Average Auburn girl on the left, Alabama quarterback on the right,



I guess the truth is, you can lie to yourself all you want about how many national championships you have, but your eyes don't lie about where the hot girls go to school.

 

My summer schedule resembles yours too!

 

Scambo, maybe the potential Middle East conflict centered on Syria has management proceeding in a more cautious manner with respect to an aircraft order. Oil prices may be particularly volatile in the next few weeks.

 

+1

That pretty much sums it up for me.

I went to a PUB event a few weeks back it it made things worse. The ALPA guys came up to the table and asked if you had any thoughts. Before anyone had a chance to finish their sentence those guys were bloviating about how you need to see it, never once actually listening. They did it to each person who spoke up. They were not there to hear and represent, they were there to tell everyone how it is.

*not winning hearts and minds*

...just how I see it...

 

Yes

The agenda is not coming from National. The Delta MEC has decided to address DPA head on. Enough is enough.

Index is too busy to engage in the process and work through his reps to achieve a solution. How is the next organization going to change that?

It is on each of us as individual pilots to participate. If we don't, no system will make you happy. You are seeing the result of a decade plus of poor circumstances. Burning the house down, right as we are pulling out of the dive, is only going to take us back into the gutter.

How does a USAPA 320 Captain making $93 less per hour than a Delta Captain sound? Do we really want to go that route?

 

Get off of me daddy, you're crushing my Marlboros.

 

If you think Delta is nervous about a war in the Middle East just think how Emirates, Etihad and Qatar must be feeling right about now. I've always thought the geo-political risk was way overlooked when it comes to hubs in the Persian Gulf.

I'm pretty confident the runways at Hartsfield won't be getting cratered next week.
Dubai or Doha -- not so sure.

 

capn, check your PMs

 

Oh dude. My in-laws neighbor, 3 or 4 surgeries and $350K in bills, no intention of paying. Hangs up the phone when the bill collectors call. Just sold his house, which I didn't think would be possible, bought a boat and moved. He'll be out of money soon. That's just how he lived. Ex-professor on disability btw.

Or go down to Children's Hospital, some nights in the ER I realized we were the only ones paying.

And this is all before we get to ordinary medicaid/medicare fraud right?

Now I may be wrong, but imho, does insurance raise costs? YES. Something that the Doctor would gladly charge you $3000 for something if you say at the outset you're self-pay, let UHC get involved and that's $23,000 thank you very much. Just notice the price for Lasik which is not covered by insurance has gotten to as low as $800 an eye. Second party insurance is one big problem beyond fraud and those who don't pay.

But the government is always a worse problem. If a government intern looks at your IRS records and notes "you're a rich Delta pilot, well, I went to an ivy league school and paid $250K for a $35K job, I hate rich people, so screw your kid's surgery... DENIED!" I think I'd enact my own death panel right there.

So if you gave me the choice between government control and overpaid insurance, I'll take the life with UHC option every day of the week until we get option 3, Dr. Carson's HSA idea. The only problem there is the freak out mode Washington D.C. would be in if the country went to private individual control over their own lives in an open market.

HEY YOU GET BACK HERE!

 

You guys must be watching the same thing at your house. My daughter has had Rapunzel on repeat for weeks now. I can't get away from it, not even here!