Thx much! You just saved me a few hundo! Definitely a nice trick to know about!

 

Is it just me or has Ed gone a little too FB selfie with his new news feed?

 

Glad to help.

 

Since Crew Scheduling suggested that AE's will be distributed in 6 week increments, shouldn't we be ready for another one fairly soon? This may have been disseminated in a some newsletter, but I am trying to control my blood pressure and don't read too many of those....

 

So, if you were awarded something on the last AE. And next one comes out, can you be awarded something else if you havn't gone to training or been converted yet?

 

Some May 16' Backdoor A's are out....

Baja.

 

Not if you have a freeze. You can't be awarded new equipment if you have a freeze, even if you haven't gone to training. (unless it's a new category or your first time Captain upgrade).

You can get a different base on your existing equipment though.

 

Company has stated next one would be May or June, and would be much smaller than the last one.

 

I can't seem to be able to comment on the Cheerios thread. Really wanted too.

 

On my last trip my captain had 2 legs on 2 separate days cancelled due to a lack of 717 FOs. The FA listening to the story said she heard it was because we were executing an illegal job action (very similar to another story I heard on this board about what a gate agent had heard). I explained how these shortages are due to poor hiring decisions, the recent simulator move, and that many 717 FOs are working 20+ days a month. I have no idea if she believed me or not, she seemed fairly certain that pilots were out to screw the company and may have just been nodding and grinning just to play along.

So that said, where are the non-cons getting the idea that illegal job actions are going on? Is somebody up the chain maliciously spreading lies in a coordinated PR campaign or are they just jumping to their own conclusions since it is quite unusual for DAL to cancel flights due to a lack of pilots? I wish I'd spent more time discussing how she'd come up with that idea.