Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
04-28-2021, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Drum
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.
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.
I'm not sure why these losers are trying to prop the company up with comparisons of the worst regionals and Delta of decades ago that made a small fraction of the money (yet whose PWA on a whole was worth much more when not cherry picking the bad reserve rules). Oh, that's right, this web board is full of management shills. The web sites frequented by real pilots that have to verify they're real line pilots and can't hide in anonymity all agree with your sentiment.
04-28-2021, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by redblueskies
I agree with you. If you don't live in a DAL hub I'd never recommend DAL over any other major.
Originally Posted by redblueskies
I'm not sure why these losers are trying to prop the company up with comparisons of the worst regionals and Delta of decades ago that made a small fraction of the money (yet whose PWA on a whole was worth much more when not cherry picking the bad reserve rules).
04-28-2021, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by crewdawg
Why would you? I've always recommended to my friends to go to the airline that has a big hub near where they live. If they don't have any hubs nearby then go to FDX/UPS. When evaluating where to go, why anyone would willing choose to commute when they could drive to work/sit SC at home? Anyone one company would be way better than the others if you had to ability to short call from your home for most of your career.
One doesn't need to compare to regionals to see the good in our reserve, we can compare ourselves to other legacies. In my case, I was comparing our reserve to the reserve of another legacy that I worked for. Our reserve is far superior to theirs.
One doesn't need to compare to regionals to see the good in our reserve, we can compare ourselves to other legacies. In my case, I was comparing our reserve to the reserve of another legacy that I worked for. Our reserve is far superior to theirs.
Let’s hope we don’t add global reserve like UAL has for its widebodies, Drum will spin himself up so fast he might make it to Mars and be the second helicopter to fly there!
04-28-2021, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Drum
2 days is not enough to get Malarone especially when you get awarded that DSS trip on a Friday for a Sunday departure.
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04-28-2021, 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by redblueskies
The web sites frequented by real pilots that have to verify they're real line pilots and can't hide in anonymity all agree with your sentiment.
04-28-2021, 11:43 AM
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FOPS email out - looks like new hires starting in June.
04-28-2021, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by BigHitterLlama
FOPS email out - looks like new hires starting in June.
04-28-2021, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by TED74
…followed closely by yet another MEC Chairman’s letter that doesn’t really say anything. WTF is that guy actually doing?
04-28-2021, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by TED74
…followed closely by yet another MEC Chairman’s letter that doesn’t really say anything. WTF is that guy actually doing?
That entire letter said absolutely nothing. Might be redlined this summer, but the company doesn't intend to redline.. anyway, good luck with everything guys!
I miss Ryan already.
04-28-2021, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by theUpsideDown
Does the Delta MEC start giving out negotiating strategies and ask lists to the pilots normally in a negotiation cycle?
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