Maybe the pay rate should be closer to the A330 no?

 

Enter Company/ALPA apologists:

Yeah, but they are parking 50 seat RJ's at an accelerated rate....

 

I love DOS.

CTRL/ALT/DEL

 

Alright, last of the silly Monday stuff.

Here's our very own forgot to bid singing Katy Perry in his layover hotel room.

 

OK, you owe me a new monitor, or at least some wipes to clean it off.

THAT is the funniest thing I've seen in a while, fake boobs notwithstanding.

Needs to have a mustache, though, to be completely accurate.

Nu

 

hehe I struck AAPL at $13.75
right around when Michael Dell said Apple should "give the shareholders their money back"

It split twice

But I'm a pilot, so I sold it at $96 to put the equity towards something "more durable"...I used it as a downpayment on a house in 2006...

Cheers
George

 

The problem is Section 1.

compared with the rest of Section 1, the AF JV is tightly controlled. That is a good thing. The flying is balanced at a 50% share of ASMs across the Atlantic. They grow, we grow, they shrink, we shrink. The balance of ASMs is reviewed annually and there are remedies in place in case the balance goes beyond a 47/53% ratio (6% imbalance)...

The remainder of Section 1 covers codeshare and RJ flying, something different from a JV, but an agreement to have someone other than Delta pilots do the flying nonetheless.

For some reason the architects of the remaining portions of Section 1 didn't have the foresight to require annual reviews as stipulated in the AF JV agreement.

If the RJ flying had been pegged at a certain portion of ASMs back when it was introduced, the RJs would have shared the fleet drawdown with mainline.

In fact had the DCI portion of Section 1 pegged the RJ/Mainline flying balance as a ratio of ASMs, we would have seen a reduction in the number of RJs as larger 70 and 76 seaters were introduced because the bigger jets produce more ASMs per flight...

Alas, that's not the type of agreement we have, so we're stuck with what we have...

Going forward this should be a good lesson. At a minimum require an annual review and establish a ceiling for non-JV Section 1 agreements with a cap on the ASM ratio...

Cheers
George

 

The piece of the puzzle that makes this difficult as a junior/reserve/FOrever is that you will likely not break 70 hours of credit very often your first year. You must break 80 hours of CREDIT before you can begin banking any time. It's difficult/nearly impossible to bank any significant amount of time during your first year unless you are one of the fortunate bow-riders that got on at the beginning of a hiring wave and can hold a line.

One of the few ways a reserve can even get paid much beyond 80 is with Greenslips, but they are pay no credit, so again you cannot bank that time.

It's a great idea, but hard to implement unless you're a lineholder.

Btw - I'm a fan of the cap at ALV+15. This is in no way a slam on the cap; just a little reality check for those hoping to pull this off. A better solution would be for us ALL to get a sizeable pay raise (or restoration depending on your perspective.) SWA W2's for all small narrowbodies is a good place to start, and then index up from there. That should be a minimum.

 

Depends on the fleet. He is a new hire on the 320 in DTW and already has a line. Also broke 80 multiple times as a RES. I guess he is on the front of that wave.

 

In that case, I'd say go for it. Banking it at $50ish/hour and taking it out at $80ish on second year is a 60% premium on your funds. If you have the restraint to wait another year or so, it will be close to a 100% return.

I'm just speaking from personal experience. My bank was at -27:00 last January 2010. Us Northies mostly came in with a -15 hour bank, and then I bought 4 vacation days. Since then I've been trying to pay into it pretty steadily. I've been a lineholder since last summer and am now at +10. Even as a lineholder it's hard to bank more than 10 hours a month (as you have to get to 90 hours of CREDIT to do this.) I personally don't like flying that much EVERY month Like I said, it's a great idea. It's just not as easy or quick as it sounds.