You know you just seem unable to engage in reasonable debate.

But if you want to play that game, how about this...you have no more concept of what it takes to work for the pilot group via union work and doing your best to advance the pilots' collective good than a toddler has of nuclear physics--however you DO know what it feels like to get a perverse adrenaline rush from juvenile keyboard insults.

That said, you are correct about the SD memo--it was a blatant violation of the contract. In fact I was shocked when I first read it because it was so blatant and in our face--actually quite unlike how DL management has behaved in the past.

Having actually done union work in the past--keyboard missiles don't count, by the way--I can tell you unequivocally that in my personal experience the company did not willfully violate the contract. Violations did occur, usually due to schedulers hastily piecing together some trip coverage, or an automation error. In fact we had to fight the company for three months when a computer automation error resulted in a senior pilot getting overlooked for a trip that he should have gotten. Then, even though the software hiccup was not malicious, the company THEN dug in their heels and insisted that there was no harm, no foul. After we finally told the company that this was going to a grievance, they paid up and fixed the problem.

In my experience that was the extent of their maliciousness--at worst a willingness to believe that they were right and no violation occurred, even when the evidence was that one did in fact occur.

But other than the SD memo--which was a bad move--the company truly doesn't deliberately violate the contract--at least until now. I acknowledge that we have a lot of NW management types now running the show, and a year or two from now I might be the loudest decrying management's deliberate violations.

Speaking of union work, I'm curious: Does the person who sends out the council Hotline every Sunday get paid for doing that on Sunday, or is strictly volunteer work without any form of pay?

Depends on the Council.

Smaller councils depend on support services from either the ATL office, or from Herndon.

ATL and DTW have LEC offices (with one staff person each, I think), but I'm sure they don't work weekends.

I'd have to guess most reps are fully able to launch a council update themselves. No, it's not paid...reps don't get paid anything extra. Trip drops for meetings, lounge visit week and any official LEC work (like a representation).

Everything else is on their own time. Waxing poetic in updates, phone calls, emails, etc, which is pretty much what %90 of a reps work is. Taking care of the pilots in the council is primary focus.

Nu

Is this the same guy who voted against the Narita agreement and then in public touted it as a outstanding achievement under KR's leadership? That left several people somewhat befuddled!

Delta Dash is positive space so it pretty much goes on the next flight. You have to drop off your shipment a few hours before whatever flight you want it on at the Delta Cargo facility. You also must book your shipment ahead of time but you can do this via phone call. They have a space available option but it was only a few dollars quicker.

Scoop

Thanks - I will check it out.

Scoop

Can't help you with the commute, but I have to think that 5:15 per day means that an 83-hour line will be no more than 15 days come November (unless you wind up with trips that get back 0000-0200).

As I understand it, the cure period is a 3-year period that covers that last two years of the prior measurement period, plus a new year (Year 4). The idea that that we have to do so much flying in the Year 4 that it makes up for any shortfall in the prior two years, such that the 3-year cure period (Years 2-4) is in compliance.

Assuming that to be the case, everything returns to "normal," and the Company is free to fall far enough down in Year 5 that the 3-year period ending in Year 5 is below the required minimum. They must then make up that shortfall in Year 6, and so on.

No. the TLV applies only to Delta flying and is measured by position (e.g., 7ER A).

af/klm jv...

I don't know enough about the way Delta's arrangement within the JV works, but I have to imagine that they cannot simply require AF or KLM to stop flying certain routes and let Delta pick them up instead.