Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
12-05-2009 | 10:47 AM
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12-05-2009 | 10:51 AM
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I just hate Bama!!! I figured since Tebow, as obnoxious as he is, has won every award. Why not just root for him to win again!! Doesn't really matter. This game will just confirm that the SEC is still the football power house. Looks like the Outback Bowl for Auburn in Tampa New Years day.
And.. I guess it's the sammitch bowl for the Big Orange this year. (I hate domes)
Ya'll have fun in Tampa!Eat more chikkin'
12-05-2009 | 10:58 AM
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One of the actual times that ACL is wrong! Cut from the FOM:
Specialty tie wear dates:
• Patriotic Tie - June 27 thru July 7.
• Holiday Tie - December 15 thru January 7.
12-05-2009 | 11:11 AM
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From: B757/767
From the latest Trim Tab Sir. Please note the bold print.
Delta Holiday Tie Policy
Holiday-themed ties may be worn from Thanksgiving Day thru Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, in place of the normal black uniform tie. This is a change to FOM 11-6.3. The FOM will be updated in a future revision cycle to reflect the new Holiday tie wear dates.
12-05-2009 | 11:14 AM
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From: A-320A
Man you were quicker than me. Yep, they just changed it. It will be in the next update. So yes, right now.
Also you can wear loafers as long as they comply with the FOM, that one they have not changed back yet!
Also you can wear loafers as long as they comply with the FOM, that one they have not changed back yet!
12-05-2009 | 11:17 AM
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Heyas New,
The off-line bidding application from the PBS vendor is free. That may be what you're thinking of.
"EasyBid", which is something completely different, is also free, but you are required to pay Flightline (the people who publish it) a fee for access to the DAL mainframe. Sort of how we used to have to pay Compuserve for access to the NWA mainframe...which we gave up, what? Six or eight years ago?
That's the nice thing about the DAL merger...every week we get a history lesson on how we USED to do things at NWA...next thing you know, we'll have to manually log our T/Os and landings...oops, never mind. Maybe they'll have us filling out the old manual pay sheets and hand computing flight plan next.
To bad we can't go back to the pay rates from 8 years ago.
Nu
The off-line bidding application from the PBS vendor is free. That may be what you're thinking of.
"EasyBid", which is something completely different, is also free, but you are required to pay Flightline (the people who publish it) a fee for access to the DAL mainframe. Sort of how we used to have to pay Compuserve for access to the NWA mainframe...which we gave up, what? Six or eight years ago?
That's the nice thing about the DAL merger...every week we get a history lesson on how we USED to do things at NWA...next thing you know, we'll have to manually log our T/Os and landings...oops, never mind. Maybe they'll have us filling out the old manual pay sheets and hand computing flight plan next.
To bad we can't go back to the pay rates from 8 years ago.
Nu
(On a lighter note)
Hey, not that I think it will happen but, what if Nebraska wins?
I've loved the Huskers since they had Turner Gill, Mike Rozier, and Irving Fryar in the early 80's. If UT wins, it won't hurt me. I like them too, because I hate Oklahoma.
But, sorry Super, GO HUSKERS!!!
12-05-2009 | 11:18 AM
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Touche. I stand corrected. I however, don't read the trimtab or any other company propaganda.
12-05-2009 | 11:23 AM
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12-05-2009 | 11:31 AM
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They run several practice bids after posting every time. I suspect in this case they will run at least half a dozen. They just don't post the results. Years ago you could call them or walk over and see a practice bid. They stopped that because they found that in the last day before a bid closed over 30 percent of the pilots changed what they wanted. People who thought they were getting a bid and then did not get it would complain even though they were told it was not the final bid. It created to many headaches for them. You can however be sure they will run many bids before they make a final posting.
They want to move as many pilots as possible because now is the perfect time. They have a surplus of pilots so can keep a bunch in school and fly the schedule. The cost to do this is minimal. The majority of training costs are fixed. The portion of training costs that can flux is much cheaper when you have a surplus of pilots. If you are doing a lot of training and short then those costs go way up as the number of Greenslips explodes. It was not unusual in a heavy training time to have 5000 plus green slips a month when we had 7000 pilots.
They anticipate next winter that they will be hiring pilots. That creates lots of training events. If they are going to move people now is by far the most logical time to do it. The good news is that this bid is going to be a gain in positions. We have not seen that in a long time!!
They want to move as many pilots as possible because now is the perfect time. They have a surplus of pilots so can keep a bunch in school and fly the schedule. The cost to do this is minimal. The majority of training costs are fixed. The portion of training costs that can flux is much cheaper when you have a surplus of pilots. If you are doing a lot of training and short then those costs go way up as the number of Greenslips explodes. It was not unusual in a heavy training time to have 5000 plus green slips a month when we had 7000 pilots.
They anticipate next winter that they will be hiring pilots. That creates lots of training events. If they are going to move people now is by far the most logical time to do it. The good news is that this bid is going to be a gain in positions. We have not seen that in a long time!!
12-05-2009 | 11:31 AM
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