Originally Posted by Roadkill

EDIT--just saw the further info you posted: " recalled in 2007 and came back 2/2008."
that's the year that didn't count, so you don't have 13 yrs duty and thus don't have 4 weeks vacation yet this year. To which I ask: WHAT were you thinking delaying your return by a year?? (I was thinking "still in bankruptcy, don't trust them, not gonna get burned again!" when I punched back to mil leave...)

Originally Posted by sailingfun

On a different note I have flown with two guys who had the new Vette on order but no one who has actually taken delivery or driven one. Anyone driven one who might have some comments good or bad?

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

Originally Posted by tsquare

Sure... I guess. Whether it leaves a vacuum or not can be debated as to whether our filling of that vacuum was lucrative or not. If it were, I am pretty sure this management team would not leave it behind... they seem pretty adept at making money. Since we pilots want more money, better benefits, fewer days work, and more pilots on the property, one could make an argument that driving DAL's costs higher might contribute to pulling out of lower yielding markets. I cannot make that argument any more than you or anybody else on here can make the counter that we lose money by leaving. We just don't have enough information as workerbees. Give you an example. UAL started flying into all our Africa destinations, and lost money on many of them because some markets just won't support 2 or more carriers. So they left, and we started making money again.

NWA was huge in NRT, no doubt. It sucks when something you were a part of goes away. It's just business. It's like selling a house that you KNOW is worth more than the market is offering. We've all been there. Many on here think the cargo operation in ANC was making money. I challenge any of them to PROVE that assertion. Same with NRT. PROVE it with numbers and not conjecture. It killed me that we left KBP, BUD, OTP... etc etc etc... but if they weren't making money, there is no reason to fly there. Unfortunately. Time to move on to where we CAN make money and lots of it.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

Originally Posted by buzzpat

I was doing the book thing, moved to LA, and was the COO for a large conservative nonprofit think tank. I deferred because I was making a lot of money to be a white collar guy. Hated it. My wife convinced me that I was happier, a better husband and father without the Hollywood gig. So, I came back. She was right. Much younger and much more mature.

Originally Posted by trlaketige

Got it. Trust the company, they know what they're doing.

Originally Posted by buzzpat

I never went on mil leave. I was already retired. I was furloughed and did defer recall for a bit. My DOH was 6/01, furloughed 11/01, recalled in 2007 and came back 2/2008. My "benefits start date" according to the vacation peeps is August of 2002.