Thanks for the input, as well as Bar and others!

I rarely get to go to a BX, and I've flown with an increasing amount of pilots that have them for various purposes. This seemed like a good deal, and I'd like to take longer videos than my iphone's memory will allow with all the other por....umm...whoops... pictures and stuff on it.

5 bucks to the first pilot I see walking down the terminal with one mounted on top of their hat. :)


Btw- the raw buckets need to be more variable. There were many months where I flew considerably more than 90% of the other reserve pilots involuntarily due to the size of the buckets and my juniority at the time. It takes around 2 4-day trips to get out of bucket 1, or at least a 4 day and a 3 day. 7 days worked is greater than half my regular month as a lineholder. I hold mostly the trips I want as a lineholder now, and won't be moving for another couple years, so this isn't my fight per say... but we gotta look at the big picture and see what's going on.

Oh, and every management group says their pilot group needs to be more efficient. I flew 1000 hours a year every year at Pinnacle, and guess what they told us all the time? We're sick too much and are less efficient than other carriers. That sure sounds familiar...

Anyone notice a flight attendant was just put in charge of negotiating the next pilot contract?

Well why not? They are taking the same chances as the pilots. I sincerely hope some type of fermentation was involved in your observation...:D

I sincerely hope you are joking. Reminds me of a certain flight attendant put in charge of marketing. That didn't turn out so well... Billboards in English in Warsaw (were it was nearly impossible, for a long time, to learn anything but Polish or Russian) and in Paris (were the people are not the biggest fans of the English language).

Maybe it will turn out better this time. :eek:

Hey you 88A guys better step up! 45 hours a month? Yer killin' me! I'm werkin' my a$$ off here!

Oh! That f/a negotiating our contract just happens to be an LA call girl who has RA's fetish down pat! (I hope)

The union says our contract is mature.
The company says labor risk has been completely taken off the table.

Do you think anybody is expecting tough negotiations?

Having a flight attendant in charge of our contract could be good.
Maybe she'll put hot food in the lounge on Christmas Day instead of a baloney sandwich in a paper bag.

She was never a FA, was she? Came from another corp. But I still see the irony.

Sailing fun, not trying to pick a fight but those numbers have zero supporting documentation. Maybe it's buried somewhere in the website I didn't see. Does this account for:

International ops that require 3-4 crew members
Mil leave (Delta must have a higher% than carriers such as Frontier)
Training, special assignment, 4th floor, manager etc. pilots supporting the operation
Sick leave pilots
Any adjustment for our diff fleet types versus SWA and others
Our more mature (cough old farts) pilot ranks
There's much more considerations but I'm just not that smart...

Thanks for posting nonetheless.

Do you have a source? Link to an article? I would like to read up on their background.



Anyone think a Flight Attendant has the authority to negotiate our next contract? I would guess they shuffled the deck chairs as Mike Campbell retires and Ms. Smith has a long history of Delta service; including Song.

Management has pushed the pause button, which kinda makes sense. The NMB process is anathematic to getting a deal done; nothing much happens until such action is compelled. In the mean time, why waste money by sending people actually empowered to the table? It seems when the horse trading starts Ed and Richard are in the loop pretty quickly.

Management's message is received, just as it has been from blowing off our transatlantic joint venture. So they parked us and have acted in bad faith (which will finally have a formal distinction at the end of the "cure" period). IMHO, that cuts in our favor. Management is justifying our self help.

I could care less who management sends to the table, but I sure want them to abide their scope deals.