I hope you never have to do this, but if you sat at the controls of a -900 after all the time in a 757, you'd be bewildered to come up with any stretch of any imagination that it is a suitable, key: suitable, replacement for the 757.

Word is HNL mechanics are going to school for the 900. Islands, here they come. Anyone remember the small provision slipped into the last loa?...

 

I'm pretty sure it's limited to streaking, watching the Kelly Files, drinking Torpedos, and watching FtB do Frank the Tank. Feeling Mrs. FtB is off the table.

 

I predict we will see a bid in November with the earliest conversion date being 01DEC2014 for the conversion window. This will be the last bid with the fences.

The following bid would be put out in January 2015 with the earliest conversion date being 31JAN2015 for the conversion window. This would be the first bid without fences.

This is JMHO after reading MEC Updates 13-08 and 14-05. Those say that the Company will post its final advance entitlement or displacement bid in 2014 such that the bid will open and close and the first conversion date under the bid will occur on or before the first day of the December 2014 bid period. That bid is supposed to be identified as the final bid in which the Conditions and Restrictions of the BEH award will be applied. After that bid, they are not supposed to post a subsequent advance entitlement or displacement bid until after the first day of the January 2015 bid period. That bid will be identified as the first bid in which all eligible pilots will participate following the expiration of the fences.

 

You are banned from the no-fly list, get ready, because you'll be stuck with me on a downtown JAN sooner or later.

 

"Hey honey, yeah, my friends from the internet are coming over to drink beer in our basement and our curious as to what would happen if I taste the sweet nectar of beer, I mean draft, cold one, libation, brewskie, oat soda, cerveza, barley pop, puke fuel, boredom-be-gone, loudmouth soup, real man's Zima, Homer Juice, keg guts, beeeeeer!, pre-pee, weed's best friend, rocketsauce, mother, varsity Shirley Temple, time travel in a bottle, suds, soldier, Gutterade, barley legal, bitter batter, liquid bread, silly seltzer, brew dog, giggle water, liquid courage, pre-spiked punch, bubbly muscles, hard O'Douls, social lubricant, icanbeatithome, secret ingredient X, tummy buster, brain hammer, elbow benders, daddy's milk, redneck wine, 12 oz. curl, antidote, hello-goodbye, potent potable, chugger's delight, liquid wrecking ball, hops scotch, un-water."

 

It's my understanding that while an arbitrator could certainly rule for damages in almost anyway they see fit, they tend to avoid "coming down with the throw hammer" on one side or the other as a matter a self preservation. Ultimately the arbitrators on the standing list used for the Delta Pilot's System Board of Adjustment (11 neutrals total) are selected by both parties. If an arbitrator is viewed as going off the reservation by one side or the other, they could find themselves either no longer on the list or consistently one of the first ones struck from the list when choosing a neutral for a specific case. If you don't get selected, you're not getting paid. Granted, these same arbitrators are used at virtually every airline and Delta is certainly not the only source of income by any stretch, but the logic still applies.

For the record, I much prefer the throw hammer with the JV issue at hand.

 

Preach it brother Carl!! I couldn't agree more. The length of the announcements drives me bonkers. You tell the FAs it'll be a short taxi, but sure enough, you're number 1 and that PA has just gotten to the part about the life vests.

 

According to the last paragraph of Moak's statement on page 5 of the July 2014 Air Line Pilot magazine, "As I'm sure you've heard, I've made the decision to end my presidential term at the close of this cycle." I take that to mean he's not going to run, but it's not like we haven't all heard that line before.

 

Love me some Pliny!!

 

Alright, since I'm on a rant roll...I'm on my way out west on Delta and they won't stop playing that boarding music from John Legend singing "All of me". I swear if I hear that whiney song one more time:





Carl