Originally Posted by brakechatter (Post 900392)

I'll speak for one. I don't want to be paying to get to work, period. That includes my union.

Originally Posted by chuck416 (Post 900417)

ACL,
I'd just like to see our union get a back bone, take a stand, and have us all cease-and-desist this asinine, humiliating excuse of a "show" for the sake of "security". By nature, what rises to the level of an SOS is a moving target. This is only the second event I've witnessed that meets that threshold.
Respectfully,
chuck

Originally Posted by chuck416 (Post 900421)

+1
except I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "That includes my union..."
chuck

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 900425)

What he means is he does not want to pay for himself whether it be out of his pocket directly or out of his pocket indirectly though his union and the union dues he pays.

Originally Posted by DAL4EVER (Post 894281)

As I recall, the ROI was going to be achieved through fuel savings from the reduced weight and maintenance costs. The maintenance savings was big. They went from something like 27 line-replaceable-units to six. That also cut hundreds of pounds from the a/c. The mod back then I remember seemed very cheap at around $250k per aircraft. Do that to over 200+ aircraft and the expense up front is large. But the savings from the weight and mx, would pay for itself in 3 years. However, back then the NWA merger hadn't gone through and they wanted ROI's that were shorter. Perhaps now, they will look at the longer term savings now that these aircraft are here to stay till at least 2020.

Originally Posted by Cohiba (Post 900496)

The reason for this is NEXGEN. FAA ATC wants to institute curvilinear 3-5 mile visual approaches into the major US airports. Steve D is the chair of the ATA NexGen committee. DAL has requested to start in FEB 2011 these approaches in ATL. SouthWest currently has the ability to do these approaches. If we want to play ball, we have to have the avionic reliability and features the flat glass brings.