Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 993878)

That is a possible reason.......:eek:

..........but I think it has more to do with the fact that there is almost exclusively O&D traffic in the NYC domestic markets(JFK intl conx excepted). The company can fill an airplane out of NYC at 0600 to lots of locations due to sheer numbers of people that live in the NYC area. On the late inbounds, even though there still isn't that connecting pax (lots of O&D), they can fill an airplane later in the evening and have it terminate in NYC at 11pm, and people will buy the tickets.

Originally Posted by nwaf16dude (Post 993928)

ATL767B... only 5 days in june with reserves less than required. Some days with 30 guys on reserve. ***?

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 993614)

Looks like newK just finished his first book:

http://verydemotivational.files.word...sing-women.jpg

Took him one night....

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 993131)

Excellent post newK and spot on.

FWIW, many of us northies' biggest problem is what has happened to our operation. We were almost always at the top of the list for ontime arrivals, and exceedingly operationally efficient. We were always in the upper middle of customer satisfaction and won first place nearly every year from customers for our website. Now we are the most complained about airline by our customers and near the bottom for ontime arrivals and other metrics.

The above aren't complaints...they are simply facts. Now when you add to this the fact that many north managers were removed from their positions for trying to add our expertise to the operation, it doesn't exactly create a high morale situation.

Don't know how many northies agree with my analysis, but I know it's the feelings of many.

Carl

Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 994090)

That's me upon completion of putting together my own personal Delta manual.

Now when they tell me "One place, right place," I can smile and say, "yup." :D

Originally Posted by Cogf16 (Post 994096)

I don't doubt what you say about ontime and operational efficiency but I think South F/A's overall are better at customer (and crew) service than North ones. Not to say that North F/A's aren't good though.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 994102)

Well played! Well played.... :)

Originally Posted by UncleSam (Post 994041)

There is an art to moving X days that is not found in most pilots. Try downloading some of the ALPA "Notepads" that deal with scheduling.

Generally speaking, you have to move whole groups of X days or move the last one or two X days in a group over to the next group. As someone else stated you can't create new groups of days off. Remember that moving X days comes after all the regular line holders have done trip drops and other reserve pilots have done PDs (personal drops). If there are lots of available reserve pilots, it might work. Good luck!:D

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 993983)

I always get mine in by the 18th. I think they close it on the morning of the 19th.