Starting Indoc on March 7th.

I was on the jumpseat the other day, and the DL pilots mentioned there would be an AE bid closing "sometime" in March.

Very curious because I assume I'll get assigned nyc, and I want to bid ATL asap.

Anybody have a firm date on when the AE bid closes?

Arigato.

It's not even out yet so no clue.

I find it very ironic that Delta found the wherewithal to go to AmEx and get the $95 yearly fee waived for us, but CAN'T do the same for our $50 annual NonRev fee.

You don't want that waived. That keeps the IRS from taxing your pass privileges as income. This way you are paying for them.

The excuse I heard about the $50 non-rev fee was, if the company didn't charge us 'something' for the passes, then the IRS would want to tax us on the imputed value of every pass we used. I'll gladly pay the $50/yr vs. paying Uncle the taxes on all those free non-rev tickets value.

Here's a funny story; Years ago the American Airlines pilots were in contract negotiations with Robert Crandall. He made the claim that the passes the pilots got were worth $10,000 per year, per pilot!:eek:

The pilot's union came back with, "OK, you can keep the passes, give us each $10,000 more, every year, and we'll buy our own tickets!":D

Crandall quickly dropped that subject! :rolleyes:

That wasn't the case before they started charging us...

I think it was the IRS that changed the rules. Oh, and now they want to start taxing us for our "Luxury" medical insurance plans.

Somebody gots to pay for all those Obama phones!:rolleyes:

Reporting back as promised. I emailed Karen last week and today I got an email from her that Metlife would be sending my dentist the remaining payment for my crown. For those following, it's worth the 2 minutes to type out the email and have her run it down for you. As an add-on, the money she helped save me (or the stress I would've went through trying to get this done on my own) just "refunded" about 4 months of dues (at my current rate of course). Pretty happy with ALPA at this moment. Also want to thank iaflyer and anybody else who might have said the same thing for the great tip.

Not true. Our flight benefits are not taxable because they are "substantially no cost" to the company--i.e., the seat would've been empty if not occupied by the non-revver (no lost income) and the marginal cost of having the non-revver there is negligible (no added expense).

Take a look at any other airline that doesn't charge an "admin" fee--their non-rev is still not taxed....

So in the wide report I was awarded a reserve line and when I looked at my schedule I have a regular line. That's a first for me. Anyone else ever have their schedule differ from the bid award like this?