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Originally Posted by iceman49 (Post 1698376)

How the middle class got screwed: College costs, globalization and our new Insecurity Economy - Salon.com

Big College will go bust at some point.

Tree don't grow to space to support the lazy professors.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1698427)

Big College will go bust at some point.

Tree don't grow to space to support the lazy professors.

College has really been dumb downed as well. My little cousin is going through the same University, and program I went through. I kept all my books, and class notes from when I went through it a decade ago. In comparing the syllabus, the workload has literally been cut in half from the same classes I took back then. He will graduate with the same degree I have, but with pretty much half the work.

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Originally Posted by TheManager (Post 1698149)

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?...

Word is DAL has a team of folks in CHS at the 787 final assembly plant. I'm sure they're just looking at everything for the RFP.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1698427)

Big College will go bust at some point.

Tree don't grow to space to support the lazy professors.

My Dad was a college prof and he was anything but lazy. Painting everyone with the same brush would be like calling all pilots arrogant because of Captain Happy.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1698427)

Big College will go bust at some point.

Tree don't grow to space to support the lazy professors.

Big college will go bust. But it won't be due to teacher salaries, which haven't really grown that much. Instead it will be due to the exponential rise in the number of "administrators," and their pay.

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Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1698435)

Word is DAL has a team of folks in CHS at the 787 final assembly plant. I'm sure they're just looking at everything for the RFP.

What do you think the team will glean from the observation as far as the RFP, thought the days of individual airlines tailoring the aircraft were over. Sounds like a boondoggle.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1698420)

Wouldn't he have had to accomplish more than he accomplished in order to become a consultant anybody would want to hire?

Accomplish more than taking labor risk completely off the table at Delta? Can't imagine what more Delta and A4A could have hoped for.

Carl

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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 1698356)

I got them from alpa.org, then PAC, then list of non-incumbent contributions. Here is a reposting yet again of those numbers:

This is from the list of non-incumbents to which ALPA PAC supported financially for candidates to win House and Senate seats:

2007-2008: Democrats 21...Republicsns 0

2009-2010: Democrats 24...Republicans 3

2011-2012: Democrats 40...Republicans 5

2013-2014: Democrats 21...Republicans 1

It clearly shows (as if we didn't already know) that ALPA PAC is a far left wing supportive political organization. The only way you can get away with that in a union that has primarily conservatives as its members is to lie about what you do. Use terms like "pilot partisan" etc. when the reality is that when it comes to getting new congressmen to unseat incumbents, ALPA PAC supports democrats almost always, and republicans almost never. Again, the data is from YOUR website.

Yes that's a part of the incumbents list where you necessarily have to contribute to both sides. When you look at the full list of incumbents (house and senate incumbents) it's 135 Democrats to 92 republicans. Even though there are more republicans than democrats in the legislative branch. So yet again, ALPA PAC leans heavily democrat...even among incumbents.

No need, just the numbers that I posted above regarding incumbents: 135 Democrats, 92 Republicans.

The defense either can't read, or you don't want to read. That non-incumbent list is complete proof of what ALPA PAC is...a very far left political support group.

The truth rests.

Carl

Bless your heart, Carl. It was unfair of me to count incumbents when you're making a point purely based on challengers. And you're right about "very far left" because adverbs.

It may come as a surprise to you, but there are certain politicians who aren't supportive of the issues that matter to airline pilots, as demonstrated by their stated positions or voting record. It would be counter productive for ALPA to support their political ambitions, but their party affiliation has no bearing on the process.

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Originally Posted by iceman49 (Post 1698449)

What do you think the team will glean from the observation as far as the RFP, thought the days of individual airlines tailoring the aircraft were over. Sounds like a boondoggle.

My guess is Delta goes mainly with an Airbus product (probably the 330neo) but, with the growth and planned growth in Seattle, a bone will have to be thrown to Boeing....

Denny

777-300LR's are the only real replacement for the 747's. Unless, of course, you consider codesharing as a replacement.

If they displace 1/4 of our 747 pilots next year (barring an early-out program) there will be a massive downward bid tempered only a little by the 330 deliveries. Any aircraft we order in October will take at least 2-3 years to materialize.

So we've got that going for us ...