Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-03-2015, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
It should be in your content locker on your surface...I've got mine powered down now so I can't take you through the menus, but you could just scroll through the alphabetical and look for OE guide or something similar.
Otherwise, click on 737 Flight Standards on your fleet page, then OE/TOE/Line Check, and you'll find it on the page that opens up then.
When are you going to bid 717 captain?
Otherwise, click on 737 Flight Standards on your fleet page, then OE/TOE/Line Check, and you'll find it on the page that opens up then.
When are you going to bid 717 captain?
Not going to bid 717 CA until I can hold it out here and that won't be for a long time!
05-03-2015, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
That all seems pretty far fetched. In order to do that, they would have to completely rewrite the way line check airmen are handled as well (both in the contract as well as the entire organizational structure of flight standards and training).
That said I guess the consternation is not that that company wants it, that's a foregone conclusion that they'll always ask for productivity improvements, but rather that if it, in any form, makes it to a TA then it will pass and we're stuck with it.
05-03-2015, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by buzzpat
Thanks 80! Found it.
Not going to bid 717 CA until I can hold it out here and that won't be for a long time!
Not going to bid 717 CA until I can hold it out here and that won't be for a long time!
05-03-2015, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
But Buzz, think about what it will be like to fly a 3 or 4... or 5... day trip and remain in the Specific Time zone the whole time?!
LAX-BUR-SNA-ONT-LAX, a 4 day trip where you never leave So Cal!
The best part Buzz... no more all nighters! (I don't think the Angry Poodle is allowed out after dark!)
05-03-2015, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Scoop
Close, but it was a timing issue more then cost.. About three years ago Flight Ops wanted to hire but the front office was determined to show a first quarter profit and anything that put that first quarter profit at risk (the expense of hiring) was delayed.
Our management is pretty smart. They weighed the Pros and Cons and decided to do everything within their power to produce a first quarter profit. Well they did, and Wall St and the S&P boys were impressed - just as management knew they would be.
Fast forward three years - DAL is still behind the power curve on manning. And now they are desperate for Pilot productivity. That is the name of the game boys - "Productivity." They want us to each fly a lot more block hours per month.
The funny thing is, they say this while at the same time patting themselves on the back for matching the "exactly" right capacity in every market via the diverse fleet that they were smart enough to deploy.
So on one hand we as Pilots are inefficient because we require all the things that go along with a diverse fleet (more training, more reserves etc) yet they are geniuses maximizing revenue.
Guess what boys - Record profits should equal Record Pilot compensation!
OBTW - I keep hearing this word "concession" does anyone know what it means? I know what compromise means but I am totally at loss for concession.
Scoop
Our management is pretty smart. They weighed the Pros and Cons and decided to do everything within their power to produce a first quarter profit. Well they did, and Wall St and the S&P boys were impressed - just as management knew they would be.
Fast forward three years - DAL is still behind the power curve on manning. And now they are desperate for Pilot productivity. That is the name of the game boys - "Productivity." They want us to each fly a lot more block hours per month.
The funny thing is, they say this while at the same time patting themselves on the back for matching the "exactly" right capacity in every market via the diverse fleet that they were smart enough to deploy.
So on one hand we as Pilots are inefficient because we require all the things that go along with a diverse fleet (more training, more reserves etc) yet they are geniuses maximizing revenue.
Guess what boys - Record profits should equal Record Pilot compensation!
OBTW - I keep hearing this word "concession" does anyone know what it means? I know what compromise means but I am totally at loss for concession.
Scoop
I, for one, do NOT want to be so productive that I fly 90 hrs/mo. I don't even want to fly 80 hrs/mo! I like my wife and kids
05-03-2015, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Sink r8
Two separate concepts being discussed, right?
1) The recovery obligations of a FO flying with a LCA.
2) The notion of removing LCA-awarded trips from the available pairings for FO's to bid.
2 is heinous, and affects every FO in category, +/- a couple. If you allow the removal of trips, then everyone below that point is getting a worse trip than they might have otherwise held. Essentially, every LCA in their category lowers the seniority of the FO's in their category by 1. I can't imagine this would seriously be considered.
1) The recovery obligations of a FO flying with a LCA.
2) The notion of removing LCA-awarded trips from the available pairings for FO's to bid.
2 is heinous, and affects every FO in category, +/- a couple. If you allow the removal of trips, then everyone below that point is getting a worse trip than they might have otherwise held. Essentially, every LCA in their category lowers the seniority of the FO's in their category by 1. I can't imagine this would seriously be considered.
05-03-2015, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Boatbuilder
Not to contribute to thread drift, but does anybody know if all this new uniform info on the flights ops sight involves the pilot group? The company certainly seems to be spending some serious $$ and resources on it.
05-03-2015, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Boatbuilder
Not to contribute to thread drift, but does anybody know if all this new uniform info on the flights ops sight involves the pilot group? The company certainly seems to be spending some serious $$ and resources on it.
05-03-2015, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Flamer
How would you even bid? I usually put trip numbers in for my top choices. So they would run the A lines first and then pull the B lines and I would not have any idea what trips were going to be pulled at the time I bid? I don't think so buddy.
CA bids close, and are published before FO, with exact LCA trips noted separately so one can bid accordingly. Right seat is pulled and not available.
All done, as far as I can tell, on Navtech.
Major gain for company.
05-03-2015, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ridinhigh
You guys didn't really ask but at HA it been this way since before I got here.
CA bids close, and are published before FO, with exact LCA trips noted separately so one can bid accordingly. Right seat is pulled and not available.
All done, as far as I can tell, on Navtech.
Major gain for company.
CA bids close, and are published before FO, with exact LCA trips noted separately so one can bid accordingly. Right seat is pulled and not available.
All done, as far as I can tell, on Navtech.
Major gain for company.
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