Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
07-25-2011 | 03:59 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Anyone catch this nugget from the DOT slot swap approval?
Question ... has Southwest ever been asked to give up, anything?
"Slot pairs would be sold in bundles large enough to ensure that a purchaser would have a sufficient number of slots to provide meaningful new competition. In addition, Delta and US Airways would be required to wait 90 days before beginning their new operations on a phased-in basis, in order to allow the new services to establish a foothold at the airports."
07-25-2011 | 04:30 AM
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Anyone else want to venture a guess as to who will be the winner of said divested slots?
I'm think Spirit may grasp a few.
07-25-2011 | 04:32 AM
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Wondering myself if Southwest will be able to finagle a few more slots out of this deal in the end. That would clearly be against ongoing anti-trust violation concerns, but nothing would surprise me.
Anyone else want to venture a guess as to who will be the winner of said divested slots?
I'm think Spirit may grasp a few.
Anyone else want to venture a guess as to who will be the winner of said divested slots?
I'm think Spirit may grasp a few.
07-25-2011 | 04:52 AM
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07-25-2011 | 04:54 AM
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07-25-2011 | 04:55 AM
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On many occasions they are asked to give up being number 2 or 3 for the approach and cleared hot for the numbers while everyone else gets vectors. Many times they are asked to sacrifice their place in line behind someone else on departure who gets vectors to provide them with the opportunity to sacrifice yet again by being force fed an expeditious departure. Sometimes they even have to suck it up and taxi as fast as they can both to and from the gate while other ground traffic is held in position.
07-25-2011 | 04:57 AM
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From: Light Chop
There I was starting short call at 0530 this morning asleep in my bed.
Phone rings at 1020, I look and its scheduling.
"Hello!" I say.
Scheduler says "Yeah we got you on rotation **** signing in at 10:10"
"Well its 10:20!" I say
"Yeah so were are you?" - Scheduler
"Umm no one called me this morning" - Me
"Yeah it says here it was placed on your line at 0500 and acknowledged."
"Hmm that's weird because I was asleep and there's no incoming calls at all today"
"So when can you show up?"
Gotta love it!
Phone rings at 1020, I look and its scheduling.
"Hello!" I say.
Scheduler says "Yeah we got you on rotation **** signing in at 10:10"
"Well its 10:20!" I say
"Yeah so were are you?" - Scheduler
"Umm no one called me this morning" - Me
"Yeah it says here it was placed on your line at 0500 and acknowledged."
"Hmm that's weird because I was asleep and there's no incoming calls at all today"
"So when can you show up?"
Gotta love it!
07-25-2011 | 05:06 AM
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I think I'm up to 3 or 4 no calls on short call for trips. Every time I've noticed the trip before SC began and all cases it was a trip that showed with < 2 hours to go. On those I just get ready and leave even before I'm called and wait for a call so that I can talk to the scheduler and tell them where I am (I'm an hour from the airport btw) but I'll get to the airport without having got a call and had I never checked and waited at home there was no way I'd make go.
Doesn't that enable scheduler's bad behavior ? Kind of like when I had overdraft protection on my kid's checking accounts.
No disrespect,
BG
07-25-2011 | 05:11 AM
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On many occasions they are asked to give up being number 2 or 3 for the approach and cleared hot for the numbers while everyone else gets vectors. Many times they are asked to sacrifice their place in line behind someone else on departure who gets vectors to provide them with the opportunity to sacrifice yet again by being force fed an expeditious departure. Sometimes they even have to suck it up and taxi as fast as they can both to and from the gate while other ground traffic is held in position.
07-25-2011 | 05:13 AM
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