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NoDeskJob 06-12-2018 08:17 AM


Originally Posted by FlightCrewTools (Post 2612910)
You can see this using our AE Tool for previous months.

Select LAX717 (A or B) and whichever month you want to check. Then once the bid package loads up you can filter by Checkin Station to see an exact count of trips that match the station you put in. If the station doesn’t appear in the filter, that indicates there aren’t any reports there for the given bid period.

The AE Tool is free for all Delta pilots:

https://flightcrewtools.com

Just for another year or 2, until the 717s relocate to ATL and the 320 goes out west. :) :)

Bucking Bar 06-12-2018 08:21 AM


Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 2612741)
I was unaware we are in the sixties. That type of ontime quickly leads to a system collapse with massive crew reroutes. Lasts stats I saw had us in the mid eighties. I have not seen May.
Edit: May ontime posted as 85%

Look again. We are 61% for 11 June.

There is not a second to spare in the June and July schedules. A rain drop is a rolling delay.

Worse for our customers is that when they misconnect to the afternoon/evening international push we say "so sorry... weather." We bounced the CFO of a division of IBM last week. He's a FF Delta One.

Conversational with two members of Delta's BOD. I LMTCB

If we value our revenue premium then changes must be made. If we aspire to be US Air dba American, then we're on track.

Personally, I prefer the road less traveled.

gloopy 06-12-2018 11:07 AM


Originally Posted by Dustycrophopper (Post 2611743)
Heads up with more and more 321 coming online at Delta and other airlines. The wake turbulence from this thing is no joke. Encountered it yesterday and had full scale deflection with no response for a couple seconds.
My top three wake turbulence encounters have all been 321s under calm winds

RECAT is absolutely asinine. File an ASAP and report the proper level of wake turbulence to tower/departure as appropriate.

hockeypilot44 06-13-2018 04:15 AM


Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 2612944)
Look again. We are 61% for 11 June.

There is not a second to spare in the June and July schedules. A rain drop is a rolling delay.

Worse for our customers is that when they misconnect to the afternoon/evening international push we say "so sorry... weather." We bounced the CFO of a division of IBM last week. He's a FF Delta One.

Conversational with two members of Delta's BOD. I LMTCB

If we value our revenue premium then changes must be made. If we aspire to be US Air dba American, then we're on track.

Personally, I prefer the road less traveled.

Flew a flight last week to Atlanta. Had to do a long downwind for PRM’s with a landing on 28 and a 15 minute taxi-in. Other than that flight had no issues. We had left on time. We arrived 16 minutes late. That is unacceptable. They’ve cut too much block time off. A PRM approach to 10/28 shouldn’t cause us to go over block. That probably happens 1/3 to 1/4 of the flights. That guarantees us an on-time percentage no greater than 66 to 75 percent. These percentages are made-up ballpark based on my personal experience, but they’re not too far off.

80ktsClamp 06-13-2018 04:35 AM


Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 2612944)
Look again. We are 61% for 11 June.

There is not a second to spare in the June and July schedules. A rain drop is a rolling delay.

Worse for our customers is that when they misconnect to the afternoon/evening international push we say "so sorry... weather." We bounced the CFO of a division of IBM last week. He's a FF Delta One.

Conversational with two members of Delta's BOD. I LMTCB

If we value our revenue premium then changes must be made. If we aspire to be US Air dba American, then we're on track.

Personally, I prefer the road less traveled.

I know you’re upset about what happened to you, but that is a daily meter. The day you got hosed, ATL got slammed by 2 waves of storms. It’s 79 today for A0, which is back to normal. No carrier in the world runs an operation as well as we do, and it continues to get better. It’s been weeks since I’ve gone past A0, and that is with quite a few departures that missed D0.

ERflyer 06-13-2018 04:42 AM


Originally Posted by hockeypilot44 (Post 2613469)
Flew a flight last week to Atlanta. Had to do a long downwind for PRM’s with a landing on 28 and a 15 minute taxi-in. Other than that flight had no issues. We had left on time. We arrived 16 minutes late. That is unacceptable. They’ve cut too much block time off. A PRM approach to 10/28 shouldn’t cause us to go over block. That probably happens 1/3 to 1/4 of the flights. That guarantees us an on-time percentage no greater than 66 to 75 percent. These percentages are made-up ballpark based on my personal experience, but they’re not too far off.

The mantra has become “save money at any cost”. Unfortunately many times they never do a cost benefit analysis or look at the downside. Reduced blocktimes is a good example.

Also heard international meals will no longer be served on a tray in coach to save money. Saves money by not paying caterers to put food on trays. The test flight PDX-NRT has the meal service consistently lasting 4-5 hours with food all over tables and seats. So much for sleeping for business people - or any pax for that matter. Look for this soon on all international flights. Pax don’t really want it but “they” are going to jam it down and make it happen so Inflight can say they’ve “saved” money.

sailingfun 06-13-2018 04:57 AM


Originally Posted by ERflyer (Post 2613477)
The mantra has become “save money at any cost”. Unfortunately many times they never do a cost benefit analysis or look at the downside. Reduced blocktimes is a good example.

Do you really believe this? Did you read what goes into building just rotations on the reliability side?

Also heard international meals will no longer be served on a tray in coach to save money. Saves money by not paying caterers to put food on trays. The test flight PDX-NRT has the meal service consistently lasting 4-5 hours with food all over tables and seats. So much for sleeping for business people - or any pax for that matter. Look for this soon on all international flights. Pax don’t really want it but “they” are going to jam it down and make it happen so Inflight can say they’ve “saved” money.

The test service that took 4 hours on a PDX flight was a new business service. Had nothing to do with coach. It was also a test to see how it worked. They are changing it.

Bucking Bar 06-13-2018 05:22 AM


Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 2613473)
I know you’re upset about what happened to you, but that is a daily meter. The day you got hosed, ATL got slammed by 2 waves of storms. It’s 79 today for A0, which is back to normal. No carrier in the world runs an operation as well as we do, and it continues to get better.

79% isn't acceptable either, not when you run a network carrier with late afternoon and evening push.

The thing is, this is manageable and we are being managed to break it.

We hire great crews who want to run the best operation in the world. Then we publish a schedule which sets them up to fail.

When we wonder why BOB showed up, we need to remember who sent BOB the invitation.

80ktsClamp 06-13-2018 05:24 AM


Originally Posted by hockeypilot44 (Post 2613469)
Flew a flight last week to Atlanta. Had to do a long downwind for PRM’s with a landing on 28 and a 15 minute taxi-in. Other than that flight had no issues. We had left on time. We arrived 16 minutes late. That is unacceptable. They’ve cut too much block time off. A PRM approach to 10/28 shouldn’t cause us to go over block. That probably happens 1/3 to 1/4 of the flights. That guarantees us an on-time percentage no greater than 66 to 75 percent. These percentages are made-up ballpark based on my personal experience, but they’re not too far off.

I’ve consistently underblocked by up to 28 minutes in the last few weeks...

80ktsClamp 06-13-2018 05:27 AM


Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 2613495)
79% isn't acceptable either, not when you run a network carrier with late afternoon and evening push.

The thing is, this is manageable and we are managing to break it.

Sure, sure... keep doubling down. What would be acceptable in your book so we can post it on Deltanet? Maybe if Kessler hadn’t have been canned it would be better?


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