Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
08-01-2013 | 03:18 PM
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I was rerouted twice today due to a shortfall in the ATL M88B category. When you look at reserves required and available, it's typically around 50/25 about 5 days out, ten 55/0 the day or two prior. The 717 transition has drawn a lot of pilots out and leadership has failed to appropriately plan ahead for the summer schedule.
17 green slips awarded so far today & still counting. This is a weekday and the beginning of the month too!
17 green slips awarded so far today & still counting. This is a weekday and the beginning of the month too!
08-01-2013 | 03:20 PM
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So there are four trips in open time on Saturday. Three two day trips with early reports and a commutable three day trip. I'm in the six day bucket and I'm the senior reserve. Guess who gets the nice commutable three day trip? The junior guy in the three day bucket while I get stuck with the nasty non-commutable two day causing me to lose a whole day at home. What a bunch of garbage.
08-01-2013 | 03:32 PM
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Anyone have some bullet points from the C44 meeting this morning?
08-01-2013 | 03:48 PM
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Unfortunately as long as OPs is not cancelling flights due to lack of pilots, the company will continue to figure they are correctly manned. GS are still cheaper then another pilot on the list.
08-01-2013 | 04:07 PM
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Guys, look at the bright side. Study a little history and you will know that all big hiring booms are preceded by airline systems beginning to fall apart from lack of crews. Sure, it's not happening on our schedule, but it is happening. Boom times ahead.
08-01-2013 | 04:42 PM
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08-01-2013 | 04:44 PM
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I was rerouted twice today due to a shortfall in the ATL M88B category. When you look at reserves required and available, it's typically around 50/25 about 5 days out, ten 55/0 the day or two prior. The 717 transition has drawn a lot of pilots out and leadership has failed to appropriately plan ahead for the summer schedule.
17 green slips awarded so far today & still counting. This is a weekday and the beginning of the month too!
17 green slips awarded so far today & still counting. This is a weekday and the beginning of the month too!
08-01-2013 | 04:45 PM
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It also, in effect, takes seniority out of the bidding process.
08-01-2013 | 04:58 PM
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Our "everybody manning" compensation system with no premium pay or penalty to the company is a contract section we need to work on. It's one of those things that I never really thought of until this last month because we have always been overstaffed since I have been here. New bid strategy in summer will be to award latest shows with earliest finishes and least TAFB to minimize the reroutes.
08-01-2013 | 05:19 PM
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