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Originally Posted by Timbo
(Post 1152221)
Just be sure you take what you'll need out of your Jacket and put it in your shirt pocket before you leave the house!
I've got two "Dumb Shidt" stories for you, hope you can learn from my mistakes! DS story 1: I'm flying MD-11 F/O, it's my first trip in March (1998ish) and I've got my jacket on, forgot to leave it at home, but when I get to the lounge the other guys say, "Hey, it's March! We don't need to wear our jackets." so I leve mine in the commuter room and we head off to Narita. Well we didn't need pasports to get into Narita in those days, so I was not even aware that I didn't have mine, until we came home and I'm filling out my customs form as we taxi into ATL...and then the light in my head comes on...NO PASSPORT!! It's in my JACKET! :eek: Well, as luck would have it, we parked at E5, right above the pilot lounge back door to the ramp. As soon as the jetway is hooked up, I look around for customs guys, seeing none, I hot foot it down the stairs and started banging on the door, until someone opened it, then ran in and got my passport, ran back up the stairs to the jet and proceded as normal. None the worse for it, but a close call! OK, I'll never do that again: Which leads to DS story #2: LAST WEEK...It was early March, and I said, "Oh thank God I don't need the Jacket!" so off I go for my commute flight up to ATL and as I'm nearing MCO (after driving 90 minutes) I realize...my ID IS ON MY JACKET!! DAMIT!!! :eek: No time to go back home and get it, (3 hours round trip) so I call the CPSC, tell them about it, they sent a message to the gate of my commuter flight to ATL and I was able to get on the jumpseat without it...but the Security Clown at the Employee Parking wouldn't let me into the lot! Rat Bastard! I had to go to the Blue lot and pay $30 to park!! I got past the MCO TSA with my driver's license and when I got to ATL they already had my new ID waiting for me. The old one was going to expire soon so they already had a new one made up. So...if you are going to ditch your jacket, be sure you take your passport out of the breast pocket and unclip your ID from the lapel! Sucks getting old...the first thing to go is your memory and the second thing is....:confused: Oh, and for you whipper snappers out there laughing at the old farts, remember, nobody's getting any younger, so here's the 3 rules for when you get older, as told to me by an Old Fart back when I was a Baby Pilot: 1. Never trust a Fart 2. Never walk by a bathroom 3. Never waste a hard-on, even if you're alone Words to live by. Oh yeah, you're under arrest. (smiley) |
Originally Posted by Timbo
(Post 1152346)
Well...if that 1% number is true, HOW is the "Average" line guy flying 87 hours, EVERY MONTH??
Did anyone ask him that? :rolleyes:
Originally Posted by capncrunch
(Post 1152350)
They're not. That number is pure bologna.
It is the calculation of the "pay hours" that lineholders are earning each month on average is how the max was established. The max is adjusted each year based on what the pilot group ends up earning in pay hours. (I don't know the time that the "1 year lookback" is based on. The MEC Sec./treas. would know..... Or you can look in the MEC Policy manual. Also keep in mind that any person who gets even 1 minute of flight pay loss cannot be paid more than 87 hours for that month.... No GS, no WS, no IA... It is a PAY HOUR limit. Also volunteers are unable to pick up any flying that would have given them a "denied due to 30/7" if they had worked the trip that was dropped. You CANNOT drop a 23:00 block 4 day for ALPA work and then within the next three days that immediately follow the dropped rotation pick up a 6:31 block day trip. IOW, it had to be legal to pick up BEFORE you drop a trip. |
Originally Posted by johnso29
(Post 1152342)
Best way from JFK to EWR in less then 2 hours?
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Originally Posted by johnso29
(Post 1152414)
Bump. Also how about LGA-JFK besides the Kew and Yellow Cab?
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Originally Posted by scambo1
(Post 1152396)
You DA MF, You crack me right the F up!
Oh yeah, you're under arrest. (smiley) You gunna have me Arrested? What, do I amuse you? Am I a Clown to you? You think I'm Funny? Funny how? Funny Ha Ha or Funny lookin'?? :eek: Bar scene from my last NRT layover... Goodfellas:"Funny, How?" Scene - YouTube |
Originally Posted by firstmob
(Post 1152261)
What is going on with our stock today, over 12 mil shares traded and up 40 cents?
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Originally Posted by johnso29
(Post 1152414)
Bump. Also how about LGA-JFK besides the Kew and Yellow Cab?
Originally Posted by johnso29
(Post 1152342)
Best way from JFK to EWR in less then 2 hours?
Air Train to Jamaica Station LIRR Jamaica st - Penn Station NJ Transit Train Penn Station - Newark Airport (This is the toughest leg of the journey, hard to time the trains that stop at Newark Airport) Air Train to Terminal B Says it takes 1:56, but that is assuming you hit the trains right, and that is best case. You can also do Air Train to Howard beach A train to Canal St Path to Newark (city) NJT train to Newark Airport ( again this is the tricky part ) Air Train to terminal JFK-LGA Not sure, but by public trans you can Air train to Jamaica E train to Sutphin 7 train to Archer Q48 bus to terminal There is also the Q runner, but not sure how that works. |
Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
(Post 1152296)
Carl,
After digging several wells looking for information, I'm not sure my initial reaction to our MEC publications was entirely accurate. The regional guys got to see something and what they saw might not be big picture, or might be a reheated version of the "brand scope" porridge that is served as a distraction while we're carving up steak. There is a lot we are not being told for both competitive and labor reasons. Bastian came close to letting the cat out of the bag and says he is going to talk about it more later. Trying to connect the dots can be successful. There are only a limited number of possible solutions which work for management. Connecting dots also lead John Nash into schizophrenia. Since we're not as smart as he was, we should be safe here :) As I told you on the phone, lets wait and see what the deal is, if any. This MEC is not going to cave on scope. The math does not work. Even with a 100% pay raise, the bottom 60-70% will vote no because it means therir jobs. We want scope gains. The Negotiation Commitee has three FO's on it and they do not want to retire as career FO's. They are not going to bring back a POS deal that the reps will vote down. Wait and see what arrives in the form of a TA. If they for some reason lose their minds and sell scope, and bring us a TA to vote on, it gets voted down; easily. Then ALPA gets replaced. It serves no one's purpose , including the company's to push more flying out the door. DAL is posied for great things, but they need their pilots on board to make it happen. * A comment to Sailing about previous wage increases to other groups. You mentioned that back in the days of C2K when the MTC employess got a 17% rasise after our deal. Well all employee groups are almost back to pre ch11 levels, we are not. Plain and simple. |
Originally Posted by firstmob
(Post 1152261)
What is going on with our stock today, over 12 mil shares traded and up 40 cents?
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Originally Posted by Roadkill
(Post 1152363)
ps. I told him a Burger King manager job was likely superior if he could bag one...
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