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Looks like some awards are out.....

All A's except, ATL 767, DTW 320, Both LAX, MSP M88, NYC 765, and all SLC (except 73N)

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 795565)

If you north guys were worth your salt, you wouldnt be asking for 2 copies of the release. :D :D

SHA-POW!

kidding kidding kidding!

Nicely played. Love you guys!:D

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Originally Posted by Guard Dude (Post 795739)

A friend of mine said this thread is still going! I had to check it out. Holy Crap, that's awesome! I just got back from a "ground job" rotation to Kandahar AB. Starting back at Delta this week. I'm displacing back to the 88. Looking forward to being a lineholder. As a commuter, I have decided to chase quality of life.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Cheers!

G. Dude

G. Dude, you have no idea what you started! This thread rocks, has rocked, and will rock. Thanks for your service as a fellow zoomie. Welcome home and looking forward to buying you a beverage if/when we cross paths.

Buzz

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Originally Posted by BigGuns (Post 796097)

60+ hrs and not a single bid posted?! What witch's brew are they making this month? :rolleyes:

BigGuns, you might have missed this from flyguy's post...

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Originally Posted by flyguy1 (Post 794731)

Here are some of the things heard today:
-3 goals in 2010: Improve IT, Maximize revenue from synergy, and finalize the remaining labor issues.

...and they posted today on deltanet a picture of a DC-9 Captain with new servers they just added that "can analyze and punch those bid awards out like it was a bad guy in a back alley full of empty cardboard boxes"...

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/200...rL_468x582.jpg

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 795586)

You real men on the 9 shouldn't even need a release. Just sit down, pimp slap the FO a couple times, squeeze the A-line's jugs, and then launch in the general direction of where you're going because the s-o-b will get there...always. Why will it get there? Because you have a hairy chest that would make hasslehoff jealous and brass balls clanging so loud that when you die they'll replace the bell in Big Ben with them.

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Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 796102)

Looks like some awards are out.....

All A's except, ATL 767, DTW 320, Both LAX, MSP M88, NYC 765, and all SLC (except 73N)

They put the full last name on the lines. That is kinda nice! Makes it easier to firgure out who got what you want.

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Originally Posted by BigGuns (Post 796126)

They put the full last name on the lines. That is kinda nice! Makes it easier to firgure out who got what you want.

Yahoo! The N stuff is starting to creep in.:)

Gnewt

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 795981)

They don't get their numbers until taxi out like NWA used to do, and the dispatchers and load planners are certified stupid.

Orrrrr....they're doing the j/s or other nonrev a favor. They've done it for me more than once.

Gnewt

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Originally Posted by BigGuns (Post 796126)

They put the full last name on the lines. That is kinda nice! Makes it easier to firgure out who got what you want.

Is that the first time they've done that?

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Originally Posted by Gnewt (Post 796135)

Orrrrr....they're doing the j/s or other nonrev a favor. They've done it for me more than once.

Gnewt

Did that plenty of times... most of the time it was other reasons.

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Originally Posted by BigGuns (Post 795974)

I doubt that they were all 3 with in 10mins of dept. I notice north a/c on the gates with APU running all the time with no one on the A/C. Mostly the Airbus fleet. Sounds like we need to move the APU Sheriff up north...

I ride in the JS of JB and UAL about twice a month. Full Airbuses and they nearly always go out SE. Also they almost always taxi to the gate SE with no APU. We taxi SE in a full MD88 at 150,000 lbs so I am sure the A320 can handle it.

FWIW, In MEM, the majority of the taxi out/ins are always going to be 2 engine taxi. Because of the shape of the terminal (alley's) we have to have both engines so as not to blast all the RJ gates with the higher thrust needed to taxi single engine. Also the taxi times are so short that often you need them fired up right away to allow for warm up time.

With that said, there are some opportunities available to cut some fuel out with fuel savings. Especially with conditioned air, gpu plugged in etc.