Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
11-18-2014 | 08:01 PM
veut gagner à la loterie
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11-18-2014 | 08:02 PM
veut gagner à la loterie
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11-18-2014 | 08:37 PM
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If you are a new guy and really want it off, throw in an APD for the days you want. Your request will go before everyone else who doesn't want to use their APD. I always save mine up for Christmas just in case.
1. APD
2. PD
3. Swap with Pot
4. Swap board
5. Tell the kids Santa has to come early.
The first year I got Christmas off my kids were bummed because they had to wait until Christmas Day for all the goods. My 8 year old at the time said, "Dad can you just please go to work on Christmas?" Shows how little kids really care if you mix things up a bit to work with your schedule.
1. APD
2. PD
3. Swap with Pot
4. Swap board
5. Tell the kids Santa has to come early.
The first year I got Christmas off my kids were bummed because they had to wait until Christmas Day for all the goods. My 8 year old at the time said, "Dad can you just please go to work on Christmas?" Shows how little kids really care if you mix things up a bit to work with your schedule.
11-18-2014 | 09:34 PM
Gets Weekends Off
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Jmho..
11-19-2014 | 03:30 AM
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If you are a new guy and really want it off, throw in an APD for the days you want. Your request will go before everyone else who doesn't want to use their APD. I always save mine up for Christmas just in case.
1. APD
2. PD
3. Swap with Pot
4. Swap board
5. Tell the kids Santa has to come early.
The first year I got Christmas off my kids were bummed because they had to wait until Christmas Day for all the goods. My 8 year old at the time said, "Dad can you just please go to work on Christmas?" Shows how little kids really care if you mix things up a bit to work with your schedule.
1. APD
2. PD
3. Swap with Pot
4. Swap board
5. Tell the kids Santa has to come early.
The first year I got Christmas off my kids were bummed because they had to wait until Christmas Day for all the goods. My 8 year old at the time said, "Dad can you just please go to work on Christmas?" Shows how little kids really care if you mix things up a bit to work with your schedule.
11-19-2014 | 03:40 AM
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It's important to the locals in SEA. That's why AS is "proudly all Boeing". I think we'd be foolish not to become "the biggest 787 operator out of SEA", which would help with gate acquisition and a new customs facility. We'd fly 330's and 350's out of SEA too, but I think the 787 has a lot of "intangible" qualities beyond price and performance.
This is all legitimate, of course. Boeing IS asking our government to use our own money to subsidize competitors, and Alaska made their bed this way. But maybe it doesn't play too well with part of the population. It would be silly not to be cognizant of these issues. Building up Seattle with Airbus products could play poorly. Which is ironic, considering Boeing itself has let Seattle down rather badly with their headquarters move, and assembly line decisions.
End of the day, however, I think the Seattle public will appreciate the competition, and the extra options.
11-19-2014 | 03:45 AM
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It's important to the locals in SEA. That's why AS is "proudly all Boeing". I think we'd be foolish not to become "the biggest 787 operator out of SEA", which would help with gate acquisition and a new customs facility. We'd fly 330's and 350's out of SEA too, but I think the 787 has a lot of "intangible" qualities beyond price and performance.
Jmho..
Jmho..
11-19-2014 | 03:51 AM
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Boeing is still the largest employer in SEA. They are almost twice the size of Microsoft the number two company. Just like were using a surface I bet there is a widebody Boeing in our future. Complete guess but 787's for the Pacific, 330 Neo's for the Atlantic and perhaps a small number of used 777's for near term 747 replacements.
I also have a theory that used 777's would come in just early enough to replace 747's 1:1, until we get into replacement deliveries. This would have the added benefit of slightly reducing capacity (but not too much), while giving the pilots a place to go. There is a delicate dance going on, to try to keep the airline staffed, and I'm not sure that having displacements in the top category works well. Yes, I understand they don't buy airplanes to have a place to put pilots, but if you have a 747 going out, and you're going to bring in some capacity to backfill some of it...
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11-19-2014 | 04:05 AM
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The first year I got Christmas off my kids were bummed because they had to wait until Christmas Day for all the goods. My 8 year old at the time said, "Dad can you just please go to work on Christmas?" Shows how little kids really care if you mix things up a bit to work with your schedule.
11-19-2014 | 05:06 AM
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From: Going to hell in a bucket, but enjoying the ride .
I was thinking about your post, and I agree it's not as simple as ignoring those issues. We ARE fighting Boeing very hard on the Exim bank, the end of which they're labeling "armageddon". We ARE fighting Alaska on their own turf.
This is all legitimate, of course. Boeing IS asking our government to use our own money to subsidize competitors, and Alaska made their bed this way. But maybe it doesn't play too well with part of the population. It would be silly not to be cognizant of these issues. Building up Seattle with Airbus products could play poorly. Which is ironic, considering Boeing itself has let Seattle down rather badly with their headquarters move, and assembly line decisions.
End of the day, however, I think the Seattle public will appreciate the competition, and the extra options.
This is all legitimate, of course. Boeing IS asking our government to use our own money to subsidize competitors, and Alaska made their bed this way. But maybe it doesn't play too well with part of the population. It would be silly not to be cognizant of these issues. Building up Seattle with Airbus products could play poorly. Which is ironic, considering Boeing itself has let Seattle down rather badly with their headquarters move, and assembly line decisions.
End of the day, however, I think the Seattle public will appreciate the competition, and the extra options.
Richard wants to make SEA a hub to Asia, feeding by adding our domestic flight as well as flights from Europe. I wonder what percentage of O/D pax there will be once we get the hub spooled up and get 30 gates.
Narita has very little O/D traffic, yet we still have lots of big iron coming and going through there. Mostly it's connecting traffic. That hub will be shifted to SEA.
I doubt Richard is too worried about what the average citizen in Seattle thinks about Delta's next wide body order, and I doubt they will boycott Delta if we offer international service out of SEA to Asia and Europe on new Airbus' vs. 787's.
Oh, and we already operate a lot of Boeings.
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