I get it, but I just talked with my mom that watches the news all the time.

She heard the report about how the second nurse from Dallas had flown on the Frontier flight. To her, that translated to: 'she got it from the airplane'.

The more the public knows about Ebola transmission, the better off we will be. Leaving it up to the public to figure out, will cost us all some money.

What about informational videos and PAs in the gate house and onboard during boarding? I don't think we are there yet, but we should be ready.

Something else I've thought about: proactively denying boarding to any people exhibiting any flu symptoms to prevent the quarantine like circumstances at the destination when the passengers stress out about potential ebola enroute. Civil liberties vs. protecting the operation.

The health worker treated the patient in Dallas, and then flew. She did not get the virus from being an airline passenger. So far no one who has flown with an infected person has gotten the virus. It has yet to be seen whether or not anyone will, but I suspect not. In two weeks we will know though.

10-15-2014 | 12:40 PM

#170532

Dorfman

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Still no schedules out for "b" positions that I see. I know it's all about quality control and making our life's better but there has to be a way to speed up the review process.

10-15-2014 | 12:48 PM

#170533

Mesabah

:-)

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Purple Drank

So you'd be ok if someone with Ebola sneezed on you? You'd use the same lav?

2014 Darwin Award nominee

No one so far has contracted the virus from being on an airplane. If that changes, I will change my opinion.

10-15-2014 | 12:48 PM

#170534

badflaps

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From: retired 767(dl)

Quote:

Originally Posted by surfnski

I was gonna say, is this the same media hype situation that SARS received?

Ya, ask Singapore about their bottom line after SARS.

10-15-2014 | 12:50 PM

#170535

sailingfun

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Quote:

Originally Posted by trlaketige

How do they avoid displacements from the right seat of the whale?
Tr

Take a look at the last bid. A large number of FO's bid off. They expect that to continue. If not I suspect there will be displacements.

10-15-2014 | 12:54 PM

#170536

sailingfun

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tsquare

Interesting. Soooo they exceed our current contract by a mere 5%. We have guys clamoring here for 40+% increase in pay rates. In case you guys haven't noticed, AAL is printing money too and all they got is 5% over their awesome bankruptcy contract. And we are gonna knock it out of the park? Pray tell how.

I really hope they exceed our rates. I don't however think it will happen. As part of their mou they agreed to go to binding arbitration if a agreement on a final joint contract can't be reached. Per the MOU the arbitrator can't award more then 40 million in improvements above the mou.

10-15-2014 | 12:56 PM

#170537

trlaketige

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From: B744 F/O

Quote:

Originally Posted by sailingfun

Take a look at the last bid. A large number of FO's bid off. They expect that to continue. If not I suspect there will be displacements.

I may have looked at people senior to me, but it didn't look like a "large number". I think they will have to displace.

Tr

10-15-2014 | 12:58 PM

#170538

tsquare

No longer cares

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From: 767er Captain

Quote:

Originally Posted by sailingfun

Oh I have no doubt. I thought from the beginning that this was just Jerry throwing turds at the wall to stir everybody up. But I find the debate outside of the turd interesting. If they got 5% on top of ours, how on earth can we expect to get 40%? I would love to hear some of the answers to that.....

10-15-2014 | 01:00 PM

#170539

tsquare

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From: 767er Captain

Quote:

Originally Posted by trlaketige

I may have looked at people senior to me, but it didn't look like a "large number". I think they will have to displace.

Tr

Probably. they might even have to take a paycut. too bad.

10-15-2014 | 01:01 PM

#170540

index

Wind the clock beoch

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mesabah

No one so far has contracted the virus from being on an airplane. If that changes, I will change my opinion.

Mesabah,

Here's some twisted logic from the CDC. You can give but you can't receive. Makes no sense at all to me. Probably perfectly clear to you.

"Dr. Tom Frieden, director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said during a telephone press briefing Wednesday that you cannot get Ebola by sitting next to someone on a bus, but that infected or exposed persons should not ride public transportation because they could transmit the disease to someone else."

Say again?????