Originally Posted by Alan Shore (Post 1650231)

While I did argue on this board that they were no less safe than a leg to SA or an all-nighter ANC - ATL,

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1650294)

For insomniacs, very cool meteor shower tonight. May wake the kids about 3:20 in North America.


We will pass through an old debris trail from 209P/LINEAR tonight and tommorrow. This one will look like a hyperspace leap towards the North Pole because of the angle of the collision. Should be a good show with 100 to 400 meteors per hour which are larger than typical.

Originally Posted by Purple Drank (Post 1650340)

First...as I mentioned a while back, I am fortunate that I didn't need the loan. Someone else might.

How does you mocking their situations foster "unity?" Pretty low class, really. For that matter, how does you playing the north/south card promote unity?

Let's look at this whole process from management's perspective.

Today, they had a hotwash with their union buster to critique the test run of their C15 strategy. It's called "Divide and Conquer."

Here's how it works:

- the union buster writes a memo that totally ignores the contract. SD signs it.

- DALPA hems, haws and fails to provide decisive leadership, implicitly condoning the memo

- the company takes hostages by monetarily and psychologically penalizing those who stand up for the contract

- DALPA doesn't do jack **** to assist the hostages

- the guys who step up despise DALPA for a lack of backbone

- guys who aren't personally affected see DALPA rolling over; disunity ensues

- several months or years later, DALPA produces an inadequate TA and MD writes a "victory lap" memo

- yada yada yada (the closest description I can manage to describe what just happened)

- we get our asses handed to us a la C12

Bar, you preach "unity" but blindly fail to recognize that DALPA's actions (or inactions) are largely at fault.

Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1650566)

So at least I have something to look forward to on my San Juan late late nighter.... Thanks. Seriously.

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 1650387)

Translation: I'm too scared to ever do anything but take whatever is offered first.

Originally Posted by Hawaii50 (Post 1650487)

Oh boy Carl's back! Are those helicopters black?

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1650568)

Stop drooling, wake up and look left. :D

And you're *****ing about a night flight to San Juan?

Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1650573)

Not *****ing about it really. I just failed bidding this month and it wasn't my preference. I don't like backside of the clock and I can finally avoid it....

Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1650564)

And like I replied, that logic is flawed, and just plain wrong.

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 1650547)

ADG going to 5:15 is a possible good thing depending on how management responds to attempt to use or misuse it. Crew rest on the A330 appears to be a clear improvement also. Everything else seems like moving the deck chairs around at best.