Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
01-15-2014 | 06:05 PM
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Maybe the answer is to hire some low cost (we will call them Yellow Jackets) to pick up food from airport vendors and have it waiting at the gate for those with quick turns. Put in your order through the amazing Windows RT pad while still airborn. Always treat them well and they won't spit in your food.
01-15-2014 | 06:05 PM
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From: 7ER Costar
First of all you will only see a tax advantage if you itemize deductions. Assuming you do, Pro-Diem or Flightline allows you to deduct the maximum amount for meal expenses without keeping any records. Basically, you take the amount they come up with and subtract what per diem you received from Delta and write off the rest. As transportation workers we get to write off a bigger percentage.
My taxes are fairly simple, I just throw the numbers into Turbo Tax and voila! If I remember correctly, doing this saves me in excess of $700. (I think I'm on the low side with that figure)
Denny
My taxes are fairly simple, I just throw the numbers into Turbo Tax and voila! If I remember correctly, doing this saves me in excess of $700. (I think I'm on the low side with that figure)
Denny
Thanks Denny. Good info.
01-15-2014 | 06:15 PM
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I'm also going to test the "no stupid questions" theory.
Why doesn't Delta simply provide us with the data we need to make these tax calculations? All they have to do is compile and re-format information that is already available in DBMS / i-Crew. That's all Flightline and Pro-Diem are doing.
Why does our employer enable these outside companies to extract $50 from every pilot every year?
Why doesn't Delta simply provide us with the data we need to make these tax calculations? All they have to do is compile and re-format information that is already available in DBMS / i-Crew. That's all Flightline and Pro-Diem are doing.
Why does our employer enable these outside companies to extract $50 from every pilot every year?
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01-15-2014 | 06:18 PM
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From: 777B
I'm also going to test the "no stupid questions" theory.
Why doesn't Delta simply provide us with the data we need to make these tax calculations? All they have to do is compile and re-format information that is already available in DBMS. That's all Flightline and Pro-Diem are doing.
Why does our employer enable these outside companies to extract $50 from every pilot every year?
Why doesn't Delta simply provide us with the data we need to make these tax calculations? All they have to do is compile and re-format information that is already available in DBMS. That's all Flightline and Pro-Diem are doing.
Why does our employer enable these outside companies to extract $50 from every pilot every year?
01-15-2014 | 06:21 PM
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From: 767er Captain
I think this is appropriate to some of the posts on this thread...
Fire away.
Fire away.
01-15-2014 | 06:21 PM
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Why does our employer enable these outside companies to extract $50 from every pilot every year?
hear, hear
hear, hear
01-15-2014 | 06:25 PM
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From: Poodle Whisperer
^^^^^ As a professional Delta pilot, I strive to be the brand and embrace our customers. When I am forced (by the company) to haul ass down the jetway with a bag of unhealthy easy-to-come-by food product, it's embarrassing and I'm sure not what we want to be purveying to our customers. What's even worse, IMHO, is walking off the jet and see a fellow pilot scarfing a Big Mac at the gate in front of his soon-to-be passengers. That cannot instill a lot of warm fuzzies with the pax.
Certainly, if we're concerned about flight safety and projecting a professional image, the company can agree to a couple of crew meals (what, maybe $10 for two pilots?) and an additional five or ten minute turn time?
Certainly, if we're concerned about flight safety and projecting a professional image, the company can agree to a couple of crew meals (what, maybe $10 for two pilots?) and an additional five or ten minute turn time?
That being said, we've been doing this long enough to where we know what food is available at each airport and can strategically plan. I'm a big fan of the burrito placeswe have in ATL because you can make it a bowl and make it into a reasonably healthy salad sort of thing that will tide you over a longer time.
I can't remember the last time I got a big mac or something similar... I might get some chicken nuggets, but I feel like crap after I get a big mac... not the condition I want to be flying in.
01-15-2014 | 06:26 PM
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From: Light Chop
In other news, speaking of horns, I didn't know you could drop $700 or so and get a train horn installed on your truck. How awesome for when that person goes full speed to cut you off as two lanes become one. Even better, just blow it as you cross the railroad track, or better yet, aim it at a passing train and blow it. Freak that guy out.
01-15-2014 | 06:27 PM
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From: Light Chop
I guess coming from the regionals, I have no shame when it comes to eating when I need to eat and possibly delaying a flight a few minutes. That's the way the game is played, and it's not a daily occurrence for me here like it was at the regionals.
That being said, we've been doing this long enough to where we know what food is available at each airport and can strategically plan. I'm a big fan of the burrito placeswe have in ATL because you can make it a bowl and make it into a reasonably healthy salad sort of thing that will tide you over a longer time.
I can't remember the last time I got a big mac or something similar... I might get some chicken nuggets, but I feel like crap after I get a big mac... not the condition I want to be flying in.
That being said, we've been doing this long enough to where we know what food is available at each airport and can strategically plan. I'm a big fan of the burrito placeswe have in ATL because you can make it a bowl and make it into a reasonably healthy salad sort of thing that will tide you over a longer time.
I can't remember the last time I got a big mac or something similar... I might get some chicken nuggets, but I feel like crap after I get a big mac... not the condition I want to be flying in.
Why you getting a salad? A taco salad? Like the Bud Light commercials said, congratulations, you just managed to cram 12,000 calories into a salad. Is it healthy? Sure, it's a salad! So go on you Conquistador of the Calorie, eat that salad... between legs.
01-15-2014 | 06:30 PM
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From: 767er Captain
Oh, and the klaxxon was for those that have gone into high warble already over some of this stuff... Good grief guys, wind your watch, and run the procedure. You know what is right, and the remedy for this stuff. Whining about it on an anonymous webboard won't do a damned thing to fix any of this....
NOW fire away.
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