buzzpat

We should have sent over the anointed one.....ahhh, never mind. That didn't work either.

PilotFrog

Qatar will be a challenge. It is hot there and even top athletes will succumb to 100 deg at 8pm in July/august

johnso29

Fixed for reading ease.

caddis

Having spent some "quality" time over in Qatar I can tell you it is not going to be fun to play there in the summer.

Temps for my tour there averaged 115 during the day and 90 to 100 at night. The problem at night is the humidity kicks in. If you wanted to go for a run or other outdoor activities you had to go at between midnight and 5 am. That should be fun.

If offered free tickets, airfare, and hotel I would still decline.

reddog25

Yeah, can you believe it? The NMB changed the rules so that if you want your vote to count you have to do something crazy like vote.

Schwanker

Unless your month became tax free with hostile fire pay

johnso29

Thanks to everybody who answered my questions about Sec 23 Recovery Flying yesterday. I still think that recovery flying needs to be changed, at least for removal from a trip for purposes of OE. You should be off, period. And you should be able to pick up open time on those days for extra pay. I'm adding that to my next contract wish list.

johnso29

While I'm neutral on the FA representation issue, I do think the rule change was the correct move. A non vote counting as a NO vote was just ridiculous.

Ferd149

Agree...........like saying a non-vote is a vote for the ____________ party (fill in the blank yourself) because ____________ (again fill in your own reason). See, I'm not getting this thread closed

On a truly union political note (I think I said this before) if the AFA loses, look for another card drive with an inhouse FA union wanting to organize. I talked to a couple of FAs who agreed with me that probably what REALLY swung the election was PFAA (the old in house union at NWA) types wanting to stick it to the AFA for getting them kicked off the property during bankruptcy.

Sort of like another thread we have going on APC

Ferd <-----------feels strongly both ways about a FA union. If she's cute, I agree completely with what she is saying

RockyBoy

We are talking about after PBS awards you a line. What you request in PBS is not what you always get. If PBS can build it and we can request it when bidding, we should be able to move X days using the same rules. The big three are one day off between blocks, more than a block of six on call days, and creating a block of two reserve days. PBS does that all day long when building lines, yet we can't do it after the schedules are published by moving X days.

PBS is getting very good at building reserve lines that virtually prohibit you from moving X days due to these requirements. For December it gave me three blocks of three days reserve and one block of two days reserve virtually locking up my ability to move 11 of my days regardless of coverage. It then gives me one day off after the block of two then 6 days reserve. Kinda be nice to move one of the FOUR days left I can move due to these rules into that one day off so I don't have a single day off, but I can't create a block of more than 6 even though PBS does it. So for December I have a total of 6 days in one block that could potentially be moved, but they are the ones that PBS unstacked on me so the coverage won't allow it. I'm not a consipiracy theorist type, but it's been uncanny the last couple of months how efficient PBS is getting at building lines like this that prohibit you from moving days even if coverage is good.