So you agree with my estimate that 45%+ of the pilot group has armed the autoyes mode?

Do you agree with MY estimate that 45% of the pilot group has armed the autono mode?

That would have been our resident "everything NWA is bad" poster. BB

So what if they are. Isn't each person's vote their own?

Thanks for posting that. Despite what people say, it's nice to see additional Captain positions. As a junior FO, those are all higher paying than me - great.

For a new hire - even better. Means more hiring probably.

For a 777 FO - less exciting because unless he wants positions more on the right side of the chart. In fact, the 717 and M88 Captain positions might be the same pay, not higher because the FOs might be able to get GS as a Senior FO.

People here are trying to say that because there haven't been a Captain position on aircraft X in base Y there hasn't been growth. Well - maybe not for THEM but for many others there has been.

But, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's nice for all FOs to have the opportunity of 717A if they want it.

On paper, the 777A, 747A and 330A positions are coming. The retirement numbers are there, and the 330's start showing up next year. Unless we are planning to shrink the fleet from the top, those positions are opening up starting end of 2014 and continuing on. This is just the beginning of movement for the list. The only difference from past years is that because of age 65, the guys at the top of the list aren't generating any movement yet, as they did in the past. The movement now is pure growth, albeit at the narrobody level. When it starts at the top also, Katy, bar the door.

Someone asked about GS while on a PD. Here's all that the contract has to say about picking up any flying while on a PD or APD, from sect 23I:

A pilot will not be awarded a white slip, GS, GSWC, IA, IAWC, yellow slip, or swap for
23 a rotation that is scheduled to operate on a day on which APD appears on his schedule.
24 10. A reserve pilot will not be awarded a GS, IA, or yellow slip for a rotation that is
25 scheduled to operate during a day of his PD.

Looks like a regular line holder CAN do anything he wants on top of a PD,
a reserve guy CAN'T,
and no one can fly on top of an APD day.

I hope it doesn't land on Guam. A plane that size would capsize the crap out of a small island like that.

Honestly I think it just got lost. I mean most U.S. Americans don't even have maps.

I love cats. I love every kind of cats. I just want to hug them all, but I can't; can't hug every cat.

Props to the J-schools of the world though, srsly. They are cranking out some super great stuff right now.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++717

Certainly.

However, if that number is in the ballpark, it will greatly impede our ability to negotiate a contract anywhere near "restoration." Or much more than "cost neutral," for that matter.

If it's just a matter of convincing a small number of "non-automatic" folks to accept a mediocre TA, we'll see more of these mediocre TAs (and more full-bore sales jobs from the company/DALPA sharpshooting a very small demographic). It's the path of least resistance.