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Old 06-16-2011, 07:43 AM
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SFO have a pilot crew lounge? Or a area where pilots are accepted other than in their aircraft?

Not asking for codes and locations, just curious. I'll be stuck there for a few hours soon.
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Old 06-16-2011, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by scambo1 View Post
I've had one GSWC since I've been at Dal.

T, I have noticed the same thing - Greenslips with guys on shortcall...? OK
Its not OK, They have to follow the trip coverage ladder. What happens in most cases however is that the pilots don't understand the ladder and the coverage is correct. You have to look at when the trip reports relative to the status of pilots on reserve. Whitlow and 30 and 7 also play a major impact on who gets trips. Short call pilots often have Whitlow restrictions. Some have 24 and 7 issues depending on the trip. Crew scheds makes mistakes and in the last two years has been making a lot more mistakes but most of the time they are correct.
There were several trips this week that went out on GS to guys junior to me. I was sure I should have been given the trips. I always plug them into the legality tool on DBMS and was surprised to find in every case I had a legality issue even though I was sure I was good to go. I suspect that is what is happening with the short call pilots mentioned.
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Old 06-16-2011, 07:46 AM
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SFO have a pilot crew lounge? Or a area where pilots are accepted other than in their aircraft?

Not asking for codes and locations, just curious. I'll be stuck there for a few hours soon.

Last time I was stuck there for a few hours I took the bus to the Doubletree. Walked around back to the driving range, got a bucket of balls and a couple loaner clubs. My crew and I whacked golf balls for an hour and then went back to work. The flight attendant that came with us looked pretty good in a dress and high heels swinging a club!!
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Old 06-16-2011, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid View Post
SFO have a pilot crew lounge? Or a area where pilots are accepted other than in their aircraft?

Not asking for codes and locations, just curious. I'll be stuck there for a few hours soon.
fNWA FA's have a base there and there is a FA lounge somewhere out there. Not sure where it is, but if you're looking to hide out for a few hours that may be the place. Just ask a gate agent when you hit the ground and they can probably point you in the right direction.
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Old 06-16-2011, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid View Post
SFO have a pilot crew lounge? Or a area where pilots are accepted other than in their aircraft?

Not asking for codes and locations, just curious. I'll be stuck there for a few hours soon.
Here's what you do if you're stuck at the airport:

STUCK
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Old 06-16-2011, 08:25 AM
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Old 06-16-2011, 09:27 AM
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What happens when you "opt in" to the crew notification option. Do you get a text message anytime there is a change to your schedule? What about when on reserve? Thank you for any insigh.
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Old 06-16-2011, 09:31 AM
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Old 06-16-2011, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid View Post
So Sailing, could in ATL we see a shift towards mainline aircraft over RJs?

For instance there are some routes we're doing on the 88 lately that we've taken back from the RJs and they aren't necessarily full. Preemptive move away from competing with AAI with RJs so as to not flood the market with seats but establish a high number of seats for a market?
Sort of.

Remember though, that the CRJ700/900/1000 and E175/195 are not "regional jets" from an economic perspective. They are as efficient, if not more efficient on a sector and CASM basis than your MD88. They are "RJ's" by our definitions, but to an accountant there is no distinction with mainline equipment. The DC9's will be replaced with E175's CRJ900's and a few MD90's. Mostly the MD90's are going to be used to take cycles from the 757's.

We need to get them here (warts and all). It can be a cost neutral exchange. I hope bringing those on board is at least contained in our opener. We should be supporting American and Continental / United in this effort.
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Old 06-16-2011, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by LeineLodge View Post
I don't remember seeing that on the 320, but that doesn't mean it wasn't installed. Maybe I just never pushed the rudder hard enough

Seriously though, unless you taking off or landing in a crosswind, the airbus is pretty much a feet-on-the floor airplane. It was very rare to need rudder, and that was usually only to correct an out of trim situation.


*Disclaimer - If you're reading this and thinking of bidding either Airbus in Atlanta, disregard. The rudder/tail of the airplane is scary and as FedElta points out, at .15G it will abrupty snap off [*editorial liberty taken when quoting FedElta ]
Any 330 guys lurking out there ??
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