Thanks guys. I've downloaded it but haven't played with it yet. Navtech desktop was free and there was a PBS guy in NRT that knew what he was doing with it:D

Next month!!

Ferd

Yeh, thanks for the gouge for the iPhone to enter # and password. I've been looking for a way to do that.

Heyas Ferd,

Both software places (BidBuddy and BidAssist) that made calendar programs have said that they are going to make software to work with DBMS output.

I think BidAssist already has a beta of BA3 that you can download.

I don't like the idea of paying someone a subscription fee to access the mainframes when all of the data is free, anyway.

Nu

I've got it saved. Send me a PM with your email and I'll send it to you. I've gotta commute tomorrow so it might take me a couple days but I'll get it to you as soon as I can. My crew base does not have internet!

Denny

Check your emails.

Denny

Denny,

Again, see what I mean? DTW forecast for the next 5 days have a high in the upper 20's thru lower 30's every day.

New K Now (going to pull all his MSP AE, MD, VD bids out right now.....)

I was just browsing the Jan bid package for MSP DC9 and A320. I just have a question as to the commutability of the northern bases, i.e. MSP,DTW. First glance the MSP DC9 flying scares me a little bit, especially with the 5 day trip pairing that begins 7am on day A and ends at 2200 on day E, something that the south side never has. And I believe the M88 has more trip variety than the DC9 as well. (countless GRB,CMH layo in the DC9 bid pack)

What is the general consensus for MSP? It seems like it's the northern version of ATL, where the trips generally aren't created for commuters, and the mentality of "commute is a choice" is running wild. I'm just trying to see if it's better commute to the west coast from MSP, or should I keep looking east bound.

Heyas RVR,


Your impressions are pretty accurate. I commuted to FLL from MSP for about a year, and it was a hassle.

NWA was always a very seasonal airline, and the pull back to FL and other points in the south in the summertime always made commuting a chore, even from DTW. MSP really was the center of the universe, and I have had MSP based FAs say "why would anyone want to live in Florida?".

The seasonality abated somewhat in the last few years in DTW, but commuting from MSP to the east (other than the NYC area or DC, perhaps) can still be a chore. You might see a BIT more "commuting is a choice" thing in MSP, but nothing like ATL. Most MSP commuters are to points west or south down the Central time zone.

The DC-9 trips have always been less commutable than other fleets just because the duty days are so darn long. The lack of variety, however, is a result in the pullback of the fleet. Back in the day when there were 180+ DC-9s, which was not all that log ago, you went just about everywhere other than the west coast, and you went into a lot of small, wacky places that had no other mainline service by anyone.

DC-9 flying out of MSP, especially, took you into places like Omaha, Green Bay, Des Moines, several towns in Montana (Kalispel, Missoula, Great Falls, Helena), several more places in the Dakotas (FSD, RAP, FAR, GFK, BIS, MOT and even more places in western Canada like Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Regina. Out of DTW, you hit just about every burg with a stop light.

Now that the fleet is smaller, that limits where you go.

Nu

Hey Nu,

Makes you wonder where all that flying went ! SCOPE is sooo important.

Figure that we lost 130 DC9's worth of flying (gulp).......that's a lot of mainline.

You can pay Easybid 6.95 a month for unlimited access. You then get all the great products they make for free. What is your time worth? I can open the program, click DBMS, check open time, check my schedule and log off before you can get your password entered and into Deltanet let alone into ICREW.