I had a chart clamp confiscated from me in Winnipeg some years back. It was one of those $0.50 spring clamps from Home Despot that everyone used to hold their books in the DC-9.

I went through security, and they told me they had to take it because it was a "tool". I wasn't about to argue at 0600 in the morning over a 50 cent item, but it goes to show that there was weirdness on both sides of the border.

Nu

 

Merry Christmas all y'all!
(take that Van Damme)



(gotta love those P-3s)

Cheers
George

 

I'll be shocked if the schedulers will be able to cover all the ATL M88 trips the next 3 days.

 

This morning Captain's tiny Philip's Head screwdriver was stolen, I mean, confiscated in MEX. As luck would have it, his eyeglasses did fall apart while signing the security sheet. For some reason MEX seems to pick on Captains. My be some sort of a "respect my authority" game of Simon Says with their AVSEC.

 

GSWC .... just sayin'

 

What's the status of the PHL-LHR slot AA has to give up?

 

Cash injection for Alitalia finalized | Finance & Data content from ATWOnline

Will perhaps play into a Trans Atlantic scope violation. I figured AZ's disappearance might result in compliance just in time for management on 31 March 2014. AZ seems to keep saying, "I'm not dead yet."




AZ, if they aren't breaking even in this environment, seems pretty hopeless.

IMHO management took unfair advantage of the 3 year window. They have little right to complain about pilot costs and being "overstaffed" when they failed to staff and fly our rightful share of the EASK's.

 

Dam skippy. That's a dot.

 

It is interesting... I hope that the "investor" is DAL and not Etihad.

I DO NOT want to see any more MEA purchases in the European theater, they will turn it into their "feed" to compensate for Emirates signing a code-share deal with Easyjet to feed the Emirates MXP-JFK flight.

We don't want to allow that practice to expand, it WILL hurt DAL flying and WB pilot jobs... Keeping AZ afloat and DAL owning would be another strong piece to volley back against the MEA's and keep them in Skyteam.

The bad part is that DAL now owns a terribly operated and money-losing venture (although that is what VAtl was until DAL got a hold of them too). The big key is making sure that DAL pilot growth is protected and enhanced!

They operate:
12 330-200's with 3 on order.
10 777-200's
86 319/320/321's

We DO NOT want to see those aircraft being utilized against us in Europe to feed transatlantic Etihad/AZ WB's. I'm hoping RA pulled a fast one and had the board authorize a move to counteract Abu Dhabi.

 

Another nice little 117 nugget, for those of us who's duty carries from December into January.

As many have already said, no more 30 in 7 limit on block hours come January 1st, and nothing you flew *before* January 1 counts towards you FDP limits. So anyone who has a long stretch of days from December into January could techically be given assignments that take them over 30 in 7 *and* over 60 duty hours in 168. Good times!