I had 3 PB in my bank this December. I have a line in January.
I dropped a turn (5.15cr) in January. AFTER it dropped, I called Scheduling and they applied one of my PB on that dropped trip.

I then had a 4 day that I dropped as well. I again called Scheduling AFTER I dropped my 4 day and asked them to apply my last 2 PB days on my dropped 4 day.
I only did that because that 4 day was "front loaded" with high block (lots of flying on the first 2 days) and it credited me with close to 12hrs cr.
My total credit for those 3 PB days was close to 18hrs.

You have to be careful. EVERY Delta trip pays CREDIT on the last day of the trip. If you dont have enough PB to cover all the days of your trip,(3PB days for a 3 day or 4PB days for a 4 day, etc) just make sure the days your are covering are high block because you will only get paid for block hrs IF you PB days are not enough to cover the entire trip.

Also, you dont get to select how many PB days you can use on each trip. It will use as many as you have to cover a trip. You cannot have 4 PB days in your bank and selectively use only 2 to cover a 4 day trip. It will automatically burn all 4 of your PB days to cover that 4 day.

Clear as mud?

Happy Hollidays

 

Cog, I understand what you're saying. I think there is also an argument that over the years that we have lost many Billions due to our company's fuel hedging strategy. When compared to companies that do not hedge I would say that the advantage appears to be relatively small compared to the large loss that we incurred over time. In other words if our competitors are largely not hedging if oil goes up we all share the pain relatively equally.

 

Time sensitive, appreciate any help. Got a robocall for IA. Some of the trips would result in conflict. I want to fly the conflict trip, but there were lots of trips that would just suck and not be with conflict. Anybody know if I can call and ask for only the conflict trip without the risk of involuntarily getting stuck with one of the garbage trips that are not with conflict?

Thanks!

 

Not sure how that would work - especially if the coverage sequence calls for straight IAs/GSs to be filled prior to conflicts. You could try to quickly go to PCS and fill out a GSWC for only the trips you want.

Scoop

 

do we still get a discount on lift tickets at vail owned resorts? Couldn't find it on deltanet

 

Ok, Now that the final paystubs of the year are available, I am trying to figure out which numbers from the paystub to add up to get the "Annual Compensation" number used for profit sharing? The contract definition is below but it doesn't exactly jive with what I read on the paystub.

Can anyone tell me which line items to add up?


Annual compensation” for purposes of the profit sharing plan, means an employee’s
30 gross earnings during the profit sharing plan year, including any sick and vacation pay
31 (whether paid by the Company or from a disability and survivor trust), but excluding: a)
32 expense reimbursements, b) expense allowances, c) income required to be imputed to the
33 employee for any reason pursuant to federal, state or local law, d) profit sharing awards,
34 e) earnings from any other incentive compensation program, f) Company contributions to
35 a retirement plan, g) disability payments, h) income from the grant, vesting, exercise or
36 sale of Delta stock or Delta stock options, i) income relating to, or resulting from,
37 bankruptcy claims, notes, or other securities, j) medical plan payments and k) severance payments. In addition, annual compensation for the purposes of the profit sharing plan
includes pilot furlough pay.

 

unless you need pin point accuracy.....add flight pay and advance flight pay.....close enough

 

Actually I think that pretty much is pinpoint accuracy.

Now we need to run a pool at what we think the PS percentage is going to be.

I'm taking 22.5% (only a guess because I have no idea whatsoever)

 

Good idea. I spoke with a scheduler about a different topic and as an afterthought I asked about conflict and IA robocalls. He asserted that it was impossible to get a robocall with conflict, since all conflict assignments are done manually. Don't know what the problem was, but I know for a fact that at least 2 of the 7 or 8 trips on the robocall were a direct conflict with my 1st rotation in January. Trip is still in open time, but obviously calling about it would've only showed my hand and subjected me to trips I didn't want to fly.

 

The domicile layover was not part of the original rotation. As it turned out, you do get removed from the trip as a reserve when a domicile layover occurs even if you are on a GS. Turned out to be a good deal for me, apart from the 12 hour rolling maintenance delay which finally ended in a canceled flight and another overnight in MIA. But because they had planned for me to have a domicile layover, and thus be removed from the trip, they reassigned the Austin penalty lap (via another GS) to someone else. So I just flew an empty plane back in the morning and went home