Carl,

While we obviously don't agree on everything (I wouldn't trust anyone who always agreed with me anyway) - it certainly is refreshing to have a discussion on an adult level sticking to relevant arguments vice personal attacks, which I see far to often on this forum, but not necessarily this thread.

As I have said many times before - there is nothing wrong with disagreement on this board, in fact I generally think it adds to the discussion.

I do however, agree wholeheartedly with you that it is results that matter - Hopefully DAL will start getting better results - heck I think the "Law of averages" is even on our side - we (DAL) can't always screw up - can we?

Scoop

 

Yet another good point.

Carl

 

Seems like a weak argument to me.
Last time checked Apples stock is doing just fine. Most people who want a smartphone don't want it for the things Blackberry's or old style windows based systems can do.

You don't have to like the iPhone, but they had to stop pre-orders at 600,000 on the 15th. I'd say plenty of people like them just fine.

 

Popcorn anyone.....
UAL/CAL pilot talks hit snag: pilots union - Yahoo! Finance

 

Not unless you can wrangle them out of your base. I was standing in line behind a guy at the Manuals window in Atlanta in the same boat as you. He got his pubs months early and was trying to exchange them for an updated set. They wanted to charge him $135!!! They told him he got the pubs he ordered when he ordered them and was on his own for the updates.

Moral of the story: don't order your pubs until very close to your class date. Then pull several all-nighters doing the cd's. Or, order the aircraft pubs and Jepps separately; that should keep the updating to a minimum.

 

Secondhand from JFK base meeting:

- Shipsets for the 330 in July, 7ER in Sep, remainder early 2011. Outstanding!
- New weight/balance hybrid NWA/DL product in fall. Not required prior to push
- JFK terminal announcement Jun 29 (2010 I think )

 

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

 

90%. Been my point for a few years.

 

Carl, I was not on the A team. These are the biggest reasons that were stated to me. I know the issues with SAP and trying to ramrod other programs in to their templates. It never works well. My wife transitioned to SAP, and once those templates are made, it is very difficult to have them reworked

I also know that they like your functionality and are working on making the functionality of the new system. We have what we have, and the decisions have been made. I like what you had, but my understanding is that there were really good reasons for the decisions they made. It was not a N v S issue.

I know there was a lot of ton of influence on the decisions made from the F-NWA group that was involved. I do believe that going forward you will see many things reappear and we will be dealing with the "new to us" items.

 

They have been saying the 29th for the announcement for some time. Hope it holds.

Sept cannot come soon enough since my flight kit is about to die.

Nu:
I would love the ability to have scheduling get us on test, e-mail et al.

Should we demand a RIM based phone, 20 bucks a month for a text plan, what else should we ask for to give this benefit to the company. I know they would like it, so what are we willing to take to get it?

Netjets has a blackberry that has a bunch of programs on it. They send your next days sked or a reroute to the phone and you ack it, your are fatigued, you ack it. I like that idea, but for 12000 plus pilots that phone is a huge expense. Would you be willing to buy a smart phone that would be required to have these programs on it? We need to find a way to make this work for us, and for them.

Start discussing this!