Are there any domestic trips in your category?
If so, there's your reason for the 0500 short call.

Plus, some commuters might prefer a short call cycle that ends at 0500. Spend the night in your crashpad and be on the 0600 out of LGA headed home.

For relaxing times.........make it Suntory Time.

BTW, that movie is one of the all time best. There is no way a pilot cannot identify w/Bill in that movie. Plus, early ScarJo...mmm :D.

What movie is that?

Lost in Translation.

Here's Carl on another NRT layover:

http://www.celebritywonder.com/mp/20...lation_006.jpg

Spirit Strike Fund by DAL pilots-idea.
 

As the largest pilot group in the country, maybe we should collectively help our friends at Spirit. They are risking their livelihood by striking on behalf of all of us...but holding the bar up for all.

If all 12120 pilots on Delta seniority list donate $100 each, we can pay each of all 441 active Spirit pilots around $2750 . That will help them put food on the table for their families as they go through this challenging month.

If their strike continues for long or even worse lose their jobs, we have an obligation to help them out. Our unity will also send a very clear message to airline managements across the country.

Just an idea for our union folks to look into. Strictly a volunteer program. May be the union should publish and send an e-mail with a guideline on how much to donate and where to donate. May be our union leadership should join hands with some other airline and collectively do this endeavour.

I'm in. Where do we sign up?

After 35 days we will all have the opportunity to provide that assistance. The assesments will run about $80 per month.

Spirit pilots should be able to make it 35 days on their own. Not being cold, just the way it is.

If you plan to strike, plan to put food on your table. I did that in 98, didn't see alot of my fellow pilots running to throw money my way.

Of course had we gone more than 35 days, I'm certain that the generosity of my fellow union brothers and sisters would have helped put food on the table; that's what being a union member is all about.

reddog, I agree, and I don't see the Spirit guys asking for this. But this battle is larger than just them, and it NEEDS to be successful. Kicking in an extra $100 at the start as a little added insurance is a small price to pay, imo.

Why don't we change that trend and help them out? I will be honored to be part of this historical strike.

Call me optimistic...but I see things changing for good in this industry. The management expected scabs to cross the Spirit picket line. They got NONE....not even the chief pilot would do it. Then they tried to outsource the flying. NO pilot group would fly it. They got a measly two guys to cross the picket line....even that was temporary. This strike will be a glorious chapter in "Flying the Line-VOL III" if we ALL play our cards right.

Who is going to help our own if we don't? The public and the media does not have any sympathy for pilots during a strike---the Spirit pilots have been called greedy and compared to communists by the locals for going on strike on some news blogs.

Let us help them out and send the message loud and clear this time. And like I said, this should be a volunteer program....nobody is forcing anybody.

I'm in...this battle must not be lost.
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." - George S. Patton.