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The front end of that airplane is UGLY (A350)!

That is some good lookin' machine. MPL's will be all over it.

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Originally Posted by bluejuice71 (Post 1635914)

The front end of that airplane is UGLY (A350)!

It and the 787 share a very similar schnozz... The 787 is a bit more slanted but squattier and fatter looking. Not a fan of either of their noses.

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1635917)

It and the 787 share a very similar schnozz... The 787 is a bit more slanted but squattier and fatter looking. Not a fan of either of their noses.

Don't matter, you'll be looking out not in.:D

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1635917)

It and the 787 share a very similar schnozz... The 787 is a bit more slanted but squattier and fatter looking. Not a fan of either of their noses.

Who gives a rip what they look like. They are WB airplanes. As long as they can do the job and make money for the company and by extension, us, I say, "Bring it!"

Can't be any worse than this idea:
http://designblog.nzeldes.com/wp-con...boeing767x.jpg

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/galler...08_7_51_43.JPG

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Originally Posted by Justdoinmyjob (Post 1635950)

I'll give you that. I'll fly the tumor67 tomorrow. :)

It would have been cool if they added windows to the front of the hump.

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Originally Posted by bluejuice71 (Post 1635914)

The front end of that airplane is UGLY (A350)!

It's better looking then this unpoportioned pig
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...9943277%29.jpg

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Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 1635873)

Bring all the DCI jets to mainline, staple the guys who are flying them onto our list, up the payrates, newhires at Delta start in a DCI jet, every single regional pilot in the U.S will apply to come to Delta, staffing issue solved.

Or go buy every used 319 in the world (I would say 717's and MD 90's as well but we already own almost all of those in the world) and up the utilization to crazy levels.

Either way we are screwed for this summer. Everyone needs to stop putting in GS's and just do GSWC's. We had 7 GS's today in SLC which is a crazy number for a small category in May.

If management costed it out and felt we can do the flying the last thing they would do is merge the feed. It would be much simpler and cheaper to let the feed contracts expire and grow the mainline. No merger nightmares and you add a bunch of first year employees happy to be hired verses multiple airlines employees showing up slinging lawsuits left and right. It would look exactly like the ongoing 717 program at Delta!

There are two major issues with your plan. First if history prevails they are not going to accept a staple. It will go to arbitration. Second you have to be able to do that flying at a competitive rate to the rest of the industry. If not you lose that flying and some of your mainline flying as feed dries up. You then have a smaller airline and lots of furloughed pilots.

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Originally Posted by Dorfman (Post 1635674)

As many like to say on this board you have to "connect the dots" so I will add a few dots.

The new hire number has been upped again this year I have this confirmed by a someone in the new hire program. More and bigger classes coming in June.

As for where is the lift coming...think utilization rates as much as air frames. They will be pushing these rates even more this summer. So we will find the lift but that probably won't fix the DCI shortfall because of our own staffing issue. Talked to a person down in ATL who works with staffing that says we will have problems flying our own summer schedule let alone trying to pick up the

You are correct. We are pilot not airframe limited for the summer. Keep in mind however as soon as Purple shows all his job loss data from contract 2012 crew planning will stop the hiring and ad more block hours. Problem solved!