FUSEPLUG

Haven't had one of these in a LONG time! Ahhhh memories...

Not sure on how displacements will fall quite yet. SWAPA is working the numbers. Our schedule research guys are on it and are great about getting the projections out there when the company won’t. That being said, our D terminal in BNA is expanding further to the east. I was surprised by the construction going in there last week having been away a month or so. All indications are that we’ll be continuing to ramp up there. It’s hard to speculate, but I won’t be surprised if we don’t see further drawbacks in the near term…then sudden panic in a year or two when we don’t have the manpower. It’s like the place is run by a bunch of AF guys.

While I hate to see us drawing down in a market, I'll be glad to not be flying there as much. ATC and our rampers there are top notch. But as soon as that door opened, nothing pleasant happened. Our customer-facing staff there are not good - borderline aggressive toward customers and crew members. Obviously it's not across the board, but I rarely had a pleasant experience on the C concourse of ATL. It sucks for the folks based there. I hope their QOL-shift is minimal. But there's no way SWA's product could seriously compete in Delta's hometown.

How dare you people?! She is a respectable elected official and a nice lady… like Adam Kinzinger.

I’ve flown with her. She’s good people. Very religious… which I’m guessing is why she got away from that dumpster fire before things went sideways.

🤣

Not a mask in sight. Granted, he is triple boosted so he's got that going for him.

As I recall he was a scumbag running a scumbag operation… and that was in the early 2000’s. I can’t imagine it’s gotten any better.

That dipshit used to fly into the FBO I instructed at 20+ years ago for maintenance work. I’m shocked he’s still alive.

If this doesn’t seal the election….

Is there a statute of limitations on doing things like this? Asking for a friend.

Just, wow

Today I overheard three young LTs discussing the arm pain from their latest round of anthrax shots before they head out the door for an overseas vacation. To ViperMan's point, there is info out there about what the anthrax course has done to military members in the past (especially the early days). I'm still dealing with it to a degree. Yet no one bothers to look into it, and I admittedly was guilty of the same many years ago. As one of the old guys in the squadron in the twilight of my career, I should be there to mentor folks. I've been told (in a roundabout manner) to keep my mouth shut about the whole vaccine thing. Funny how that works.

So reading between the lines, I see a future CJCS, the next CSAF, and a good dude to fly with at Delta... in a very particular order. I've never been an AFSOC guy, so correct me where I'm wrong.

Safe AND effective!

Just pray they develop a vaccine for BF-24

SWA CA’s with less than 100 hours PIC are only restricted from flying “AIII mode” required HUD approaches. Essentially CAT III’s (and certain SA CAT II’s). Run-of-the-mill CAT II approaches are fair game. All FO’s leave the schoolhouse qualified to PM all approaches. Doesn’t look like this would have been a factor on Rwy 4 at LGA.

HUD on CA side. No autoland. Cat II/III hand-flown below 1000ft AGL. Haven’t heard the details on the LGA thing. Sounds like the FO was flying.

Same at SWA. All of the "noise" suddenly became quiet. It's a good pay bump (especially for the FO's). Retro bonus pays out on 20 Feb.

That checks. Thankfully a lot of folks are picking the TA apart on the SWAPA forum but I have yet to see a major sticking point that would cause this to be shot down. One topic they're going back and forth over is whether the retro bonus payout will be hit with 1% union dues (in addition to all of the other stupid-high taxes). If that's a major sticking point on the forum, it's probably hardly being discussed on the line at all. All-in-all it seems like it will pass. We definitely didn't maximize the leverage we have at the moment, but there are a bunch of QOL gains that could be lucrative to the pilots assuming scheduling doesn't change its penchant for doing whatever SkySolver tells it to do (which is partly why we ended up melting down... oooooh, about one year ago). And if they do modify their behavior, I guess there will be a a lot fewer reroutes, with which I am totally fine.

Early-to-mid 2000's CAFB had some classic patches!

I get the feeling there will be a certain ilk of people with zero shame who will take advantage of this like those pre-boarding in a wheelchair. But in the end, it's a lot harder to fake being fat than it is being disabled.

Low Earth Orbit is the only feasible explanation as to where all my f’in 10mm have gone.

Apparently they found it?