Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
07-08-2014 | 06:10 PM
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how about every month you work (i.e. flew the line, sat reserve or worked as an sli) (sup and FPL do not count) you get 1 day of pay at the ADG. By the end of the year if you worked every month you get 63 hours of pay.
Thoughts? I pulled that one right out of the ole' bottom.
Thoughts? I pulled that one right out of the ole' bottom.
07-08-2014 | 06:18 PM
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... who took pictures of me eating lunch during a scheduled 39 minute turn?
07-08-2014 | 06:34 PM
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Profit sharing is a gamble plain and simple. Profit sharing also does not compound. The last contract the 4 percent signing bonus combined with the 8.5 raise gave us 12.8 increase in hourly wages. Historically profit sharing has been a very bad gamble in the airline industry.
07-08-2014 | 07:12 PM
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07-08-2014 | 07:14 PM
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Can anyone shed some light on 3rd party applications or software that can help Delta pilots with iCrew or bidding? I've heard small things of icrewmax and easy bid, but was hoping someone would post reviews and/or information about other software worth checking out.
Thanks
Thanks
07-08-2014 | 07:18 PM
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Satch...in short, yes. I'll risk an indefinite period of no wage growth. It's absolutely essential to let the company know we're not going to accept a bad deal just to get it done.
Furthermore, let's see MD go on record with the same message. "We will take as long as necessary to attain a contract befitting Delta's record profits--as witnessed by massive increases in every meaningful measurement--including executive compensation [insert stat here].
Let's get it on the record now, and launch an offensive. I'm tired of the company taking the initiative and DALPA always reacting/caught a step behind.
I guess I disagree with the premise that we "aren't offering anything." First, we should note that most guys on the property contributed very heavily when times were bad. That loan is due. There is no reason to give more now.
What we have to "offer" is labor peace. RA relies heavily on the perception that Delta is above labor strife. It's a big part of his move to make Delta an "investment grade" organization. If picketing starts and things get messy, investors--already gunshy about airline stocks--will bolt.
Furthermore, let's see MD go on record with the same message. "We will take as long as necessary to attain a contract befitting Delta's record profits--as witnessed by massive increases in every meaningful measurement--including executive compensation [insert stat here].
Let's get it on the record now, and launch an offensive. I'm tired of the company taking the initiative and DALPA always reacting/caught a step behind.
I guess I disagree with the premise that we "aren't offering anything." First, we should note that most guys on the property contributed very heavily when times were bad. That loan is due. There is no reason to give more now.
What we have to "offer" is labor peace. RA relies heavily on the perception that Delta is above labor strife. It's a big part of his move to make Delta an "investment grade" organization. If picketing starts and things get messy, investors--already gunshy about airline stocks--will bolt.
I'm checking the mail every day for the luggage tags that say "Get R Done" from national.
07-08-2014 | 07:29 PM
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07-08-2014 | 07:48 PM
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Not at all. 99% of all soccer games are 2 hours of jogging that end in a 1-1 tie, the players all flop, the clock never stops and the action on the rediculously huge field is so slow its like watching ping pong played on a table the size of an aircraft carrier.
07-08-2014 | 07:49 PM
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07-08-2014 | 07:59 PM
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Funny thing is not that long ago when the bus was going the LGA-BOS portion, tons of flights were over 100 pax and the landed gentry up that way was saying mainline was going to get DCA back too. Then suddenly it all became the outsourced DC-9-10's.
What probably happened was marketing ran the averages as if it was just a regular city pair, and found the per flight demand to be comfortably under 76 seats so they "right sized" it to the DC-9-10 at DCI. But the peak flights that were over that mean after the switch we started turning customers away, and the ones we kept are on an inferior outsourced product. Airways still runs 100 seater mainline E190's on it and A319's on DCA. DL has yielded the bulk of the market to them while turning away peak pax (many of which happen to be ultra HVC's) and driving others to the competition where they then gain FF miles on another system.
Rumor is 717 to get some or all of it back, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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