Not to derail the boobs, but a noob question, who is that?

 

Just double checking---can the Patriotic tie that we can wear for the upcoming holidays be anything of our choosing (within reason, of course), or is there a company prescribed one? I'm assuming that applies to the Christmas one too....

 

The union buster (former Ford and
Harrison bigwig, Delta Exec VP of "Labor Relations") who hates pilots so much , he came out of retirement to bend us over one last time.

The leaks, introduction of distractions (uniform rumors, pilot-unfriendly FOM changes, productivity meetings with the CP, artificially condensed timeline) have his fingerprints all over them.

Google Michael Campbell.

 

Sorry to interrupt the good flow of pictures (except that dude right above this post).

I have not been asked to extend my duty day yet under FAR 117. Probably because of the category I am in. But I don't understand the problem with refusing.

You call dispatcher and tell him I am not extending. He says call the duty pilot. Call the duty pilot and tell him I am not extending. He asks why. Tell him you will spell it all out in your ASR tomorrow. This is not time critical info and I see no requirement to give any info without taking the time to get your thoughts together. If you were worried you could even talk to ALPA legal to make sure your statement meets all FAA and company requirements.

ASRs take maybe 10 minutes to fill out. I called in fatigued 3 times while on the MD88. All 3 times I filled out an ASR and never heard a thing back.

So how is anyone being forced to extend? Honest question.

 

Gee, thanks...I thought I had erased my trip with him from my memory.

 

"Dude"...I have been here 18+ years and only ONCE have I seen a captain yell at rampers so loudly that it could be heard by the pax (and it was truly inappropriate, etc).

Never once have I seen a captain making fun of pax to their face.

While I have seen a couple of captains (appropriately) calling out FAs for poor performance, never once have I seen one "talk down" to them in an obnoxious, arrogant manner.

It seems to me that perhaps you ought to look a little closer in the mirror and ask yourself if you are looking in all the wrong places for people with "issues" or if the issues are creations of your own imagination.

 

I guess I just have bad luck an managed to fly with the only "bad" guys at delta in 15 months. Right....
We all have issues and bad days, I get it. Maybe I was a little harsh on my previous posts. All I was trying to imply was that not everyone could cut it in the real world at this pay rate. Looking in a mirror, self reflection. I'll give that a shot. Thanks.

 

I have never seen anyone making fun of pax, but on at least two occasions, one from JS and the other from the right seat, I have witnessed a captain basically screaming at the ramp guy.. The one from the JS was really, really embarrassing...

 

In a year I've flown with one guy who yelled at rampers, berated gate agents & F/As, argued with ATC over runway assignments, and refused to start the second engine until exactly 2:00 before takeoff (on an 88) despite having a new FO struggling to get all the checklists done in that time. He's pretty much the only guy I've flown with who just failed at life, everyone else has been pretty fantastic (ok, there was the one 9/11 truther, but he was at least a nice guy).

 

In other news, Southwest wants to start another airfare war, and since the announcement, airline stocks have shed close to 10% on their stock prices.

Over the next decade, SWA is probably going to fade hard.