I am unfamiliar with FOQA, can someone give a quick sumup?

As I say every month... %)(@#*$!@!!!!! @#)(!

You just don't understand, they really love me.

Oh, it won't set in with me. When we get those rates back, and I do believe that we can someday get them back, I will be the king of flying min guarantee instead of flying to the cap. To provide my family with just a few nice things in life and a short vacation once per year, I need to make 100K per year so that is what I try to do. When min guarantee will make me that amount, that's what I'll do, until then I'll be flying to the cap with a greenslip request in for the entire month.

Give me the odds, what are the chances we'd ever see C2K numbers again? And what are the chances we'd keep the numbers? If anyone has those numbers, throw them in.

I lived 20 minutes from the airport, scheduling knew who I was, and I worked whenever there was a red flag day. It was cake at XJT to credit 110 hours and still have 15 days off. I wish we had the vacation policy, red flag days at premium pay, and the trip trade system we had at XJT. It made making money and still having a life very easy.

That is the million dollar question. I know I will try for the same buying power of C2K. The rates would provide 30% less buying power today than they did in 2001. Do not forget that.

Aren't you on the on the -9? You don't have to worry about it :)

FOQA (Flight Operation Quality Assurance) is a data mining program, that allows a download of numerous flight and mechanical parameters. With analysis the operator can view trends, eg stabalized approaches, flap deployment, etc. Let say on a tail strike...what was the thrust, speed, configuration, yoke or stick position; with that info you could get a better idea as to what possibly caused the incident.

The program is part of a comprehensive safety program; along with asap the combination becomes a powerful safety and training tool which will improve training and safety.

Its an incredible program that will help the company become safer and more efficent. My explanation is probably an oversimplification but from my perspective..currently the best tool for safety.

I think the odds are good we will get back there, probably not in one contract cycle, but maybe two depending on what the economy is like when we hit the amendable dates. I'm thinking if we got SWA rates +10% for the 800, all narrowbodies paid at that same rate, all widebodies indexed to that based on seat numbers, and an annual raise that equaled the rate of inflation (including energy costs), I'd be happy. That would put a 10 year narrowbody FO at $140/hr and a 12 year CA at $218/hr. I'm not sure how that compares to the 737 rates from C2K.

At Continental Express?!? Must have been after my time, I bailed in 2005.