Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
12-11-2013 | 12:53 PM
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The Daily Caller » Ryan-Murray budget deal hikes air travel security tax by 124 percent » Print
Ryan-Murray budget deal hikes air travel security tax by 124 percent
The newly-released budget deal between Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan will hike the aviation security fee paid by air travelers by 124 percent, if passed.
Murray and Ryan settled on an agreement that would hit air travelers with a fee of $5.60 per one-way flight — or $11.20 for a round-trip excursion.
That’s 60 cents higher than the $5.00 fee the Department of Homeland Security requested, and represents a huge jump up from the current $2.50 minimum security fee.
Ryan had reportedly backed a $5.00 maximum fee during the budget negotiations.
DHS has been desperate for a fee increase to cover what the agency feels is a massive budgetary shortfall for the Transportation Security Agency, with current security fees covering only about 25 percent — or $1.9 billion — of the TSA’s $7.5 billion annual costs.
But the Ryan-Murray deal doesn’t earmark the new revenue for TSA. Instead, the funds will be deposited into the “general fund of the Treasury,” where they are supposed to help partially rollback the sequester and offset the automatic spending cuts set to begin in January.
The newly-released budget deal between Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan will hike the aviation security fee paid by air travelers by 124 percent, if passed.
Murray and Ryan settled on an agreement that would hit air travelers with a fee of $5.60 per one-way flight — or $11.20 for a round-trip excursion.
That’s 60 cents higher than the $5.00 fee the Department of Homeland Security requested, and represents a huge jump up from the current $2.50 minimum security fee.
Ryan had reportedly backed a $5.00 maximum fee during the budget negotiations.
DHS has been desperate for a fee increase to cover what the agency feels is a massive budgetary shortfall for the Transportation Security Agency, with current security fees covering only about 25 percent — or $1.9 billion — of the TSA’s $7.5 billion annual costs.
But the Ryan-Murray deal doesn’t earmark the new revenue for TSA. Instead, the funds will be deposited into the “general fund of the Treasury,” where they are supposed to help partially rollback the sequester and offset the automatic spending cuts set to begin in January.
12-11-2013 | 01:02 PM
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If your sick or tired (different than sick and tired) admit it and go get well or rested!
12-11-2013 | 01:06 PM
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Plan on profit sharing being about 7.5 percent of your 2013 gross pay. Gross pay is not W2 pay. You need to look near the bottom right of the paystub to find gross which can be 30k or more then W2. You do have to back last years profit sharing out of the gross. That figure times 7.5 should be pretty close this year.
12-11-2013 | 01:08 PM
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Right or wrong, I don't see many guys willing to put up with the harassment they will endure if they call in fatigued the day after a 30 hour layover.
12-11-2013 | 01:26 PM
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Welcome to the club. In LAX they have ignored the RCC from day 1. Two months after they bragged how responsive they were to our inputs by putting more SNA trips - the SNA trips totally disappeared.
The funny thing about 117 rule changes - our trips (LAX 73) have been so bad, for so long, that there is really no difference. As a matter of fact our trips might even be a little better in January - probably due to the other bases trips getting worse.
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12-11-2013 | 01:40 PM
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Any harassment on this should generate an ASAP and a union call. Even with a 48 hour layover, what if I simply didn't sleep well last night for whatever reason and I'm tired?
12-11-2013 | 01:59 PM
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Just out of curiosity...do you call in fatigued every time you don't sleep well in the hotel? What has the company's response been?
12-11-2013 | 03:12 PM
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Hm, an ASAP and a union call. Hopefully those actions will produce better results on fatigue calls than they have on our sick harassment, I mean, verification calls.
Just out of curiosity...do you call in fatigued every time you don't sleep well in the hotel? What has the company's response been?
Just out of curiosity...do you call in fatigued every time you don't sleep well in the hotel? What has the company's response been?
12-11-2013 | 03:46 PM
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Why Delta Thinks It's Better Than a Mere Airline - Businessweek
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...0JQ0QV20131211
Had to chuckle a little when I saw this. Hopefully the selective comparisons to those other than Cargo carriers (UPS/Fedex), Southwest, code share partners, etc can finally stop. Btw, 2.6 Billion net isn't bad considering all the places Delta is currently spending money.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...0JQ0QV20131211
Had to chuckle a little when I saw this. Hopefully the selective comparisons to those other than Cargo carriers (UPS/Fedex), Southwest, code share partners, etc can finally stop. Btw, 2.6 Billion net isn't bad considering all the places Delta is currently spending money.
12-11-2013 | 03:52 PM
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Why Delta Thinks It's Better Than a Mere Airline - Businessweek
Had to chuckle a little when I saw this. Hopefully the selective comparisons to those other than Cargo carrier UPS/Fedex, Southwest, etc can finally stop.
Had to chuckle a little when I saw this. Hopefully the selective comparisons to those other than Cargo carrier UPS/Fedex, Southwest, etc can finally stop.
The airline is instead targeting the kind of consistent financial returns Wall Street has come to expect from railroads and truckers, from UPS (UPS) and other “high-quality industrial transportation companies,” as Delta executives explained repeatedly during the airline’s annual investor conference in New York today. “We no longer benchmark ourselves to the airline set,” Delta President Ed Bastian told analysts."
I guess that explains why DALPA doesn't think it appropriate for us to expect compensation as good as FedEx, UPS, and SWA pilots. Gotta keep it "realistic," given our "competitive set."
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