Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
12-18-2010 | 05:51 AM
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What category and what day? Send it over to ALPA. There is a informal agreement on shortcalls. ALPA needs to know if the company is violating it. Did you look carefully at the start dates and times. Sometimes 10 pilots on shortcall is actually 5 on one day and 5 on the next showing up on the same assignment date.
I see this a lot with DTW 320B. Be sure to check the dates as sometimes they have a SC time for tomorrow on today's list.
12-18-2010 | 05:56 AM
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How do "spill" trips pay out? Is the pay divided b/w the last and first days of the month? I know the answer is back on page 1069 or something...but...I just don't have the time to search.
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12-18-2010 | 06:01 AM
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What category and what day? Send it over to ALPA. There is a informal agreement on shortcalls. ALPA needs to know if the company is violating it. Did you look carefully at the start dates and times. Sometimes 10 pilots on shortcall is actually 5 on one day and 5 on the next showing up on the same assignment date.
12-18-2010 | 06:03 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Delta prepares for full narrowbody analysis in early 2011
By Lori Ranson
Delta Air Lines is preparing to start discussions early next year with manufacturers about replacing its aging narrowbodies.
Speaking during the carrier's annual investor day Delta president Ed Bastian said: "We clearly need to get the DC9s retired. We clearly need to start to build a replenishment strategy for our older MD88s and some of our Airbus narrowbodies as well as the [Boeing] 757s."
Flightglobal's ACAS database shows that Delta currently operates 40 DC9s, 117 MD88s, 179 757s and 126 Airbus A320 family aircraft.
"We'll have more data as we talk to the manufacturers," says Bastian. "We've not been in a position the last couple of years because when you put two airlines together you really pop out so much capacity that you want to make sure it is fully allocated and fully productive." Delta and Northwest merged in 2008, and attained a single operating certificate from the FAA in December 2009.
Bastain explains now Delta is "at the point of the cycle where we think we should have those conversations", with airframers.
Delta's president also states the carrier is "open to different economic financial models" in acquiring new aircraft, and would consider both direct ownership and leasing.
By Lori Ranson
Delta Air Lines is preparing to start discussions early next year with manufacturers about replacing its aging narrowbodies.
Speaking during the carrier's annual investor day Delta president Ed Bastian said: "We clearly need to get the DC9s retired. We clearly need to start to build a replenishment strategy for our older MD88s and some of our Airbus narrowbodies as well as the [Boeing] 757s."
Flightglobal's ACAS database shows that Delta currently operates 40 DC9s, 117 MD88s, 179 757s and 126 Airbus A320 family aircraft.
"We'll have more data as we talk to the manufacturers," says Bastian. "We've not been in a position the last couple of years because when you put two airlines together you really pop out so much capacity that you want to make sure it is fully allocated and fully productive." Delta and Northwest merged in 2008, and attained a single operating certificate from the FAA in December 2009.
Bastain explains now Delta is "at the point of the cycle where we think we should have those conversations", with airframers.
Delta's president also states the carrier is "open to different economic financial models" in acquiring new aircraft, and would consider both direct ownership and leasing.
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ma...elta-5457.html
Stock usually jumps with talk of airplane orders. As a trade, buy DAL on the dips, plan for a sale around mid to late June. I can see a Delta representative at the Paris Air Show talking about how our orders integrate into the needs of our global partners, with the Air France rep standing in front of an A380 model. If so, good for us as we get a lot more staffing out of our split in the AF/SkyTeam allocation.
What is most interesting about this announcement is the signal it sends on potential merger partners. This tells me it is less likely (although still possible) we believe Alaska's fleet will be deployed as part of Delta.
I think paying for our own fleet replacement is something of a last resort for Delta management. Aside from the DC9, there are no efficiencies that will make the new jets "self financing." In fact, in the case of the 757, the replacement jet may not even be as efficient (refer to press on British Airways replacement of their aging 757's with A321's).
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12-18-2010 | 06:11 AM
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What category and what day? Send it over to ALPA. There is a informal agreement on shortcalls. ALPA needs to know if the company is violating it. Did you look carefully at the start dates and times. Sometimes 10 pilots on shortcall is actually 5 on one day and 5 on the next showing up on the same assignment date.
The scheduling guy said, well, the SC list is just a projection, they can add to it for any reason. This irks me to no end - what's the point of a list if you're not going to follow it?
Like someone else said, I'd prefer to just not know what the SCs are, rather than look at the proposed list, then the actual list and get annoyed there are twice as many on SC as proposed.
12-18-2010 | 06:12 AM
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Each leg pays into whatever month it departs, local time of departure I believe. Any credit on the trip ends up in the second month.
12-18-2010 | 06:13 AM
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12-18-2010 | 06:30 AM
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Very nice!
Take a peek at the SLC 320B numbers. Negative or 0 for the next 9 days. I think every 320 FO except one (me) that was on reserve in SLC has now rolled PB days over Christmas. I'm on an out of base DTW GS trip and should end up with over 55 hours above guarantee this month. I still need one more to get a PB day on the 25th which shouldn't be a problem looking at the numbers. I've seen a couple guys who have around 60 hours GS pay already for the month. January #'s look the same in SLC.
Disclaimer: For those anti-GS guys lurking around, I did this to get Christmas off NOT for the pay.
Take a peek at the SLC 320B numbers. Negative or 0 for the next 9 days. I think every 320 FO except one (me) that was on reserve in SLC has now rolled PB days over Christmas. I'm on an out of base DTW GS trip and should end up with over 55 hours above guarantee this month. I still need one more to get a PB day on the 25th which shouldn't be a problem looking at the numbers. I've seen a couple guys who have around 60 hours GS pay already for the month. January #'s look the same in SLC.
Disclaimer: For those anti-GS guys lurking around, I did this to get Christmas off NOT for the pay.
. Not bad considering this is my first month ever to do gs trips.
12-18-2010 | 06:54 AM
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Yeah I started the month with gunning for Xmas off and because of the 3 gs's I'm now off the 21-28th. Originally I was supposed to be on call the 22-31st so my plan worked out beautifully, plus the 50+ hours of gs pay doesn't hurt either .
Not bad considering this is my first month ever to do gs trips.
. Not bad considering this is my first month ever to do gs trips.
This greenslip month and you could trade your way into a 5.0 Mustang.
Wonder if they make a "crew scheduling edition" with special "call, to the sign in desk in 15 minutes performance package."Better yet, sell your Holden to me.
12-18-2010 | 07:11 AM
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Yeah I started the month with gunning for Xmas off and because of the 3 gs's I'm now off the 21-28th. Originally I was supposed to be on call the 22-31st so my plan worked out beautifully, plus the 50+ hours of gs pay doesn't hurt either .
Not bad considering this is my first month ever to do gs trips.
. Not bad considering this is my first month ever to do gs trips.
Enjoy Christmas off while I'm chemtrailing the friendly skies.
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