Originally Posted by Nosmo King (Post 853717)

The board members initials were GW and he was later busted for allegedly trying to sneak a bong through airport security.

One minor correction - COD (check) for new aircraft and they would always accept delivery on Friday afternoon after the banks had closed, so the check couldn't be deposited until the next Monday...

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 853607)

Some functions on Icrew work with the android but you can't view your schedule. The problem is not the android phone but the browsers available. In Oct the Firefox for Android browswer should be coming out and will fix the problem. I have a pre beta version on my phone and I really like it and will use it as my main browser when the final version is released. The pre beta version is for a android phone with a hard keyboard so is not usable for most functions.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 853730)

Hmmm, there must be some rich line employees at said airline... never thought of that... I mean personally, if I was that rich all of a sudden I'd be out on my DHC-2 Beaver, dropping my lines down to nothing and claiming I buy everything on credit cards and Delta pays "pretty good" just nobody thinks I'm super rich. They'd just feel bad for me. But hey, thats just me. :D
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As to the iphone discussion, my 3GS phone if fully charged at 8am will be dead by 8pm if I didn't use it at all. If I used it spairingly, dead by 6. If I used it a fair amount, dead by 3 and a lot its dead by 10am. I am not kidding. About 80% of the time I cannot call the van, my phone is dead. I've heard if you take it off the charger once its at 100% charged then it'll last longer than if it stayed on a charger for hours, but kind of hard to do in the middle of the night.

When flying I have to turn it to airplane mode and then turn it off, if I just turn it off it dies very fast even while off. I like the phone, I just don't like feeling like I am carrying an expensive computer in my pocket that could too easily be lost and the battery is horrific.

Of course, I do abuse pandora from time to time.

Originally Posted by Nosmo King (Post 853892)

Most of us will probably never pull a Steven Slater: curse out a customer, grab a drink and leave our place of employment in a blaze of glory.
But let’s face it, we’ve all had the urge.
Slater, a flight attendant on JetBlue, instantly became a folk hero in many people’s eyes Monday after he grabbed a microphone and ranted at a passenger who had refused to apologize for hitting Slater with some luggage. Slater then grabbed a beer from the galley and fled the plane via the emergency exit chute.

Originally Posted by RoughLandings (Post 853912)

Don't forget that he was "in the midst of sexual relations" when the police busted into his house...

Awesome.

Originally Posted by NuGuy (Post 853698)

Red is right on the mark.

Prior to the LBO, NWA owned everything...and had even paid off the Republic merger. Plus the owned outright some VERY expensive property in Japan.

NWA was a very old school company. Financially conservative to a T, even to the point of paying COD for new aircraft and had a lot of money in the bank. Why? Because when you had the long term interests of the company in mind, that's what you did.

Unfortunately, in the "new age", all that did was make NWA a big fat target...like leaving the keys on the roof of your brand new Escalade.

The irony of the situation was that a couple of smart pilot-types saw the danger. They put together a proposal and went to the board and explained what could happen, the dangers, and what to do to prevent it (some kind of poison pill). The board basically patted the pilots on the head and said "awww, nothing like that will happen".

Now the way I heard it (one of the old timers might want to jump in and correct me), is that someone on the board thought that the buy out scenario was a good idea after hearing it from the pilots, resigned from the board, and put together the LBO idea and sold the Beach Boys on it.

Nu

Originally Posted by tantrum (Post 853823)

Yes, I know what the PWA says, but why in the world would they rather send out a 4 day GS than let me swap for it. Would save them money. I figured the two day prior cutoff in PCS was just to make sure you have time to receive notification...guess I thought a phone call would give me enough notification. It's not the end of the world for me...I figured it would be a win-win situation, but apparently that is of no interest to them. Kudos to the guy that got the 24 hour GS though!