Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
02-26-2012 | 07:50 PM
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I've got to fly tomorrow so the General Burnside/Chester Arthur has to go away. 
It was too awesome to last more than one day.
I'll cross my fingers for a big C-series order and a bunch of 777-300ERs as growth planes. Oh, and also the restart of dedicated freighters as 777F's.
It was too awesome to last more than one day.
I'll cross my fingers for a big C-series order and a bunch of 777-300ERs as growth planes. Oh, and also the restart of dedicated freighters as 777F's.
Knowing us, we will probably buy the 717
Have fun flying.
02-26-2012 | 08:11 PM
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I hope the Senior VP of Flight Ops never returns to the line. I have respect for him and what he has done at Delta. Extremely smart man and will listen to what you have to say. I do believe he graduated #1 at the Air Force Academy and his roomate was #2. It was the first time in AFA history that the #1 and #2 graduates were pilots. He also graduated #1 at Georgia Tech law school. I hope he becomes President of Delta Air Lines.
I worked in the Aerospace Development world in addition to DAL for several years. I worked with a lot of smart guys. I flew to india a lot for DAL and met a lot of smart guys. To date, the smartest guy I ever met, bar none, was the valedictorian from the USAFA. However, when he graduated from Harvard Law, he was only in the top 10%. (Apparently the Chinese students for whom english is a second language were smarter than him).
Anyway, if SD was #1 at the zoo, he is smart. I am very impressed if that is the case.
02-26-2012 | 08:28 PM
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I hope the Senior VP of Flight Ops never returns to the line. I have respect for him and what he has done at Delta. Extremely smart man and will listen to what you have to say. I do believe he graduated #1 at the Air Force Academy and his roomate was #2. It was the first time in AFA history that the #1 and #2 graduates were pilots. He also graduated #1 at Georgia Tech law school. I hope he becomes President of Delta Air Lines.
His classmates at the Air Force Academy say he did not like flying and that today he does not see himself as a pilot.
Why would you want him to be President of Delta? (Just curious, not suggesting he would be bad)
The Board has not selected an insider in quite some time.
In what little bit of time I have spent with him it seemed he thought the perfunctory velvet rope stuff was a waste of his time, and although nice, it probably was.
02-26-2012 | 08:42 PM
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Here are the facts about Steve Dickson:
Avionics RTCA Conference
He was also one of the two cadet wing commanders in his class of 1979.
Class Facts | US Air Force Academy AOG & Endowment
A Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Academy graduated in the top 7% of his class.
Steve Dickson
Senior Vice President, Flight Operations
Delta Air Lines
Captain Steve Dickson is Senior Vice President-Flight Operations for Delta Air Lines. His responsibilities include overseeing Delta’s day-to-day flight operations, as well as pilot training, pilot standards, technical support, pilot staffing and scheduling, and quality assurance/compliance functions. He also provides leadership and direction to Delta’s 12,400 strong pilot group. Dickson, a 20-year Delta veteran, has served as a Special Assignment Supervisor, Manager-Pilot Crew Scheduling, Manager-Strategic Planning and Communications, Assistant Chief Pilot-Atlanta, and General Manager-Flight Operations. In 2005 Dickson was promoted to Director-Flight Operations, and assumed his current responsibilities in September 2006. He is also currently qualified as a 757/767 captain and has also flown the 727 and 737 during his career at Delta.
Captain Dickson is a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operations Committee and Air Transport Association (ATA) Operations Council, and serves as Chairman of the Air Traffic Management Advisory Committee (ATMAC) and the working subcommittee of the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) Next Gen Advisory Committee.
A former Air Force Officer and F-15 fighter pilot, Dickson is also a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Georgia State University College of Law. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
Senior Vice President, Flight Operations
Delta Air Lines
Captain Steve Dickson is Senior Vice President-Flight Operations for Delta Air Lines. His responsibilities include overseeing Delta’s day-to-day flight operations, as well as pilot training, pilot standards, technical support, pilot staffing and scheduling, and quality assurance/compliance functions. He also provides leadership and direction to Delta’s 12,400 strong pilot group. Dickson, a 20-year Delta veteran, has served as a Special Assignment Supervisor, Manager-Pilot Crew Scheduling, Manager-Strategic Planning and Communications, Assistant Chief Pilot-Atlanta, and General Manager-Flight Operations. In 2005 Dickson was promoted to Director-Flight Operations, and assumed his current responsibilities in September 2006. He is also currently qualified as a 757/767 captain and has also flown the 727 and 737 during his career at Delta.
Captain Dickson is a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operations Committee and Air Transport Association (ATA) Operations Council, and serves as Chairman of the Air Traffic Management Advisory Committee (ATMAC) and the working subcommittee of the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) Next Gen Advisory Committee.
A former Air Force Officer and F-15 fighter pilot, Dickson is also a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Georgia State University College of Law. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was also one of the two cadet wing commanders in his class of 1979.
Class Facts | US Air Force Academy AOG & Endowment
A Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Academy graduated in the top 7% of his class.
02-26-2012 | 09:01 PM
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Latest and greatest on the Airbus: Takeoff and landing currency via ACARS is turned back on as of March 1. Woo hoo!
02-26-2012 | 09:29 PM
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02-27-2012 | 02:33 AM
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02-27-2012 | 02:40 AM
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02-27-2012 | 03:24 AM
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02-27-2012 | 03:53 AM
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Well, not to brag or anything but my high school started with 540 students in 9th grade and we graduated 180.
I was one of the 180.
By the way, the pregnancy rate in my 10th grade year was supposedly 30% of the females in our class although I think it was lower but definitely not single digit %. We actually had a full time child day care center for the students kids.
I was one of the 180.
By the way, the pregnancy rate in my 10th grade year was supposedly 30% of the females in our class although I think it was lower but definitely not single digit %. We actually had a full time child day care center for the students kids.
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