Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
01-27-2015 | 06:18 AM
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You may already know this, but I learned it the hard way a couple of weeks ago: a significant difference internationally is that you cannot "convert" your non-rev listing to a JS listing ("flow forward"). Once you're within 75 minutes of push, you're stuck with whatever listing you have (or don't have). For reasons that elude me, the system cannot take a non-rev listing and put you in the JS; and we're not allowed to make two listings (i.e., one non-rev & another JS "just in case"). You can still "flow back" from the JS if there are open seats, but if you're trying to sit with your wife, that may not work out as well....
01-27-2015 | 06:19 AM
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Here is a fair way to look at most OOB transactions:
1). If you want to fly in my base, bid it.
2). If no one in my base wants it, then you can bid the trip.
3). The base's flying belongs to the base, and is on loan to the pilot that holds it. If he doesn't fly it, it belings in my base's open time, not your buddy in another, according to any individual's whims.
01-27-2015 | 06:21 AM
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Under the old system as I posted in base reserves always had priority over out of base white slips. If they submitted a yellow slip they went first. The company demanded the change as it reduces costs and manning. Even when on reserve I liked the system because out of base guys often saved me from having to fly a crap trip I was sure I was going to get.
01-27-2015 | 06:25 AM
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Under the old system as I posted in base reserves always had priority over out of base white slips. If they submitted a yellow slip they went first. The company demanded the change as it reduces costs and manning. Even when on reserve I liked the system because out of base guys often saved me from having to fly a crap trip I was sure I was going to get.
01-27-2015 | 06:26 AM
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Sounds logical to me. I don't see why a guy from a different base gets to pick off the better trips. If my base's lineholders don't WS it, as a Reserve, I want the option to put in a high yellow for it.
Here is a fair way to look at most OOB transactions:
1). If you want to fly in my base, bid it.
2). If no one in my base wants it, then you can bid the trip.
3). The base's flying belongs to the base, and is on loan to the pilot that holds it. If he doesn't fly it, it belings in my base's open time, not your buddy in another, according to any individual's whims.
Here is a fair way to look at most OOB transactions:
1). If you want to fly in my base, bid it.
2). If no one in my base wants it, then you can bid the trip.
3). The base's flying belongs to the base, and is on loan to the pilot that holds it. If he doesn't fly it, it belings in my base's open time, not your buddy in another, according to any individual's whims.
The company demanded the change to the current system. The old system was better for me as a reserve. It allowed me more not fewer options.
01-27-2015 | 06:28 AM
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01-27-2015 | 06:30 AM
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Don't have the data to prove it, but I do have <10% battery remaining, and am at the shop with car, and no charg
01-27-2015 | 06:46 AM
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He threatened to out someone. That's a pretty clear violation of the TOS.
What you laid out was well thought out and presented in a coherent way. He basically said "we should trade profit sharing for $5,000/year." Then he said it over and over again. I'm all for civil discussion of different ideas but it was pretty clear he was here to stir the pot.
He hadn't posted until today and then went full throttle. He admitted to having other screen names which, presumably, had already been banned. He's a troll.
What you laid out was well thought out and presented in a coherent way. He basically said "we should trade profit sharing for $5,000/year." Then he said it over and over again. I'm all for civil discussion of different ideas but it was pretty clear he was here to stir the pot.
He hadn't posted until today and then went full throttle. He admitted to having other screen names which, presumably, had already been banned. He's a troll.
01-27-2015 | 06:51 AM
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01-27-2015 | 06:58 AM
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I'm taking the family out to SLC for a week to teach my son how to ski. Where's the good snow, hotels that shuttle and reasonable lift tickets...it's been awhile for me. I need a refresher.
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