Does any body know how to get LMS to work with an apple product? Am a guest and another house and have initial trng on a new ac. (actually old friend ac) anyway the LMS won't run on the brand new apple....Any thoughts?

 

With the imminent loss of the flight bag on the Ocho-y-Ocho, what are guys doing for a bag to handle headset, flashlight, etc? I know this has been discussed a few months back but I can't find the info. I want to combine my LuggageWorks clip on bag contents with the flight bag items.

 

We have a Facebook page? Don't tell me I have to join Facebook...

 

I use the clip on bag, works good.

 

The new NYC reps are improving two way communication. I sent an electronic communication to Council 66 and received phone call from my rep almost as soon as the special MEC meeting was over. We chatted for about 45 min. They are very aware of the scope issues and and vowing to change how we've done business. Seems like a good guy. Honeymoon period is till in effect.

 

New DOT rule tackles fees, bumping, flight delays

New DOT rule tackles fees, bumping, flight delays - Yahoo! News

Love the fed jumping in on this...should justify some fare increases. Now give me my share of it, and don't hoard it all to yourselves!

 

Also from the FB page

Council66 While we don't like the holes in our contract and need to address those issues via section 6, there is no contactual violation with the RAH STS ruling. The MEC Communications will be publishing more detailed information in the next few days.

 

Ray LaHood on the new regulations: "It's just common sense that if an airline loses your bag or you get bumped from a flight because it was oversold, you should be reimbursed."

Yeah, and it's just common sense that after paying for medicare and social security all my adult life that if the ponzi scheme suddenly comes up short, I should be reimbursed.

 

There are thousands of pilots at Delta that disagree. Why are there holes in our contract? I thought ALPA has the best contract lawyers in the business. I'm surprised DPA hasn't gained more momentum. I watched ALPA make a deal with Delta relaxing our scope. They claimed they didn't want to risk losing in arbitration. Since that deal, I've watched three separate airlines take on more DC-9 replacements. I'm fed up with watching our jobs go away.

 

Hockey44,

Great question: "Why are there holes in our contract?"

Again, you need to consider why these holes exist in our contract. They are not accidental. Our scope language was REMOVED on purpose.

Lee Moak used to put on a presentation explaining how outsourcing improved profitability which made for better Delta pilot contracts. Outsourcing is more profitable if you have more vendors competing and driving the price down. Contractual provisions were REMOVED to increase cost competition among DCI carriers and to facilitate the sale of Delta's subsidiaries (ASA, Comair, Compass, Mesaba, etc)

So now our MEC says ***!? The time to have asked was back when our administration made these changes to beat up on and sell our DCI carriers. Many of us wrote and told them the risks and where these plans would fail. Some of us asked for resolutions to study these changes & got them passed. But at the end of the day politics overwhelmed objective argument.

If anyone is pleased Comair got mostly destroyed try to really enjoy that feeling of vindication. The cost was an enormous hole in our scope that operators can run a holding company through.