Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
12-04-2013 | 03:47 PM
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Reserves available are below reserves (allegedly) required meaning you can't have that time off (or swap into that off time). Have to watch the reserves avail chart. Sometimes folks will pop back up off military leave or medical leave and repopulate the day sufficiently for you to then get what you want.
12-04-2013 | 04:30 PM
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The leader of DPA will be elected by the line pilots at Delta. Caplinger has said repeatedly he will not run.
It will be a great day when ALPA is gone and we not longer have leaders who are first officers getting 92 hours of captan pay plus $1000 a month plus all expenses.
Why talk of restoring our profession when you are getting a deal like that for working Tuesday and Wednesday.
Before you start crying about how hard they work, I challenge any and all Delta pilots to wander into the DALPA office on a Monday or a Friday and find a 92 hour flight pay loss leader.
You are more likely to spot Santa and the Easter Bunny.
It will be a great day when ALPA is gone and we not longer have leaders who are first officers getting 92 hours of captan pay plus $1000 a month plus all expenses.
Why talk of restoring our profession when you are getting a deal like that for working Tuesday and Wednesday.
Before you start crying about how hard they work, I challenge any and all Delta pilots to wander into the DALPA office on a Monday or a Friday and find a 92 hour flight pay loss leader.
You are more likely to spot Santa and the Easter Bunny.
12-04-2013 | 04:33 PM
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12-04-2013 | 04:36 PM
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12-04-2013 | 04:41 PM
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Look at reserve coverage on the days you are trying to drop. If there ain't enough, you can't drop it. Seems like a Johnny ****ran quote might fit in here somewhere...
12-04-2013 | 05:20 PM
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12-04-2013 | 05:31 PM
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OK; 73N has several 18 hour four days (late duty in, red eye back).
If we are bidding rotations:
(1) I want rotation A on the 19th
(2) I want rotation B on the 21st
(3) I want rotation C on the 20th
Will PBS build your schedule in sequential order of requests or will it give you A, then take that away and give you C?
Since I'm not going to be home, or making money, it becomes all about the layovers.
Also if bidding to avoid a pilot, do you put that first, or last?
If we are bidding rotations:
(1) I want rotation A on the 19th
(2) I want rotation B on the 21st
(3) I want rotation C on the 20th
Will PBS build your schedule in sequential order of requests or will it give you A, then take that away and give you C?
Since I'm not going to be home, or making money, it becomes all about the layovers.
Also if bidding to avoid a pilot, do you put that first, or last?
12-04-2013 | 05:51 PM
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12-04-2013 | 05:53 PM
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12-04-2013 | 05:58 PM
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Top Gun Inspiration Now Highest Ranking Woman at the Pentagon
At the defense department, the new No. 2 is a former Top Gun.
Well, sort of.
Christine H. Fox, who will assume the duties of acting deputy secretary of defense Thursday, was the inspiration for the Kelly McGillis character in the 1986 blockbuster film starring Tom Cruise, according to People magazine.
She’ll be taking over from departing Deputy Secretary Ash Carter, who announced his resignation in October.
“Christine … is a brilliant defense thinker and proven manager,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a news release issued Tuesday. “She will be able to help me shape our priorities from day one because she knows the intricacies of the department’s budget, programs and global operations better than anyone.”
In the mid-80s, Fox worked as a civilian employee of the Center for Naval Analyses, a Navy think tank, according to a People magazine profile written during the film’s production. Her job was to help the U.S. Navy develop tactics for defending aircraft carriers, and she instructed some of the young hot-shot pilots who would swoon at the sight of the six-foot blonde in high heels, People reported.
“She’s the smartest woman I’ve ever met,” Capt. Monroe Smith told the magazine. “I like women for a lot of things, and being smart isn’t usually one of them.”
When the film’s producers were looking to enhance the role of the female lead – who predictably becomes romantically involved with Cruise’s character – they looked to Fox, People reported. But that’s where the similarities ended, as Fox told the magazine she never became involved with an aviator.
Fox eventually became president of the CNA, where she oversaw analysis of operations, including Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq following the Sept. 11 attacks, according to her Department of Defense biography. Prior to her latest appointment, Fox had served as the director of the Defense Department’s cost assessment and program evaluation since 2009.
Fox told People magazine in 1985, as the movie was in production, that she herself wasn't a fighter pilot but that she worked closely with them as a specialist in air and maritime defense.
"I don't know anything about flying airplanes, but I know a lot about the guy in the back seat — his mission, his radar and his missiles,"
she said at the time.
At the defense department, the new No. 2 is a former Top Gun.
Well, sort of.
Christine H. Fox, who will assume the duties of acting deputy secretary of defense Thursday, was the inspiration for the Kelly McGillis character in the 1986 blockbuster film starring Tom Cruise, according to People magazine.
She’ll be taking over from departing Deputy Secretary Ash Carter, who announced his resignation in October.
“Christine … is a brilliant defense thinker and proven manager,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a news release issued Tuesday. “She will be able to help me shape our priorities from day one because she knows the intricacies of the department’s budget, programs and global operations better than anyone.”
In the mid-80s, Fox worked as a civilian employee of the Center for Naval Analyses, a Navy think tank, according to a People magazine profile written during the film’s production. Her job was to help the U.S. Navy develop tactics for defending aircraft carriers, and she instructed some of the young hot-shot pilots who would swoon at the sight of the six-foot blonde in high heels, People reported.
“She’s the smartest woman I’ve ever met,” Capt. Monroe Smith told the magazine. “I like women for a lot of things, and being smart isn’t usually one of them.”
When the film’s producers were looking to enhance the role of the female lead – who predictably becomes romantically involved with Cruise’s character – they looked to Fox, People reported. But that’s where the similarities ended, as Fox told the magazine she never became involved with an aviator.
Fox eventually became president of the CNA, where she oversaw analysis of operations, including Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq following the Sept. 11 attacks, according to her Department of Defense biography. Prior to her latest appointment, Fox had served as the director of the Defense Department’s cost assessment and program evaluation since 2009.
Fox told People magazine in 1985, as the movie was in production, that she herself wasn't a fighter pilot but that she worked closely with them as a specialist in air and maritime defense.
"I don't know anything about flying airplanes, but I know a lot about the guy in the back seat — his mission, his radar and his missiles,"
she said at the time.
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