Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 1819451)

Management has been seeing other people for quite some time now. DALPA's response: "No! We can make it baby!"

Carl

Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1819457)

It's like when your girlfriend is banging 8 other dudes, as long was we get ours, once a week, maybe, it's all good, right DALPA? :eek:

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1819464)

You're like our APCF version of Winston Churchill. :D I mean your speech before a joint session of congress would be... spectacular.

Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1819467)

I did attend the Andrew Dice Clay school of diplomacy!

"I got your Unification, right HERE!". (crotch grab).

Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 1819482)

So our JV partner Virgin Australia's flight attendants lost their fight over getting $7.63/hour (183.32/day) for their Los Angeles layover and will have to settle for the paltry rate of $6.25/hour per diem ($150/day), yes that's in US Dollars.

Virgin Australia crew lose pillow fight over allowances at LA hotels

Me thinks at least our international perdiem rate might need a new look....
I'd favor going with the published GSA per diem rates for every layover city...

Cheers
George

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1819456)

^^^ That.


To further answer your question Bronco you call crew tracking. There is someone that will handle it. I've done it twice and if I'm not mistaken there is even a prompt for mid rotation sick calls. Maybe I'm wrong.

I've had it twice, both for bad food at airports. One was Buffalo, actually the overnight hotel, and the other was at the GRR airport. I mean I went to the overnight hoping things would get better because most of the time it does. In these cases it didn't. In both cases I had 5 leg days the next day and I said I can get the plane back no problem because I am perfectly fine for an hour or two, but I can't go all day like this tomorrow.

I mean it happens. You might feel perfectly fine and then have a ear get blocked up on landing and not be able to clear it. You're in no shape to fly. You might not even be able to deadhead home. I've seen stuff like that and I've even heard the company let a guy stay in a hotel for two days to let him recover to the point he could deadhead.

Originally Posted by DeltaA320 (Post 1818769)

Quick reroute question. The other day one of my turns cancelled and I was rerouted into another turn that ended up making me time out for the day due to duty time and they had me layover and deadhead the next day back to base on my day off. I got paid the 5:15 for the average daily credit but am I entitled to any reroute pay in addition? So far nothing shows up on my time card, but on my monthly schedule it says RR. Or am I not entitled to anything because of the weather provision in the contract aka out of Delta's control? Who do I need to call if so? Thanks!

Originally Posted by SawF16 (Post 1819258)

Two questions to follow up on this discussion:

1. Do you think that if we had not made the strategic blunder of invading Iraq in 2003 that ISIS would be the threat that it is?

-Do you think that if the US wasn't in a complete state of war weariness due to the previous strategically unnecessary war in Iraq that the president may have the backing of the American public to actually involve US ground forces on a large scale?

Or do you think the president can just commit the entirety of the US Army and Marine Corps without the backing of Congress and the American public?

-If Obama decided to fight ISIS via ground forces, would you be OK with a draft that would potentially force YOUR children to serve as foot soldiers? Not a cushy assignment in a cockpit or UAS container, no kidding going out on patrol with hajji trying to kill them. At this point, my answer would be "no way." I'd personally rather give up the moral high ground and resort to WWII fire-bomb tactics. Neither is particularly appealing to me though.

Beyond that though, I don't really see why all the animosity towards the president. For any person in that job, there are things they want to do and things they can do. I'm by no means a liberal, nor a fan of every policy of the current administration, but I'd certainly call the rhetoric being spewed a bit "Limbaugh-esque."

Originally Posted by Hillbilly (Post 1819523)

If the column at the far right of the line for the affected rotation on your time card shows as CLSD and there is no reroute pay shown further down your time card on the left, I would call the DALPA MEC and ask to speak to one of the scheduling consultants. They will take a look at it and let you know if you are due reroute pay or if you are not and why.