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Old 08-21-2014 | 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Purple Drank
why is it DALPA guys keep bringing up the DPA? why are you obsessing about this Seeham guy? Are you setting him up as an excuse for more negotiating incompetency from DALPA on C15? Giving MD some wiggle room on his promise of an "historic" contract?

"Well, we really wanted to negotiate an historic C15...we tried our best, but the DPA and this Seeham guy prevented it."

Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and *** the prom queen.
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Old 08-21-2014 | 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Purple Drank
why is it DALPA guys keep bringing up the DPA? why are you obsessing about this Seeham guy? Are you setting him up as an excuse for more negotiating incompetency from DALPA on C15? Giving MD some wiggle room on his promise of an "historic" contract?

"Well, we really wanted to negotiate an historic C15...we tried our best, but the DPA and this Seeham guy prevented it."

Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and *** the prom queen.

rotflmao........... you never fail to disappoint.

funny funny stuff.
Old 08-21-2014 | 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Purple Drank
why is it DALPA guys keep bringing up the DPA? why are you obsessing about this Seeham guy? Are you setting him up as an excuse for more negotiating incompetency from DALPA on C15? Giving MD some wiggle room on his promise of an "historic" contract?

"Well, we really wanted to negotiate an historic C15...we tried our best, but the DPA and this Seeham guy prevented it."

Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and *** the prom queen.

Another stellar post from the resident middle-schooler, who no more represents the typical Delta pilot than Anna Nicole Smith represented the typical widow (after her 90-year old billionaire husband died).
Old 08-21-2014 | 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by gzsg
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You approve of those pre pubescent ramblings? I thought you were smarter and more mature than that "Jerry". Guess I was wrong.
Old 08-21-2014 | 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Herkflyr
Another stellar post from the resident middle-schooler, who no more represents the typical Delta pilot than Anna Nicole Smith represented the typical widow (after her 90-year old billionaire husband died).
Herk, what or who is the typical Delta pilot? Thx
Old 08-21-2014 | 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by scambo1
One of these days, me and Timbo are going to get to do a ferry flight of an empty LR...it'll make the 787-9 takeoff angle look lame. We will also make the first turnoff in ATL when we land.
And promptly blow all the fuse plugs........
Old 08-21-2014 | 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by iceman49
Herk, what or who is the typical Delta pilot? Thx
Fair question. The "typical" Delta pilot is someone who you can enjoy drinking a beer with on a layover, isn't uptight, may not agree with your opinion, but when disagreeing offers a reasonable counterpoint, then says "another round."

Usually the guy actually likes flying airplanes for a living and doesn't apologize for that (I swear sometimes the anti-establishment groupthink on some of these web boards seems to equate not working with virtue, but actually showing up for work with a good attitude as vice). However, he also has a life outside of airplanes as well. He doesn't spend a lot of time on web boards constantly equating the DAL pilot group to a bunch of "Stockholm Syndrome" zombies.
Old 08-21-2014 | 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Purple Drank
Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and *** the prom queen.
As a supporter (or former supporter) of DPA, do you really want to use this analogy!?!

Sorry, that was just to good to pass up!

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Old 08-21-2014 | 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by scambo1
One of these days, me and Timbo are going to get to do a ferry flight of an empty LR...it'll make the 787-9 takeoff angle look lame. We will also make the first turnoff in ATL when we land.
Do they still allow non-revs on ferry flights? I'd like to be on that flight.
Old 08-21-2014 | 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by alfaromeo
What the East has created is a temporary fence. Right now it is working in their favor, you are correct. The problem with fences is that they all end. For instance, in the Northwest/Republic (Red Book/Green Book) merger, they had fences that lasted 18 years.
Interesting that alfaromeo loves to accuse me of telling whoppers.

The fences were 20 years, not 18.

Originally Posted by alfaromeo
When the fences were ready to expire, the Red Book team tried desperately to extend them.
I recall no such effort to extend the fences beyond 20 years. If there were, I never heard of it and will gladly apologize upon the showing of proof.

Originally Posted by alfaromeo
They had already negotiated LIFETIME reinstatement rights so that anyone displaced from the whales (red book) would have priority over other pilots (green book) for eternity.
There were no such lifetime protections for either pilot group...since the 20 year fences applied to both pilot groups.

Originally Posted by alfaromeo
They also filed a last ditch arbitration to extend the fence that was rejected out of hand.
Again, I recall no such arbitration to extend fences beyond 20 years. But will gladly apologize upon showing of proof.

Originally Posted by alfaromeo
When the DAL/NWA merger occurred, the lifetime reinstatement rights fell by the wayside and when the 744 staffing was expanded and the 747 freighters were displaced, the green book guys moved into the whale in large numbers. In the top 1/3 of the whale captains there are only 12 red book guys remaining. In fact, if you trace the militancy of Carl back in time, you can find how unhinged he got right around the time the green book guys took over the top half of the whale captain category list.
The green guys started occupying the top of the whale list well before the fences came down because the fences only applied to our original whales, not post merger whales. Since our merger went straight date of hire, they rightly occupied the top of the list...before the fences came down.

The fences came down in 2006 and I didn't join APC until 2008. How could you have tracked my "militancy" before I got here?

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