Shocker!



I make this face in their general direction....

 

My guess is that the company will do better next year in the Fortune 500 best places to work.

 

uh, don't know. I wanted a fancy car with my 33,368 shares of Delta stock- I can't believe they gave us that much.

actually, my former boss bought a Ferrari that he never drove. It needed to be driven or occasionally started and driven up and down the street for the cars sake. But while it was sort of my responsibility I didn't want any damage to be my responsibility and I had no idea how to handle paddle shifters. He bought it to get permission to buy a Spider. He sold the Ferrari I knew, had it hauled off on a high end tow truck and then the Spider came a couple of weeks after I left. You can't just buy new expensive cars because your rich, you have to buy several to get the one you want. I'm a Ford F150 crewcab guy, not a sports car guy. I'm sure someone better than I couldve given that Ferrari the workout it desperately needed.

 

We need to get the LGA deal done and something out on the JFK terminal mess soon if not we will have the cluster---- at JFK ongoing running away psgrs.

 

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter(R-Mich)

 

ACL, going back to what you said earlier, I'm surprised that DAL would not be as interested as previously thought on the C-Series. Is it the same issue was the current EJets with cargo capacity?

From Flightglobal.com: (notice the date... 2015, same as C-Series and possible E19X I believe, but I'd suppose with some orders it could come faster, its already certified)

Entrepreneurs behind the long-running effort to develop a Fokker 100 successor intend to modify an existing airframe this year, after securing financing from the Dutch economics ministry.

The organisation driving the programme, NG Aircraft, is a successor to the Rekkof company which has pressed for years to restart Fokker production. NG Aircraft says that the economics ministry is to provide a €20 million ($27 million) loan - although this still needs European Union clearance.

This funding would come through the Dutch SenterNovem agency, which became part of the ministry's innovations support arm Agentschap NL this year.

SenterNovem has a civil aviation department which funds pre-competitive work, such as design, simulation and tooling, for the creation of non-commercial prototype aircraft.

Grants of up to €10 million are available for aircraft transporting fewer than 100 passengers, or €20 million for other cases.

Under an initial phase NG Aircraft will begin adapting a Fokker 100 with new systems and engines. The twin-jet will serve as a demonstrator for the proposed Fokker 100 NG, the first example of which the company wants to assemble by 2015.

 

Not content with messing up their litterbox, they have to now come messing in ours?


Atlanta Business News4:42 p.m. Thursday, March 11, 2010
Northwest union seeks to halt Delta crew integration

By Kelly Yamanouchi

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In the tug-of-war between Delta Air Lines and unions from merger partner Northwest Airlines, the flight attendants union has lobbed a new charge against Delta.
The Association of Flight Attendants this month filed a grievance saying Delta must stop combining the two carriers' flight crews because its contract says flights flown by Northwest pilots must be worked by Northwest flight attendants. Delta and Northwest pilots have already combined seniority lists and started working together on flights.

As Northwest flight attendants complete training on Delta planes and vice-versa, Delta wants to cross-staff flight attendant crews starting May 1.

The backdrop for the dispute is the delay in resolving labor representation issues nearly 18 months into the merger. Delta flight attendants are non-union, but so far no vote has been scheduled to let the combined workforce decide on representation.
Northwest flight attendants still work under a contract with a "scope" provision aimed at protecting jobs by preventing the company from outsourcing work. The union argues that Delta is the successor to the contract and must abide by it. It says Delta needs an agreement from the union to combine flight attendant operations as part of the broader flight crew integration.
"We understand that since Delta management has never had to adhere to a flight attendant contract before, they are used to imposing various work rules upon the flight attendants with no recourse, so of course they would be intimidated... and get defensive," Northwest AFA president Janette Rook said in an e-mail to the AJC. "Since Delta has gotten rid of most of the pre-merger NWA management that understood our contract, there have been a number of critical contractual violations."
Delta's senior vice president of in-flight service, Joanne Smith, wrote in a memo to flight attendants: "We strongly disagree with the AFA's position for several reasons, among them that all our operations are now Delta operations and all pilots are Delta pilots operating under a single Delta seniority list." She said the integration will improve work-life quality for Northwest attendants.
The issue could go to an arbitrator if the union and company can't settle the dispute.

 

I guess if there are no "Northwest" pilots then they don't have to come to work anymore.

I want a mega desk.

 

Uhh, Janette, you might want to look at the new Delta organizational chart. Uhhh, you'd be wrong? Uhhh, uhhhh, uhhh....

 

well said Super!!