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FmrFreightDog 02-06-2012 09:53 AM

Nevermind.

Express pilot 02-06-2012 09:57 AM

Like the resv buckets. Makes senior reserve a good gig

scambo1 02-06-2012 10:00 AM


Originally Posted by jabwmu (Post 1130181)
I see, thanks for the reply.

I guess maybe an easier way to look at it is: Think like a computer.

0's and 1's, black or white.

There is no real way to fully explain to PBS exactly what you want.

I remember flying with a senior FO on the -er, he commuted out of seattle to ATL and could have held anything he wanted anytime he wanted it. His multiple preference qualifiers made his bid so complex that he flew nothing but bogota trips for 3 or 4 months. He commuted to a crappy 3 day worth nada, when he was able to hold rome or any german city he wanted during octoberfest.

tsquare 02-06-2012 10:07 AM


Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1130190)

There is no real way to fully explain to PBS exactly what you want.

.

Sure there is:

Avoid Africa
Avoid MEX
Award trips

Simple

Bucking Bar 02-06-2012 10:09 AM


Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 1130142)
How can we move forward? I's not that complicated...
  • Boost Payrates
  • Improve Retiree Medical
  • Capture a larger portion of DCI, Codeshare and JV flying for Delta pilots
  • Delta pilot block hour floors ratchet up based on economic indices.
Cheers
George

George,

That is a good plan. I'd perhaps add that we need to "production balance" the DCI flying into a forced sunset.

Our MEC has resisted, to the point of outright hostility, the notion that we should fly small jets. Jeesh, as I look at yet another displacement in a few weeks, it would be great to turn that internal mindset around.

newKnow 02-06-2012 10:09 AM


Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1130184)
I hate to say I agree with a Super Model (see Zoolander) but she's right!

Also, Tom Brady dosen't play Defense...there are 11, no wait, 12 men on the field who do that...

FLAG! Too many men on the feild!

But isn't that the Coaches fault?



And Scambo, check your PM's. Incomming.

I guess she forgot that Brady had a QB rating under 60 in the AFC Championship and threw two interceptions. They wouldn't have even been in the Super Bowl if it weren't for those guys who dropped the ball.

Brazilian or not, she gets a fail on that one.

Bucking Bar 02-06-2012 10:16 AM


Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 1130142)
I don't believe managements motivation is a s sinister as you believe. For one, a few of the top guys weren't at Delta for C2K or the Comair strike. The issue is really related to appease financial types. All to often Employees and related expenses are viewed more the way the financial types look at "liabilities." And outsourced work or services are simply viewed as "operating expenses".

Cheers
George

I dunno. GoJets gets the LGA slots that we lobbied for. Recall that GoJets is the ALPA busting division of an airline with performance so low that Mullin cancelled them.

I think they laugh at us like they are kids with a frog in a kettle.

Grebbit, jeesh it's been hot in here for the last decade.

Wingnutdal 02-06-2012 10:17 AM

FA rumor alert. New retirement package with healthcare due out any day. Already a done deal.

Elvis90 02-06-2012 10:41 AM


FA rumor alert. New retirement package with healthcare due out any day. Already a done deal.
Hmmm... That would work.

NuGuy 02-06-2012 10:43 AM


Originally Posted by jabwmu (Post 1130167)
Does anyone know if the "Preference Qualifiers" are an all or nothing deal? Suppose you want 1 or 2 day trips, reports after noon, block ins before noon, etc.

In order to be assigned a trip with "preference qualifiers" do they need to meet all of the qualifiers? Will it give the best trip that meets some qualifiers?

Thanks.

Heyas Jab,

I assume you are talking about the Preference Qualifiers in the PCS, like if you are trying to WS/GS.

There are two deals with this, and it's a bit tricky....

If you go to the PCS menu, and then set your preference qualifers from that menu, then those preferences become GLOBAL, and they will be applied to any thing you do in the PCS.

If you go to the SLIP menu and enter date ranges (not specific trips), it will ask you if you want to use your global preferences, OR set another, which will ONLY be used by that request.

So, to answer your question, if you enter a WS/GS request, and set the qualfiers for only that request (either via globally or for that sepecific request), it will only give you those trips that meet ALL those requirements.

If you want relax your requirements a bit, you need to enter additional WS/GS requests, and then relax the preference qualifiers for each. Be sure to check the box that says "award only one preference, ignore the rest" unless you don't care how much it awards you (if you don't check the box, it will try to award from each request).

Hope this answers what I think you were asking....

Nu


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