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02-09-2012, 11:34 AM
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I wish I had know about it during the contract survey. I had heard of the term but didn't realize how it worked. Seems like an easy fix if it hurts the majority and only benefits a few.
02-09-2012, 11:46 AM
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Answer to trip parking: make it public knowledge with listed names [of abusers].
Once in a blue moon it may be justified (short hours due to family emergency PD etc.), but never routine. Money should be made during contract negotiations, not contract work-arounds.
Sometimes peer pressure is a good thing. Transparency is never a bad thing. Problem is too many guys don't even realize they are part of the problem.
Once in a blue moon it may be justified (short hours due to family emergency PD etc.), but never routine. Money should be made during contract negotiations, not contract work-arounds.
Sometimes peer pressure is a good thing. Transparency is never a bad thing. Problem is too many guys don't even realize they are part of the problem.
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02-09-2012, 11:48 AM
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, but if one has to go, this is the one... Flew it last trip, and it has serious electrical gremlins 
02-09-2012, 11:48 AM
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Would they ever fly it out to MZJ to requisition parts, like maybe an entire cabin A/C system?
02-09-2012, 11:51 AM
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02-09-2012, 11:53 AM
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What? No pilots?
02-09-2012, 12:00 PM
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Emirates will be hiring direct entry captains at the Aerocrew solutions job fair that is coming up. Just saying.
Upgrade is going at about 4.5 years on the long end there right now as well.
Makes sense to shrink if you are going to be buy. Keep squeezing more RASM out of each ticket until you hit the back side of the power curve. DAL's PRASM was up 14% last month. Apparently there is no end in sight of squeezing more out of each seat. Until their PRASM drops with a further capacity reduction I do not see the trend totally reversing itself.
That said, you get to a point where you domestic route structure becomes inefficient with further cuts. The next step would be a hub closure or to grow.
Upgrade is going at about 4.5 years on the long end there right now as well.
Makes sense to shrink if you are going to be buy. Keep squeezing more RASM out of each ticket until you hit the back side of the power curve. DAL's PRASM was up 14% last month. Apparently there is no end in sight of squeezing more out of each seat. Until their PRASM drops with a further capacity reduction I do not see the trend totally reversing itself.
That said, you get to a point where you domestic route structure becomes inefficient with further cuts. The next step would be a hub closure or to grow.
Thank you for the post ACL. Emirates and Qatar Airways will be attending the job fair in ATL on March 24th. Qatar is hiring Direct Entry Captains. If you are hired as a F/O, upgrade at Qatar is just over 2 years. At Emirates, upgrade is running 4 years. Qatar is hiring 700 pilots in 2012 and 2013. There are only 1700 pilots on the seniority list. You do not have to have time on type to be a DEC. The Qatar recruiter who attended our last job fair was a 757/767 pilot at his former airline and was hired as 777 Captain. He has been working for Qatar for two years and loves it. www.aerocrewsolutions.com/pilot-job-fair/
If anybody has a question about the event or the airlines attending send me a PM.
02-09-2012, 12:04 PM
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02-09-2012, 12:06 PM
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02-09-2012, 12:14 PM
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A question on trip parking: are you guys positive the company loves it so? I understand Timbo's explanation WRT GS and staffing formulas, but... in the shoulder months they're paying a regular LH to fly, when they're paying a Reserve, at the same time, NOT to fly the same rotation.
It might work fairly well for the company in the summer, because it allows more WS vs. GS, but I wonder if it works out over the entire year. Contrary to was Essential said earlier, this isn't past practice, but a recently exploited loophole, and I think I've heard last year that the company doesn't like it either.
Which must explain that there is a fix being discussed.
I imagine the company wouldn't mind reverting a bow wave system, where we fly more in the summer, and get paid back in later month. Let's not forget that the ALV isn't a constant throughout the year: they already got that to flex. So if you have a fixed limit above the ALV (excluding GS and IA's), i.e. ALV + 15, you're looking at 82 + 15 hrs in the summer. Since the TLV is 77 throughout the year, you could have high-flying guys getting a constant 92 hours (+ GS/IA's), on average, through a bow wave system.
Isn't that enough?
It might work fairly well for the company in the summer, because it allows more WS vs. GS, but I wonder if it works out over the entire year. Contrary to was Essential said earlier, this isn't past practice, but a recently exploited loophole, and I think I've heard last year that the company doesn't like it either.
Which must explain that there is a fix being discussed.
I imagine the company wouldn't mind reverting a bow wave system, where we fly more in the summer, and get paid back in later month. Let's not forget that the ALV isn't a constant throughout the year: they already got that to flex. So if you have a fixed limit above the ALV (excluding GS and IA's), i.e. ALV + 15, you're looking at 82 + 15 hrs in the summer. Since the TLV is 77 throughout the year, you could have high-flying guys getting a constant 92 hours (+ GS/IA's), on average, through a bow wave system.
Isn't that enough?
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