Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
10-13-2010 | 09:12 PM
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From: Boeing Hearing and Ergonomics Lab Rat, Night Shift
Heyas,
You can have the best pay rates and QoL and other contract items in the industry...doesn't mean dick if your job was outsourced because of lax scope and you're sitting in the unemployment line.
You don't have to consider scope a "single issue" item, but geeze, you want to make sure it's not the weak link in the chain, either. There's no point in buying the latest wizzbang hi-def flat screen TV when your hovel doesn't have electricity or cable, no matter how good a bargain it is.
Nu
You can have the best pay rates and QoL and other contract items in the industry...doesn't mean dick if your job was outsourced because of lax scope and you're sitting in the unemployment line.
You don't have to consider scope a "single issue" item, but geeze, you want to make sure it's not the weak link in the chain, either. There's no point in buying the latest wizzbang hi-def flat screen TV when your hovel doesn't have electricity or cable, no matter how good a bargain it is.
Nu
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George
10-13-2010 | 09:17 PM
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From: Boeing Hearing and Ergonomics Lab Rat, Night Shift
Today:
Hmm, is there some lesson in here?
Cheers
George
United is seeking approval for new flights from Los Angeles to Shanghai, days after regulators approved service on the pairing by American Airlines.
American secured approval on 7 October, and plans to launch flights in April. Currently, American places its codes on Los Angeles-Shanghai flights operated by China Eastern, but the Chinese carrier is joining the SkyTeam alliance in mid-2011.
United seeks to begin its own Los Angeles-Shanghai service on 20 May, and says Continental aims place its code on the flights. Star partners Continental and United closed their merger on 1 October. Schedules in the Innovata database show that United currently operates one-stop flights between the two cities with connecting service through San Francisco.
United plans to offer service on the route with three class Boeing 777 aircraft.
There are currently 21 US-China frequencies are available for allocation.
American secured approval on 7 October, and plans to launch flights in April. Currently, American places its codes on Los Angeles-Shanghai flights operated by China Eastern, but the Chinese carrier is joining the SkyTeam alliance in mid-2011.
United seeks to begin its own Los Angeles-Shanghai service on 20 May, and says Continental aims place its code on the flights. Star partners Continental and United closed their merger on 1 October. Schedules in the Innovata database show that United currently operates one-stop flights between the two cities with connecting service through San Francisco.
United plans to offer service on the route with three class Boeing 777 aircraft.
There are currently 21 US-China frequencies are available for allocation.
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George
10-13-2010 | 11:53 PM
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10-14-2010 | 03:11 AM
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10-14-2010 | 04:22 AM
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I don't consider myself a supporter of an in house union, in general. I think there are a lot of support services that ALPA provides (Aeromedical, Safety) that it would be impossible for an independent union to maintain on its own.
That being said, where the hell is our PAC money going? I'm becoming very discenchanted with representational democracy! The biggest benefit that I see with the independent union is the ability to lobby not just for Delta pilots, but whatever is beneficial to the pilots and Our airline.
And I just want to throw in my .02 cents. I am a one issue voter. Scope, Scope, Scope.
This might have been touched in the other thread, but it is so hard to jump into these conversations!
That being said, where the hell is our PAC money going? I'm becoming very discenchanted with representational democracy! The biggest benefit that I see with the independent union is the ability to lobby not just for Delta pilots, but whatever is beneficial to the pilots and Our airline.
And I just want to throw in my .02 cents. I am a one issue voter. Scope, Scope, Scope.
This might have been touched in the other thread, but it is so hard to jump into these conversations!
10-14-2010 | 04:24 AM
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DO NOT be hating on Hootie my brother. The rest of that music crap is muey bueno. But Hootie and I have a history...being from Charleston and all, and back in the day, when music was music and aviation was....well, it used to be cool.
I used to stumble uptown from my South of Broad apartment after a two-week trip flying C-141s around the globe and stand in peanut shells with my cheap beer in a plastic cup to listen to Hootie when they were playing to nobody. And now, they're playing to nobody and I still stand in peanut shells and drink cheap beer in a plastic cup...buts its in my home in SoCal. My wife is not happy.
In fact, that's Darius Rucker on the tail of the Alaskan jets! Don't be hating the boyz from Carolina.
I used to stumble uptown from my South of Broad apartment after a two-week trip flying C-141s around the globe and stand in peanut shells with my cheap beer in a plastic cup to listen to Hootie when they were playing to nobody. And now, they're playing to nobody and I still stand in peanut shells and drink cheap beer in a plastic cup...buts its in my home in SoCal. My wife is not happy.
In fact, that's Darius Rucker on the tail of the Alaskan jets! Don't be hating the boyz from Carolina.
I do like flying into CHS but to date I've not done the CHS overnight. I did it back in the day on the RJs but have yet to do it with Big D. Funny thing happened in CHS, I met the mob. We'd flown them down from EWR and when we went out to check out the bar scene we ran into them again, they loved our FA. Anyways, it was the mob. D'Angelo family? Anyways, they introduced us to their... "dates", wow. Dude had a car that said Maersk, Strategic Collections and Reconciliations. The FA kept the card but man I wanted it.
Well, we could get there a lot faster if someone would just say the magic words- "I got screwed in the SLI because of [insert airlines name]"
DON'T DO IT!
10-14-2010 | 04:26 AM
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We do our own lobbying as well as what National does. On the national scale the interests generally are the same. When we lobby ourselves it is for things that are "generally" good for the DAL pilots. I say that because many feel that the time spent on the LGA slot swap did not show a concrete benefit. I saw a benefit but that was me. Many disagree.
As for National Pac. When Prater decided to be on the winning side of a bad issue (Age 65) a lot of ppl like myself pulled our ALPA-PAC money. I have since donated for specific causes.
As for National Pac. When Prater decided to be on the winning side of a bad issue (Age 65) a lot of ppl like myself pulled our ALPA-PAC money. I have since donated for specific causes.
10-14-2010 | 04:28 AM
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DO NOT be hating on Hootie my brother. The rest of that music crap is muey bueno. But Hootie and I have a history...being from Charleston and all, and back in the day, when music was music and aviation was....well, it used to be cool.
I used to stumble uptown from my South of Broad apartment after a two-week trip flying C-141s around the globe and stand in peanut shells with my cheap beer in a plastic cup to listen to Hootie when they were playing to nobody. And now, they're playing to nobody and I still stand in peanut shells and drink cheap beer in a plastic cup...buts its in my home in SoCal. My wife is not happy.
In fact, that's Darius Rucker on the tail of the Alaskan jets! Don't be hating the boyz from Carolina.
I used to stumble uptown from my South of Broad apartment after a two-week trip flying C-141s around the globe and stand in peanut shells with my cheap beer in a plastic cup to listen to Hootie when they were playing to nobody. And now, they're playing to nobody and I still stand in peanut shells and drink cheap beer in a plastic cup...buts its in my home in SoCal. My wife is not happy.
In fact, that's Darius Rucker on the tail of the Alaskan jets! Don't be hating the boyz from Carolina.
Everythings finer from Carolina....
10-14-2010 | 04:31 AM
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From: Light Chop
I say this because it is possible to have a quality aeromedical without ALPA. Not discounting ALPAs team, just that there are options.
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