I am still amazed that people I know complain about the price of an airline ticket to places when the ticket costs less than it would cost for them to drive -- fuel expenses alone, it's not even including the price of renting a car!


Come on people. $350 for a round trip ticket to Miami from Chicago is pretty cheap.

 

I call it the "iPhone, Free App" syndrome...

I should get everything I want, right NOW, and for FREE!

 

No, they close Wednesday night.

 

Wrong on both accounts. But thanks for trying!

 

BRING IT ON, FTB!



Just to remind you that this happened:



Go Noles!!

 

I have no idea what the bean counter equation is for knocking out a condo. Obviously they get a few more Biz seats out of it, even minus the new "rest" seat.

The cynical me says that the spreadsheet for potential revenue on those added seats is a mathmatical "certainty", while cancelling a flight because of degraded rest facility is only a "soft theoretical" possibility.

You and I know that all it takes is one or two diverts or canx due to FDP to zero out whatever possible revenue they might have gotten out of those seats.

If you look at the tables, you essentially lose an hour of FDP for going down one Class of facility. Even if you have to MEL whatever you have, you probably can go...but it gets tighter on the time. (Check those snaps and curtains!)

There's a new APB that outlines all the various Rest Facilities by tail number...and the backup plan (ie what biz class seat if the condo is out).

A very interesting note 1 is that on some planes, the dedicated Flight Attendant Rest facility has been approved by the FAA to act as a Class 2...and can be used to maintain operation integrity, with VP approval. Would love to see that scenario play out.

I think the ship has sailed on the facilities we lost (330), and that sucks....but a strong case could be made for keeping what we got.

I know I have a hard time sleeping on the 767 and the 757 is down right ridiculous.

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No way you could have known that trip would have been yours GSWC unless the scheduler told you.

GSWC are so far down the assignment tree, they're very rare. Take a look at your contract before you make such bold statements

 

I'm on my 3rd inverse assignment robocall today and no GSWCs have gone out. At this time, I think the company will cancel the flight before it hands out a GSWC.

Incidentally, after rerouting me into a 12 hour duty day on day 5 of a 4 day trip, does the company really think I'm going to fall over myself to help them out when they refused to hire?

 

Spoke with a rep a few days ago. He said at that point we had had a half dozen given a PD for acknowledging inside 10 hrs and had the trip dropped. He said they'll be filing a grievance. I also saw a trip where a pilot's rotation started with (as in was originally scheduled) a DH and then another leg which put the pilot past the Max Duty day and required him to fly into his 2 hour extension. This was how it was built. Said rep said he would not have accepted the trip as it was scheduled. I don't know what the pilot in question did. Point being: look out for trips built that have you flying into your 2 hr extension from the get go.

 

Good luck, FTB & 80!

It's hard for me to watch a football game and not root for one team, or another, so here goes:

I have to root for FSU.

If for no other reason than the guy at my wife's Christmas party who told me that Michael Jordan wasn't that good of a basketball player and faked the flu in Game 6 of the NBA Finals because he bet on the game and wanted to increase the spread, went to Auburn.

Go FSU!

Sometimes that's all it takes.