Continental Airlines recently announced a multi-year marketing partnership with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, New Jersey, signing on as the organization's Official Airline. Elements of the partnership include cooperative advertising and joint marketing promotions through the 2010 season.

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Continental Airlines Inc. late Tuesday said March load factor fell slightly to 82.3% from 82.6% during the same month a year earlier.

Traffic at the Houston-based carrier increased 4.3% to 8.29 billion revenue passenger miles while capacity grew 4.6% to 10.1 billion available seat miles.

True that....I was in JFK waiting at the podium for the inbound flight...uniform jacket, hat the works. My F/O is standing beside me, tie un-done, no jacket, no hat. I'm not the uniform police, that's a job for super chief pilot, but what happened next was funny. A passenger walked up to my F/O and asked if he was a wheel chair pusher:) My F/O looked at me as the pax waled away and said, can you believe him? I said if ya want to be identified a s a pilot, dress like one:cool:

Nice! I had a little kid ask me if I was a train conductor yesterday while I was exiting terminal C in EWR. I just laughed and took it as a compliment. Then I asked him if he rode the short bus to school and told him to tell his mom I wanted my socks back. No one laughed. (kidding) But the first part was true. I guess conductors must look pretty sharp, cause I gotta tell ya I am trying hard right now.

PBS dishes out all the trips. Whats the difference between the guy that bids a low value line (in order to get the trips he wants) and looks to pickup added time vs the guy that bids a high value line. Should everyone bid a low value line? Someone is going to be awarded the pairing regardless under PBS. I agree that if everyone flew 75 hrs.; trips would go uncovered but that is not realistic with PBS. Junior people will be forced into high line values.

There is open time and guys do pick it up.
I know guys who get a high line value and pick up open time.
Bid low and stay home. Don't answer your phone, unless you're on reserve.

They just called me to change my phone availability from 11am to 3am. :D

so during the summer months when your flying to europe and you're in your uniform (coat and hat) and your fellow employee (737 pilot going domestic) is not wearing his coat and hat make sure you tell him how unprofessional it is to not all look the same. maybe you should suggest that coat and hat are mandatory to everyone during the summer.

so are all the pilots at airlines where hats are optional slobs, unprofessional, ununified?

you can hope I don't work their but I never want to look like Gary Sinise...:rolleyes:

useless more like priceless...pilots thinking the uniform will help take it back. maybe you should have shown up in rags to show people that we don't all make $200,000 a year.

on a side note I heard that during the contract talks between delta and nwa the uniform allowance didn't cover the full delta uniform for the nwa pilots to buy. a response from the gallery said "don't worry the nwa guys won't buy the hat anyway" nwa just about fell out of their seats laughing while delta sat their silent. now that funny :D those silly nwa pilots just don't get it do they...

why can't someone pick up time if they want to make some more money? no one is furloughed. if they were then that's a different story...

advertised trips not open time
 

Pick up advertised trips, not open time. Help your fellow pilots, not the company which refuses to properly staff or pay!:mad:

Just, are you referring to the court decision in 2000? From my end (not DAL) the judge's ruling seemed unenforceable beyond having the union tell pilots to continue with the status quo (i.e. pick up open time). How did they go after individual pilots and what were the repercussions, if any?

LifeNtheFstLne I LOVE the industry and I am not even in it! Or maybe I am smoking crack again, who knows. Thanks again for the info. I think for now I am going to stay with my offer and let it ride for a while. I will keep my apps out and eyes open, but I am really hoping to stay with CAL.