Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
07-15-2011 | 06:46 PM
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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!!
07-15-2011 | 06:50 PM
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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.
07-15-2011 | 07:20 PM
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From: Light Chop
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.
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.
07-15-2011 | 07:25 PM
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From: Retired (mandatory age 65)
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, refusing to let her talk to me, wanting to know why my wife was calling me.
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.
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, refusing to let her talk to me, wanting to know why my wife was calling me.
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.
07-15-2011 | 07:35 PM
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From: 747-400 Captain
Let me put it to you this way. What if the DPA becomes a reality, you become a rep or committee member of the DPA, then the Delta pilots throw out the DPA to return to ALPA a couple of years later (like the FedEx pilots did). Would you be itching to fill an ALPA or "transition" position?
Do you always answer your own questions?
I thought so.
Carl
07-15-2011 | 07:37 PM
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From: Retired, again...
FDX Vacation is as follows:
Yr 1-5 15 days
Yr 6-10 22days
Yr11-20 29 days
Yr 20+ 36 days
Each day is worth 6 CH's. That is converted to a Vacation Bank.
With 15 days the bank is 90 hrs. Min days is 7 together. I can take the 7 day vacation block and slide it up to 5 days either direction to conflict trips. If I can't or don't want to slide it I can expand it to knock out (6ch's x 7 days= 42 ch's) up to the 42 CH's + 6 for a total of 48 ch's. Those credit hours come out of the bank. For my remaining 8 days I have CH's equal to what I didn't use in the first block of 7 days. Or could bid all 15 days together. The net effect is that I will get every CH of vacation that I earned whether I bid reserve, a line, or have a direct conflict with a trip or not.
Generally, our work day pays 6 CH's or 6+24 CH's depending if it a trip rig trip, block time trip or a min pay per duty period trip.
36 days of vacation is 3 full 4 week bid periods off at full pay.
That's it in a nutshell......
Yr 1-5 15 days
Yr 6-10 22days
Yr11-20 29 days
Yr 20+ 36 days
Each day is worth 6 CH's. That is converted to a Vacation Bank.
With 15 days the bank is 90 hrs. Min days is 7 together. I can take the 7 day vacation block and slide it up to 5 days either direction to conflict trips. If I can't or don't want to slide it I can expand it to knock out (6ch's x 7 days= 42 ch's) up to the 42 CH's + 6 for a total of 48 ch's. Those credit hours come out of the bank. For my remaining 8 days I have CH's equal to what I didn't use in the first block of 7 days. Or could bid all 15 days together. The net effect is that I will get every CH of vacation that I earned whether I bid reserve, a line, or have a direct conflict with a trip or not.
Generally, our work day pays 6 CH's or 6+24 CH's depending if it a trip rig trip, block time trip or a min pay per duty period trip.
36 days of vacation is 3 full 4 week bid periods off at full pay.
That's it in a nutshell......
If I remember correctly, you can slide in one direction, and expand in the other. My record was 5 weeks off with a 7 day vacation. I had to carefully bid adjoining months.....still the best vacation contract in the industry. DAL, not so much.
Regards,
BG
07-15-2011 | 07:56 PM
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From: blueJet
Hoser, sorry to hear about your buddy.
07-15-2011 | 08:02 PM
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From: Lowest Pay I Could Find
FDX Vacation is as follows:
Yr 1-5 15 days
Yr 6-10 22days
Yr11-20 29 days
Yr 20+ 36 days
Each day is worth 6 CH's. That is converted to a Vacation Bank.
With 15 days the bank is 90 hrs. Min days is 7 together. I can take the 7 day vacation block and slide it up to 5 days either direction to conflict trips. If I can't or don't want to slide it I can expand it to knock out (6ch's x 7 days= 42 ch's) up to the 42 CH's + 6 for a total of 48 ch's. Those credit hours come out of the bank. For my remaining 8 days I have CH's equal to what I didn't use in the first block of 7 days. Or could bid all 15 days together. The net effect is that I will get every CH of vacation that I earned whether I bid reserve, a line, or have a direct conflict with a trip or not.
Generally, our work day pays 6 CH's or 6+24 CH's depending if it a trip rig trip, block time trip or a min pay per duty period trip.
36 days of vacation is 3 full 4 week bid periods off at full pay.
That's it in a nutshell......
Yr 1-5 15 days
Yr 6-10 22days
Yr11-20 29 days
Yr 20+ 36 days
Each day is worth 6 CH's. That is converted to a Vacation Bank.
With 15 days the bank is 90 hrs. Min days is 7 together. I can take the 7 day vacation block and slide it up to 5 days either direction to conflict trips. If I can't or don't want to slide it I can expand it to knock out (6ch's x 7 days= 42 ch's) up to the 42 CH's + 6 for a total of 48 ch's. Those credit hours come out of the bank. For my remaining 8 days I have CH's equal to what I didn't use in the first block of 7 days. Or could bid all 15 days together. The net effect is that I will get every CH of vacation that I earned whether I bid reserve, a line, or have a direct conflict with a trip or not.
Generally, our work day pays 6 CH's or 6+24 CH's depending if it a trip rig trip, block time trip or a min pay per duty period trip.
36 days of vacation is 3 full 4 week bid periods off at full pay.
That's it in a nutshell......
07-16-2011 | 03:21 AM
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MSP 177 Pilots for 109 Lines (Aug)
NYC 67 Pilots for 53 Lines (Aug)
Been like that since that winter time, any idea why they continue to understaff the NYC M88 B category?
I'm thinking it has something to do with new hires going to NYC, or the fact that crew scheduling and staffing is getting together to pi$$ me off specifically.
07-16-2011 | 03:39 AM
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