Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
02-08-2011 | 07:57 AM
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Delta to serve Starbucks Seattle's Best Coffe
Great! Finally some decent airplane coffee.
Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday that it will begin serving Starbucks Corp's Seattle's Best Coffee on all domestic and international Delta and Delta Connection flights starting on March 1. The deal is nonexclusive. Other terms were not disclosed. The agreement, part of Delta's $2 billion investment in improving customer service.
Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday that it will begin serving Starbucks Corp's Seattle's Best Coffee on all domestic and international Delta and Delta Connection flights starting on March 1. The deal is nonexclusive. Other terms were not disclosed. The agreement, part of Delta's $2 billion investment in improving customer service.
02-08-2011 | 07:58 AM
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From: Light Chop
Great! Finally some decent airplane coffee.
Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday that it will begin serving Starbucks Corp's Seattle's Best Coffee on all domestic and international Delta and Delta Connection flights starting on March 1. The deal is nonexclusive. Other terms were not disclosed. The agreement, part of Delta's $2 billion investment in improving customer service.
Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday that it will begin serving Starbucks Corp's Seattle's Best Coffee on all domestic and international Delta and Delta Connection flights starting on March 1. The deal is nonexclusive. Other terms were not disclosed. The agreement, part of Delta's $2 billion investment in improving customer service.
02-08-2011 | 08:05 AM
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From: metal tube operator
You can PD as many times as you want to throughout the year. You only get 1 APD per year. The APD only requires that there is 25% of the reserves required to be able to drop the trip, with limited exceptions for holiday periods. To see if you still have your APD available for the year, check your time card in iCrew. It will say something down near the bottom like APD available for use: Y (or N)
For a straight PD (again unlimited) every day of the trip has to have more reserves available than required. You can check this in iCrew under the Open Time link.
You cannot WS on a day which shows PD or APD on your schedule. I think you can PD just one day of the trip which will then drop the entire rotation, provided coverage is adequate. You would then have PD on only one day of your schedule, and should be able to WS on the other days. You want to check into this before you try it though - I'm not 100% on this one.
It sounds like you may be able to accomplish what you're wanting to do by a Swap With the Pot request, which has it's own set of requirements.
For a straight PD (again unlimited) every day of the trip has to have more reserves available than required. You can check this in iCrew under the Open Time link.
You cannot WS on a day which shows PD or APD on your schedule. I think you can PD just one day of the trip which will then drop the entire rotation, provided coverage is adequate. You would then have PD on only one day of your schedule, and should be able to WS on the other days. You want to check into this before you try it though - I'm not 100% on this one.
It sounds like you may be able to accomplish what you're wanting to do by a Swap With the Pot request, which has it's own set of requirements.
02-08-2011 | 08:44 AM
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Straight from the bilge
Great! Finally some decent airplane coffee.
Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday that it will begin serving Starbucks Corp's Seattle's Best Coffee on all domestic and international Delta and Delta Connection flights starting on March 1. The deal is nonexclusive. Other terms were not disclosed. The agreement, part of Delta's $2 billion investment in improving customer service.
Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday that it will begin serving Starbucks Corp's Seattle's Best Coffee on all domestic and international Delta and Delta Connection flights starting on March 1. The deal is nonexclusive. Other terms were not disclosed. The agreement, part of Delta's $2 billion investment in improving customer service.
02-08-2011 | 09:03 AM
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From: 767er Captain
This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Actually I have a french press that I carry with me.. along with some good... great Brazilian coffee, and it is OK with the bilge water as long as it is strong enough. Seems hat when we started carrying Green Mountain years ago, it was pretty good until somebody said it was too strong and cut back the packets... since then... ugh. I am optimistic about this though...
Man.. no Jepps.. I just bought a smaller computer.. and no french press... What on earth will I do with all that space in my flight kit?
02-08-2011 | 09:15 AM
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You can PD as many times as you want to throughout the year. You only get 1 APD per year. The APD only requires that there is 25% of the reserves required to be able to drop the trip, with limited exceptions for holiday periods. To see if you still have your APD available for the year, check your time card in iCrew. It will say something down near the bottom like APD available for use: Y (or N)
For a straight PD (again unlimited) every day of the trip has to have more reserves available than required. You can check this in iCrew under the Open Time link.
You cannot WS on a day which shows PD or APD on your schedule. I think you can PD just one day of the trip which will then drop the entire rotation, provided coverage is adequate. You would then have PD on only one day of your schedule, and should be able to WS on the other days. You want to check into this before you try it though - I'm not 100% on this one.
It sounds like you may be able to accomplish what you're wanting to do by a Swap With the Pot request, which has it's own set of requirements.
For a straight PD (again unlimited) every day of the trip has to have more reserves available than required. You can check this in iCrew under the Open Time link.
You cannot WS on a day which shows PD or APD on your schedule. I think you can PD just one day of the trip which will then drop the entire rotation, provided coverage is adequate. You would then have PD on only one day of your schedule, and should be able to WS on the other days. You want to check into this before you try it though - I'm not 100% on this one.
It sounds like you may be able to accomplish what you're wanting to do by a Swap With the Pot request, which has it's own set of requirements.
You can APD just one day of a trip and WS over the remaining days.
02-08-2011 | 09:38 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
- How much money could Delta have saved if we simply took NWA's airplanes and flying and made their pilot group restart their careers at the employment office? ... (those concerned about political correctness can swap Delta for NWA, makes no difference, NWA could have made Delta pilots start over for the example)
- How much money did it cost to restore the longevity of NWA pilots who had lost their during furlough?
- In 2007 when Delta absorbed a few thousand ASA employees, they were allowed to keep their longevity. ALPA members (pilots) were the only employees forced to quit and re-hire at Delta, starting from scratch. Some pilots transferred into management, maintenance, training (etc) so they could keep their longevity as they came to Delta. They did not get seniority, but they kept their pay, weeks of vacation and travel pass date.
- Why are some pilots treated different than any other employees and any other pilots?
To pre-empt your reply that management does not want a merger ... there are numerous answers and possibilities:
- How would we know? We never wanted a merger ... easier for us to furlough and blame Comair
- In the case of non ALPA members, we have no obligation to them at all. Just as DCI contracts are canceled and rebid now, just rebid them at mainline. ... that reduces Delta's longevity
Or conversely (since this is how our MEC has thought in the past) if we are going to sell members' jobs, what are they worth?
Last edited by Bucking Bar; 02-08-2011 at 09:55 AM.
02-08-2011 | 10:05 AM
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From: A330 A
This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Actually I have a french press that I carry with me.. along with some good... great Brazilian coffee, and it is OK with the bilge water as long as it is strong enough. Seems hat when we started carrying Green Mountain years ago, it was pretty good until somebody said it was too strong and cut back the packets... since then... ugh. I am optimistic about this though...
Man.. no Jepps.. I just bought a smaller computer.. and no french press... What on earth will I do with all that space in my flight kit?
Man.. no Jepps.. I just bought a smaller computer.. and no french press... What on earth will I do with all that space in my flight kit?
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger. Now it's "Grimesy, black, one sugar" or "Grimesy, got a powdered anywhere?
02-08-2011 | 10:06 AM
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From: Space Shuttle PIC
So, are there ship sets now in the 757/767 fleet? I thought that wasn't supposed to happen until the 11th? Good for you guys. When will the Md88 fleet get ours?
02-08-2011 | 10:16 AM
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