying, has unlimited $$$, and has labor groups that are forbidden to be in a union and subjected to whatever management wants. You don't like it, you're fired. Not hard to be #1 when you've got all those things going for you.

Contract violations will happen. It doesn't matter who is running the airline, or how good a contract is. Do you think SWAPA doesn't file grievances? Or FedEx ALPA? Or APA? All I want, is for my contract to be enforced.

The company came forward and voluntarily told DALPA that they wouldn't meet the min weekly departures. They didn't make us sniff it out on our own. Personally, I think that's a "work together" attitude in full effect. A Doug Steenland, Gleen Tilton, or Jeff Smisek would've simply not said anything. And hope that it'd slip by. Now DALPA is giving management a chance to correct it outside of a grievance. They have set a deadline.

So to this point, I am more then satisfied with what has occured.

No, this board has become boring. Sorry, but it has.

Yup. It used to be fun. But many people are turned off by the insults and non stop bickering. A lot of people(besides slow, sailing, alfa, and PG)have stopped posting or left.

The FAs also don't tell people in international overseas business class, when they ask if they can have the after-dinner fruit/cheese/ice cream a bit later in an hour or so, "It won't be there in an hour, we're going to eat it." :eek: Saw that first-hand to the passenger next to me a month ago on a large US carrier.