Yeah, they're shifting the E175 out there to take on Alaska. 9E is shifting some of its flying back to MSP from NYC to cover the Compass shift.

So yeah, they're sending the guppy killer, to umm, kill guppies.....

Yep, 2pm FA schedules released.

You said it. I commute now from SFO to LAX and have been using the shuttle operated by Compass quite a bit. I sat around the LAX terminal waiting to go home when I realized that Compass flies a bunch of our people out of LAX. Places like Dallas, Austin, Seattle, SF, Portland and several more. Other airlines are using A320s and 737s to similar destinations in the West. I even rode an American 757 from LAX to SFO. United is using 737-900s to do that route. There is definitely something wrong with letting a "regional" partner do all this flying from LAX.

We're not saying the cup is half empty, I think we're more concerned with getting these flights back to mainline. I JS'd the other night with a Compass crew and they were awesome. I'd like to see the E-175 upgraded to a 717 or something similar(meaning new) and bring all the good Compass people to mainline. The passengers don't even know they are on another airline. I talked to a woman next to me and she was surprised when I told her.

How long have you been here? We have to use RJ's to develop these routes. If the demand is there, we will put mainline aircraft on the routes. The RJ's are saving our bacon. Without RJ feed Delta would go out of business.

I think I covered them all.

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DAL has to use DCI in the daytime so we have sufficient crews to man the Redeye Fleet every night. :p

DAL 73N - "We own the night." Sorry Army.

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Well, it's my one day to do the health plan evaluator and try to dump the coverage awards for December.

Anyone else figure the HSA puts the current balance from the HRA out of reach as "post deductible" ? Meaning, you aren't likely to be able to use it unless you max out the family deductible.

Sticking with the HRA you can still use reward dollars from dollar 1.

Everyone tells me the HSA is a better deal, but the single family deductible and "post deductible" treatment of your carry over makes the plan effectively $2,800 more ($200 premium + $2,600 I'd have to fund).

What am I missing?

I've said it before and I'll say it again...the biggest mistake DALPA and Lee Moak made during the merger was not rolling Compass up in the deal! We would have removed any risk of RJ scope degradation by adding the E170/175 to the mainline fleet, going forward. I would have been happy to fly the E170 for mainline.

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ALPA would never survive a regional/mainline integration, I highly doubt they would even attempt it. ALPA's regional plan is to do nothing, and hope everything works out.

I believe you get to use 2015 reward dollars right away and the unused 2014 rewards are post deductible. Verify though