Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 1582886)

There is a guide on Deltanet that describes it.

Essentially you can buy 12N (Supp. Vac. Days) through the full service bank option 3 in DBMS.

You buy per day at 3:15 each, with a max of 10 days purchased.

If you buy after the primary vacation bid is open, they will be added to the end of your most recently awarded week when you made the request.

If you buy after March bid period starts but before April 1, then you can have them placed at the beginning or end of any week you have bid.

If you buy after April 1, they can only be placed if there is an available week adjacent to the weeks you have been awarded.

Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1583965)

OK. Did you guys get any back pay?

Scoop :confused:

Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1584204)

Back then, just about everybody you met on a Delta airplane, worked for Delta. Cabin cleaners, baggage loaders, certainly all the mechanics. If you wanted to work for Delta (other than Pilots and F/A's), you had to start on the ramp or cleaning cabins, and work your way up. BUT...Delta had never laid anyone off. Once you were hired, you were in the Delta Family, for life. You may remember the Delta Employees took up a collection to pay for the first 767? The Spirit of Delta. The reason they did was because in 1981, when the Air Traffic Controllers went on strike, all the other Majors laid of thousands of workers. Delta didn't. As a Thank You, the employees voluntarily contributed money to buy the Spirit of Delta in 1983.

Anyone remember the day Ron walked through the Delta General Offices and fired 20% of the life long, loyal Delta people? After he did this, the AJC did an interview with him about employee moral, in light of the firings. That's when Ron made the infamous quip: "If moral suffers, So Be It!"

McK was a huge fan of, and on the cutting edge of a new business model called;

Outsourcing. :eek:

Guess who worked for McK at the time? Leo Mullen. During McK's investigation of Delta's operations, and subsequent report to the BOD is where Jerry met Leo.

That's why Jerry picked Leo to replace Ron in 1997, when Ron's 10yr. contract was up, and that's when Leo started outsourcing...everything!

Originally Posted by Purple Drank (Post 1583772)

Flying above ALV on reserve is no longer voluntary.

Originally Posted by Jay5150 (Post 1583350)

For one, Lawson is villified because it was his letter that said that the union at ComAir supported not hiring DAL furloughees unless they resigned their seniority number.

You seem to be defending him, and you are picking the wrong crowd to do that with.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1583582)

We'll take 3 of them.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../8/2396836.jpg

Originally Posted by n9810f (Post 1584183)

Absolutely perfect plane to overfly Japan from the US. United is way ahead of us on this.

Northwest had the foresight went it ordered the 787 to do much the same. Building A was looking at SEA-SYD and similar routes.

The flaw in Richard's no new modern widebody aka the 787 is the 767-300ER's can't do much of the over-Japan flying, right? That's why we ordered the 10 333's I believe. But that's still not enough. It's a major disadvantage.

Originally Posted by Alan Shore (Post 1584257)

But bidding reserve is, for all those senior pilots that have been doing so since C2012 went into effect. I wonder why...