trico

I have about 7K hrs of 'bus time and you hit the nail right on the head regarding the Airbus philosophy. Nice office environment though

TeddyKGB

Icrew question. If you opt to view your current monthly schedule and a pop up appears requesting you to acknowledge an assignment what happens if you just log out without acknowledging? Are you considered "notified" for the assignment?

Brocc15

You can just not put your password in and continue on to your schedule and see the pairing. You won't be considered notified. But they do know you looked at your schedule. I had a call from a scheduler once saying they saw I looked at my schedule and could I please acknowledge.

Check Essential

No. You have to type in your password to acknowledge any assignments. They can see that you viewed your schedule though

TeddyKGB

What if you are on long call and they call you with less than 12 hours to report and say "we see you looked at your schedule but didn't acknowledge your trip, we have a report trip that reports in 10 hours" I'm still trying to figure out the reserve system so just wondering how biding it is if you look at your schedule without acknowledging a trip.

forgot to bid

I have a question concerning DCI. The 2011 10-k shows that we have contracts with the multitude of dci carriers ending between 2016-2022. How long are these contracts and when were they signed?

Because IF we're being asked to provide relief on 50 seaters via an exchange program with Bombardier, are we being had?

Were these contracts, and I honestly am askin because I don't know, recently extended for the purpose of boxing the airline into a corner so as to come to us in c2012 for relief? Acting as if these contracts extensions came before their time or are as old as the jets flying them?

nwaf16dude

Forget it.......,

iaflyer

It's their problem, not yours. Don't worry - they aren't the type of schedulers to try and bully you into a trip like that. Rules are the rules, for both sides. They'll call you prior to the 12 hours - they get a pop-up on their screen or something. If you're on LC they have to give you 12 hours to report, or 10 hours for conversion to SC.

The other day I starting SC at 1400 - saw in the morning that I had a trip that I didn't really want, so I waited to see if a WS picked it up or whatever (long short, but hey, didn't want it). At 1401 they called me to tell me about the trip.

In the situation you quote, until you acknowledge via your password in iCrew/eCrew, on the VRU or with a scheduler, you haven't acknowledged it.

Bucking Bar

FTB,

Yours is an incredibly complex question that involves such confidential information that I doubt a dozen people know the answer. Back in 2009 a group had compiled what they thought was an accurate list with outstanding obligations of 25 Billion dollars through 2018.* We ran this by ALPA who initially responded "no way in hell." Two weeks later they were curious ran the numbers and said, "we think that's about right." (Gross payable under current agreements) The gross amount has grown considerably since then with the sale of Compass and Mesaba.

In many cases Delta retained status as the lessee, and / or owner, of the aircraft and in some cases Delta transferred that obligation. However, in nearly every case Delta was compelled to remain guarantor to meet the guarantee requirements of the financing covenants.

To sum up, Delta owes for the airplanes even in cases where it does not own or lease them.

I don't think any of these contracts were executed with the intent of "boxing the pilots in a corner." Rather, pilots were not a consideration since we have a;ways "played ball." Management believes they can renegotiate scope at their will and past practice indicates ALPA renegotiates scope rather than enforcing it.

Just track back to Contract 2000 which was ratified AFTER Delta had placed an order for about 550 RJ's. Contract 2000 was modified in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2006 just in time to allow airplanes ordered in 1999 to arrive without delay, including options!

If Contract 2000 ratios had been maintained the mainline fleet would have had to grow to nearly 1,400 airplanes to accommodate all the RJ's. That was impossible ... Contract 2000 scope language was doomed to failure from its very inception! That is why I've argued for an extensive re-write of scope language with the goal of making the language more inclusive.

If all Delta flying was done by Delta pilots, the NEW things that management has not even thought of yet (Delta private jets, more RJ's, codeshare, etc would be automatically owned by us by default). That is the power of unity.

sailingfun

They would only belong to us if they can be done at a competitive cost. If not then the flying is lost and the feed with a net overall loss of mainline jobs. That is the real question. Where is the break on that cost factor. I know many here state we can do the flying and meet the costs required yet for some reason managements will go to inordinate lengths to force the outsourcing. The entire AMR chapter 13 is basically about the issue. Scope there was very tight. Management was willing to face a possible loss of control of the airline (now a possible reality) to get the cheaper feed. One wonders why management did not decide simply to do the flying at the mainline. It would be a huge win win if it could be done in a cost competitive fashion. Perhaps the actual reason every single management team is willing to go to war on the issue is that it can't.
I still firmly believe the E170/175 belongs at the mainline and could be operated close enough to regional carriers that the network could make up the revenue. I am not convinced anything smaller would work. I think in the end the jobs we gained on RJ's would be lost at the mainline as we pulled out of many feeder markets. Like virtually every pilot on this forum I don't have hard numbers however the fact that not one single management team has even made a attempt at it tells me something. I know the last numbers I saw from the EF@A team showed a massive cost difference. The average regional employee is on 2nd year pay making peanuts. Mainline employees are almost all maxed out on payscales that pay a lot more.