What made NERD's post interesting to me was turning the conversation to a different topic: the next generation.

I don't think it's important to indict or congratulate the current generation, or award "good" and "bad" labels to individuals that participated. Instead, I think it's time to talk about what we're going to do next.

 

I think it's always better to look forward, yesterday is just that, yesterday.

 

That makes sense. I agree completely that the bench should be deeper. I'd like to see term limits as a device to ensure new blood is required, and cycled through.

As for your point about regional guys coming up, I hope they don't get so wrapped-up around the relationship between mainline and regionals, that they lose track of the forest and the trees.

I tend to think the regional model is broken, and pilot recruitment issues will only accelerate the inevitable end. I suspect that flying will continue to migrate home naturally, and I would be nervous about guys trying to purchase it. When it gets to the point where management recognizes it, and shrinks the outsourced portion on their own, and doesn't even use the allotted 50-seaters, then we can negotiate to lock in the new numbers.

I'm OK with the Scope trade in C2012, but it's now more and more obvious that up-gaging, and transferring flying to mainline, is a logical process, driven by economics. Let's be patient, not yield anything on the RJ side, and focus on the large-gauge end of the outsourcing spectrum.

 

Crew Tracking

800 DAL CREW

 

I mostly agree except for the bold part.

I've said probably a dozen times on here that profit sharing is a scam to make you feel "like part of the organization". Give me dollars that can't be manipulated by the accountants, either in direct compensation or work rules. For the life of me, I don't know how we ever got on this profit sharing bandwagon?

Ferd

 

Ask a B Scale guy how he felt about B Scale. It is a similar political dynamic.

 

I would narrow that down to the concept of selling jobs for pay. A union owes all of it's members the same representational obligation. It is immoral to use the loss of one pilot's unemployment to give another pilot a pay subsidy.

 

I sure do miss Saipan and especially Godfathers! I'm hoping that someday we'll service it directly from SEA on da big bus so I can get back there Is Bobby Cadillac's still open? Just about the best Rubin I've ever had anywhere.

I haven't been in Super Stars in like forever. We're mostly overflying NRT out of SEA these days.

Ferd

 

You can also go onto the Net and select your aircraft type and then Hotels on the bottom right. It takes you right to the hotel's website. Also good for checking out eating and workout potential.

 

New Email from SD:


Surface Tablets will show up for everyone (even those that opted out with the BOYD), "We estimate distribution will begin in early August and will be complete in late September."

Thus, it has slipped another month to the right.

This is getting ridonkuloous!!!!

I'm glad Microsoft is a strategic business partners so get them to help with these stupid programs that will not work on half baked operating system that the Surface's will be running.