I'm at 90 hrs. Just finished a double deadhead to satisfy 30/7. Why hire! ATL 88

 

RE: Microsoft Surface Tablets.

Can we start an APC petition to save management from making a huge mistake?
Is there nobody in Delta's IT department with a clue?
Windows 8 sucks. The Surface sucks.

Its not too late.
I know management is wedded to Microsoft but they need to face reality.
The writing is on the wall. Microsoft tablets are like the Sony Betamax VCRs.

Would it be possible to organize an "intervention"?

 

Yeah, airlines are lying about capacity and nobody on wall street is smart enough to add. GMAB.

 

The can add up the orders and "announced" retirements, but there is no deadline on when all the airplane retire. How many times have the DC9s been scheduled to retire?

 

Although Windows 8 (Iteration 1) was a bust...especially "RT" that was the worst of both worlds (tiles with no start menu and couldn't run cornerstone apps such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc), the upcoming Windows 8 "Blue" will fix these and allow you to run software you run on your PC. If that is the case and it's small and light, it will kick iPads butt. Just like the iPhone, iPad was ahead of the game when it came out but the more you use it the more you realize how limited it really is IMHO. Each to their own though.

Microsoft Windows Blue Will Bring User Improvements and Support for Smaller Tablets to Windows 8 - ABC News

 

If pilots could intervene heinous management decisions, this would be a whole different business.

 

Of course, it can go both ways. If things turn south, DAL could retire 7ERs sooner and the "growth" wide body order that is suppose to be announced next month could become a "replacement" order.

 

That's just freakin' beautiful.... Well done.....

 

you want to have an intervention with management, the team that brought you abused MD90s and new 739s, because they want to buy unwanted technology because its cheap?

 

Dude...you're talking about a management team that thinks you can replace a 767/757 with a stretched 737, do you really think you can talk any sense into them on tablets? Is there any wonder why they think a Surface is an iPad? The fact is, the Surface is FREE! They need what, about 40,000 of them?

Let me do the math...40,000 free Microsoft Tablets, vs. 40,000 iPads at $600 each.

Free...or $24 Million.

Hmmm....I wonder which one they'll choose.

Oh, and if we eat some of those surplus Surface tablets, we also get Microsoft as our biggest corporate client.

Small price to pay for the company, and we will benefit as well, as they are already adding more international flying to SEA, just to serve Microsoft. Maybe that's what the widebody order is for? More flying out of SEA?

So...your chances of ever seeing anything but a Microsoft product in our cockpits, are about as good as ever seeing an A380 in Delta colors.

If they would allow us to use our own personal iPads instead of the Surface, we could at least write them off as a job related expense, like your hat and sunglasses.