Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
10-11-2011 | 05:36 PM
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Forrest Gump, wilst being interviewed by Dick Cavett, with John Lennon on his right.
I gotta get a life, although it was filmed in my home town, Fightertown - Beaufort, SC. (as was The Great Santini, The Big Chill, and some Streisand film - she complained about the "noise")
I gotta get a life, although it was filmed in my home town, Fightertown - Beaufort, SC. (as was The Great Santini, The Big Chill, and some Streisand film - she complained about the "noise")
Prince of Tides was the Streisand film...my little sister is an extra on one of the beach scenes, and your Gump film was filmed there also (Actually Hunting and Fripp Islands)
10-11-2011 | 05:48 PM
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Denny, I googled "Delta Air Lines Form 5500". Up popped a link to download that off the "Disabled Delta Pilots & Survivor's Association" website. If you reference that, it pretty much validates what slowplay said earlier. As of 6/30/10, the D&S has about $1B in assets, but $1.8B in liabilities, with the majority of those liabilities to pay current survivors and future survivors of current retirees. Considering, its substantially underfunded at present, it seems a bit unfair to drain the fund further to pay me a future survivor benefit, unless, of course, we want to negotiate to greatly increase the funding. But that would be significant cash, and I'd rather have that in my paycheck, rather than the D&S Trust.
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10-11-2011 | 05:48 PM
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So do we still get the LGA slots no matter what, or is this some nefarious SWA scheme to make us think we are getting them, ramp up and invest tons of money, only to be told to give up more slot charity to "most favored airline" or the deal's off?
As for any 320 bases in the future, a whopping zero percent of that is net growth unless we order more 320's, which we apparently are no where near doing. So this swap or anything else still looks like a capacity neutral reshuffle with the only potential winners being DCI and probably Alaska somehow. Unless we're getting a lot more 90's (or equivalent) as that fleet growth barely seems to make up for the 9's going away as it is.
As for any 320 bases in the future, a whopping zero percent of that is net growth unless we order more 320's, which we apparently are no where near doing. So this swap or anything else still looks like a capacity neutral reshuffle with the only potential winners being DCI and probably Alaska somehow. Unless we're getting a lot more 90's (or equivalent) as that fleet growth barely seems to make up for the 9's going away as it is.
10-11-2011 | 05:50 PM
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Unproduct... oh wait, slot swap went through... greenslips!
10-11-2011 | 05:54 PM
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10-11-2011 | 05:57 PM
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10-11-2011 | 06:02 PM
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random boobie gif for the evening:
10-11-2011 | 06:13 PM
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10-11-2011 | 06:24 PM
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Subway to Penn Station and bus to EWR. Altogether, it was about $20. Plus, telling scheduling it'll take me 4 hours to report. There's no way I was paying $100 to get to EWR. "Promptly available" to me was NOT spending that kind of money to show for a trip.
10-11-2011 | 06:29 PM
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Yeah - No kidding. A few months ago I complained that our bid package was the worst I had even seen at DAL. Well we have a new winner the November DAL 737 Bid package:
58 rotations without red-eye flights.
74 rotations that include red-eye flights.
And for the piece de resistance - 45 four day rotations that include red-eyes and pay between 17 and 21 hours!!!
35% of our rotations are four day trips with red-eyes that pay less than 21 hours!!!!
Thanks to our great duty period average contract.
The ALPA guys keep saying that "in total" the Alaska code share is good for the Delta Pilots. Although I am doubtful of that comment, it is pretty clear the LAX guys are being disproportionately impacted by the Alaska agreement.
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58 rotations without red-eye flights.
74 rotations that include red-eye flights.
And for the piece de resistance - 45 four day rotations that include red-eyes and pay between 17 and 21 hours!!!
35% of our rotations are four day trips with red-eyes that pay less than 21 hours!!!!
Thanks to our great duty period average contract.
The ALPA guys keep saying that "in total" the Alaska code share is good for the Delta Pilots. Although I am doubtful of that comment, it is pretty clear the LAX guys are being disproportionately impacted by the Alaska agreement.
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