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Originally Posted by kamsman (Post 1088764)

How does the "count pilots holding a preference for a specific category" under AE bidding work? If someone is frozen but has a bid in does it count? It seems to me these numbers are a little high..Just wondering if there is any useful info to be found here..thanks

anyone who has an AE bid in for a category counts in those numbers. They could have a freeze or they could have restrictions (80%, reg line only, etc).

Frankly I always found those numbers worthless. When a buddy of mine got his first captain seat, there were about 150 people senior to him who had the bid in. He still got it.

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 1088680)

Thus far, they CNXed and we got ORD-CDG, and SEA-CDG, and they added CDG-CUN.

I believe their gauge changed down in atl from a 777-300 to a 777-200, and LAX was upgauged to a 380.

Lots of our Transatlantic flying also went from Daily to four or five weekly flights. Lots of winter routes were cancelled. I just posted a list of the 8 transatlantic routes that aren't coming back...

Chicago CDG flying is only temporary from 30OCT11 to 24MAR12
The newly announced DTW CDG is also seasonal from 01JUN12 to 03SEP12
SEA CDG on the other hand looks to be permanent.

Delta route downgauged to 7ER (previous aircraft):

Atlanta – Accra – Monrovia (332)
Atlanta – Barcelona (333)
Atlanta – Dublin (333 during peak summer season)
Atlanta – Madrid (764)
Atlanta – Munich (764)
Atlanta – Rome (764/333)
New York JFK – Athens (333)
New York JFK – Barcelona (333)
New York JFK – Dublin (333)
New York JFK – Istanbul (332)
New York JFK – Madrid (764)
New York JFK – Nice (764)
New York JFK – Prague (332)

Delta reduced many more frequencies from daily to four-5 a week.
Too many to list...

Virgin Australia codeshare in LAX just started, the JV is imminent and Virgin will be parking at LAX T5...

Coming soon:
Air Europa codeshare to Spain.
WestJet in MIA and LAX

Glad were not hiring for 2012 ;-)

Cheers
George

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Originally Posted by Xray678 (Post 1088776)

If someone has the same position listed more than once on their AE bid (i.e.- with different %'s), would they be counted more than once??

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Originally Posted by Xray678 (Post 1088776)

It's not completely worthless.

You can use it to compare relative seniority by looking at the numbers for different bases. Sure, the numbers are pure fantasy, but it will give you an idea of which base is more senior.

Tip:

Using "Count pilots senior..." look at your current position.
Use those numbers as a baseline.
Then compare your "Count pilots senior..." numbers for other positions.
The positions with similar seniority will have similar numbers to your "known" position.

Cheers
George

Why we need JFK T4 ASAP:

http://airinsight.com/wp-content/upl...1/11/20111.jpg

Cheers
George

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Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 1088781)

Its a good thing the AF JV compliance window was changed!

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1088789)

Its a good thing the AF JV compliance window was changed!

You took the words right out of my mouth :D

Cheers
George

1:01 to go. Good luck boys and girls..

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Originally Posted by NERD (Post 1088734)

Think I know the answer but. I have a 4 day trip next month followed by 2 days of CQ. Can I use pos. space going to work for the 4 day being that I won't be going home after the trip? Or do I just get pos. space coming home after CQ?

I'm pretty sure that would be a no-no. I'd call redundant levels of confirmation (CPSC and DALPA and maybe also your individual CP in addition to those) before I booked that. I doubt it would be interpreted in your favor.

Just a quick idea about this co-terminal stuff, a friend suggested this (who needs to be posting on here) and I'll run with it:

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For NYC-based pilots, short-call availability may be measured
from the pilot’s closest co-terminal (EWR, LGA, JFK), without regard to
the actual co-terminal to which he is required to report. For LAX-based
pilots, short-call availability is measured from LAX.

Why not say a pilot on short call must declare a one time or maybe monthly co-terminal airport from which they desire to sit short call. If the pilot is used at another terminal then the pilot will be transported there by the company. The caveat may be that you must report in 1 hour once called to the co-terminal airport. If you don't wish to use the company provided transportation then current short call rules apply.

So for example an LAX pilot like Buzz declares SNA since that is closest to his favorite beach where he surfs. A NYC pilot like Tsquare declares JFK since that is where most of his flying originates from. So Buzz on SC gets a call to report to LAX and so he reports to SNA and then takes a limo to LAX. Tsquare gets a trip in EWR while sitting in JFK but he declines the transportation saying "no thanks, I'm going to borrow Carl's Escaldae and drive myself over there with his E-Zpass. So much easier than your limo and I can leave my Mcdonalds wrappers on his floor and I can just park between the only two trees within a 5 mile radius of the terminal."

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Wi3bZllYbY...s-escalade.jpg

Also when it comes to MD's. If a base or category is closed then the company positive spaces the pilot to their new base for 12 months. Why? To help raise the cost of closing categories and bases and maybe think twice about closing them.

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Since the MD bid... I mean AE bid closes in an hour, are the bids out yet? :D