The only thing I'm aware ever existing is/was borrowing from the bank into the current month, before the pay period closes. Of course, you won't see it until the next months paycheck since we are paid in arrears.

Old school days you could "spill back" your "bow wave" (or so Doris the Scheduler said). That went out with line-of-time bidding though.

Oh, thank you thank you thank you all powerful and wonderful government for not taking more money from us. Thank you for your awesome benevolence.

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What other new route from ATL are we talking about?

That's right... but it wasn't really anything to do with a carryout trip. If you went over the 'Cap' you picked up 'Bow wave' which could drop a trip in the next month. Spill back could be used to fill up to the cap or replenish bank. Ah, the days of no flying to FAR limits. I predicted we'd end up here someday, and here we are. Now the reroute situation is going there and soon reserve staffing will too. Time to get senior and stay there...

Hard to say. We have so many categories, there will always be one that is overstaffed (bid reserve and stay home) and another that is grotesquely understaffed.

We still have tools available to mitigate most of that pain. Some applies to the entire seniority list, like the TLV. The company can't just run 84-85 hour ALVs all the time, even if they wanted to. Lots of other contractual tools out there to make things better as well, if pilots would just avail themselves of them.

And don't forget one VERY important point. We may not have been "flying as much" but we also had crappy rules for min pay guarantee. Every trip ending in a redeye, or dh-only duty periods, or 30 hour layovers, etc, did not get the equivalent of our ADG. Nothing like flying a three-day trip ending in a redeye, and it only paying 11 hours and change!

And of course reserves didn't get paid the same as regular lineholders like they do now. In fact on occasion I will ask newer guys, why do we have separate lines on our rotation printout for regular and reserve, when they always pay the same? Most don't know, until I inform them that until a few years ago they didn't pay the same--and often by a lot. I usually state something like "don't believe anyone when they wax poetic about some mythical good ol' days that truly weren't.

I remember the days on reserve where I’d work 15 days, sit 3 short calls, and still never break the 70 hour guarantee.

Anybody else have difficulty with their login on the forums? Had to create another one, sent emails but no one returned any. 1st time I've seen this. It starts to log me in and then returns to the login page? Ideas?

Or you can believe what the union says over a flight attendant.

Our JV with Aeroméxico recently turned one year old. What has that first year looked like? There has been a tremendous increase in DAL-coded passengers flying on AM metal and a similar increase of AM- coded passengers on DAL aircraft. We asked ALPA National Economic & Financial Analysis to take a look at the growth in year one, and the results show an equitable distribution of the growth in the first year of the JV. By seats, seat-miles, frequencies and block hours, the Delta share of growth across the border was greater than 50%.

Why has our monthly financial reports shown negative growth in ASMs, RPMs and Load Factor for Latin America? This has been a recent trend.