Originally Posted by TED74

Anyone know the impetus of this? MD crews are arguably the hardest-working for any given hour of flight...why do they accept less than the others?

Originally Posted by BenderRodriguez

These are rough numbers:

At AAL, the current fleet makeup is 9% in band 1, 25% in band 2 and 65% in band 3. When the 75/76s and the MD80s go away, that changes to 9% in band 1 and 91% in band 3. The group's total pay goes down, and career earnings potential will drop as well. There are assumptions that I made with respect to fleet, but I used all current models and orders and removed only the 75/76s and M80s.

I disagree with you on training. If you are making the same on a 737 as you would on an A320, why go to training? It is the transition that has everyone perplexed. Once it is in place, there is zero reason to go to training unless you just want to fly a particular type of airframe for whatever reason. And at that point, who cares about freezes?

Originally Posted by TED74

Anyone know the impetus of this? MD crews are arguably the hardest-working for any given hour of flight...why do they accept less than the others?

Originally Posted by Purple Drank

I know why tsquare needs a new screen name. He found a cocktail waitress on Match.com. She was going to blow him off like they usually do, but he kept bragging about how much money he makes. She did a Google search, and found he would be gone more than half the time, so she bit the bullet and chased the money.

Two weeks later, they were married. Two months later, she wanted out. She was sick of him wearing his Delta hat when mowing the lawn and sitting on the throne; tired of being berated when there weren't any Milano cookies left in his snack basket, and totally over being made to a walkaround every time they drove somewhere.

She found the best divorce attorney she could find. Tsquare went cheap (imagine that) and hired a lawyer with 10 teeth. During the proceedings, she was asked to describe their sex lives. She said, "fast, compulsory, and unfulfilling." To the same question, tsquare responsed, "expeditious and economical."

Long story short, she took him to the cleaners. She got his best moonshine still, his coonskin cap collection, and his most prized possession: his "tsquare" screen name.

That's probably why he's even more of an antisocial misanthrope as Bender Rodriguez...and explains his contract wants, too.

Originally Posted by Roadkill

From the latest email I got from DALPA, a change to FAA wait times for self-medication. Both of these items are what most folks take for a cough or allergy/runny nose thing... If I have to wait 60 hours for the one and 48 hours for the other now, it will literally double the amount of times I will have to call in sick--even if I might be pretty much "on the mend" and getting over my symptoms, I'd still not be legal to fly for 2.5 days! Who stops taking cough medicine when trying to get better for a trip, 2 days prior???

This is kind of a big thing, surprised I didn't see anyone discussing it?

"The wait time from taking diphenhydramine, the active ingredient in many cold and allergy products including Benadryl, has changed from 12 hours to 60 hours. The wait time for taking dextromethorphan, the active ingredient in many cough medications, has increased to 48 hours.

Wait time is defined as the time from when you last take the medication until you engage in ANY activities pertaining to flight, such as flight planning or pre-flight inspection. "

Originally Posted by Roadkill

THIS is some funny stuff man! I'm not sure if Bender is TSquare... IMO, Bender is about 200% more foolish, anti-pilot/pro-company-coffers than TSquare seemed. I can't make it through a single post from BR without reallly thinking he's someone hired by union-busting consultant to prepare the battlefield and break all pilot opposition.

Originally Posted by Flamer

Always take the first offer from he car dealer don't ya? It's ok, I don't like to be confrontational either. We'll get em next time.

Originally Posted by Roadkill

From the latest email I got from DALPA, a change to FAA wait times for self-medication. Both of these items are what most folks take for a cough or allergy/runny nose thing... If I have to wait 60 hours for the one and 48 hours for the other now, it will literally double the amount of times I will have to call in sick--even if I might be pretty much "on the mend" and getting over my symptoms, I'd still not be legal to fly for 2.5 days! Who stops taking cough medicine when trying to get better for a trip, 2 days prior???

This is kind of a big thing, surprised I didn't see anyone discussing it?

"The wait time from taking diphenhydramine, the active ingredient in many cold and allergy products including Benadryl, has changed from 12 hours to 60 hours. The wait time for taking dextromethorphan, the active ingredient in many cough medications, has increased to 48 hours.

Wait time is defined as the time from when you last take the medication until you engage in ANY activities pertaining to flight, such as flight planning or pre-flight inspection. "

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

He's tsquare, trust me on this. If you were cyber stalked by that dude as much as I was, you'd recognize him too.

Carl