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Travelnet question to all the DAL-N guys and gals... When you pull up the standby list, what does an "F" priority code mean for revenue passengers? Are those passengers with a confirmed seat in coach who wish to upgrade to first? I brought up the priority list, but the first 20 or so priority codes for NWA at N/A.

acl65pilot

07-08-2009 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by kamsman (Post 641444)

I'm fairly new to this board so please forgive my ignorance. Is ACL65 a top executive in DAL or does he have a crystal ball? Has he made predictions in the past that have been so accurate that everyone here just assumes all he says is correct? I ask these questions in all seriousness as he seems to have quite the following. As a North pilot I'm used to 99% of all rumors being just that.

Thanks

I am full of BS, just ask my acquaintances. I have no friends.

I just get info and connect the dots. I have been wrong, and will be wrong again. Fact is that the plans continually change. If you actually go back about 20 pages are see I was not the one that started this crud. I was going to keep it black.
If you ask the correct people the correct questions, you will get your answers. Fact is that our management shares what they can when they can, and when they can't they let you know.

KC10 FATboy

07-08-2009 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 641461)

I am full of BS, just ask my acquaintances. I have no friends.

I just get info and connect the dots. I have been wrong, and will be wrong again. Fact is that the plans continually change. If you actually go back about 20 pages are see I was not the one that started this crud. I was going to keep it black.
If you ask the correct people the correct questions, you will get your answers. Fact is that our management shares what they can when they can, and when they can't they let you know.

I have to back up what ACL says. When I'm in LGA, I always talk to the CP and the staff. They pass on good information, when they can.

I feel they are quite honest and open. Sometimes, you can see they want to tell, wish they could tell, but can't.

DAL4EVER

07-08-2009 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by kamsman (Post 641444)

He actually goes by the name, "The Great and Powerful Oz". But to those of us on APC, he's just ACL.

NuGuy

07-08-2009 11:32 AM

Heyas,

For those who are considering moving to MSP, make sure you go and spend AT LEAST a week looking around and interacting with the locals.

While relatively safe, it is an uncommonly expensive city to live in. If you are a seafood lover, get used to Walleye (it's gross) or Red Lobster, cause that's about it.

Unless you are from Minnesota or Wisconsin, you may be given the cold shoulder by the locals. It's just they way they are...everything revolves around what town you live in (Edina vs Eden Prarie), where you went to high school, and what hockey team you kid plays on.

You may be able to tolerate it, but from what I understand, spouses, who are there 24/7, don't like it at all because of this. It's hard to break into the local social scene unless you live in a neighborhood of other out-of-towners.

FWIW, 9 out of the last 10 fNWA guys I talked to are planning on heading to NYC. All were former NYC or BOS based guys, and live in PA, RI, NY or NJ, and are pretty stoked.

My 0.02...

Nu

satchip

07-08-2009 11:46 AM

Great.... Guess I better find out how to commute to DTW...

FlyingViking

07-08-2009 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by satchip (Post 641488)

Great.... Guess I better find out how to commute to DTW...

Lets wait and see first. There is a reason NYC is as junior as it is.

Reroute

07-08-2009 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 641383)

PWA Section 6 subpart 3.

I was wrong it is 12 months after a new base is opened.

Got it thanks. Just not sure if pre existing N bases will be considered "new" for the purposes of section 6 for S pilots and vice versa. Has the TWG discussed it or has anything been put out clarifying this?

pilotc90a

07-08-2009 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by NuGuy (Post 641482)

I couldn't agree more. As a transplant, I move here ten years ago for this job and ALL of my friends are from somewhere else. I don't have a sinlge friend that was born here, of course that might just be me...

There is a lot to do here, but when we joke about winter being 8 months of the year, of course we are kidding, it is really only seven.

Tailwinds,

Silver2Gold

07-08-2009 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by FlyingViking (Post 641496)

Lets wait and see first. There is a reason NYC is as junior as it is.

Exactly, they didn't send new hires to the ER there because they just felt like giving the new guys a good deal.............. nobody else wanted to do it, and likewise, no one was bidding it. Northwest, United, Delta, American........... pilots are all the same, for the most part. I predict New York will, over time, remain junior. Unless the winters become mild, the airspace becomes un-congested, the property and cost of living become cheap, the traffic thins out, and they completely turn the place around into an efficient and smoothly run operation, I think most pilots will eventually come to the same conclusions the Delta-S guys have about NYC.

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