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11-23-2014 | 07:52 PM
#4181
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Call crew line--say you're in "the wrong folder"--they'll fix it on the phone in realtime for you...unless it's VV, then she might just say "we are not required to do anything for you per contract" and then hang up on you.
11-23-2014 | 07:54 PM
#4182
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If VV does answer the phone, say "knock knock" and I bet 50 bucks she won't say "who's there"...she'll say "we are not required to engage in knock-knock jokes, per contract" (click).
11-24-2014 | 03:57 AM
#4183
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From: CR9 CA
Prior121, you keep on hinting about more flying, yet those rumors usually results in someone else getting those flying. I am sure you are a good guy/gal but you need to stop acting like you know the inside track with management. Just because Mesa bids on RFPs does not mean they will automatically get it. J.O has a high ego and likes brag about things before they even materialize.
11-24-2014 | 05:57 AM
#4184
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PBS award for IAD FO is now out
11-24-2014 | 06:00 AM
#4185
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From: 175 Left
Prior121, you keep on hinting about more flying, yet those rumors usually results in someone else getting those flying. I am sure you are a good guy/gal but you need to stop acting like you know the inside track with management. Just because Mesa bids on RFPs does not mean they will automatically get it. J.O has a high ego and likes brag about things before they even materialize.
Anyone who has followed my posts on here since spring of 13 will tell you I always have been correct on soon to be awarded flying.
Heck I knew about the UA 175s before I even came to work here.
So yeah .... go play in traffic.
11-24-2014 | 07:01 AM
#4186
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From: CL-65
11-24-2014 | 07:41 AM
#4187
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True, however, several ejet folks will be spending Thanksgiving at the beautiful Pear Tree Inn because they simply have Thanksgiving only off. It is what it is, shoot I remember eating holiday dinners at the Shoney's Inn in Valdosta on my 30 hour layover when I was at ASA.
11-24-2014 | 07:48 AM
#4188
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Barring a catastrophic event, I think 1.5 to 3 years isn't an unreasonable forecast. A friend hired April of last year just got an Ejet upgrade. He could've done it a month or two sooner had he stuck with the CRJ. Even if incoming airframes slow down, attrition will only pick up. I'm guessing 2.5 years for guys hired the second half of 2014, but it depends on fleet growth (always rumors, rarely information of substance) and hiring at the majors (one study predicted hiring ramping up significantly in 2017).
As for this Christmas debate, the guy asked a perfectly innocent question. You never know with these things. Maybe a later class date means barely missing an upgrade, then because of that barely missing out when United comes calling, but then 20 years down the line United goes bankrupt and everyone loses their retirement, meanwhile you got hired at Delta a year later and your retirement is safe and sound. You won't know if you made the right decisions until the day you retire. That said, conventional wisdom favors seniority, and flaps made some compelling points.
As for this Christmas debate, the guy asked a perfectly innocent question. You never know with these things. Maybe a later class date means barely missing an upgrade, then because of that barely missing out when United comes calling, but then 20 years down the line United goes bankrupt and everyone loses their retirement, meanwhile you got hired at Delta a year later and your retirement is safe and sound. You won't know if you made the right decisions until the day you retire. That said, conventional wisdom favors seniority, and flaps made some compelling points.
What the study may be alluding to is that attrition based on age 65 at the majors doesn't peak until 2017, in which I would agree, but a lot of folks are bailing early. Some perspective, from August through December I have moved up over 200 numbers, and right now we are just over a year ahead of all the seniority projections.
11-24-2014 | 02:08 PM
#4189
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Thanks for the info, always appreciate your input.
11-24-2014 | 02:17 PM
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Does anyone know how these arbitrary reserve buffers are established? It's set at 23 for the last several days of November in Dulles. Seems like extreme overkill, and I've been told they don't release anyone on their last day unless they're at least two net reserves over it. My last day on happens to be Thanksgiving, and I'd love to have something intelligent or persuasive to respond to Crew Tracking with after they blindly tell me I need to sit the last three hours of "FDP" in Dulles after flying/deadheading all day.
Any ideas or tricks that've worked for other people?
Any ideas or tricks that've worked for other people?
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