Rumor Alert
 

Heard that LM was recently in NRT talking to our new JAL brothers and openly said it's a done deal!

4 brand new 744's from Boeing sitting at the desert right now, MD90's etc.
Looks like short term we're gaining some flying, it's the long term that worries me. :confused:

Must have been an ER! I absolutely love it when I get to fly those. Landing the domestic 767s with the hair dryer engines will make a man out of you, haha. It's like a retarded MD-88.

Carl,

First of all, I am new here, in the sense of posting anyway. I’ve been “lurking” this forum for quite some time, since the summer of 2008 to be exact and have been able to get a fairly good foundation and understanding of where most posters are coming from. (i.e. Whether they’re trying to see things from “both sides of the fence”, or only “stating their own facts, as they see them” and not wanting to accept another poster’s ideas as a different view.)

My apologies to you concerning the “senile” comment, it was out of line, and can fully accept your viewpoint towards feeling that I was “out of ideas”. In retrospect I might’ve used a more constructive posting and urged you to look at what “Kingbird’s” opinion was also. “In a public forum, we all have the right to our own opinions, whether they’re right, wrong, or indifferent.”

How I might have communicated my intentions more accurately, were related to the previous discussions of “sick call usage”. If someone calls into crew scheduling, tells them they’re sick, when they truly aren't, (not talking about fatigued or other personal issues at home) and then spends the rest of the week in Hawaii, or wherever else they’ve traveled on their days off, to me that’s just as ingenuous and lacking of integrity, as if they were “reporting to management after union meetings”. I don’t advocate either, and having been in the military for the 19 years, two months that I have, wouldn’t want to sit beside someone else in the cockpit that needs to lower their standards of “professionalism” to “get back at the company”.

In contract negotiations between labor and management any perceived weakness is capitalized on, but in the same negotiations, any perceived lack of integrity from the labor or management is also built upon by forming a “higher barrier” between both groups at the negotiating table. (Stick with me here, I do actually have a point to make.) :)And my point is………….probably thought it was never coming, is that I feel as though the rapport and level of communication that the union leadership now has with the leaders of the “Worlds Largest Air Line” is generations better than what you’ve been exposed to in the past. We both came from the same airline prior to this merger, I’ve just been fortunate enough not to have to carry the “pitchfork & flaming torch” as much as it seems you have had to. (Not meant in a derogatory sense.)

So in closing, I implore you and everyone else who reads this post, to walk away from this message board, as well as operations at the company trying to see things from “both sides of the fence”. Again, just to set the record straight, I am in now way, shape or form a sympathizer of management, and feel as though we need to give them everything they ask for, but in the same breath, better rapport, communication, and ultimate “UNITY” amongst the pilot group and as a result, between the pilot group and management will not only make our organization the “Worlds Largest Air Line”, but also the “Worlds BEST Air Line”. (I’m quite confident that it’s both of those already, but then again I’m biased as I work here too.)

The same goes for “FlyingViking” as I would have been more productive in my communication by offering a suggestion, instead of “calling him out” on the forum, all the while I was making a word usage mistake myself.

As far as the stories of “Ferd” go. From previous postings, it is my understanding that he did some time at the good ol’ Minot Air Force Base. A place near and dear to my heart, as I grew up on the outskirts of Minot watching the F-15’s fly overhead each day. YES PEOPLE DO LIVE THERE, AND YES, I DO KNOW HOW COLD IT GETS. So when you see Ferd in NRT next time, buy him a beer for me, I’ll pay ya back sometime soon.

V/R,

Vikings Fan (Minot Native)

No complicated formula, just a very small amount that goes up a tiny bit each year. Back in the 60's when they came up with this idea, the advance values might have been alot. Nowadays, it really screws up your witholding and makes it impossible to attempt to not get a tax return. On your advance check they take out no taxes and on your clean up check they take out almost 40%. I've thought about changing my witholding allowances every two weeks to try and even stuff out. Here are the tables they use for the advance values.

YearAmount1st12502nd13003rd13004th14005th15006th17007th18008th20009th230010th250011th280012th3000

I'm not smart enough to make the info work as a table, hopefully you can use your decoder to figure it out.

Its in the FOM and is based on your years of service. Don't have it in front of me but I'm pretty sure its in the pay chapter. It steps up every two years and is only an "advance" on your flight time from the previous month. Whatever they pay you on the first is deducted from your pay mid-month.

Dear Clamp,

I'm upset.

Sincerely,
Young Man Tormented by Picture of a Hot Headless Girl Holding Her Head

No calculations, it's pulled from a table based on years of service. Basically the same for the first 4 years.

There is a memo on the Flt Ops Merger HQ about it. Labeled transition to Delta Payroll.

Not complicated at all:

Question - How much will our advance pay be?
Answer - Not enough. (Insert drum roll sound here)

Actually its based on years of service. I remember it starting out at about $1000/year for new hires and at year 10 it close to $2000. That is take home pay so depending on your various withholdings your amount may vary. I am not sure if your current hourly rate affects the amount. In other words, I am not sure if the $2000 is a fixed amount or a percentage based on your hourly rate.

Scoop

Dearest YMTbPoaHHGHHH,

All the right parts seemed to be there.

Giggity giggity.

Giggity goo.


Awwwright,

Clamp.

Me? Ire??

I'm soooo misunderstood.

Carl