log into icrew... select open time and then daily trip coverage. if you arent sure what a code is just press help and it pulls up all the letter id's.

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It has nothing to do with operating profit (although I wish it did.) It is based on pre-tax income (excluding special items and expense associated with employee profit sharing.) Operating profit does not take interest expense into account, and unfortunately we have plenty of that. In the most recent quarter Delta had an operating profit of $852M but pre-tax income (excluding special items) of $549M. I'm not sure where you get the 4% of W2 figure. If we make $10M do we get 4% of W2? Uh, no.

Don't hold me to it, but as I recall, in 2007 when DAL last paid profit sharing, they paid mil leave guys an amount as if they had been here. I don't think they are legally required to, but I do think they paid it, more or less.

Again, I'm not 100% sure, so don't spend it yet.

I want to say it soooo bad...but I won't.

Carl

Please do! As a south guy, I think that the DAL culture was superior to NWA's (in most of the touchy-feely ways) but aside from a perhaps unhealthy obsession with the rigidity of your SOPA/SMAC, I am getting the feeling that NWA's operational procedures were superior to most of DAL's.

I hope we take a few more of your operational policies and implement them.

Oh, and don't suggest to our FLOE (Flight Ops Engineering) that a lot of their products are sub-standard. They tend to be very touchy...probably because they have gotten so much flak over the years!

The 4% was a rough guess. It is one that other have used for illustration.

Ahhh, I hear this a lot. Like the contents of the NWA "release" and flight plan and Delta's release, there is a bit of misconception of what SOPA/SMAC really was.

It wasn't an iron bound scripture. It wasn't an "Air Force" like book where it only told you what you could do, versus only what you couldn't.

Rather, it was like a very well lit, modern highway. Lots of lights and smooth pavement with well designed on and off ramps with plenty of signs. Both you and your partner knew the road very well because you had studied the same, very clear and colorful maps. It didn't matter who you were with, because everyone knew the road as well as you did, and even if they didn't, the road was clear enough, with plenty of "Exit ahead, 2 miles" signs that it smoothed it out considerably for new folks. If you were suppose to turn off at a specific exit, but weren't, your partner knew well ahead of time, and could let you know to get over to the exit lane without fuxoring traffic all up.


Nu

Strangely a very good description of how it was to fly under SOPA/SMAC. I'd love to see it return, but am not holding my breath

Okay Carl, I'll take this on. I want to speak about AWABS because I have a question too.

Now follow me here, we're going on an adventure appropriate for friday night apcf and not to unlike I just went through with the movie Inception.

The other day I was holding short of ramp 2 on the north outer taxiway in ATL. Waiting for my gate because we were on time and our gate was occupied for another 20 minutes. Makes no sense does it? And we were on time despite having a reroute from BDL-ATL that took us over CLE.

But while sitting there I saw an MD88 come running down 26L for takeoff. I'm at the end of 26L and this sucker is getting closer, and closer, and closer, and not rotating. They had to be about 2000' from the end when they rotated and climbed out. Turns out it was a 9. Two planes later another 9 repeated the event.

So that made me think of this:

Finger in Butt Crack Sparks Knife Fight
DALLAS - A Dallas woman touched her friend's buttocks, sparking an assault and attempted stabbing, police said.

According to a police report, 22-year-old Laquita Mattox rubbed a finger along the victim's butt crack, prompting her to clench her buttocks. The victim claimed the clenching caused the bed she was sitting on to break, angering Mattox. A fight ensued in which Mattox repeatedly hit the victim before grabbing a butcher knife and threatening to kill her. According to the report, she said, "Are you ready to die?" The alleged victim called police and the suspect fled, the report stated.

The reason why I thought this is I didn't know butt clenching could break a bed, but it about broke a pilot seat on an MD88. So, AWABS, like what is the takeoff run of a 9 on a 97F day in ATL?

Okay, some things have been embellished here, unfortunately not all of it. The news story is real.

Herk, not sure where the description of SOPA/SMAC as rigid came from, its just an simple organized way of doing things in the aircraft without any loss of operational flexability. The crewmember can go from Douglas to Boeing and Airbus without learning a different culture...training becomes much more productive.