Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
#6911
Yeppers. But I like it this way better.
Wonder if those lockers are included in this. I could move a household that way......
Wonder if those lockers are included in this. I could move a household that way......
#6912
I'm lovin' it ...
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#6913
It's good to see RA trying to do something about Biden's remarks. I also like the goal of no layoffs.
Richard H. Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
April 30, 2009
The Honorable Joseph “Joe” Biden, Jr.
Vice President of the United States
Eisenhower Executive Office Bldg.
1650 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20501
Dear Mr. Vice President:
Delta’s employees have rallied through this financial crisis to build the world’s largest airline. Despite a difficult economic environment, Delta has succeeded without any frontline, involuntary employee layoffs. Our goal is to weather this economy without layoffs. There has been no interruption in employee pension benefit plan contributions, shared reward payments, pay raises have continued and there have been no increases to employee health care premiums.
We are proud of what we’ve accomplished, but amid this difficult economic situation your suggestion that air travel is unsafe due to the H1N1 flu outbreak is harmful and threatens to have a negative impact on the airline industry at this critical time. We would respectfully request that government and industry follow the professional direction of the CDC, as we are doing.
Obviously, if one is feeling sick they should not go to work, attend school or travel. But for those who are feeling well, it is important for you and the White House to reassure travelers that there is no reason to be concerned.
Our employees have met the challenge posed by this flu outbreak to ensure that our aircraft are clean and that operations of our airline pose no health risk to our customers or employees.
While Secretary Napolitano and other administration officials have affirmed that public transportation is safe, we ask that you further clarify your remarks to reassure the public that commercial
air travel is safe and that there is no need for unnecessary panic and the unneeded economic disruption that would inevitably follow. We support and appreciated the administration's leadership on the Stimulus Package and do not want the economic recovery it will stimulate to be dwarfed by this event.
Sincerely,
Richard H. Anderson
cc: Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to the President
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President
Honorable Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation
Richard H. Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
April 30, 2009
The Honorable Joseph “Joe” Biden, Jr.
Vice President of the United States
Eisenhower Executive Office Bldg.
1650 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20501
Dear Mr. Vice President:
Delta’s employees have rallied through this financial crisis to build the world’s largest airline. Despite a difficult economic environment, Delta has succeeded without any frontline, involuntary employee layoffs. Our goal is to weather this economy without layoffs. There has been no interruption in employee pension benefit plan contributions, shared reward payments, pay raises have continued and there have been no increases to employee health care premiums.
We are proud of what we’ve accomplished, but amid this difficult economic situation your suggestion that air travel is unsafe due to the H1N1 flu outbreak is harmful and threatens to have a negative impact on the airline industry at this critical time. We would respectfully request that government and industry follow the professional direction of the CDC, as we are doing.
Obviously, if one is feeling sick they should not go to work, attend school or travel. But for those who are feeling well, it is important for you and the White House to reassure travelers that there is no reason to be concerned.
Our employees have met the challenge posed by this flu outbreak to ensure that our aircraft are clean and that operations of our airline pose no health risk to our customers or employees.
While Secretary Napolitano and other administration officials have affirmed that public transportation is safe, we ask that you further clarify your remarks to reassure the public that commercial
air travel is safe and that there is no need for unnecessary panic and the unneeded economic disruption that would inevitably follow. We support and appreciated the administration's leadership on the Stimulus Package and do not want the economic recovery it will stimulate to be dwarfed by this event.
Sincerely,
Richard H. Anderson
cc: Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to the President
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President
Honorable Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation
"To whom it may concern,
What the Vice President meant to say was..."
Carl
#6914
Biden does this every once in awhile on a whole variety of subjects. Seems like he gets a wild hair up his rear end and just can't help it!!! It just amazes me the amount of "intelligent" people who know absolutely nothing about the aviation industry!!!
Denny
Denny
#6915
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2008
Posts: 189
I have seen PERP used on here to mean what seems to be two different things. At DAL-S, it was something that allowed pilots to essentially retire while remaining on the property in a contract status until DAl got their replacements trained. The actual result of that was that DAL figured out that they were getting cheap contract labor, and essentially the training of the replacements slowed to an American Airlines taxi pace. IF this is what ACL is talking about, THIS IS AN UNACCEPTABLE PROPOSAL, unless there are short timetables, and stiff heavy... and I mean HEAVY penalties for corporate non-compliance. Even at that, I think I would have a very hard time buying off on it, because the company can always blow us off and tell us to grieve it. I'm trying not to get spun up about it, but we need to talk to our reps...
So, in the spirit of dumb questions, what is the operating definition of a PERP here?? I get a feeling it means something quite different than the manner it is used in cop shows.
#6916
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2008
Posts: 2,539
Early
Retirement
Program
This is the program from NWA.
Post
Retirement
Pilot
was the Delta program that allowed pilots to retire, then through a lottery system be selected to return to their pre-retirement category and continue to fly(though at the bottom of the seniority list). It was a band-aid approach to preventing the shutdown of our international categories, as we had several months of 200-300 pilots early retiring. Delta's pilot contract required no advance notice, so many guys were faxing their paperwork in at 2300 the last night of the month, to be effective the next day. As Sailingfun has stated, except for Check Airmen most that were selected remained only a few weeks. The 10/2001-09/2005 early retirement wave had about 2400 pilots early retire; all but 500 or so would have been gone by the time the age rule changed in December, 2007.
#6917
While it may be true that the company did not train at a emergency pace the training was certainly never a snails pace. In fact they were putting 60 767 crews a month through the pipeline. Like many other issues the perp program became emotional. The average time a retired pilot flew under contract was 6 weeks. Most got 1 to 2 months extra. The exception to this were check airman. You can't train without them. Some check airman got to stay as long as a year extra although most were under 6 months. This was out of Delta hands since the FAA POI for the 767 program would only qualify 2 new check airman a month.
#6918
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2008
Posts: 189
SLOWPLAY:
Thanks for the explanation - I'm still learning to speak Airline-ese after a couple years at this. Next month, I start a Navy reserve gig (coming from the Air Force) and get to learn another whole new flying language.
Thanks for the explanation - I'm still learning to speak Airline-ese after a couple years at this. Next month, I start a Navy reserve gig (coming from the Air Force) and get to learn another whole new flying language.
#6919
I just got some info from someone not as high up as ACL talks to that said we have 1 used MD90 in VCV that will be stored until summer 2010. We have bought two more but are letting the airline we bought them from operate them until summer 2010. When they do come on line, they will park an 88 for every 90 we get. So they probably won't need to staff any additional 90's on an AE this year.
#6920
Can't abide NAI
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Posts: 12,012
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