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satchip 01-06-2009 12:46 PM

What are your displacement preferences?
 
This is mostly for the Delta guys. What are your displacement preferences? Where do you want to go and where do you expect to land?

I am a NYC ER Fo and hope to hang on. I would rather be the plug than go to training again.

Bucking Bar 01-06-2009 12:54 PM

ATL any and everything.

acl65pilot 01-06-2009 01:00 PM

No car needed, just 20 bucks or so for the Krew Gardens cab, or bus from LGA and back.
Commute is not too bad, with BOS and DCA as escape route.

I will not bid until the 14th.

mxav8r 01-06-2009 01:01 PM

Junior guy in LAX on 73N. Just hoping to stay in LAX. Otherwise:
SLC73NB
ATL88B
CVG73NB
CVG88B

Actually I have no damn clue as to what will happen to me and how I should bid, i.e. MD vs VD or what? Or if me losing my seat is really a reality. Will the shuffle really work it's way to LAX on the 73NB?

acl65pilot 01-06-2009 01:09 PM

Remember that with a VD you get a seat lock. With a MD you do not. CVG is hard to commute to. Lots of RJ service.

Bucking Bar 01-06-2009 01:24 PM

good info, thanks

satchip 01-06-2009 01:49 PM

Ny is a B-I-T of a commute. Weather, delays, holding, cancellations, and if you get on a flight that is scheduled to arrive in time you can bet you will sit on the ramp waiting for a gate for hours. Ok, only a small exaggeration. I have found that the ATL-JFK flights are few and far between and usually full.

forgot to bid 01-06-2009 02:21 PM


Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 531852)
Remember that with a VD you get a seat lock. With a MD you do not. CVG is hard to commute to. Lots of RJ service.

Thats not all VD gives you. :rolleyes:
...
I'm anything in ATL first then to NYC ER and down from there. All on a MD only.

About half of the ER folks I know will be opting for NYC ER first if displaced out of ATL ER, the rest will remain in ATL. Wish the 737 wasn't a surplus and more junior than it is. It has some fantastic trips when you flip through their bid packet.

forgot to bid 01-06-2009 02:27 PM


Originally Posted by satchip (Post 531885)
Ny is a B-I-T of a commute. Weather, delays, holding, cancellations, and if you get on a flight that is scheduled to arrive in time you can bet you will sit on the ramp waiting for a gate for hours. Ok, only a small exaggeration. I have found that the ATL-JFK flights are few and far between and usually full.

Yes, ATL-JFK sucks, the only time I nearly got burned on the commute was when I decided to take that first 767 from ATL-JFK and it took off 7 hours late due to storms, but I still made show. Usually I used LGA and that worked out perfect, and also bid for Sao Paulo, late show and very early end.

Now, snow season is a different ball game and completely unpredictable and devistating sometimes for days and days while thunderstorms can be mitigated by taking one of the early flights to LGA and it working a vast majority of the time. Also, in the mornings after a rough night I saw DAL throw in an extra 88 flight around 7am or so. Its early, but at least you get there. So if you couldn't get a jumpseat and the weather was bad look for that.

buzzpat 01-06-2009 02:44 PM


Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 531852)
Remember that with a VD you get a seat lock. With a MD you do not. CVG is hard to commute to. Lots of RJ service.

Hey ACL. Similar question. If you just put in a MD and nothing else...and you are displaced. Then, theoretically, you go to your new equipment/base only for the duration it takes you to bid back to where you were pre-AE? Sorry if this sounds ignorant, just haven't gone through these before now.


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