You are listening to pilots rightfully complain about IT because of Icrew which is probably at the bottom of the IT's priority list.

Doing the big stuff like wifi and power outlets in terminals are huge plus stuff on delta.com. But talking to one person in management when they needed a customer oriented thing done to significantly improve their experience and they put in their request and were told it'd be done... in a year. Lots of corporations are like that though, Bellsouth was when my wife needed stuff done when she worked on the web store. Our IT probably need manpower. I have a feeling making Icrew safari capable was something requested a long time ago.

But to your point, our IT doesn't suck, I agree. It's just that the stuff we interface which isn't a priority I bet. But we need stuff to make irops better and automate day to day scheduling.

Because they brought in the former NWA head of IT(can't remember her name) and have pumped a ton of money into it.

Oooooooh where's my popcorn? But dayam, she's only been in the job for maaaaaaaybe a year, so she is reeeeeeeeeeally good I guess. Glad she's saving us.

Do a little research on her. Extremely respected in the IT world. Don't know how long she has been on the job but I guarantee you she had RAs ear since before the merger was made public.

Dont feel Bad Buzz,

Any time a team is north of 10-0 it becomes extremely hard not to get overconfident and blow it. All the media blowhards start talking about an undefeated season, some of the players probably start thinking they are a team of destiny etc.

The 24-7 news coverage with ESPN 1-99 must drive the Coaches crazy, but alas, such is the world we live in. :rolleyes:

Scoop

Charting the changes for 2012
 

Charting the changes for 2012. Crew Planning has told us to expect additional cuts on the Atlantic. Chart Credit, Boyd's Aviation Planning.com

Yeah, that's exactly what happened Scoop. And resting Rodgers for three weeks looks like a huge mistake.

Anyhoo, hey, is your schedule for next month still inhibited on ICrew? I can pull mine up on the Scheduling site but not in ICrew.

Buzz

I can tell you that they aren't willing to pay for skilled IT folks. My son was interviewed for an IT position last year. After all the negotiation they offered him $10k less per year than he was currently making. He declined the offer and was hired by HP 60 days later making $20k more than his current salary. You can't get good folks like that.

So the legacy airlines practice "capacity dicipline" for the greater good of the industry and the so called "LCC's" grow like crazy. You can't shrink your way to profitability. If today's MBA crowd thinks we can keep shrinking at a rate that pulls more seats than LCC/start-ups add that is clearly an unsustainable business model.

We have to be able to compete and win customers. All of them too, not just HVC's. And we have to be willing to compete. We have to go after all the LCC's and dominate at least some of them. Pulling down seats to drive up yields also drives up our own costs and when other airlines are racing to add the seats we pulled out at lower costs something is going to give. Another merger will only mask this problem a little bit longer.

Each legacy needs to go after a LCC hard, no matter the cost because the cost of not doing so may be everything. You can't keep giving away marketshare to a lower cost competitor just to drive up yields in the short term.

Yep,

Normally I-crew runs a few days after the D-NET schedule release.

Scoop