This is pretty cool...

For all you young guns, this is what flying used to be like... and it worked.

And if you missed the eclipse last night, you will have 3 more opportunities very soon.

See here

 

Love those standard military gauges. I have a friend that flies F-4's out of the desert to Tyndall to be converted into drones. They put about 300 hours on them before they shoot them down. He's an 88A and does it for fun and a little $.

 

More in just the sense that he just came from CP and is now encouraging taking the planes back ( which should be done) but hopefully he doesn't support his former co workers not going with them.

 

Hey Timbo,

I have missed the HNL layovers since we stopped serving it with my airplane but the good news they should be returning in June.

If a Hawaiian merger would occur, I have often thought about spending my pre-retirement years flying a narrow body doing day trips.

Hey... I guy can dream, can't he?

Hope you are doing well.

OC

 

You are correct - this management team is much better than many of the recent teams. Management used to spend billions on their "experiments" now according to the above post they are down to only "hundreds of millions."

Seriously though, I agree this management team is much better than the Ron/Leo/Fred/Grinstein crowd, but then again those guys set the bar so low Elmer Fudd would have been an improvement.

Scoop

 

Nerd/Brakechatter,

I don't have a dog in this hunt but I would think that you would both agree that "Airlines" don't really ruin other "Airlines" but rather that management ruins airlines.

Scoop

 

The May Capt. bids are available via the backdoor.

 

Yeah, I've thought about that too, or maybe flying a Twin Otter to Saint Somewhere, in the Carib. But I'll probably end up living in a van, down by the river!

 

Not all A's are out yet

 

Precisely. Kind of busy to be on here much anymore, but when I breeze through on a down day--something usually strikes a mini-chord with me. Usually it is pilots taking their eye, or trying to take the groups eyes off the ball with misinformation--as you have seen through.

USAir is an easy target due to the controversy of their SLI with AWA--where courts have actually ruled in the East's favor--bringing the discussion around to ethics. If we are going to delve into ethics, we should certainly evaluate practices at other airlines involving such things as outsourcing, scabbing, trip parking, sick calls, overtime flying while furloughs exist. By all means, questionable ethical practices vary in the eye of the beholder. One persons' questionable ethical practices are another's use of "all available means' within the bounds of law.

Being a bit closer to that situation gives guys the easy ping to think there is bias on my part, when in reality pretty much all of their information is incorrect--including NERDs. No question bias exists on my part, but it is more for the East pilots with whom I have done ALPA work; good union members, and good people who deserve more than they have--and have been doing this much longer than me as well as the people throwing barbs at them from a position of relative stupidity. These same people will change their viewpoint on longevity quite dramatically should the vicious rumor of a merger with a certain Pacific based airline come to fruition. Mine will stay the same, and recent arbitration activity has evolved to give some weight to longevity as well.

As for the "USAir ruined America West" argument, well, that was just laughable. You are correct in that it is a management thing (with DP from America West doing the initiating of the merger), and not a pilot thing, although you would think every pilot in the world grew up wanting to fly for America West when you hear them on here. I sure wish they, and other groups such as SWA, would have done something to improve this profession other than providing the "work more for less" mentality--but thats another discussion…as is arguably the second or third best contract in the industry at USAir back in 2001 when planes started flying into buildings. My opinion, biased as it may seem :roll eyes:, is that these types of airlines are primary catalyst in the erosion of Legacy contracts to there existence today.

Anyway the bias argument is merely a cop out for lack of meaningful discussion and admission that they were incorrect in their initial post. Pretty disappointing from an eagle guy, but whatever. Your point is correct, and more on topic than mine