Check, I luv your new poster! "Outsourcing is NOT ALLOWED on ANY Delta flight!"

 

Woman, waving her finger to protect/recapture DAL pilot jobs = Hot Chick

 

NERD ALERT

Google's been talking about this for a few years. May be out this fall. Here's a little preview:

Project Glass: One day... - YouTube


For our over 60 crowd don't feel left out there is this to look forward to \/ \/ \/ It helps your download speeds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re0VR...feature=relmfu

 

Will they make it with rose-colored old lady sunglasses so Bono can get one?

 

Ironman "Stark HUD" glasses of the future:

 

Good Friday and the markets are closed. Good day for bad news, not a good day to pose good news.

 

Oh, blah. I just threw up on my screen.

What I am thankful for: I'm senior to you. And, you are not one of our negotiators.

 

Use your sick leave if you're sick. Don't forget to report your illness on your next medical, and if it's after October of this year you'll have to use MedXpress.

Oh, and today I'm thankful for you, Orvil, as I respect my elders. I'm thankful for Carl too. For Bar's sake I hope you guys leave at 60... And I'm thankful for whippersnappers like Scambo, 80, Bar, ACL, Manager, and all those other APC'ers that I've had respectful disagreements with here. But not Bacon...he's a poser.

Oh, and I like Ferd too (no afterthought here). It's surprising to me we can find a retired USAF figher guy that sets such a high standard as his friends in Saipan.

Peace out.

 

Arkansas State Motto: At least we're not Alabama!
(Alabama State Motto: At least we're not Mississippi!)

I take issue with the company with both those numbers. I really don’t see how they come up with a GAIN of 1% from the new rest rules. It seems that, even if you gut the PWA and go with bare bones FAR’s (which I think would evoke the same reaction from the pilot group as trying to pass an extension without memrat,) I still don’t see how the new rules come out any better/worse than net neutral. You’ve lost 24 hour international reserves and restricted their duty days, extended rest periods, and put in daily, weekly, and monthly duty limits. I fail to see how adding an hour of drop-dead block time equalizes that out.

And I think the company is twisting the facts when they say we were 1000 over this winter. Just take a look at the 22.D numbers from the latest AE. The 22.D.3 (where the active pilots will be in Nov, after all training is complete from the latest AE,) shows roughly 10,600 active pilots. The 22.D.2 numbers (how many bodies we “need” - which is for August – I.E. peak block hours,) currently on DLnet show us needing roughly 10,140 pilots. So the overage is only about 460 pilots. And as I understand it, if we get close to the 22.D.2 numbers, we’re getting close to a staffing crisis.

And maybe they do plan to create their own crisis. In that case, I hope all of us are smart enough to tell our reps in no uncertain terms that it is not the pilots’ responsibility to grant relief to management for a crisis they created - especially when we warned them it was coming!

Alright, enough seriousness. The stock market’s closed, the news is slow, and the weather is great, even if you have to fly today! Fly safe if you have to fly, and enjoy the weekend if you don't!

 

You know Slow, I like the idea that you put Bar, ACL, Scambo and 80 in to one group. Our ages probably transcend 20 years. I know that 80 is 14 years younger than Bar, and seven years younger than me. Does that make anyone younger than you a whippersnapper?

Works for me.