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You mean besides our scope language written by our ALPA conflicted lawyers that was so weak, those same lawyers say we can't defend it? This should be especially poignant to you given your thesis that it wasn't an oversight, rather it was ALPA writing the language this way on purpose.

I really wish you'd stop and think about what you've just said here for a moment. Do you really think that nearly 4,000 Delta pilots and a former MEC chairman would be supporting an organization commited to atoning for the furlough of Tim? Really Bar? You simply do not understand what this in-house union movement is about.

My other airline brothers will not work under the Delta contract...only Delta pilots will. Thus there's no need to meet and confer with anyone else for MY contract. I prefer we fix our profession's problems by producing a pilot contract that leads the industry in EVERY SECTION. This would give our other airline brothers a higher bar to target.

Carl

 

You can be ethical, take care of your employees, AND make money...

Costco CEO Jim Sinegal - YouTube

Unfortunately, he announced his retirement this year at 75. Hopefully, they can continue what he started.

 

Thanks guys.

 

It is easy to do that with the pricing structure he employed. They had a flat markup on everything they sold. My recollection was a 10% margin.

COSTCO= China Off Shore Trading Company!

In reality I really like the model. The checkers make 15 bucks an hr to start, and the dept managers are well in to six figures. Store managers are mid to upper six figures. Great store, but they do target the 100K plus crowd.

 

IA, there are many folks who simply do not have the choice to live in base as you seem to. For example, I am $250,000 upside down on my house that I acquired during a 6 year furlough. My military job that paid for my food during those 6 years just didn't happen to be in a Delta base, and I started a family during those long years away, so I had to get housing. Now I'm back at Delta, I'd love to move to my base, any base, but unless someone gives me $250k, I can't...

Here's something you get already that is $$$ and I don't: free parking at your base. I'd love to have free parking at my airport, but instead of every pilot getting a parking stipend to do with as they desire, the "non commuter prejudice" kicks in and only those living in a pilot (or flt att) base get this perk. I pay about $150/mo for parking.

I think we can agree that life for the commuter is nowhere near as nice from an airline perspective as for those who are ABLE to live in base... rather than demanding that those less fortunate than you not get any improvement in their lives unless you get a commensurate good deal, can you not look upon those less fortunate and say, "Ok, THAT is a pretty crappy deal, maybe a small mitigation of pain so they only have 5 times the pain as I do would be ok..."

 

Agreed, but some like to use the few pilots that live on the beach in FL because they want to. I only know two or three of those.

 

The advanced entitlement is out. Just showed up in my email. Mem 320 getting whacked. Mem dc9 toast. Adding nyc a320 and atl a320 and 330. More details in the email.

My just before bedtime math says 350ish vacancies and surpluses......a wash. Movement off both the 747 and 777 though. )-;

 

Thank you, 5 pages ago

 

ACL, can you elaborate on this? To save us the technical troubles of logging on to the DALPA forum? My wife only allows one and I choose this one.