Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
03-06-2014, 06:00 PM
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03-06-2014, 06:01 PM
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W t f.... Hawaiian air has some kinda box under seats b c and f. Totally takes up all the room for feet for guys in those rows let alone being able to stick a bag under there! What a ripoff it's like getting half the seat the guy next to you gets. Knees hurting already.
03-06-2014, 06:04 PM
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I hesitate to say this out loud on the forum, but I like you guys so . . . .
I envision the spill week from NOV into DEC going uber senior in the future. Using the spill/slide where you slide days in either month independently, one could (with sufficient seniority to ensure the slides) use that one week of vacation to cover up Thanksgiving and Christmas. Same could be done for Christmas/New Year's Day, etc, etc.
Of course, if someone is senior enough to KNOW that they're going to be able to slide over holidays, then they could just bid those days off in the monthly PBS request anyways. Another strategy, would be a guy bidding 2 weeks of vacation that start in the last few days of NOV - he then slides back a few days to cover up Turkey day, and then slides the other 10ish days backward to take the end of DEC off. These strategies can be augmented/improved by sharpshooting Purchased/SUPP Vacation days as desired.
^^^Btw, public service announcement: if you want to place purchased/SUPP vacation days without company concurrence, you must do so before the end of March (subject to minor limitations in APR/DEC/JAN per PWA.) Once the vacation year begins on APR 1, any of these sharpshooting opportunities require company concurrence - ie: the week you're attempting to purchase/PB in must be available.
Now look at this flashy bulb thingy (still don't know how to post pics) and forget everything I just said before next year's vacation bidding
I envision the spill week from NOV into DEC going uber senior in the future. Using the spill/slide where you slide days in either month independently, one could (with sufficient seniority to ensure the slides) use that one week of vacation to cover up Thanksgiving and Christmas. Same could be done for Christmas/New Year's Day, etc, etc.
Of course, if someone is senior enough to KNOW that they're going to be able to slide over holidays, then they could just bid those days off in the monthly PBS request anyways. Another strategy, would be a guy bidding 2 weeks of vacation that start in the last few days of NOV - he then slides back a few days to cover up Turkey day, and then slides the other 10ish days backward to take the end of DEC off. These strategies can be augmented/improved by sharpshooting Purchased/SUPP Vacation days as desired.
^^^Btw, public service announcement: if you want to place purchased/SUPP vacation days without company concurrence, you must do so before the end of March (subject to minor limitations in APR/DEC/JAN per PWA.) Once the vacation year begins on APR 1, any of these sharpshooting opportunities require company concurrence - ie: the week you're attempting to purchase/PB in must be available.
Now look at this flashy bulb thingy (still don't know how to post pics) and forget everything I just said before next year's vacation bidding
03-06-2014, 06:04 PM
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Captain Smooth?
See below, he's the one sitting next to what appears to be a jackass with its head out the window.
How do I know that's a jackass? Easy. If The Thing in the right seat makes you carry his bags and computer purse from terminal A to D, while he goes back to his car to get his phone, and then posts on apcf on the bus ride back and all of this is prior to commencing your first leg together.... jackass.
Not a true story. I made it up.
See below, he's the one sitting next to what appears to be a jackass with its head out the window.
How do I know that's a jackass? Easy. If The Thing in the right seat makes you carry his bags and computer purse from terminal A to D, while he goes back to his car to get his phone, and then posts on apcf on the bus ride back and all of this is prior to commencing your first leg together.... jackass.
Not a true story. I made it up.
03-06-2014, 07:34 PM
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I don't think ALPA's concerned about a flood of airlines offering to hire Americans to fly 777's for "significantly more" than the Legacies pay now, it's the companies that will pay less and base in Singapore that is the threat. Creation of stateless carriers will turn the industry into the maritime industry and in quick order Africa, ME, and Central America will hold the certificates to the worlds aircraft cause, hey, no oversight, limited regulation, and look how cheap the fares are.
The airlines operating in the US should be. I remember when we were in BK, Grinstein, on two occasions, expressed concern in private conversations about pilots, mostly FOs, leaving for foreign carriers.
With state side basing for those same gigs, they are going to attract way more pilots. When their compen$ation out runs what companies here are willing to part with, even more will be enticed.
Competition will not be only be for the passenger and their dollars, but for the currently trained and experienced crews. Take them from a competitor and even better.
03-06-2014, 07:43 PM
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Going forward, yes. The ones there get grandfathered. There is zero reason to go overseas now. Every legacy is going to be hiring in droves for the foreseeable future. If you go to a foreign owned carrier ESPECIALLY if they have US bases... blackball.
03-06-2014, 07:46 PM
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Assuming it is done above board. Why didn't guys who wore brown suits that didn't get hired at DAL sue? Because they couldn't prove it. This is war. And of course a union that has a good working relationship with management might be able to "suggest" that those that went to a foreign owned carrier were directly contributing to unfair competition, and ultimately cabotage issues that will probably arise before you and I retire... therefore... since resumes never get seen... ooops, just didn't make the cut. too bad.
03-06-2014, 07:50 PM
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03-06-2014, 07:52 PM
Da Hudge
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03-06-2014, 07:57 PM
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I got another for ya.
I won't ever bid the 747/777/A330 left seat. (Not that I will be able to hold them before age 95 is implemented anyway) So you don't have to worry about me getting in your way there.
You are one number closer.
I won't ever bid the 747/777/A330 left seat. (Not that I will be able to hold them before age 95 is implemented anyway) So you don't have to worry about me getting in your way there.
You are one number closer.
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