I wasn't there but a buddy was. That was NOT discussed. His over view was cautiously optimistic. Progress being made in several areas and the goal is a contract by the end of the year. Pay, retirement and scope were the priorities.

Try to attend the upcoming P.U.B. events in your area. I wish I'd been there for mine. I was flying.

Will US carriers answer the call?
 

Qatar Airways to Serve Atlanta, Chicago as 787 Deliveries Begin - Bloomberg

Qatar Airways to Serve Atlanta, Chicago as 787 Deliveries Begin
By Frederic Tomesco - Apr 12, 2012 10:37 PM ET

Qatar Airways Ltd. plans to start flights to Atlanta, Chicago, Boston and Detroit within the next year, doubling its U.S. network, as the carrier begins receiving Boeing Co. (BA) 787 Dreamliners.

A daily New York service will also be increased to three flights a day, with the addition of links via cities in Eastern and Western Europe, Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said yesterday in Montreal. The airline has daily flights to Washington and Houston.

“Qatar Airways is in the midst of a very aggressive expansion plan,” Al Baker said. “The only thing that stopped us from going earlier is the delayed delivery of the 787s,” he said about the U.S. flights.

The carrier has placed orders for 60 Dreamliners as it works toward boosting its global network to 170 destinations from 113 over three years. Like Dubai-based Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways PJSC, the carrier is using a Middle East hub to link markets in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Qatar Air also plans to resume services to Rangoon, Myanmar in October, Al Baker said. The carrier’s order backlog also includes 60 A350s and 10 A380s made by Airbus SAS.

Boeing began delivering 787s last year ending more than three years of delays caused by struggles with new materials and production techniques.

Extra Extra, read all about it!!!!! Delta passengers not exposed to rabies!!!

Omg the media is so freaking stoopid.

At the very least we should cap Delta Air Elite to current number in the fleet and secure all jobs over and above where it is today just in case it really grows at the expense of Delta Air Lines.

In related news, DALPA is rumored to be "actively engaging" the company in an effort to craft a code share agreement that grossly favors Qatar and further erodes Delta pilots' futures.

Free newk!

This goes to prove how mindless rumors grow legs and somehow gain "credible" backing in an effort to make it believable. Telephone game grown up style.

Well you can officially call them rat infested 50 seaters.


well, not exactly...

I've thought about that too. With us owning 1/2 of LGA now (plus massive capacity at JFK and a little at EWR) I wonder if we could work something out with ATC whereby shuttle flights go ahead of any and all DL (and affiliate) flights whenever possible. For every shuttle priority departure/arrival that effects any other carrier, we'll concede 2 priority departure/arrivals to competitors. SWA would probably throw a few million in pizzas to help us grease the skids on that as well.

The positive effect on the shuttle would be dramatic while the negative effect on the rest of the operation would be relatively negligible (who cares if you're number 18 or number 20 for departure on a 3 hour flight? But it makes a huge difference if you're number 3 or number 18 on a shuttle flight).

If we could get the taxi time down in LGA and the pad time down in BOS by finding a way to work with ATC in a way that the other carriers can see a net positive for themselves, we could easily cut the shuttle flights to almost half their scheduled block times which would radically increase the time value premium for them especially if we had priority/trusted traveler/shuttle pax only lines at BOS (the MAT in LGA is already about as easy as it gets anyway so not a lot of fat to trim there).

Yeah yeah, I know, more legs per day or whatever. That could be fixed with a special shuttle rig that rigged them to the old block times with the rest of the base departures benefitting from slightly increased block times so it would be a net gain for pilot credit times with a disproportionately larger revenue and market share increase for the company.

Throw in a few other perks like free wifi on shuttle flights, bonus miles, etc. and we could help tip the scales against USAir to the point they couldn't even justify doing it in a 190 and get it all ourselves and then we'd really clean house.

Nah forget it. There's no money in shuttle.

dude just won life's get another chance lottery.

or at the least his car did.