DAL Class drops
06-05-2018, 11:40 AM
#2331
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2013
Position: On the hotel shuttle
Posts: 5,400
Originally Posted by contrails
Because it's a piece of garbage with no A/C, no uv shades, no hot mic, no baggage storage, no trustworthy autopilot, windows in the ceiling, no airflow, and the trips are the worst in the system.
That's why.
That's why.
88 don’t care.
06-05-2018, 11:59 AM
#2333
Super Moderator
Joined APC: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,627
Originally Posted by JamesBond
I still don't understand why anyone would bid off of a dying category. Can anybody help a brother out?
06-05-2018, 01:04 PM
#2334
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2015
Posts: 839
Originally Posted by contrails
Because it's a piece of garbage with no A/C, no uv shades, no hot mic, no baggage storage, no trustworthy autopilot, windows in the ceiling, no airflow, and the trips are the worst in the system.
That's why.
That's why.
06-05-2018, 01:12 PM
#2335
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2008
Posts: 18,050
Originally Posted by contrails
Because it's a piece of garbage with no A/C, no uv shades, no hot mic, no baggage storage, no trustworthy autopilot, windows in the ceiling, no airflow, and the trips are the worst in the system.
That's why.
That's why.
06-05-2018, 05:17 PM
#2336
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2013
Posts: 8,321
Originally Posted by sailingfun
Yet not that many years ago it was considered one of the easier airplanes in the fleet to check out in. Times have changed!
06-05-2018, 05:25 PM
#2337
Back on Reserve
Joined APC: Dec 2012
Position: A330 FO
Posts: 539
Originally Posted by contrails
Because it's a piece of garbage with no A/C, no uv shades, no hot mic, no baggage storage, no trustworthy autopilot, windows in the ceiling, no airflow, and the trips are the worst in the system.
That's why.
That's why.
Originally Posted by crewdawg
Loss of seniority as others are bidding off. Crappy schedules due lack of trip mix. Ever mounting MELs as mx decides not to fix certain things since the jet is going away. Mostly the reasons I've heard.
Originally Posted by Viking busdvr
Is that all you can come up with??
06-05-2018, 06:07 PM
#2338
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2012
Posts: 1,418
Originally Posted by captkdobbs
Don't hold back guys, let us know what you're really thinking. Let out your true feelings.
And the fact that full reverse thrust on landing blanks out the rudder causing it to possibly depart the runway in crosswinds or slippery runways.
The jumpseat is cramped.
I could go on . . .
06-05-2018, 07:21 PM
#2339
Kerbal Rocket Surgeon
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: 88A ATL
Posts: 1,087
And all these reasons why you should fly it before it goes away (if you're junior to me). No grandkid wants to sit on your lap and listen to stories about that one time you had a windshield heat MEL on fifi.
06-05-2018, 07:53 PM
#2340
Da Hudge
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Poodle Whisperer
Posts: 17,473
Originally Posted by Phuz
And all these reasons why you should fly it before it goes away (if you're junior to me). No grandkid wants to sit on your lap and listen to stories about that one time you had a windshield heat MEL on fifi.
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