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Not dumb and yes it is.

The E135 is a 37 seater, E140 is a 44 seater (hello scope clause work around) and the E135BJ... :D :D is the corporate version.

I was reading the AAL presser about adding 8 destinations from their hubs, and all but 1 are on those.

Bucking Bar

05-07-2014 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano (Post 1638101)

I'm always puzzled by the fact that some CA's ask me to call for push, then run the checklist. Others, the opposite. Shouldn't this be standard -- one way or the other?

And as long as I'm on my soapbox, why not just link out time with movement on all aircraft? Then the beacon will be a moo :p point. That is the essential point concerning "gate latency." Amirite?

Most of my flights, a gate agent interrupts the Captain, followed by the A Line and the ramper with a short in his cord, the power drops off line and he's trying to make a PA while the box dings with a cacophony of pre push fuel slip W&D record, runway data updates and a re-route.

He kinda looks over at me like ...

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-conte...013/09/rdj.gif

I reply "done." Then he releases the brakes.

Is it different on other people's flights?

tsquare

05-07-2014 10:03 AM

How many pilots?

What is the current head count and where does one find that? Also, what is the most senior new hire's number?

RonRicco

05-07-2014 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1638046)

Not investment advice:

IMO, the holders of special issue DAL 401K shares should have sold a long time ago and then rebought when it dove down to $6 and came back up a couple years ago in a separate investment account. That is what I did ($7)and as a shareholder, I am happy to take the dividend.

As I get older, I realize more and more the benefits of dividends as opposed to appreciation. They are both good, but there's nothing wrong with a dividend.

Another observation is that for the short-medium term, any time DAL drops down to the low 30s, it's a buy. It has very clearly shown it upward trending trading band. With that said, for the day trader in me, I should sell now and re-buy on the dip.

DYODD

I agree with you Scambo on dividends. A great book is "get rich with dividends." It takes a very long term look at what dividend reinvestment can do to your portfolio if you have at least 10 years to let it build..

When you show somebody what the result after 10 years of a stock that pays 5 percent, has increased there dividend by 5 percent or greater for 50 years, they typically don't believe it until they run their own numbers.

Splash

05-07-2014 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by gzsg (Post 1637745)

Donatelli is at the Red Sox game with Richard tonight. That says it all.

Were any of your reps there, too?

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Originally Posted by gzsg (Post 1637745)

Or are the pilot concessions taken in chapter 11 still necessary?

Given your personal history of voting against pay raises at NWA and DAL, is it still necessary for you to oppose progress?

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Originally Posted by gzsg (Post 1637745)

Silence is consent.

And sometimes noise is just noise.

buzzpat

05-07-2014 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1638192)

Exactly the same!

gloopy

05-07-2014 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by nwaf16dude (Post 1637580)

Couldn't resist doing the math on that. Wow. I could use a few 42K months.

Don't know about that, but if you bid to fly through ATL a lot you can get all the 23K months you want.

Purple Drank

05-07-2014 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano (Post 1638101)

And as long as I'm on my soapbox, why not just link out time with movement on all aircraft?

Sure...as long as our pay starts when the cabin door closes! :p

Purple Drank

05-07-2014 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferd149 (Post 1637662)

So, you would rather have a quick vs good deal? (I'm thinking FAR 117 "stuff")

I'm thinking that the fact we haven't settled for something we don't want is a good thing.

It's certainly is positive that DALPA hasn't rolled over yet. But that's not enough.

It's clear the company is playing hardball. Why not ramp up the pressure? For starters, DALPA needs to grant a no-interest loan to everyone being held hostage with PDs for following the contract.

I don't want a rushed, bad deal. Been there, done that with C12.

We should expect some vocal LEADERSHIP and some sign that MD will not lay down when the company starts stonewalling. Is that too much to ask?

gloopy

05-07-2014 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano (Post 1638089)

From what I hear, we are returning to a "break in the checklist," so that we can delay -- to the absolute last possible microsecond .....

... wait for it ....

...wait for it ....

...just a little bit longer ...

the turning on of the dreaded BEACON :eek:

Actually I think that will get us on the clock faster versus doing the checklist "by the book". If all you have left to do is the beacon, you'll save a little bit of time. Especially if you like to read the checklist in a way that the CA who is talking back and forth to someone else at the time anyway can hear you.

I'm more concerned with free piece of cheese called "door pay" sitting over there on that wodden plank. Looks so tasty and free too...

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