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.

Originally Posted by BigHitterLlama

FOPS email out - looks like new hires starting in June.

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?

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?

Originally Posted by theUpsideDown

Does the Delta MEC start giving out negotiating strategies and ask lists to the pilots normally in a negotiation cycle?

Originally Posted by sailingfun

Our reserve is better than any major passenger airline. Our pilots costs on both a per pilot and block hour basis are at or very near the top of all airlines worldwide. How that can be when posters here claim the contract is among the worst eludes me.
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!

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.

Originally Posted by ERflyer

I’m uber super senior on the ER. I always carry some Malarone in case of a green slip to Africa, which I normally avoid. It’s really not that difficulty to be a little proactive, since you are on reserve, to get some. Being that you prefer not to get malaria and all that it entails. If you’re going to DSS on a 16 hour layover in the middle of nowhere you’re probably safe since there is no where to go (haven’t seen many parties on the 16 hour layover … but I could be getting ditched too at 9am, lol) and you’re in a desert where it’s the dry season at the moment. Some people just skip the Malone and DEET themselves like crazy.

Go get some Malorone. Geez.

Originally Posted by OOfff

Exactly. Even among major airlines, our reserve is cake. Im sure drum wouldn’t love UAL’s global reserve or AA’s short and long call lines.


I carry an old printed trip sheet in my flight bag to remind me of a 20-leg 3-day with two 8-hour overnights just to keep myself in check. It paid me almost $450!