I simply felt it was too close to Sec 6 for changing our negotiating committee, much like many anti DPA folk felt we are too close to Sec 6 to change unions. That is why I wrote my Reps and let them know my feelings. They clearly supported maintaining the current NC, & I'm happy with the results.

It was never about conspiracy for me. I just didn't want to change something that I felt wasn't broke. I suppose if there wasn't an election, others would have been up in arms over that.

The policy manual directs 6 months before Section 6, so either the policy manual needs to be changed or we should get used to this. It seems the MEC went with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality too. What if there was widespread criticism of some future committee and the MEC wanted to fix it? You might be happy there was an election. The policy manual should be about the process absent any valuation on the current individuals. The process was followed, we had a democratic election, there were no conspiracies, everyone should be happy. That is transparency, publish what you are going to do and then do it.

08-18-2011 | 10:59 AM

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Who gets the ding for this? UAV (or was it one of those little battlefield thingys?), ATC, or C130?

BTW - I have no idea how many days until college football starts (hint hint)

15 days!!!!!!!

I got your hint! here ya go...

08-18-2011 | 11:01 AM

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C130 hit by drone ... .

We must stop air force on air force crime. It's a travesty.

08-18-2011 | 11:21 AM

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We must stop air force on air force crime. It's a travesty.

Now that's just plain funny.

08-18-2011 | 11:23 AM

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That's what I've been doing. Works great. Just advise the scheduler and its cool.

That is a serious perk and I love it. Did Delta have that before the merger?

08-18-2011 | 11:26 AM

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That is a serious perk and I love it. Did Delta have that before the merger?

Front end DH's? They came about with the SOT LOA 29.

08-18-2011 | 11:47 AM

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Front end DH's? They came about with the SOT LOA 29.

The positive space aspect of both front and back end dh's.....

08-18-2011 | 12:27 PM

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Finally done with CQ... or QC... reminds me of the comedian who said "you know in 8 weeks I learned to drive an 18 wheeler... or in 18 weeks I learned to drive an 8 wheeler? Well it doesn't matter, I'm driving behind you!"

Time for some Bo Diddley and 1960's style miniskirts!

the white due with the afro, he's only dude that gets the talent, ungrateful spoiled little brats.

08-18-2011 | 01:16 PM

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That is a serious perk and I love it. Did Delta have that before the merger?

We've always been able to do it on the back end (insert joke here). The front end PS is new.

08-18-2011 | 01:18 PM

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We've always been able to do it on the back end (insert joke here). The front end PS is new.

Also a part of LOA 29, the SOT (Scheduling Optimization LOA) It also brought about new reserves required computations; allowing better swapping ability for line holders, CQ bidding, and a ton of other things.