Amen. I've been preaching this to everyone I fly with!

We had vacation slide at NWA. Many want it back.

Would one of the moderators mind adding the CRJ900 payscales from our contract to the payrates in the DAL profile. I know we dont have them (maybe never will), but I think it would open some eyes. To be fair I actually think many of our older brethren think that DAL would make much more flying those 76 seaters when in fact some credit needs to be given at the contract advances the regionals have made in the last several years. The current Pinnacle contract actually tops out higher in the left seat of that 76 seat jet than a DAL CA could make with our own payscales.

Simply stating regional operators are taking our jobs because of their payscales is simply false. We ALL know our pay is fairly miniscule to the actual cost of operations. So several dollars an hour is a difference of less than a dollar a ticket.

Here's to wishing you guys would stop your arguments and focus that enegry on the real tasks at hand.

On another note I too knocked myself back to RSV next month with my very strict request of off days so if any of you RSV gurus want to hand out any trade secrets or witchcraft that might make life better by all means fire away!

Anybody get the final count for early outs? LAX base visit says it was at 187 as of yesterday.

Man..Im right there with ya!! Why do we have 111 reserves on the ATL88? Why is the ALV 82 hrs? Why cant it be 72 hrs and more people get lines? Please..All you airline mngmt professors, chime in!!

It probably has to do with the fact that over the entire year, the ALV has to average around 76 hours. (I think that is the number). If they had low ALV's in the winter/spring, they may have had to raise it up in order to comply with the contractual yearly average.

This company has lost control.

I got first class on a deadhead.

It was a 757, with IFE.

The seat next to me? College coed. Would receive a 10 out of 10 on this website if you guys could vote.

I thought they worked to prevent this kind of nonsense?

Anyways, told my wife that technically I slept closer to a college coed today then I did her given we have a very wide king size bed. She laughs. That's funny to her. Just like it's funny that 150 people will all sleep next to each other on an airplane but never anywhere else.

BTW, why doesn't she care about the girl? A) She knows me. B) She knows what women want. C) She knows what I look like.



You see one time I ran into my neighbor at the grocery store, my wife called. My neighbor thought it'd be funny if she answered for me so I let her. My neighbor put on a show saying "who is this?" "[FTB] is busy, who are you?"

Now any other woman would've come through that phone and killed us both. My wife was like "this woman has stolen my husbands phone and is giving me attitude!"



No respect.

LOL. FTB, when I finally get kicked off the DC-9 and back to the 88, I hope we get to fly together! You are one funny dude!!!

Because they don't work for the organization. They're supposed to work for the pilots who they represent. Any current ALPA rep that didn't feel that way should never again be allowed to do union work.

I would do it in a heartbeat because the people I would work for wouldnt have changed. Just the union name.

Do you always answer your own questions?

I thought so.

Carl