80ktsClamp

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.

forgot to bid

Well you can officially call them rat infested 50 seaters.


well, not exactly...

gloopy

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.

forgot to bid

dude just won life's get another chance lottery.

or at the least his car did.

gloopy

Thats what she said?

More Bacon

I'm applying. Looking for a place with career advancement opportunities--rather than the extended and indefinite stagnation here. Thanks again, DALPA.

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ma...ka-hiring.html

gloopy

Depending on how many days you have left, break you off a piece of dis noise.

Day 1. 24 hour short call.
Day 2. Non commutable "commuting dead zone" long call.
Day 3. 24 hour short call, unable to release in time for last flight home even though they have 3 times the required reserves.
Day 4. One day off.
Day 5. Non commutable short call.
Day 6. multi day trip that gets into base late.

gloopy

no deal!!!!!!!!!!

forgot to bid

Gloop,

There's no money in freight, so we outsource it.

There's no money in flying small jets, so we outsource it.

There's no money in the shuttle, so we outsource that to the small jets.



Well, 3 down and 7 to go to make our version of Dave "sex with subordinates above the studio" Letterman's Top 10.

gloopy

Or, if the bat went potty in the RJ, that would make them "bat $#!+ crazy RJ's" amirite?