If we flew SEA - MAO the result would look like this:

The dengue, malaria, mold borne respiratory afflictions, yellow fever, boredom, food poisoning, lack of air conditioning & internet, tetanus, pollution and chlamydia are not that bad after the rainy season. Sure, some of the diseases have a 50% mortality rate, but you can be a glass half full kind of guy ... you've got a 50% chance of living.

If you were a blockholder without a block, you could sit reserve in base at the reserve guarantee which was min 75 but was sometimes more if the monthly max was "flexed", OR you could sit reserve at home for 68/lineholder guarantee with PS to base for trips assigned or you could have an empty line and access to the open board.

East Gate of the G.O. Go between the rennaisance hotel and the G.O. and loop around to the east side. If that lot is full just axe the attendant where the overflow lot is.

Scambo, was it the jazz/blues place in the alley? Or the one out on Market?

I fly with mostly over age 60 captains. as was mentioned in other posts they are "enjoying" wb international flying for the first time in their careers for several reasons. 1) 20 year fence created artificial seniority imbalances 2) When the fence came down, there were very few openings to be awarded due to pilots not retiring and recall rights with no expiration date 3) They were not the most senior Green Book guys and couldn't hold the very few openings that existed 4) Extension to age 65 allowed them to stay flying long enough to see retirements off the 747 and 330 and thus bid the recent openings

I ask every one of them why they chose to fly past 65 and none of them has mentioned finances. Its always the "this international stuff is great!" answer. I am getting kinda tired of sitting through multiple line checks on every trip/ :rolleyes:

I'll tell you why, because there is no place in the world safer than the area within a 2 hour driving distance of Virginia Avenue. To say otherwise would be to someone's idea here of violating the social policy. So people have bought in to the who Atlanta thing.

Also, commutin's a *****. MEM and CVG have question marks about what categories will be there with a healthy assurance there will not be any WBs. NYC is NYC, as in its not BOS where so many NYC crews live and it's very expensive. You go there if you don't mind commuting.

That leaves super senior SEA, decimated by Alaska LAX, MSP and ATL. ATL has been super tight, takes a bit more than 3 years just to hold a line on the bottom, albeit kick ass, feeder. Half the 764s were sent to NYC and replaced with an aircraft not based here. It just increased the seniority pressure.

Atlanta has great areas here and there to live and this bizarre base housing thing going on. People want to be here if theyve got no place else they'd rather live. Too bad Western didn't own DEN, it's probably the only place my atlanta hometown wife would move too.

Wouldn't we all be surprised if they followed the airplane to ATL and commuted because they like the lifestyle and could possibly do one commute a month?

MSP A330 is on average the most senior of the A330 bases. It would be interesting to see who would end up on the equipment if they all bid to ATL.

FTB: Good explanation. DTW is starting to look appealing as an alternative.

In other news, we have the oldest fleet of any mainline / legacy carrier:
The quote in parenthesis is not mine. Not that it is a bad thing.As much as the senior pilots complain about the juniors complaining, at least we write in complete sentences and post pictures of girls. The ALPA board will be interesting if we get a A330A shoot out. However, my thought is that the weight increases may be a precursor to 12+ hour flying which means more A positions. Somehow it always seems to keep working out for the people it keeps working out for (which is a good thing).

The D word is being bandied about in various corners of the economy right now thus there is absolutely no incentive to retire early.

Nobody is saying, I'll retire and go fly a gulfstream anymore. And we also have folks caught up in the real estate disaster. I flew with an ER FO that got into flipping houses late in the game and had 4 or 5 houses he owned when the economy tanked and his divorce kicked in. Another ER CA was, recently, waitibg to finally hit the point he could declare bankruptcy thanks to condos or homes he owned in the Destin area.

0 incentive for a lot of folks.

Hey FtB any advice for the ATL M88B plug? Was planning to move to Atlanta but maybe not so now. What are the chances you guys think that I could get booted? Number 497/497 is fun!