Gotcha. Thanks, thanks what I thought. An oversight on the reporters part. The Star Trib usually does a really good job reporting so I just wanted to make sure.
The "new" A330 seems to be more up Delta's alley in my opinion.

I've not heard anything like that from anywhere ... we have deferred 787 orders and A330 orders. I think some writer who does not know airplanes my have gotten the 330 and 350 confused. Who knows?

Its Wednesday.
Here's a gratuitous cheerleader post.


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Newbie questions
 

Happy to report I got a line for October--less than a month since IOE completion!--and I have a couple of questions:

1) So I'm Reserve in Sep, Regular in Oct; I have a reserve block (non-X days) ending 30 Sep; first rotation in Oct starts 02 Oct. What is 01 Oct treated as in terms of a day off: “hard” or “soft”? In other words, can I be extended on an assigned trip during what I hope is my last reserve block into my day off in Oct? Does my release on 30 Sep (assuming not assigned a trip) follow the "will be released" at 1200, or the "may request to be released" rules?

2) I need some specific days off in November (not Thanksgiving, I know better), so I will be bidding accordingly. Am I better off:
Hoping I can hold a line going forward, but happy to have these "problems" for Oct! Thanks for any help.

Jughead-
A regular line day off is a soft non-fly day. You can call for release at noon.

A reserve can be assigned flying into a regular line day off. Its one of the items on the coverage ladders. Section 23.N.9 and 23.O.9.

Carry-over trips are a crap shoot. They may end up helping you or hurting you. Nobody can predict. Most guys who are trying to control their schedule to the maximum extent possible will avoid them.

It's not 5% of profit sharing! it's 5% of our 2014 projected earnings, so I'm guessing it's about 50% of what we are projected to receive in PS. Didn't the last projection look like 10-12% of 2014 earnings for our profit sharing?

I hope I'm reading it right.

For 8 whole months!! Good job.

That's the way I read it too, 5% of your projected 2014 pay, which as you said, could be about 50% of your total profit sharing, the remainder to be paid on the normal Feb. 14th date.

Now I've got to wonder why?

Is this a move simply to pacify Wall Street, a little now, a little later, so the pay out next Feb. won't look so big and raise more questions like last time?

And what about that 4% raise? How you like'n that 3% now? Too bad you're not a "Front Line" employee!

Are the non-contract people talking Union again? That always gets them a small raise.

Maybe if WE talked about joining a Union, we could get better than a 3% raise too! :rolleyes:

No need. We have an association. ;)

I'm guessing it's to split the (larger than expected) payout over two tax years.