Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
01-15-2011 | 05:47 AM
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What a bunch of lazy &^cks!! Walk to the curb pay $1 and take the tram anywhere on International Drive....PLENTY to do!
Oh well, I would expect to see the quality of the hotels start to go down as the economy improves and the pending contract negotiations.
Oh well, I would expect to see the quality of the hotels start to go down as the economy improves and the pending contract negotiations.
01-15-2011 | 06:04 AM
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From: Light Chop
I don't know why people complained about the MCO hotel. The hotel was clean, in a safe area, and it was located near everything you could possibly want via the city trolley. The timing of the trolley was reasonable and I believe it was free. And of course, the free hotel cookies !!!
Newport News, not so much. My room had boogers on the wall, and the mold growing in the wall paper was an added touch. The closet doors were off the hinges and stacked up against the wall. The chair in the room was torn in multiple places, and had many prominent bodily stains (edited to keep a PG rating). The hotel's restaurant (and that's an insult to call it a restaurant), served the worst breakfast bar and food I've ever had from a hotel.
But it gets better. Within reasonable walking distance, you have a steakhouse (which wasn't recommended that we go there by the hotel staff) that opens after 6pm, a pancake house, and a gas station. The pancake house owner says to me as I walk in, "you must be a Delta MD88 pilot?" "Yes, I am, how did you know that?" "Because NOBODY walks down this road but you guys." You don't even have fast food options available. Everything else requires a car because of the distance and/or the sidewalks end.
The insult to injury is that the ride to the hotel takes a minimum of 20 minutes; yet, there are malls, shopping, entertainment, good hotels, every restaurant you would want located ONE exit away from the airport. Go figure.
Newport News, not so much. My room had boogers on the wall, and the mold growing in the wall paper was an added touch. The closet doors were off the hinges and stacked up against the wall. The chair in the room was torn in multiple places, and had many prominent bodily stains (edited to keep a PG rating). The hotel's restaurant (and that's an insult to call it a restaurant), served the worst breakfast bar and food I've ever had from a hotel.
But it gets better. Within reasonable walking distance, you have a steakhouse (which wasn't recommended that we go there by the hotel staff) that opens after 6pm, a pancake house, and a gas station. The pancake house owner says to me as I walk in, "you must be a Delta MD88 pilot?" "Yes, I am, how did you know that?" "Because NOBODY walks down this road but you guys." You don't even have fast food options available. Everything else requires a car because of the distance and/or the sidewalks end.
The insult to injury is that the ride to the hotel takes a minimum of 20 minutes; yet, there are malls, shopping, entertainment, good hotels, every restaurant you would want located ONE exit away from the airport. Go figure.
The other side of the interstate at PHF is full of everything you could want on an overnight. It's an absolute mistake to go to Williamsburg and now most of the overnights I see are only 15 hours or so and they're still going up there. That's worth complaining about and I'm glad I had somewhere else to go. The other side of I64 on Jefferson Ave is the Patrick Henry mall, which I believe is where AirTran and ASA overnight, and surrounding it is a courtyard by marriot, residence inn, cheeseburger in paradise, cracker barrel, waffle house, bally’s fitness, Carabbas, Applebees, melting pot, outback, cheddars, chic-fil-a, buffalo wild wings, best buy, Costco, taco bell, TGI Fridays, Bed Bath & Beyond, McDonalds, Target, KFC… just start complaining about Williamsburg and start demanding the Patrick Henry Mall. "1, 2, 3, 4...If we have to overnight at Patrick Henry Field (PHF) then we must overnight at Patrick Henry Mall!"
As to MCO, I wish I had known about the trolley a long time ago. That'd totally changed my perspective on that hotel. I heard it was cheap and you got to nicer stuff. I also got my first new room there not long ago and that was so much nicer than the previous rooms. Although the water just stinks. Why does the water stink so bad in Florida?!?
What slow said...
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01-15-2011 | 06:15 AM
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01-15-2011 | 06:19 AM
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Last summer the air conditioning went out at the PHF hotel. I wrote an fcr after hearing what a hotel maintenance guy told me about the AC system. It cant handle super hot or super cold. My room was 90, the hallways were 95 and my first room was over 100F. The hotel staff admitted that nothing was really wrong with the AC. When confronted by Delta the hotel manager lied and said the system was fixed. I hate that hotel.
01-15-2011 | 06:26 AM
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Last summer the air conditioning went out at the PHF hotel. I wrote an fcr after hearing what a hotel maintenance guy told me about the AC system. It cant handle super hot or super cold. My room was 90, the hallways were 95 and my first room was over 100F. The hotel staff admitted that nothing was really wrong with the AC. When confronted by Delta the hotel manager lied and said the system was fixed. I hate that hotel.
It's not catchy, but it's worth the letter writing effort. Google maps Patrick Henry Mall and see what's all there. It's literally 5 min max to the airport. Maybe 10 min if you hit every light at 445am.
BTW, outside of visiting colonial Williamsburg I can't think of another reason to go anywhere near that town. It sounds fancy, but it's not.
01-15-2011 | 07:06 AM
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01-15-2011 | 07:35 AM
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01-15-2011 | 07:46 AM
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The Delta Net is temporarily down, how can I see what my schedule is next month? I went to the Flight Operations page, but I can't see Feb awards. Does anyone know how to look it up? Thank You.
01-15-2011 | 07:52 AM
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WS's on the other hand are proffers if its for the same day or less then 12 hours from initial notification attempt by the company.
WS's beyond same or next day coverage are not proffers and you must fly them. The company has no notification responsibility in this situation. If you have a WS in you are required to check yourself to see if it was awarded.
01-15-2011 | 07:54 AM
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did you know, speaking of ground personell, that the outstations only have 5-10 min to look over the plane and identify missing parts or damage and if something is subsequently found theyre responsible. Some stations are hard core, and honestly in a good way, at finding stuff.
But we found out the hard way that the catalog of dents on the airframe are oddly wipped away after painting but of course the dents are not. So a proactive station found them, reported them and we were grounded for an hour and a half as the contract mx guy had to first get there and then do a 7 page checklist on the multiple painted over dents. Thats not an out station issue, thats a mx records issue and hopefully, hopefully, was just this one plane.
just a fwiw.
But we found out the hard way that the catalog of dents on the airframe are oddly wipped away after painting but of course the dents are not. So a proactive station found them, reported them and we were grounded for an hour and a half as the contract mx guy had to first get there and then do a 7 page checklist on the multiple painted over dents. Thats not an out station issue, thats a mx records issue and hopefully, hopefully, was just this one plane.
just a fwiw.
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