Originally Posted by tsquare

On the UT forums it is referred to as USCjr. I am sure they would take exception to that though

Originally Posted by gloopy

If is right, but there's another angle at play as well. What if it wasn't ALPA but the courts (with or without the blessings of ALPA National) that held our contract hostage? Courts are in the business of letting just about anything into the system and it routinely takes years to sort anything out. So we put forth scope recapture and ALPA DCI groups press for an injunction and now we're into the convoluted language of the Scope Subcommittees and Policy Manual scope guidelines and all of that and we have to educate various levels of the court system each time as it makes it way up so our contract (raises, work rule improvements and of course better scope) is either delayed or the insane monetary claims start to rack up like the 1.4 Billion dollar TWA fantasy payment they think we are all going to pony up 25,000 bucks each to pay them. But either way it takes years and tens of millions in legal fees.

That's why I think LM will do everything in his power to insure that scope recapture at the DCI level doesn't occur at any significant enforceable level, and honestly probably Alaska scope as well. Pressure will be put on "our" lawyers not to "go there" and it will require an extremely united and defiant front to force the issue, possibly even so motivated as to delay raises and C2012. And of course if the TA doesn't contain significant scope recapture at all levels, we will, 100%, be told to vote for it or we will be threatened with the NC quitting, starting over or we will be parked for 5 years, etc.

Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver

And on another note (totally off the subject), I thought this was pretty funny:

Originally Posted by Rather B Fishin

or was it this????



Regardless = I can't admit I was wrong.



So is 3 months after the "amendable" date of our PWA the "end" of the normal section 6 process?? I guess only ACL can be wrong huh?

Originally Posted by buzzpat

...and the real "Carolina" is in Chapel Hill!

Originally Posted by tsquare

and your screen name reminds me of a story. At the old Stapleton airport (DEN for you home gamers) A ground controller axed an American flight where he was going. The response was of course "The big D". Controller sez Well shut 'em down big boy, cause you've arrived.

Originally Posted by biigD

Heh! I haven't heard that one before. Good story.

And that's great that Big Orange is a Pantone color. It's probably right next to whatever color convicts wear when picking up trash on the side of the interstate. Everyone knows that Burnt Orange is God's color!

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

and wishes it was in Boston. Or is that Duke? Wait, Duke probably wants to be in Berkeley?

Originally Posted by buzzpat

Carolina is happy to be in Chapel Hill. I think its Duke that wants to be anyplace other than "Durham." (Says this Chapel Hill native).

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Gloopy for President.



That's pretty darn good.

I love laughing at the commercials where they spouse comes out to a surprise Mercedes... leased by their spouse with $7K down for 60 months, $500 a month and 5,000 miles maximum per year and $35K residual on a car that will be worth $20K.

But I hate to admit it, when your car guy says get rid of this thing (Honda Odyssey), you find yourself at the dealership where you can get $5K-$10K off without asking. New is cheaper than used almost.

Originally Posted by TheTriColor

Off topic but does anyone know how I can get to that "memo" (Or whatever it was) that explains how to book ones spouse on a flight over Xmas? I remember it talking about how for those crewmembers working over the holidays, our spouse gets to use an S2B provided by the company to travel to where we are laying over. I cant find it anywhere. Thanks for any info!