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Met with a chief pilot today. AE comes out today. Airbuses will be in ATL. Also 50 have accepted early out, this AE taking senior equipment out of MSP will generate more early outs. Maddog here I come!
The MSP Training Center closing is apparently tied to high oil prices and drilling down for savings. |
Originally Posted by forgot to bid
(Post 1005745)
The D word is being bandied about in various corners of the economy right now thus there is absolutely no incentive to retire early.
I expect the opposite. If anyone remembers the really ugly 70's we had high unemployment, interest rates got into the 17% range and lines at the fuel pumps. In their garages and college dorm rooms brilliant men created new business which are household words today. The Fed is in a corner. It's own exposure to real estate results in a situation where it could be wiped out on the assets it holds. It can not stand deflation. The only way out is inflation. Inflation will lower ours (and everyone else's) pay in real terms. As for retirement, it is a net neutral depending on their ability to manage and employ the assets they have. Some of the f-NWA pilots have large enough portfolios to make full time management a worth while effort. |
Wow..this could get fun/interesting!!
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The Press comes around to a more reasonable view:
Originally Posted by The Street.com
Delta Flies Into Patriotic Morass
Ted Reed 06/09/11 - 10:18 AM EDT ATLANTA (TheStreet) -- Delta(DAL) flew into a black hole of negative publicity this week when an employee asked uniformed servicemen to pay bag fees. Talk about stepping in it. Delta inaccurately appeared to be unpatriotic. Delta also saw a negative YouTube post that became national news. Also, before Delta had a chance Wednesday to change its policy to allow U.S. military traveling on orders in economy class to check four bags free, competitors rushed to point out that their policies are far more liberal than Delta's. Earlier in the day, American Airlines(AMR) said it would go to five free bags for military, traveling on orders or for pleasure. This incident began when a group of U.S. soldiers returning home from Afghanistan was charged $200 each for extra bags on a connecting flight from Baltimore to Atlanta. On YouTube, the soldiers said they were authorized to check as many as four bags free of charge. But they were nevertheless charged for their fourth bags, resulting in a $2,800 charge for the group. This video went "viral." In situations such as this, it seems senseless to attempt to consider reality. First of all, eventually, the $200 bag fees are going to come from the bloated Pentagon budget, because the Pentagon contracted with Delta to fly troops home. It is not the responsibility of individual soldiers to pay bag fees when they fly home from combat. We all know that. Many people cannot wait for an opportunity to bust an airline or to post a comment somewhere -- anywhere -- to say how patriotic they are. Of course, this is totally disingenuous. Additionally, it can be particularly painful for airlines, which tend to employ a lot of veterans, particularly among their pilots. Airlines cooperate in myriad ways with the military, including supplying airplanes when needed and allowing soldiers to board first, after which it is not unusual for cabin crews to announce the soldiers' presence and applaud their service. Secondly, and we shudder to mention this, but these soldiers were checking quite a large number of bags -- especially with 14 soldiers involved. People are always quick to criticize airlines. People don't like bag fees -- or fees for anything. While no company or government or powerful interest group should be immune from criticism, we must strive to evaluate it. We are not talking about our soldiers here. But for all of us of us who feel compelled to react, no matter what happens to be posted online, we should never check our brains along with our baggage. -- Written by Ted Reed in Charlotte, N.C. |
Originally Posted by Nosmo King
(Post 1005741)
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. There haven't been significant post-merger opportunities to move into ATL. I assume a good % of the A330 pilots commute... so I assume a high percentage will follow the aircraft. It's especially true for aircraft near the top of the pay scale. The 320... I'm not so sure. For the foreseeable future, I think the trend is for the coasts to go more and more senior, and the middle of the country more and more junior. |
It is out ..........
246 Vacancies 220 Displacements 34 MSP 330 Captains moving to Atlanta, then 15 more added 67 MSP 330 FO's moving to Atlanta 50 DTW 320 Crews moving from Detroit to Atlanta 15 More DTW 330 Captains and 15 more in SEA. Balance is displacements off the DC9 in MEM and DTW, but plenty of room for those pilots to move up. Net positive bid. Some positive movement on the 330 for sure as Delta utilizes that airplane on longer routes. It is a 6 month conversion window, which seems odd. I thought this was supposed to be the big bid. Hope the 767 pull down isn't happening. A bid long displacement bid without advancements to mitigate the pain would (will) be painful. Guessing the DC9 pull down will result in the most junior Captain positions going more senior. It will be interesting to see how senior the busses go in ATL. |
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It's out!!!
Edit: DOH! You guys beat me to it. Denny |
where????????
found it |
E-CREW, under Bids > AE > Postings...
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