Nosmo King

It was a large and easy target...

/ducks

Carl Spackler

How about during the flight attendant briefings, asking them what kind of signal they would prefer to prepare the cabin for landing:

Two short dings...or one long dong?

Carl

keenster

I am one of those guys living in the southeast. I have to disagree that all of us will come flocking to ATL. I go where my airplane goes. I followed it to DTW form JFK. If the 400 is based in ATL, I will be in ATL. Besides ATL being probably your biggest base if all 550 NWA guys went there, It probably woulddn't have that big effect anyway. If you had the seniority of all those guys, it would probably be across the board from junior to senior. So most guys will stay with their airplane truth be known. Sure, over time there will be guys bidding into ATL but not everyone at once that is impossible. The sky is falling according to you guys. I'd be willing to bet a few beers that things will be status quo for a while and none of us have any control over what airplane goes where, what airplane shows up on the property, what base is closed, what base is expanded or contracted, and what airplane is parked. It is not the fault of any pilot group what happens from here on out. If I could have had it my way, ther would have been no merger for me but I have no say in the matter. I was hired by Delta in Sep 85 and would have a number in the high 200s had I come there. But because I had been a NWA for 4 days their policy was not to hire from another major. That's life just like the merger is life and the SLI will be life. So you can let it eat at you from now on or just get on with it. Simply put THAT"S LIFE!!! My cup is half full and hope to fill it up to the brim. I hope everyone else fills to the brim as well. Good luck to us all.

keenster

Hawaii50

Good post but upgrade already will ya.

keenster

Was hopeing to upgrade to widebody captian soon because I was getting close. Who knows where I will be after the list comes out. Been waiting 23 years to get there and now I am looking at 1800 DAL guys that may be going in front of me that were hired after me and for the most part are younger than me. Depending on the outcome these guys will be in front of me for the rest of my career and may be able to bid the slots coming open in front of me due to NWA retirements. Since this thing started about 250 NWA guys have left but I don't even know if I will benefit from those retirements, I sure hope so. I guess that's life, but we don't know yet do we. Don't care to fly 757, I am happy flying international.

Keenster

Hawaii50

That's the great part about this job, there's something for everyone. I'm personally hoping for some medium fences to keep staus quo for a while and allow guys that were close to upgrading on a particular piece of equipment and base (me too) to do it reasonably close to when they had planned. I'd really hate to see the company have the freedom to move planes and bases at will while our heads are still spinning from combining the lists. Best of luck to you.

keenster

Best of luck to you we are along for the ride!!!

keenster

Molon Labe

Best of luck Keenster! Sooner or later some of the waterfoul will retire and make room for us on the airplanes we brought to the last merger!

keenster

Spoken so well Molon.

slowplay

I thought Innerbichler got hired after the Republic merger?