Pineapple Guy

Better check those numbers. You're off by about a 1000. And since you're a strong supporter now, which base did you sign up to be the "Base Representative" for? With 2,000+ guys, and only 2 willing to actually do any work, it seems they've picked up all the keyboard warriors, but not much else.

gearsdown

Moon,

Just pick any past rotation, doesn't matter (per CPSC). I just did this for some passport expenses, I had to go back to my last rotation in January.

acl65pilot

I was down there off and on most of the week as I was flying in and out of ATL. I did see the DPA guys doing a very nice job of keeping it professional. What I did not see was the ATL reps, and other FO reps from the other bases being unprofessional. If you are a C44 pilot call them up and tell them what you did not like. If you are another base, tell them as well. I think there was a SLC, and LAX rep there as well.

ALPA and their representatives need to listen to you the line pilot. That is what this is all about. Give them the necessary input.

Oh and BTW, DPA as a grassroots movement in ALPA would be very powerful. Getting pilots engaged is what it is about, and if DPA can do that, great. We need ALL pilots engaged in the process. Apathy is no excuse, and if DPA can change that and then effect change at the LEC level, I am all for the pilots getting their voices heard.

Columbia

Air France to serve San Francisco with A380


Air France to serve San Francisco with A380 - Business Traveller

The French flag carrier will join Lufthansa as the second airline to operate A380 flights to San Francisco, with a daily service over the summer period.
The carrier will offer daily A380 flights between Paris CDG and the Californian city from June 6 until September 4, departing Paris at 1030 and arriving at 1240. The return leg leaves San Francisco at 1610, landing back into the French capital at 1135 the next day.
Business Traveller understands Air France may make this new superjumbo service possible by redeploying its A380 aircraft operating on the Paris CDG-Tokyo route, as a result of the fall in demand for flights to Japan following the country’s earthquake and tsunami.
Lufthansa is set to become the first carrier to fly the A380 to San Francisco next month, with a daily service (replacing the current B747-400 on the route) starting on May 10 – see online news January 27 for more information.

Eck4Life

Question for the PMNW hires in the '07-'08 timeframe. I've been carrying a -15 bank apparently that is just now being repaid out of my paychecks. I didn't notice it before as I was a reserve guy until recently and never broke min guarantee. Payroll says it was carried over from before the payroll dept switchover in Jan 2010. No one down in ATL knows what it's about, but I know I haven't messed with my bank. I would hardly even know how to. Is this a NWism that I've forgotten about? Something comes to mind about 15 hrs of pay as a new hire, but there was a lot going on then. Thanks for any light you can shed on this. PM me if you like.

Sink r8

That's actually an example of the JV working, without hurting us, for a change. We're not dropping a route for this to happen, we don't really have a competitive product to offer against LH's A380 anyway... so why not? Maybe it keeps people going for Skyteam miles, and maybe those people need to go to Japan using our flights at some other time.

JobHopper

Congrats on finally getting a line. Delta automatically grabs time over 80 hrs (min 5 hours if memory serves me right) to repay a negative bank. It stops at zero, i.e., they will not automatically take time to build a positive bank like NWA did.

Thrust Normal

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. From what I recall we went negative bank when they paid us 80 hrs during initial training. Since most of us sat on reserve quite a bit we never paid it off. That bank transferred to Delta and we carry it over. I think that's how it went. I'm finally going even bank now.

shiznit

I agree, and with the cutting of the AMM and CAI flights, we are going to have to get a bunch of other trans-atlantic flying to keep the ratios intact. Could mean the return of JFK/ATL to CDG flying to our guys, or maybe some more off-hub Europre flying like the PIT/BOS/PHL to CDG and BOS/MIA to LHR flying.

No matter what, I plan on hearing from DALPA soon on how that affects the Protocol Agreement WRT the JV and how Delta Pilots are going to be protected with these shifts.

Boy oh boy, the Scope Compliance Committee certainly has lots of things to investigate lately!!

TheManager

Sink. A little premature on the analysis. Do we JV with them out of SLC? That is the key to answer, cause if we don't, there went a lot of CDG-SLC and connecting on to the Bay Area/Nor Cal market.

If we can no longer justify an ER out of SLC, then what?