Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta? - Page 1007

#10061

Bucking Bar , 07-12-2009 10:34 AM

Can't abide NAI

I dunno. What was the ROI on Comair?

Bad example.

I'm just saying to posture for negotiations, I would. Jepp has a monopoly that needs to be broken.

#10062

RoughLandings , 07-12-2009 10:47 AM

Gets Weekends Off

At CPZ, we have the EFBs and they are TERRIBLE. So bad that they deactivated them all. On top of the reliability problems, we had to use the NOS/NOAA (or whatever the gov't charts are called) alongside the Jepps while we were learning the EFBs.

So, hope for a 3rd/4th gen. EFB down the line. The current lot is the worst.

#10063

firstmob , 07-12-2009 11:01 AM

Gets Weekends Off

Any leaks or new info on the 15th BIG announcement?

#10064

acl65pilot , 07-12-2009 11:12 AM

Happy to be here

I would not leak it, if I knew it.

#10065

Bucking Bar , 07-12-2009 11:14 AM

Can't abide NAI

July 15th? Surprised you had to ask. We met three of the metrics for our Shared Rewards program in May and will receive $100 in our July 15th paycheck.

I'm saving for a new rug, or maybe some nail polish for Bunny Lebowski. Otherwise, I expect July 15th to come and go much like any other day. If it was good news, it would be announced on a Monday. If there were ugly, they save that for Friday after lunch when nobody reads the news. Hump day news is likely to be continued coverage of Jacko's untimely demise... well that, and $100.

#10066

iceman49 , 07-12-2009 11:14 AM

Gets Weekends Off

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Who needs Jepp/Boeing? It is public data.

An airline the size of Delta could simply develop its own. Anyone recall how Jeppessen got started in the first place for United?

If I was in negotiations with Boeing / Jepp my first step would be to file a press release that we are developing a competing product and assign some managers to a new division while making sure their business cards got left around the bars frequented by Jepp management. Once they were all taking blood pressure medication, I'd negotiate a deal.

Hey, alter ego works on pilots. Why not database vendors?

There is the LIDO company, believe they supply the info and its up to the individual company to print them...they have a CD set for the instructions. Don't think the return would justify giving up on Jeppesen, they do negotiate.

#10067

Bucking Bar , 07-12-2009 11:27 AM

Can't abide NAI

With all the flap, some were curious what a size 28 Red Dress might look like. I found one on EBay:

Size 28, red dress

Before people start making unkind comparisons to a yacht tonneau, tents, or having to take this thing out to the driveway to iron it, the AFA must figure they have this covered.

#10068

iceman49 , 07-12-2009 11:37 AM

Gets Weekends Off

Any chance the dress thing is a red herring...to cast a bad light on AFA and to distract the membership from the positive aspects of the union, and to cast it into an unfavorable light?

#10069

georgetg , 07-12-2009 11:41 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman49

LIDO is Lufthansa...

exactly like Bucking Bar suggested...

I'm guessing we are kneedeep into Jepps with Green pages and obstacle data and Jepps knows we cant abandon ship...

Cheers
George

#10070

Bucking Bar , 07-12-2009 11:45 AM

Can't abide NAI

Don't forget the AFA raised this issue. Now I'd bet the majority of Flight Attendants do not appreciate the attention the AFA has raised.

As long as the Flight Attendants get to me too on the Pilots' they get a pretty good deal.

Many have mentioned the green Cap "Tomato" image, but I think they have overlooked the Viking Goddess potential with this.