Like a lot of professionals, a GREAT (very hard to find) Real Estate Agent is worth his weight in Gold (I know people have done OK without them). For me, I live in a small town and met a couple of very nice guys well before I needed their services and they did a great job with my recent purchase (small town Southern Nevada). Ask other Delta guys in the area who they used (check them out, ask them questions, are you comfortable with their style AND do they know the area you want to live). Still a great time to buy.

Yep,

Nothing like a second decade in the right seat to perfect ones skills. :)
And unlike me, a lot of FOs don't need two decades to practice.
Scoop

WOW!! I remember being blown away like this when he was before congress right after 9/11.

I thought his presentation sorta wondered a bit.........what happens when you're crazy smart with so much info rattling around in your brain:D

Now, if he comes across with a great contract too...........

Ferd

You wanna fly outta my base, bid my base. You call it seniority jumping "crap", I disagree. Also, is the little fact that when this is done, the company will figure that they don't need as many reserves, so that will eventually cost jobs... all so you can get that trip that your seniority won't hold at YOUR base....

Ex-act-ly!

So all that matters is the number of reserves??? How bout all the people that prefer quality of life and don't chase the almighty dollar?

What do you mean? If people are trying to get flying in other bases, they're most definitely chasing the dollar.

As an example, if you could out of base WS and be just as high on the ladder as an in-base WS, then I could live in ATL and effectively be a ATL 73N B line holder even though I can barely hold it or even get in to the category with all of these MD's lately.

By bidding NYC 73N B, where I can hold a line, I could do a min line and then drop my trips and then WS out of ATL as much as possible.

Now for every trip I take it's one less trip that would've gone to a reserve because with my seniority I'd be the most junior eligible White Slipper and a reserve would've been next.

So by doing this I could help inadvertently shrink a base and make it that much more senior. And if my trips go on a swap with friends board, someone could make some coin and thereby reduce how many people are required in NYC.

Right?

Or I could live in CMH and pick up trips in CVG, NYC, ATL and someday DTW. And if I can do it, anyone can do it.

So I'm with Tsquare. But not for long, if his Vol's run off to pick up Petrino.

Brilliant...he takes complicated issues and breaks them down to simple terms, i.e., the Ex-Im Bank's effect on Air India vice Delta...we're no longer competitive there because OUR government subsidizes them to the tune of $300/ticket over a 30-year period.

I hate to say it, but I'll take a smaller raise to keep this guy as CEO. He knows how to run an airline, and he cares about its performance.

T;
you are right on the money with this. I think everyone who scours another base's open time/swap board finds a "little gem" that they'd like to fly at least once.

However, opening up the other base's open time (as if you were in base) to the rest of the world would almost certainly show up as a blip on the beancounters screen as the airline needing fewer reserves in the category.

So it isn't gambling with your own seniority, Big Guns, its gambling with the seniority of the junior reserves in the category you want to cherry pick.