Airline Pilot Central Forums - Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?

Airline Pilot Central Forums (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/)

- Delta (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/delta/)

- - Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta? (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/delta/36912-any-latest-greatest-about-delta.html)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3227505)

2 days is not enough to get Malarone especially when you get awarded that DSS trip on a Friday for a Sunday departure.

Just happened to me. That's why I hate ****ing reserve on the ER. When I was a line holder (I'm 50% in category and getting reserve BTW - not by choice) I would bid avoid any malaria destination. Unfortunately as reserve you don't get a choice. I don't keep malarone on the shelf either. See above line holder comment.

I tried frantically to get some malarone on a Friday before my trip. No luck. Heck if I was a junky and needed methadone, I could walk into a local clinic and get it for free no questions 24/7. Try to get Malarone in a day? Two? No dice. Hopefully I put enough deet on me to prevent from getting bitten. Guess I'll find out if that worked soon enough.

I am really starting to hate my decision to come to DAL 5 years ago. Should have gone with FedEx. At least there you get better service for going to places that require this crap. Our reserve rules suck. Our union sucks since the ATL surrender mob took over. Been really quiet lately. WTF.

Rant over. and hoping I didn't get malaria.

Did you see my other post about you being a douche? If not, please see that thread.

You are a douche.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SawF16 (Post 3227516)

Did you see my other post about you being a douche? If not, please see that thread.

You are a douche.

Did you see me tell you you are a stain on our community and we should have "drummed" you out to white jets?

You're probably jealous FedEX turned you down.

I had choices. I made one. I regret it. Whats wrong with being honest about it? I have to live with that now. So there we are.

You need to stay in your lane.

Uh huh. Tell me again where big D touched you. And also, you are a douche.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3227505)

I am really starting to hate my decision to come to DAL 5 years ago. Should have gone with FedEx. At least there you get better service for going to places that require this crap. Our reserve rules suck. Our union sucks since the ATL surrender mob took over. Been really quiet lately. WTF.

I'm getting the feeling you haven't sat reserve at other airlines. There are some things I don't care for with our reserve, but our reserve is far from what I would consider "suck." It sucks so bad, that many senior people willing bid it and even during the good times, you see junior pilots forced into lines.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3227505)

Delta will provide you Malarone for free. With the concern you have for not getting it I am somewhat surprised you don’t keep a supply. Most everyone I knew flying to those destinations made sure they had it in case they were assigned a MED trip. It’s kind of a smart thing to do.
As far as reserve you have no idea what a bad reserve system is. Try 19/20 days on call a month, 24 hours a day all shortcall. Our reserve system is probably the best at a passenger airline. The airline has to be able to staff the flying. From your past posts I suspect the only reserve system that would appease you is one where you called Delta if you felt like flying. Kind of strange with such a bad reserve system how many senior guys bid it rather than a regular line.
Since you only have 5 years here it’s certainly not to late to switch to FedEx. I suspect however you would be on their forums posting how bad it sucks there the day you came off probation.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SawF16 (Post 3227516)

Did you see my other post about you being a douche? If not, please see that thread.

You are a douche.

I just block people like him. Everything is terrible, the company sucks, nothing is ever good enough... blah blah blah.

I don’t need that negativity in my life.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3227505)

if you complain about reserve here I really don’t think you would be happy at FedEx. I think we could improve our reserve rules no doubt (14 hr LC, get rid of day 1 10am exemption) but from the best I can tell, reserve here is better than most places

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3227517)

I had choices. I made one. I regret it. Whats wrong with being honest about it? I have to live with that now. So there we are.

you sir also need to make a choice. Live with regret the rest of your life? Or accept the choice you made, which ultimately was a really really good/fortunate choice. I think every one of us can point to things we don't like about D, but at the end of the day, we're still the "gold standard" of airlines, like it or not. You can still go to FedEx. They're still hiring.

I love when pilots who didn’t spend a decade flying RJs and turboprops on pre-117 schedules complain about how hard scheduling is. The lack of perspective in some people is amazing.

but hey, FedEx is still hiring and you could have easily bud another airplane in the last bid. So fix your situation.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3227505)

I am really starting to hate my decision to come to DAL 5 years ago. Should have gone with FedEx. At least there you get better service for going to places that require this crap. Our reserve rules suck. Our union sucks since the ATL surrender mob took over. Been really quiet lately. WTF.

Rant over. and hoping I didn't get malaria.

I’ve worked at reserve at another airline that had us at 10 days off with a 75 min call out. Everyday. THAT sucked. But I knew it going in so I did it without *****ing. For me personally, I’ll take the cake walk of a reserve here any day. Any. Day. Bid what you want and all....not every fleet in NYC requires you to worry about malaria.

There’s still time to change your mind if you’re that miserable.