717's go into the schedule Oct 6th or 7th. Possible substitution flights before then. 1st 3 (maybe 4) planes show up in August. No hiccups reported.

 

I think we've had like 400 upgrades in the last few months and ordered like 220 airplanes or something. And we're making a larger profit than ever before and doing it quarter after quarter like we haven't seen in nearly a decade and a half. Plus more widebodies about to be ordered.

Booming. Feel it?

 

See, it's funny how changing one word to a word that rhymes with it makes a sentence so much more interesting.

 

It'll be done in time for me to walk out of the sim and go straight to OE.

Summer off? Screw that. Try an evening off!

 

Thieves are everywhere.
It starts with hotel soap. Before you know it they're drinking airplane coffee.

Nobody should need sick leave.
Getting sick is a choice just like commuting.

 

Remember in Shawshank Redemption and those guys chasing poor Andy around?



Well that's what MD88 training is like.

 

I could argue that drinking the coffee is helping to make a profit by reducing wear and tear on the lavatory waste system when it's dumped after landing.

I could make that argument, I really could.

 

Caramel macchiato?

 

I wonder; why do they bother training that airplane? Nothing works quite like it is supposed to, so why learn what it is supposed to do? It only results in disappointment and cognitive dissonance over whether what you observe the LCA ignoring on IOE is really a maintenance write up, or not.

Instead, "it flew in here, it will fly out" serves operators of the type well. If it remained on the pavement, or only went slightly off the pavement without damaging airport infrastructure (or if no one saw it, or can't prove who was flying it ) then it's good to go.

Training should be limited to "good luck and God speed."

Just be glad you aren't the Mechanic who has to keep track of all the Special Airworthiness Bulletins, Emergency Directives, Service Difficulty Reports, Maintenance Change Items and engineering revisions.

 

Severe dehydration is supposed to help you lose weight, so you got that going for you.