Originally Posted by NuGuy (Post 1121021)

National Coney Island. The sit down one on the North Side just past the "water feature". Good food, fast and cheap. They serve breakfast all day. They open at like 5am, ready to go...great for those early morning departures. With discount, the breakfast special is $6 and will fill you up.

Wendy's on the B concourse. Fast, hot, friendly, and they get your order right. Paradoxically, its probably the only remaining GOOD Wendy's anywhere.

The Japanese Rice Bowl Place. Next to BK in the food court (as you walk in from security). Good, well, rice bowls. Not cheap, but not expensive.

The REAL Japanese restaurant on the South side, next to McDs is good, but spendy.

The Chilli's is non-fail, but only if you have time to sit around.

Nu

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1121230)

I'm still mourning the loss of Rio Wrap in DTW. What an incredible travesty replacing that with Popeyes.

Now my staple is Max and Erma's. The Santa Fe salad is what's up.... and the tortilla soup is glorious.

Originally Posted by Superdad (Post 1121192)

I don't know why I was thinking about this today, but how many of you who actually completed the contract survey, told ALPA that you would like to see a change to the way that extra flying is assigned? What I am wondering is, is there any interest in moving away from the green slip process to a system like Jetblue where you get paid straight pay up to 75 hrs (not sure if that is what they do now) and then anything you pick up above 75 is paid at time and a half.

Just wondering...

Originally Posted by Elvis90 (Post 1121203)

So Southwest is decreasing legroom & incline to better serve their customers. :eek:

Originally Posted by Elvis90 (Post 1121200)

Bar, in the summer of 2010 DAL & NWA were one, so it was the new DAL hiring. My DOH is Sep 2010. I remember BB telling us in indoc that there were 5,500 qualified applicants, but there were probably at least 12,000 who applied.

Flew with a lead LCA a couple of days ago and he reiterated that the company will have to hire soon, with the number of guys who could suddenly retire between 60-65, and the new rest rules that will take effect. Commuted home yesterday with a captain who lives in Ft Worth who plans on retiring at age 60, which is pretty soon for him.

I think the company would like a new contract hammered out for planning purposes before going bonkers with hiring. Plus this situation with American should prove interesting.

Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1121229)

That article is from 2010... I think the idea was summarily dismissed by any of the regulating authorities as profoundly stupid.. (my words).. but I think O'Leary was given a resounding no to the idea. That guy is a total smeg head.

Originally Posted by Free Bird (Post 1121236)

That's exactly what I did. We have way too many folks parking trips, using the swap board etc. to fly 85-90 hours a month. We need a system in place that pays premium for time over (80 or 75) hours. I do believe that was in the NWA contract.

Originally Posted by JobHopper (Post 1121263)

NWA paid 1.5X for anything over 80. We also did not differentiate between "pay" and "credit"; an hour was an hour, no matter how you got it.

Open time was assigned first to guys who would not break 80 with the assignment, then to guys who would. Each group was handled in seniority order. I preferred that system because it was very straightforward. There were no back-room horse trades or secret handshakes involved.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1121088)

Thanks. I'm going to have to find this Online Cafe place, I've never seen it but I knew I've been missing out on food. I've resorted to McDonalds the last couple of times.