Little more nuanced that that, you have to actually put a greenie in to be counted. But yes, no one can fly a second or subsequent until everyone with an active request in that is legal for the trip gets a shot at it. In 16 years @ the Borg mothership, I bid for days off because of kids, so they're not an option for me. Unless I can get a Green Slip with Conflict. Then, it's pay, no credit for the greenie, and credit pay for dropped trip. Normal greenies pay 2x pay, no credit for a line holder.

I'm new at DAL bidding at about 77% and I was paid 165 hours in January and 143 in February. The problem with green slips is you have to fly them, I'm pretty worn out.

So what's up with the attempted takeover on your BoD? I don't understand how somebody with a 7% stake can leverage that into 6 of 15 seats.

With 7% they can't.

But they can put it to a vote of all the other shareholders at the annual meeting in a few months. If they can convince 50.00001% of the total that they are gonna get more $$$ with their board takeover and plan....then it happens.

Meanwhile the existing board and executive management will be making many of the same strategic moves and stockholder overtures to retain control.

Either way, the hedgies get more money via larger stock buybacks, dividends, or increased stock price. They don't necessarily have to "win" to directly profit.

Funny that scabs who stole their seniority numbers would get defensive about it.

13%. You have to compare what we have to what we would have had, not what we had. Verb tense gets complex, I know. But consider this: Had we voted NO we would have been having to continue this nonsense.

Sometimes I think my Delta envy comes from loose facts, urban legend, friend-of-a-friend distortions and bar bragging.

Then you have to go and post the truth.

And here I am hoping for another short call to get an hour of add pay.

I punched out of Delta in 2005 just before the bankruptcy. In 2004 & 05 Delta had 1500 captains retire in advance of the bankruptcy creating a staffing problem that the training department could never keep up with. I flew more hours in 2004 than any other year of my career and got to the point I was turning down greenslips that paid $15K for four days because I was just sick and tired of flying.

Gerald Grinstein was the CEO at the time and donated 100% his salary to an employee relief fund, but let's just say I made more money in '04 than he donated.

Good. A few more dead scabs. Just need to get the clown suits.

A perfect idea for a Go Fund Me site.
Clown suit manufacturing start up and Fed Ex them on time :D

Gordon doesn't care if the employees make money. He only cares what happens to the stock price and the dividends to institutional investors.

The price of a pilot is the price of a pilot. Back when he was running Continental he didn't have to pay them much because of the market place. Supply of pilots was high, demand for the jobs not so much.

Today, our skills, judgement, and experience command and demand higher pay. Pilots are worth more in 2016 then they were in 1998.