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SD's weekly memo:

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I want to update you on Flight Attendant hiring. Today, In-Flight Service announced that it will be hiring 225 non Language of Destination, or non LOD, flight attendants. For this specific round of hiring, In-Flight plans to interview and hire from its existing pool of competitive applicants who applied or were referred for flight attendant positions during the application window that occurred earlier this year. So, these new positions will not be posted on eBid, and In-Flight will not be requesting any referrals at this time. Interviews for the 225 new flight attendants are scheduled to begin in August and Initial Training will start in September. All new-hires will begin flying before the Thanksgiving holiday and the new positions will be based primarily in Atlanta -- to support the introduction of 717 flying – as well as in New York. I realize that, of course, flight attendant hiring raises the question of when we plan to start hiring pilots. I can tell you that our Crew Resources team is currently analyzing our staffing needs for the next 18 months and will be making a recommendation regarding hiring in the coming weeks.

:eek:

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1436503)

For those with a superior sense of morality that believe that commuting is a choice and taking the soap from the hotel is stealing... I figure we needed to further that discussion tonight. Every time you go to the bathroom in flight, that costs DL money in lav juice, power spent on powering the toilet, and of course you'll be needing to steal company soap to wash your hands after.

I highly suggest utilizing the NASA solution so you can feel even better about yourself:

Reminds me of the days when the airlines one by one would announce via press release that they are saving millions $/yr in fuel by not carrying pillows on domestic flights or magazines/papers.

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Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 1436657)

(And FTB, I willing to skip the survey's this time. Like what's the point? :D

I'm going to tell you the same thing I told Scambo last time we were on a seesaw

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Next time, I'm going all bizzaro world on the survey. I am going to depart the reservation and see if I ever hear anyone say "you can't believe what people want in these surveys, this one pilot..."

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1436650)

So what you're saying Bar is we should be up next for negotiations with Delta since Delta has finished negotiations over Delta flying with the Pinnacle MEC?

Not at all. We are almost in a constant state of scope negotiations (or we think we are). However management has not engaged ALPA on the AF JV or VA JV. Our NRT codeshare will probably be renegotiated.

Management is constantly running proposals to DCI. Labor is a component of those proposals. Using the progress of agreements as a litmus, the Pinnacle MEC is more engaged and has had better success than the Delta MEC in the last year.

Moak gave them a seat at the table. They will participate. This happened under T O'M's watch, not our current administration. Still, it is my opinion our current Administration failed by not making a formal objection to an Executive Board, or even firing a warning shot across National's bow to warn them that we will not tolerate undermining of the Delta MEC on issues that are the direct concern of Delta pilots.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1436677)

What am I willing to give up to begin negotiations? Hmmm.

The funny thing about the "what are you willing to give up" meme, how is that not the definition of cost neutral?

You done broke the code baby!

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Originally Posted by Elvis90 (Post 1436680)

SD's weekly memo:
I want to update you on Flight Attendant hiring. Today, In-Flight Service announced that it will be hiring 225 non Language of Destination, or non LOD, flight attendants. For this specific round of hiring, In-Flight plans to interview and hire from its existing pool of competitive applicants who applied or were referred for flight attendant positions during the application window that occurred earlier this year. So, these new positions will not be posted on eBid, and In-Flight will not be requesting any referrals at this time. Interviews for the 225 new flight attendants are scheduled to begin in August and Initial Training will start in September. All new-hires will begin flying before the Thanksgiving holiday and the new positions will be based primarily in Atlanta -- to support the introduction of 717 flying – as well as in New York. I realize that, of course, flight attendant hiring raises the question of when we plan to start hiring pilots. I can tell you that our Crew Resources team is currently analyzing our staffing needs for the next 18 months and will be making a recommendation regarding hiring in the coming weeks.

A couple of ways to think about this.

A) Because of the new 717s they need more FAs with hiring starting in 5 or so weeks. We don't need more pilots to support the new 717s right now.

B) They don't need more FAs because of the 739.

C) They don't seem to need more FAs because we have anything else on order.

D) They don't know yet if we're understaffed on pilots because it's not apparent and they need to analyze it. As in, can we still shuffle people around like out of the 767?

E) Will they really put new hires in ATL? Youth in ATL? No... can't be. BTW, how come FAs don't have a green on green policy. I've had some intriguing trips lately with 3 all new FAs.

F) I did notice a lot of the A321 parking spot markings are blacked out now.

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Originally Posted by Denny Crane (Post 1436672)

The contract amendable date is December 31, 2015. The union can submit written notice to the company 270 days prior to that. (Section 28)

Denny

Denny Crane! Right on time. :D

They can't hire any more than 225, because the 717's won't be able to get off the ground.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1436688)

It is likely FA hiring has not kept pace with attrition, but, there is not the pool of FA's on leave that have returned in the hundreds like our pilots have. As a result of improving contracts, vastly better bidding opportunities for some and the timing of events in military careers, we are going to see what, something like 500 to 600 total pilots, on the property who were not here when we merged?

Also, C2012 and new pilot rest rules have had a marginal effect to increase pilot efficiency going forward.

Delta will hire 225 new flight attendants this fall as it begins preparing staffing levels for 2014. While more flight attendants will be hired next year as well, In-Flight Service leaders decided to begin the process early to spread out demand at the Atlanta Training Center as well as provide greater flexibility to handle new mainline flying.

The new hires will not be part of Delta’s Language of Destination program for foreign language speakers and will come from an existing pool of competitive applicants who applied or were referred for flight attendant positions during the open application window earlier this year. The positions will not be reposted on eBid or delta.com, and IFS will not be requesting referrals.

Well I guess I can assume our last contract allowed the company the flexibility to hire 625 flight attendants without the need to hire a single pilot. My conservative math tells me we gave up 625 pilots worth of productivity in our last contract!

Perhaps someone from the union side can correct me. By my count we have not hired any pilots since management has needed at least 625 flight attendantst. Also, we have a large number going through training and having a few months off. I cannot imagine a bunch if flight attendants are retiring. Any union likes want to show me what I am missing!