Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1836448)

Where is our word of the day?

Originally Posted by NERD (Post 1836406)

2 things before night, night.

1. Awesome job on donations for Todd. Over $43000 now. Way to go!
2. Just realized there are some regulars gone AWOL. Tsquare and Bucking Bar have been absent lately. Hopefully they're OK.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1836448)

Where is our word of the day?

Originally Posted by PilotFrog (Post 1836380)

If we do go to a bank type system, will the former NWA members have a valid grievance since a number of them had quite large banks before the merger and lost a fair amount of it.

Originally Posted by casual observer (Post 1836045)

My car broke down, so my wife drops me off and picks me up at the terminal (ATL). (we live close). KCM on the north side of security. It doesn't save me any time, but it's nicer than riding the bus to and from employee parking.

Plus, no more embarrassing 'Honey, I'm home early... hey, who's the guy in the shower with the tattoos?'

Originally Posted by cni187 (Post 1836469)

Bloviate. Look it up. Example - (insert screename) did nothing but bloviate about our upcoming contract negotiations.

Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1836574)

If it was up your a$$ wrapped in concertina wire, you'd know exactly where it was.



Said nobody in particular. I couldn't resist.


Anyway, I have been inspired by underboob. So I guess it's fitting that I should be equally inspired by the word ass-imilate. However, since we are all about learning new words how's about the word of the day is: steatopygia

I'll leave it to the less technologically challenged to take care of the photo sharing.

Originally Posted by MikeF16 (Post 1836097)

This was a huge help. I called Bill and will summarize in my response to CE.



Thanks that is great information. I know this will be quite a block of text but it might help others so I'll post it anyway.

Situation: I live in SAT, seat locked to 717B, currently domiciled NYC. I don't like commuting and will move into domicile (SEA and ATL only 2 wife approved domiciles) but due to age of my kids (school moves) I feel like I must move this summer or not at all.

Moving: I missed SEA 73n in January by 400 numbers and resigned myself to the reality that I would move to ATL. Got some sticker shock at housing prices in ATL, almost as expensive to buy there as SEA. Now DAL gives me an unexpected 2nd chance to be awarded SEA with 45 openings to SEA 73NB. Since the category is still considered new I don't have to worry about my seat lock. The 365 option could complicate things a bit.

Option 1: I am awarded SEA 73n. Worst case the company doesn't train me until Jan '16 which means about 6 months commuting SEA to NYC. That seems like a fairly challenging commute but it is certainly doable.

Option 1b: I could do a backup bid of LAX 717B and hope that I'd get an SEA award on a subsequent AE. Risky since it is entirely possible that more and more senior people continue to bid into SEA extending the time I'd be stuck commuting, not willing to take this risk. I either get SEA this AE or that dream is gone until the kids are off to college.

I asked Bill if I could swap bases from NYC to LAX while waiting for a hypothetical January '16 73N training date; however, since your seat lock begins upon award and not training completion I was told this was not possible.

Option 2: Bid ATL 717B. I was worried that if I bid on this particular AE then I could possibly be bypassed by somebody junior who is awarded ATL 717B on a subsequent AE. When I spoke with Bill he said that if I required training it would be possible for somebody junior to me to bid ATL 717B on a subsequent AE and train before me; but, since I would not require training then it would be highly unlikely if not impossible for this to happen.

Originally Posted by Karnak (Post 1836345)

Your observation was that ALPA hasn't told us how Delta measures sick leave. You offered 3 ways to do it. On the previous page of this thread I listed 5, and the way my reps told us it was being measured. A chief pilot confirmed it. I have no clue how we stack up with other airlines, and I don't care. Our contract and work rules are different than their's.



The burden is on Delta to prove our variance.

Originally Posted by Wilbur Wright (Post 1835838)

My jacket memory gouge - the last two months and the first two months of the year.

Now if I could just find my car keys!

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1836618)

On Option 2 are you worried that they wouldn't give you ATL717B for a few months and yet let others in ahead of you?