Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
01-18-2011 | 05:07 PM
Da Hudge
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From: Poodle Whisperer
I sure seem to enjoy my job and time off more then 98 percent of the frequent posters on here. You would think they are working in pure hell while being cheated out of everything in value in their lives from reading their posts. I have a non airline friend and I sent him here to research something that interested him. He read some of the threads and told me he had no idea things were so incredibly bad at Delta. I told him they are not, its the internet and you know how accurate that always is!
Whoa there, Serious Bear. I was making a joke!
Besides, a non airline pilot coming to airline forums would be like me visiting some other professions forums. It would be (is) filled with shop talk and nitpicking over problems. People outside the profession won't understand it and will see the negativity... especially in a profession that has been horribly outsourced and dealt with bankruptcy and paycuts.
You should know better than that.
01-18-2011 | 05:08 PM
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You'll get paid 1X above guarantee for the stuff flown in your reserve month and your PB days will go into your bank. The hours you fly in a regular month will be paid 2X pay with no days off back. You should see the credit hours for each month show up in the green slip hours spot on your time card, but can't really figure out exactly how it's paid until after your paid and see the pay statement.
If there is credit in the trip it will be applied by default in the month that the rotation ends.
If there is credit in the trip it will be applied by default in the month that the rotation ends.
As a added small bonus you will still be considered as having no GS's and up for GS number 1 in the regular line month.
01-18-2011 | 05:09 PM
Gets Weekends Off
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From: Dismayed
So I got displaced a year ago to the 73N (started class in May), and it still has the "i would like to be reinstated to the 767B" box on my AE. Is that still valid? How long are my reinstatement rights even though there have been 2 other AEs?
Just pondering the options.
Just pondering the options.
Pretty sure the reinstatement rights are 180 days from your conversion. So, when were you converted? (just checked PWA) According to page 22-9 you have 180 days from conversion.
01-18-2011 | 05:12 PM
Da Hudge
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From: Poodle Whisperer
Thanks! I swear this website is quicker than looking it up on the contract, haha.
Converted 1 June. Prob just expired! I was thinking about a freebie back to the 767 and then ride the displacement for the ER conversion... I'm not much of a fan of the 737 so far to say the least. It has it's moments but between not really liking the airplane and constant abuse on reserve I'm pretty muchdone with this. I can deal with the rsv abuse if I really enjoy flying the airplane but this is approaching my limit!
01-18-2011 | 05:18 PM
veut gagner à la loterie
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From: Light Chop
From the AE bid out today:
"We expect this bid to put us in a solid position to support the scheduled 2011 summer flying. We plan to publish our next bid in the second quarter of 2011 to support the proposed fall 2011 flying. It will most likely be a 365 day bid and will include some changes to the A330 and A319/320 basing. We will let you know more as we get closer to that bid."
Comments???? 330's to LAX?? LOL. Bye bye 320 MSP...Hello ATL from what I heard in MSP last week.
Baja.
"We expect this bid to put us in a solid position to support the scheduled 2011 summer flying. We plan to publish our next bid in the second quarter of 2011 to support the proposed fall 2011 flying. It will most likely be a 365 day bid and will include some changes to the A330 and A319/320 basing. We will let you know more as we get closer to that bid."
Comments???? 330's to LAX?? LOL. Bye bye 320 MSP...Hello ATL from what I heard in MSP last week.
Baja.
Guess the good times on 88 reserve are about to end.
Repent! 10 hail marry's and regurgitation of all 4 limitations and 3 memory items followed by what the flow light means should suffice. for now. keep it up and you're going to have to recite where every light rheostat is located buddy...
THERAPY...
So I got displaced a year ago to the 73N (started class in May), and it still has the "i would like to be reinstated to the 767B" box on my AE. Is that still valid? How long are my reinstatement rights even though there have been 2 other AEs?
Just pondering the options.
Just pondering the options.
01-18-2011 | 05:20 PM
Da Hudge
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From: Poodle Whisperer
01-18-2011 | 05:22 PM
No longer cares
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From: 767er Captain
If they open a 330 base in ATL the time has to come from some base. With them adding time in DTW on the 330 it would hint that all the time will come out of the SEA base. This of course assumes a 330 base in Atlanta. The company may decide just to keep dead heading people back and forth.
Edit, Forgot we had a 330 base in MSP. Time could come form MSP or SEA. Here is a statement from the company.
We expect this bid to put us in a solid position to support the scheduled 2011 summer flying. We plan to publish our next bid in the second quarter of 2011 to support the proposed fall 2011 flying. It will most likely be a 365 day bid and will include some changes to the A330 and A319/320 basing. We will let you know more as we get closer to that bid.
Edit, Forgot we had a 330 base in MSP. Time could come form MSP or SEA. Here is a statement from the company.
We expect this bid to put us in a solid position to support the scheduled 2011 summer flying. We plan to publish our next bid in the second quarter of 2011 to support the proposed fall 2011 flying. It will most likely be a 365 day bid and will include some changes to the A330 and A319/320 basing. We will let you know more as we get closer to that bid.
Now if they can just figure out what to do with the 764... BUt I thought in your original post you were talking about the entire SEA base. I agree with your assessment.
01-18-2011 | 05:32 PM
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From: A-320A
80, it is six months from your conversion date. If you had a mid month conversion then it may still be good by a few days. Literally.
01-18-2011 | 05:35 PM
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Off the top of my head, I honestly haven't noticed that. Most of the comments I've seen seem to be oriented around dissatisfaction with compensation and scope, not actually working at Delta Air Lines.
1) You would have to prove to me your assertion that "far more and better jobs were lost to work rule changes." I don't doubt that some jobs were lost due to that, but I think far more were lost to the RJ's than any other factor or combination of factors.
2) Have you considered that many of us don't necessarily want to fly as much as possible but need to fly as much as possible because our pay is otherwise too low and also because many of us are trying to rebuild our retirements after the loss of the pension?
1) You would have to prove to me your assertion that "far more and better jobs were lost to work rule changes." I don't doubt that some jobs were lost due to that, but I think far more were lost to the RJ's than any other factor or combination of factors.
2) Have you considered that many of us don't necessarily want to fly as much as possible but need to fly as much as possible because our pay is otherwise too low and also because many of us are trying to rebuild our retirements after the loss of the pension?
The total block hours flown on average in 2001 were the same as the block hours flown in June of 2007 pre merger. You would expect that would yield the same number of pilots. Sadly it did not. We were flying the 07 schedule with 2500 fewer line pilots. Down from 10,000 to 7500. That was a direct result of a hundred or more work rule changes to increase productivity. Those jobs lost are equally spread across the fleet spectrum from 777 CA to MD88 FO.
01-18-2011 | 05:47 PM
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From: Retired (mandatory age 65)
The total block hours flown on average in 2001 were the same as the block hours flown in June of 2007 pre merger. You would expect that would yield the same number of pilots. Sadly it did not. We were flying the 07 schedule with 2500 fewer line pilots. Down from 10,000 to 7500. That was a direct result of a hundred or more work rule changes to increase productivity. Those jobs lost are equally spread across the fleet spectrum from 777 CA to MD88 FO.
Oh... and this may be a stupid question, but are block hours the only determinant of how many pilots you need?
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