Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-05-2015 | 10:23 AM
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05-05-2015 | 10:28 AM
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Anyone been in BWI layover this week? My category bidpack suddenly has like 15% of the trips at BWI, with 30hour layovers . Not super excited about it. When you look at commutable non-redeyes, it's like 30% of the trips! Am I going to be sitting in my hotel room for 30 hours hiding, answering the phone/door "Fo' shizzle, I'll tak dat room service up in heah!" ?
05-05-2015 | 10:51 AM
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05-05-2015 | 10:58 AM
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Re: BBQ grills:
If you can swallow the cost, the BGE is awesome...it's advantage is versatility. Low and slow it is great at holding a constant temperature over long periods (I've gotten 14+ hours @ 225 with a good bit of charcoal left over). On the other end it can do 800-1000 degrees for searing steaks and everything in between. Lifetime warranty on everything, really the last grill you will need to buy. My dealer said if anything breaks, call him up and come pick up the new part in a few days.
The main disadvantage, besides cost, is that it is still a charcoal grill--you need to take the 20-30 minutes to light and adjust the vents before you are ready to put on the food. Also don't forget the $800 price tag you see is just the start. At a minimum, you will need to buy a stand ($150) and a "plate setter" ($70) before you are ready to go.
If you need proof of how good they are, just try to find one used. They are not out there...people pass these on to their kids. It is for the type who likes to sit outside, drink a beer and smell the hickory as it smokes.
The pellets are more set and forget. Fill the hopper, press the button and toss in the meat. My dad has one and it puts out some really good food. I cannot vouch for steaks on them as we have only used it for low temp stuff, but it will not get nearly as hot as the egg if you want the 1000 degree sear.
I don't think you can go wrong either way. If you don't mind spending the cash and enjoy the routine of getting the grill ready to go, you will not regret an egg. Just want to put the pork on and come back 10 hours later, the pellets are great too.
For those that just have a regular Weber, do yourself a favor and go buy a bag of natural lump charcoal instead of the standard blue bag of Kingsford. With the popularity of ceramic grills it is pretty easy to find just about anywhere. Much easier to light (ditch the fluid and get a chimney), burns hotter, lasts longer and tastes much better.
If you can swallow the cost, the BGE is awesome...it's advantage is versatility. Low and slow it is great at holding a constant temperature over long periods (I've gotten 14+ hours @ 225 with a good bit of charcoal left over). On the other end it can do 800-1000 degrees for searing steaks and everything in between. Lifetime warranty on everything, really the last grill you will need to buy. My dealer said if anything breaks, call him up and come pick up the new part in a few days.
The main disadvantage, besides cost, is that it is still a charcoal grill--you need to take the 20-30 minutes to light and adjust the vents before you are ready to put on the food. Also don't forget the $800 price tag you see is just the start. At a minimum, you will need to buy a stand ($150) and a "plate setter" ($70) before you are ready to go.
If you need proof of how good they are, just try to find one used. They are not out there...people pass these on to their kids. It is for the type who likes to sit outside, drink a beer and smell the hickory as it smokes.
The pellets are more set and forget. Fill the hopper, press the button and toss in the meat. My dad has one and it puts out some really good food. I cannot vouch for steaks on them as we have only used it for low temp stuff, but it will not get nearly as hot as the egg if you want the 1000 degree sear.
I don't think you can go wrong either way. If you don't mind spending the cash and enjoy the routine of getting the grill ready to go, you will not regret an egg. Just want to put the pork on and come back 10 hours later, the pellets are great too.
For those that just have a regular Weber, do yourself a favor and go buy a bag of natural lump charcoal instead of the standard blue bag of Kingsford. With the popularity of ceramic grills it is pretty easy to find just about anywhere. Much easier to light (ditch the fluid and get a chimney), burns hotter, lasts longer and tastes much better.
05-05-2015 | 11:03 AM
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For steaks, I do the water bath method to 141 degrees, then rub garlic butter on the outside, and sear at 800 for a few seconds. This way you do not have to rest the steak.
05-05-2015 | 11:21 AM
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Anyone been in BWI layover this week? My category bidpack suddenly has like 15% of the trips at BWI, with 30hour layovers . Not super excited about it. When you look at commutable non-redeyes, it's like 30% of the trips! Am I going to be sitting in my hotel room for 30 hours hiding, answering the phone/door "Fo' shizzle, I'll tak dat room service up in heah!" ?
Average fitness center. Great 9 mile loop around the airport to run or walk called the BWI loop.
Not as good as downtown, but could be worse than it is.
05-05-2015 | 12:18 PM
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05-05-2015 | 12:24 PM
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05-05-2015 | 12:57 PM
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Sorry for the confusion, I was talking about going from a 75hr. cap up to the MEC claimed 'average' 92. hrs being flown now, for the 2,500 pilot positions lost. You are correct, the IOE trip hold-back issue wouldn't be nearly that many, but I'll try to run some napkin math on that now, just to see how many jobs it might cost.
We know Delta is hiring about 100/month. All 100 of those new pilots are going to need IOE. If they are all domestic (and some are going to the ER) they will most likely get an IOE of about 25 hours (might be even more, certainly for the ER it will be). So take the 100 newbs, every month, X 25 block hours = 2,500 block hours of flying held out of the bid packages, every month, which at say 80hrs per line, would = 31.25 lines of flying held back, every month.
And that's JUST for the new hires.
Now, let's add in all the upgrades and seat changing in every category. Look at the A/E out right now. How many IOE events will that create? I don't have it in front of me but it will create a LOT of IOE's.
Going forward, when the new A330's and 350's and A321's start showing up; more IOE trips NOT in the bid packages, more lost positions.
Now throw in lost jobs due to Pay Banding, if the company comes after that, and I'm sure they will.
That all adds up to fewer upgrades required and fewer bodies in every category.
We already got to see what PBS has done for upward progression, or lack of, now that the average pilot is flying 92, vs. 75. That was the -2,500 jobs.
Now add in everything you said about all the JV non-compliance.
Richard wants to run this place as lean as possible, obviously. That's his job.
It would be nice if DALPA would do THEIR JOB and stand up to Richard, to protect OUR JOBS, for once.
We know Delta is hiring about 100/month. All 100 of those new pilots are going to need IOE. If they are all domestic (and some are going to the ER) they will most likely get an IOE of about 25 hours (might be even more, certainly for the ER it will be). So take the 100 newbs, every month, X 25 block hours = 2,500 block hours of flying held out of the bid packages, every month, which at say 80hrs per line, would = 31.25 lines of flying held back, every month.
And that's JUST for the new hires.
Now, let's add in all the upgrades and seat changing in every category. Look at the A/E out right now. How many IOE events will that create? I don't have it in front of me but it will create a LOT of IOE's.
Going forward, when the new A330's and 350's and A321's start showing up; more IOE trips NOT in the bid packages, more lost positions.
Now throw in lost jobs due to Pay Banding, if the company comes after that, and I'm sure they will.
That all adds up to fewer upgrades required and fewer bodies in every category.
We already got to see what PBS has done for upward progression, or lack of, now that the average pilot is flying 92, vs. 75. That was the -2,500 jobs.
Now add in everything you said about all the JV non-compliance.
Richard wants to run this place as lean as possible, obviously. That's his job.
It would be nice if DALPA would do THEIR JOB and stand up to Richard, to protect OUR JOBS, for once.
In any case, if the NC/pilot group is as rumored here even considering any kind of reform to the current no obligation OE recovery, the net effect needs to be staffing neutral to staffing positive of no deal IMO, and I suspect the company wouldn't be interested in that anyway.
05-05-2015 | 01:05 PM
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ALl of those inefficiencies need to be fully and completely backed out of any and all EF'nA calculations.
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