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Interesting video.
Better if you click thru to YouTube and then watch it full screen. |
I'm tired of hearing ALPA tell me that the number of DCI air frames are decreasing. Every single recent announcement has been negative recently. We are parking the DC-9's, MD-90's are not arriving as fast as anticipated, no hiring in 2011, Republic getting 8 E170's painted in Delta colors , Skywest getting 4 more CRJ 700's in Delta colors, Compass getting 12 170's in Delta colors, and the LGA/DCA swap is probably dead. Make no mistake about it (Lee Moak's favorite phrase). THE REST OF THE DC-9 FLEET IS BEING REPLACED BY THREE DIFFERENT DELTA CONNECTION CARRIERS THUS RESULTING IN LOST MAINLINE DELTA JOBS. There is nothing we can do about it, but we can at least acknowledge the fact that our scope is the worst in the industry and it is still under attack. Our seniority list is going to shrink. We probably will not furlough as we will have a lot of pilots retiring in the next few years, but there will be no movement for those of us at the bottom. It's not a coincidence that Delta announced 24 new 70 seat airframes around the same time as announcing the remaining 30 DC-9's retiring early. I love flying at Delta and I'm grateful to have a job, but getting off reserve and making more than $80,000/year would be nice. I spend a lot of time away from home commuting to reserve. I can't hold a line anywhere so for me reserve is not a choice.
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I'll second that.
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Originally Posted by TheNid
(Post 956371)
Yeah, I didn't understand that one either...hopefully I missed the humor/sarcasm...
Originally Posted by siemprerojo Yeah I certainly didn't want to have to fly the dc-9 as my first captain job and my spouse would much rather hang out at compass and not have to fly that antique! |
Originally Posted by hockeypilot44
(Post 956511)
I'm tired of hearing ALPA tell me that the number of DCI air frames are decreasing. Every single recent announcement has been negative recently. We are parking the DC-9's, MD-90's are not arriving as fast as anticipated, no hiring in 2011, Republic getting 8 E170's painted in Delta colors , Skywest getting 4 more CRJ 700's in Delta colors, Compass getting 12 170's in Delta colors, and the LGA/DCA swap is probably dead.
...and just to add to the bad news: -Delta stock tanked today losing almost 6% -Nymex oil closed at its highest level in two and a half years -There hasn't been a good underboob picture in 5 or 6 pages on this thread |
Originally Posted by siemprerojo
(Post 956516)
Hee Hee yup just trying to put humour on this sad situation that we find ourselves in and not trying to shoot the messenger (johnso).
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Originally Posted by johnso29
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I'll miss the DC9's. Worse yet, I've rode up front on Mesaba & Compass many times & would gladly fly both of those airplanes at Mainline.
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The overriding theme echoed by the protesters and speakers in Madison is the protection of worker’s rights in both the public and private sectors. Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot who helped crash land the airliner in the Hudson in January of 2009, was one of the speakers. The crowd cheered when he said, “we didn’t abandon those passengers to save themselves; we all worked together to save everybody. That’s a lesson that people in this Capitol building need to learn.” Skiles continued, “this budget bill will strip Wisconsin public workers of the protections and rights enjoyed by other Americans. This bill will regulate public workers to second-class status in America. Are we going to let that happen?” In unison, the crowd chanted “No!” Skiles concluded his speech by stating, “Let’s not forget how this budget crisis came about, and let’s not let this governor and this Republican legislature shift the blame for what’s wrong with America from corporate profiteers and instead demonize our teachers, our nurses and our public-sector employees.” |
Originally Posted by iceman49
(Post 956530)
[LEFT]The overriding theme echoed by the protesters and speakers in Madison is the protection of worker’s rights in both the public and private sectors.
Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot who helped crash land the airliner in the Hudson in January of 2009, was one of the speakers. The crowd cheered when he said, “we didn’t abandon those passengers to save themselves; we all worked together to save everybody. That’s a lesson that people in this Capitol building need to learn.” Skiles continued, “this budget bill will strip Wisconsin public workers of the protections and rights enjoyed by other Americans. This bill will regulate public workers to second-class status in America. Are we going to let that happen?” In unison, the crowd chanted “No!” Skiles concluded his speech by stating, “Let’s not forget how this budget crisis came about, and let’s not let this governor and this Republican legislature shift the blame for what’s wrong with America from corporate profiteers and instead demonize our teachers, our nurses and our public-sector employees.” Public union financially supports a governor, governor then negotiates a contract with the union, the union is paid with tax payer money that is not earned but confiscated, a portion of that money is paid to the union which is then paid to the governor. That's money laundering and we don't have that option at Delta. I'm no fan of FDR but he was right about government unions. Also to say “this budget bill will strip Wisconsin public workers of the protections and rights enjoyed by other Americans. This bill will regulate public workers to second-class status in America. Are we going to let that happen?” |
Originally Posted by RoughLandings
(Post 956528)
So would I. I sure as sh!t don't want to fly more of them at CPZ...
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