Hey! I'm really enjoying it..... Everybody has been great. It's a little different, but the adjustment has been easy. I like the aircraft, but may take a little longer to really start settling into it, which is what everyone that has flown it tells me.

I think everyone cheats a little to fly a clean aircraft as long as you can, but perhaps configures a little earlier than what I saw on the M88/90, 757, 767, 737. I think it has a little to do with the technology and partly just because of the overall philosophy.

Not that I know of, they for sure are cheapest employee group. I like flying with the Asian girls as the are truely outstanding. But, I agree we are a US carrier. Will the Asia buisness drop off without indigenous FAs?

Interesting eh?

Ferd

I'm a First Officer in a North fleet, the new kid on the block and one of the only Southies in my base. I'm going with what the Captain's want, afterall they're the boss..... I'm here to learn a new aircraft and learn from guys that have been flying it since it showed up at NWA. Not a lot of SE taxi in the 320. I think most Captains see it as a safety issue and also as soon as you exceed your N1 limits when trying to taxi, FIFI reports herself via FOQA. There are other issues as well.

I may do it differently when I make Captain at year 17-18, but for now I'm paying attention and enjoying flying with my North brothers.

TC

The key is that many of the "N1" limits are archaic and no longer applicable. GI Joe says that knowing is half the battle.

I may or may not be first in line for the megapoodle in ATL. I hope the guys that badmouth the bus down here keep to their guns on being scared about the bus.

Great to see continued positive movement!

Ecktually, you have it backwards....

The 747s are fenced no matter how many they get...UNLESS someone wants to make the argument that they are replacing a 777 that is on order. There is no "number limit'... the entire type is fenced, not just those on the property. The 747-200s were fenced, also, for whatever that matters.

The 777s for 787 is a slightly different deal. The company can PROBABLY avoid that mess by continuing to have 787s "on order" while taking delivery of something else.

Some lawyers gonna get rich if someone decides to press-to-test it.

Nu

If Delta is going to add some more 777's in the near term they are going about it in a funny way. They had after the last 2 were delivered 40 productions slots over the next 5 years. Those slots have to be reconfirmed and a deposit paid 18 months prior to production. Since the last two aircraft were delivered they have let lapse every 777 slot that has come up. This was because of the change in fleet plan to keep the 747's for five years instead of them all being gone by post SOC plus 2 years.
There are no plans as of 2 months ago to take any additional 777's in the next 3 years. Things can change fast and business travel has picked up since then and perhaps Delta is not confirming the prior orders as leverage in the 787 issues but for the moment its not happening.

I doubt you are first in line. Rumor I heard is that mgmt is concerned about the training costs of an ATL 330 base. They are worried that the 777 guys in DTW, along with commuters in other bases/equipment, will bid it just to get back to ATL.

If the flying comes out of MSP, that is, on average, the most senior A330 base for CA, not sure about FO. The addition of more 747s would mitigate a lot of the movement on the north side, but no way those airplanes are on the property before an ATL A330 AE.

Someone earlier also posted a correction that said +20 PILOTS to 747 A and B.

Buy used by often. There are plenty of used 777's that we can get our hands on as soon that the 788 starts arriving.

I would venture to bet we keep the 787 on the books with a large 789 order.

I heard that from a Inspector too. 25 total seems to be the common number.