Wow, that is crazy. I have done several NFL and military charters and they all went off without a hitch. The charter coordinators always struck me as very competent individuals.

Welcome aboard JB! Great to see some new names on the seniority list.

I'll give you 10 bitcoins* to cut-and-paste that onto an FCR. Do it!:D




*not really. I don't have any.

I'm certainly not a fan of anymore growth from middle eastern carriers. I find the culture from middle eastern carriers to be arrogant, well funded, and perfectly content on capacity dumping into the market without turning a profit.

Perhaps Etihad investing in Altilia and subsequently pulling them out of Skyteam would immediately put DAL back into compliance with the TAJV scope provisions, but I'm doubtful that is a favorable scenario for our management team. I think that would be the equivalent of cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'd imagine our scope provisions regarding our TAJV language is low on the list of concerns of our management team. Personally, I think the long term plan is to mothball forecasting TAJV violations into contract 2016. Just this pilot's prediction. I could be wrong, just my opinion.

However, middle eastern carriers systematically investing and thereby picking apart the Skyteam Alliance is going to get the attention of ALOT of companies and management teams much further the office walls of our 4th floor. I think the harder they push, invest, and grow will only get them to their breaking point sooner. Arrogance and pride have never been good business strategies and the shelf life of those plans last only as long as the money supply. All that being said, the financing and operational cost competitive edge these carriers have is astounding. I imagine it'll be a thorn in the side of the global airline industry for quite some time.

My question is, will the Skyteam alliance just back out of markets as Etihad or Emirates invests in and kills off code share partners? I'm thinking AF/KLM group and DAL will have to maintain some type of recovery presence in these markets.

Call CP office. Have them fedex it to your doorstep.

Can't do that. Not with id's. Must be done in person.

Mucho congrats! Welcome aboard!

There's nothing there. It's been a few weeks since I filled out form on icrew. I'm just going to call today.

The best yet!

As I understand it, ALPA respectfully disagrees. The Company has long sought to augment Caribbean flights so as to avoid having to use four pilots. ALPA has consistently refused to enter into a CROT for an appropriate rest seat, saying that the PWA allows augmentation only on an ocean crossing segment.

If you look through Section 12 Hours of Service in the PWA, you see numerous mentions of flight and duty time limits for augmented crews on an ocean crossing segment, but no such mention for other flight segments. (An exception is made for military charter operations that exceed the 12 D. 1. duty table.) This is due to the fact that there was no intent, ergo no agreement, to augment a crew on other than an ocean crossing segment when these portions of the PWA were negotiated. It would therefore require a negotiated agreement to allow such augmentation in the future.

It would not surprise me to see an agreement along these lines come out of the current negotiations with respect to FAR 117.