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We also had 5 of our 305 new hires resign to go to SWA/FEDEX. Not many but I felt like it got some attention. Comment was "doesn't usually happen at Delta" Of course this brought out a chant of "pay raise"

The Mega Millions is now $304.

Maybe we should organize an APC ticket buying pool.
Split the winnings when we hit.
Or buy an airline. Or some Goddesses.

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Originally Posted by maddogmax (Post 968903)

I bet those who went to SWA are very "excited" about the new merger with the Tranny!

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 968902)

Call your reps.

Way too rational and logical.
Its more fun to rabble rouse.

I'm just irked that we've allowed 1D2c to become a dead letter.
Big mistake in my opinion.

So MEM is shrinking by 25% and the population of Detroit has shrunk by 25%...
No wonder thoughs heavy fortified NWA hubs where so easy to defend... :rolleyes:

Census: Detroit's population falls 25 percent - U.S. news - Life - msnbc.com

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Originally Posted by BigGuns (Post 968924)

There's still something like 30 million people within a 3 hour drive of DTW though. That's huge.

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 968896)

Not as many types of aircraft to send pilots too.

Top end limited. Retirements will come off the top, and that is where the training is the most limited.

Also, the new training cycles eat up a ton of training time.

Block hr limited. We can only deal with a certain percentage of pilots in training at a particular time for schedule integrity.

Point, is we are a lot leaner than we once were.

Seems there is also a bottleneck at the OE level. Lack of LCA kept many on the sidelines awaiting OE.

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Originally Posted by BigGuns (Post 968924)

No wonder thoughs heavy fortified NWA hubs where so easy to defend... :rolleyes:

What does this mean?

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Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 968877)

Seems maybe the rabble rousing here on "Latest and Greatest" has finally prompted the MEC into taking a look at whether RAH is an "air carrier".
Its blatantly obvious that Republic has been thumbing their nose at our scope clause with their holding company / separate certificates charade. Now that even the NMB is set to declare RAH a "single carrier", maybe the administration has decided to enforce Section 1.D.

That language in our contract is very important. The clear intent is to prevent any code-sharing which directly subsidizes competition on larger jets. RAH is a textbook case of this. They're using the guaranteed profits they make from the fee for departure arrangements with Delta to purchase and operate Airbus and Embraer 190 jets that directly compete with Delta jets of the same gauge. That is the exact conduct prohibited under Section 1.D.2.c .

If this is, in fact, the potential scope violation that is being looked into, I have extremely low expectations of the union actually attempting to force the company into compliance with the CBA. I hope I am wrong.

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Originally Posted by BigGuns (Post 968924)

My though when this was announced was well there is the DCI aircraft that are needed for the slot swap......