Got pushed 30 spots down on MSPM88B. Yikes.

Junior DC9A ATL 8153.....not as junior as some thought!

Well, I moved down 3 more spots in category... every one of them a VD once again. This is the 4th AE in a row where I've been pushed downward by guys taking voluntary displacements above me... every single one of the original MD slots they replaced were junior to me. Not sure what that means, but it's somehow disgruntling.

Every single AE for years now I have slid backwards in category. From where I sit, my QOL is just steadily eroding... and no other category, no matter how far down the food chain I go, is better than current due to commuting. Depressing.

I hear guys like rvr123 above moving 30, and look at the junior guys on each category moving back and forth each AE, wow that makes me cringe, and feel glad at least I stayed in base.

Are you sure about that? You can adjust each individual slip. Remember, if you change anything about your slip for same day trip then you go to the bottom of the pile.

At least they increased staffing on the 7ER and 73N in Atlanta, which absorbed an awful lot of pin action.

Haven't crunched the actual numbers, but at first blush ... dare I say we need to hire some MD88 FO's? Or, is this kind of bid going to get to be a very common occurrence as they staff airplanes with eyedropper precision?

Some of my favorite Captains are going back to the right seat :(

Cool video for today:

Boeing 707 and 777.mov - YouTube

x2

Boeing 777 Team: Flown by the world's elite airlines - YouTube

Elvis,welcome to Atlanta.

WRONG!:) According to DALPA scheduling you cannot adjust each individual slip. I thought you could but.......a GS went out today that I thought I had a whiteslip in for but it turns out I didn't because of my standing qualifiers. I changed them on the menu following the whiteslip entry so I should have gotten the trip via whiteslip but nooooooooo! According to DALPA scheduling (I called the MEC) that menu is, essentially, a view only even though you can "change" things.

To change your standing qualifiers you have to do it from the main PCS menu, not the one following each individual slip.....

Denny

I guessed around 8200 on earlier post.... Looks like I slid one seat on ATL320B. Most everyone stayed away from the short bus in ATL, most likely because of the small catagory and the wild swings in the trip construction.

I think we all look forward to the day where we actaully start advancing on an "Advance Entitlement". Seems like were all getting scattered around the system, but not really moving anywhere. Then there's the catagories like Buzz's beloved LAX73n that have gone from Mexico flying and pretty good transcons at it's inception in 2008 to the redeye express. Section One in the Joint Contract allowing the Alaska flying has put a big cutout on our West Coast flying, just look at our Delta Sky Magazine route map (looks like an old Western route map).... all those green lines reaching across the country and into Mexico.

Section One has kicked our A--, top to bottom!

TC