Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-04-2009, 06:44 AM
#6951
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Originally Posted by Justdoinmyjob
Did she at least pro rate for minutes under and validate parking?
05-04-2009, 08:06 AM
#6952
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Heads Up MSP Commuters
The new training hotel (Crown Plaza in St Paul) is almost twice as expensive as the Comfort Inn was. As I recall, last year for CQ I paid $70 something (maybe just under $80?) at the Comfort but the best rate I could get at the Crown for Delta Integration trainging was $139 ($150 something out the door). Guess this year for CQ I I'll stay at the LaQuinta and rent a car.
Also, with distances involved and the only van to and from the airport to hotel at 30 minutes, you will have to leave more time getting out to the training center.
Ferd
Also, with distances involved and the only van to and from the airport to hotel at 30 minutes, you will have to leave more time getting out to the training center.
Ferd
Last edited by Ferd149; 05-04-2009 at 08:18 AM.
05-04-2009, 08:14 AM
#6953
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Originally Posted by Ferd149
The new training hotel (Crown Plaza in St Paul) is almost twice as expensive as the Comfort Inn was. As I recall, last year for CQ I paid $70 something (maybe just under $80?) at the Comfort but the best rate I could get at the Crown for Delta Integration trainging was $139 ($150 something out the door). Guess this year for CQ I guess I'll stay at the LaQuinta and rent a car.
Also, with distances involved and the only van to and from the airport to hotel at 30 minutes, you will have to leave more time getting out to the training center.
Ferd
Also, with distances involved and the only van to and from the airport to hotel at 30 minutes, you will have to leave more time getting out to the training center.
Ferd
05-04-2009, 08:17 AM
#6954
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Originally Posted by Fly4hire
Why you mention MEM commuters? The above pricing only affects MSP based pilots.
It's just for us MSP guys paying for the hotel out of our own pockets.
Ferd
05-04-2009, 09:02 AM
#6955
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Originally Posted by Ferd149
The new training hotel (Crown Plaza in St Paul) is almost twice as expensive as the Comfort Inn was. As I recall, last year for CQ I paid $70 something (maybe just under $80?) at the Comfort but the best rate I could get at the Crown for Delta Integration trainging was $139 ($150 something out the door). Guess this year for CQ I I'll stay at the LaQuinta and rent a car.
Also, with distances involved and the only van to and from the airport to hotel at 30 minutes, you will have to leave more time getting out to the training center.
Ferd
Also, with distances involved and the only van to and from the airport to hotel at 30 minutes, you will have to leave more time getting out to the training center.
Ferd
havent been to the new yet though.
05-04-2009, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Superpilot92
the good thing about the old hotel was free breakfast, Internet, coffee, and multiple vans to and from NATCO to either the hotel or airport.
05-04-2009, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by satchip
Ok, not really flame bait but a controversial post. I was in Rome yesterday and the gate agents who have been working Delta flights for years were complaining about the Airbus 330s that we have been putting on the ATL-ROM leg. They said that it is so weight limited that you can't fill it with people and cargo. If you use all the seats they could only put on 2000 lbs of cargo. They even had to put half of the Bus's ATL pax bags on the ER going to NY.
If this is true the future of the Bus IMHO is limited. Our network guys love the belly cargo. I have been told that some routes the belly would make a profit and the pax are just gravy. I don't see those guys sticking with a plane that doesn't give them that option. Maybe there are some routes out there that the Bus is better suited?
Any truth to this, Bus guys? Not trying to start a war, just passing on an anecdote.
If this is true the future of the Bus IMHO is limited. Our network guys love the belly cargo. I have been told that some routes the belly would make a profit and the pax are just gravy. I don't see those guys sticking with a plane that doesn't give them that option. Maybe there are some routes out there that the Bus is better suited?
Any truth to this, Bus guys? Not trying to start a war, just passing on an anecdote.
05-04-2009, 12:51 PM
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Heard a rumor from a JFK ER F/O that if there is an early retirement program offered and if it is mostly fNWA guys that take and it happens before SOC that NWA would like to "revisit" the seniority list construction based on removing the newly retired guys from the original list...ie "pull out" the ret. guys then re-do the list from scratch without them.
05-04-2009, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by wiggy
Heard a rumor from a JFK ER F/O that if there is an early retirement program offered and if it is mostly fNWA guys that take and it happens before SOC that NWA would like to "revisit" the seniority list construction based on removing the newly retired guys from the original list...ie "pull out" the ret. guys then re-do the list from scratch without them.
05-04-2009, 01:03 PM
#6960
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Flame.
It is over and that is it.
Their will probably be some type of early out.
It is over and that is it.
Their will probably be some type of early out.
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