Strategy for CQ month bidding
 

New hire here.

I have my CQ training in January and looking for some ideas on how to bid the rest of my schedule.

I'm not totally up-to-speed on how the Raw Scores work, but is it common for guys to bid reserve during their training month. I'm on the 73 and if I bid reserve I would be fairly high on the list for reserve guys.

Thanks!

MCFlyer

Check out the Garmin GLO. The use of GLONASS plus GPS seems to work better against our environment of electrical interference & speed.

I've not bought, or tried, any solution.

The Readers Digest version
 

Here's the readers digest version of this:

1. Joint Ventures make Delta a HUGE amount of net profit.
2. Our union's main thesis is that increased profitability leads to increased good things for pilots.
3. Management doesn't have to negotiate any JV agreements whatsoever...but they do have to abide by our overall Scope language that mandates maintaining a block hour percentage equal to what existed prior to any JV.
4. Our union feels it's a better tactic to give up a portion of our flying share in order to achieve new contract language that provides for new minimum levels that didn't exist before. Even if those new minimum "guarantees" represent a reduction of what we're presently doing.
5. Our union is very concerned that pilots will be angry if they learn we're giving up part of what we're doing now in order to have a lower guarantee that didn't exist before.
6. Council 44 and the MEC administration do not want a repeat of the FAR 117 process whereby members forced the negotiating committee back to the table.
7. Council 44 and the MEC administration have decided the best way to prevent a repeat of the FAR 117 process is to hide key data from the membership until after the TA is passed.
8. Council 44 and the MEC administration didn't think someone like Georgrtg could pull the data together in time to affect the outcome.
9. After TA passes, Council 44 and the MEC administration will strongly focus on the new global flying share minimum that was supposedly achieved and tell the whiners to get more involved in the process next time.

Carl

Carl,

Your not a council 44 member. Its funny how when I contact my council 44 folks I get a response. I just don't post info on a web site when asked not too. Maybe you don't get a response because your NOT in my council!!! I am very grateful that YOUR council posts as much as they do publicly. Thank you for sharing that information. Many of us, including myself, don't bother to search out other councils emails even though its easy enough to find on the dalpa website.

Try to read my post with sincerity. Its hard to get that across with the written word.

I'm not complaining about not getting a response from council 44 reps. I've not contacted any of the Council 44 reps.

Carl

When you purchase a car, does that reduce you your income for the year?

Purchasing an asset does not reduce your income. Paying business expenses reduces your income.

So, the purchase of 49% of VA didn't cost us, as Delta pilots, money in some way?

So, if not Council 44, what is your source for all of the C44 information you post?

Heresy is defined as, "Unverified information heard or received from another; rumor."

The MEC Chairman runs the Administration. Our MEC Chairman was nominated by a member of C20 (if I am not mistaken) and received a unanimous vote.

We have got a big contract coming up. Time to pull together.

Our profit sharing is pretty well locked up. There is nothing the company can do to reduce our profit sharing check other than not make money. Alpa actually learned from past profit sharing mistakes. Fortunately when this language was negotiated, the company was losing it's ass. The joke was on us for wanting profit sharing from a bankrupt company. This allowed us to write really strong language. I have also heard from pilots that the early October payout was to reduce the profits for the year. That is a false statement.

Who is this, what's your operating number?

Boring conversation anyway....LUKE WE'RE GONNA HAVE COMPANY!!