Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-02-2010 | 08:46 PM
Line Holder
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 66
Likes: 0
Buzz,
After hearing you say more than once that the mergers over "get over it" every time a northie raised a flag or two about the way Delta does things it was very refreshing to read your post. We are a very professional group of guys on both sides and I think that's why the "train by memo" routine irked alot of us. But as you can see from your recent experiences that former NWA pilots are just like you, professionals interested in doing the best they can to get their pax to where they are going safely.
After hearing you say more than once that the mergers over "get over it" every time a northie raised a flag or two about the way Delta does things it was very refreshing to read your post. We are a very professional group of guys on both sides and I think that's why the "train by memo" routine irked alot of us. But as you can see from your recent experiences that former NWA pilots are just like you, professionals interested in doing the best they can to get their pax to where they are going safely.
05-02-2010 | 08:54 PM
Can't abide NAI
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 12,078
Likes: 15
From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
The short call question is in regards to the legalities of consecutive short call assignments. Let's say you are on SC today until 10 PM. At 3 PM skeds assigns you another SC tomorrow AM. You are not released; you must still sit out SC until 10 PM. Can you be considered legally rested when you are technically on duty, even though they didn't use you? Questions are being raised about this practice.
That is how it was explained to me when that question was raised. IMHO on SC isn't "rest" but until someone in authority comes along and defines the term, it is what it is.
05-02-2010 | 08:56 PM
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 413
Likes: 0
From: FO forever
Oh I agree!! I have no idea what that means for Guam, AirMic + United will be tough.
I have no real statistics, it just seems farmer logic that they were bleeding more cash than us with nothing but big widebodies in NRT. We were flying A320s (then 757s after the SARs recovery) on the "thin routes" going south.
I really think it would be interesting to see load factors and yield out there the last decade. Like I said, no data but I think we did it the smart way while we were holding on during bankruptcy.
Any new rumors from the NRT breakfast club
........I haven't been out there for a few months (going back out later in May).
Ferd
PS for the fDals, the petri dish of all good rumors are at breakfast in NRT
I have no real statistics, it just seems farmer logic that they were bleeding more cash than us with nothing but big widebodies in NRT. We were flying A320s (then 757s after the SARs recovery) on the "thin routes" going south.
I really think it would be interesting to see load factors and yield out there the last decade. Like I said, no data but I think we did it the smart way while we were holding on during bankruptcy.
Any new rumors from the NRT breakfast club
........I haven't been out there for a few months (going back out later in May). Ferd
PS for the fDals, the petri dish of all good rumors are at breakfast in NRT
05-02-2010 | 09:01 PM
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,457
Likes: 0
From: LAX ERA
I have no recollection of that congressman
I thought we were getting the 744s OUT of the desert? What's the new hotel in NGO? Where am I going to eat if not on the other side of the train station? And is the Starbucks as close? The horror!!
Ferd
I thought we were getting the 744s OUT of the desert? What's the new hotel in NGO? Where am I going to eat if not on the other side of the train station? And is the Starbucks as close? The horror!!
Ferd
05-02-2010 | 09:03 PM
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,457
Likes: 0
From: LAX ERA
05-02-2010 | 09:10 PM
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 413
Likes: 0
From: FO forever
.
05-02-2010 | 09:19 PM
Can't abide NAI
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 12,078
Likes: 15
From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
deleted ....
Last edited by Bucking Bar; 05-02-2010 at 09:33 PM.
05-02-2010 | 09:34 PM
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,971
Likes: 0
From: Kickin’ Back
It'll be my first dinner stop if/when I get back to Narita!
Is the "Flyers" club/bar still there? The last time I was there Richard Branson had just opened up a english bar/pub. At least that was the rumor going around. I heard the "trailers" shutdown awhile ago.Ferd, I'm glad your up for it 'cause, depending on the length of the layover, I might need some help finding my way back to the hotel!
Denny
05-02-2010 | 09:35 PM
Moderator
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 7,263
Likes: 105
From: DAL 330
And if these clowns that pose as DAL management want the bragging rights to being the biggest airline in the world (justifying the biggest bonuses I guess) then they better get some more mainline aircraft and continue to eliminate the outsourcing of our product and profits to DCI.
Scoop
05-02-2010 | 09:39 PM
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,971
Likes: 0
From: Kickin’ Back
For y'all flying Asia, what do you do as far as getting local currency in Japan, China, Saipan etc? Do you use a credit card, ATM's, hotel etc.? Thanks,
Denny
Denny
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
