Originally Posted by tsquare

Let me ask it this way. How many went to another airline? If even half of them did, then maybe you have a point. If they are bond traders making $1.6 mil on Wall Street... well......


I'll give you the last word on this.. Gunny Hartman is making me spit coffee....

Happy Thanksgiving all...

Originally Posted by buzzpat

Great flick! Enjoy T.

Happy Thanksgiving bros! Home for the week! The -900 is pretty sweet. The blue lighting is sexy.

Originally Posted by DARR31

I got to fly one this last weekend. Don't forget to add that the temp controllers work, when you press recall the lights come on, oh and it flies straight!

Originally Posted by Going2Baja

I think the reality of those returning is comparing their DAL career to where ever they went. I came back in the 1st Recall class in 10'. We had pilots from Alaska, Fed-X, UPS, Net Jets, Frontier, Spirit, Jet Blue, and Foreign Carriers.

For me it was the decision to be near the bottom of a a small 737 airline w/ 4 years Sen or return w/ 10 years to DAL and have more opportunities down range.

Happy TG to all - I'll be in Central America as my 13+ years can't hold Holidays off.

Baja.

Originally Posted by orvil

I agree with TS. I think these guys just found something better.

I came from the military and had very little interaction with people who had what we would call regular jobs. Once I was at DL I saw there were a lot of ways to make money.

We have a good job but not a great job. I have been lucky in when I was hired so I haven't been furloughed, but I always said that flying is not the only thing I could do. Perhaps that is what these guys have done.

Originally Posted by NuGuy

I wouldn't read too much into guys or gals electing to not return. Sometimes there are equities in life that go beyond the mere W-2.

A common theme I've seen is going to work at the family business. Mom n Pop sends you to school, and you get the flying bug. You give it a whirl and make it to the big show. Money's good and responsibility is pretty light....until the BK hits.

While on furlough you go back to work with the family, and you come to realize that owning your own business is really the only way to become truly in charge of your destiny, and one of the few ways to generate true wealth.

Or someone may have married into, or had their SOs work develop into a good situation.

Or perhaps parenting became a priority.

Or they found something they just like better.

Look, I don't deny it's a good gig that pays a fair number of quatloos, but it's hardly the center of the universe.

Nu

Originally Posted by Boomer

How many just can't get a new medical?

Originally Posted by tomgoodman

I believe that a rocket launched from the Kourou (French Guiana) site can handle a geostationary payload about 15% greater than if launched from Canaveral. Perhaps this satellite isn't heavy enough to require the extra performance, and they already have infrastructure in place at the Cape. If they moved the same rocket to Kourou it would still have to be fully fueled, for structural reasons, so they'd just schedule a shorter burn.