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DELTA'S OLDEST LIVING PILOTS - JANUARY 2020

Hello all,

Each year I compile a list of Delta's Oldest Living Pilots, which includes ALL  living pilots from ANY airline that is now shown on Delta's Family Tree schematic (attached below).

This is the first list for 2020 and is attached below in both MS Excel and.pdf formats and is current as of TODAY, January 19, 2020 only...!!! This is a list created from various data base lists that provided each pilot's date of birth.  The age of each person increases by one year on their day of birth using a spreadsheet formula --- so the list is correct today only. 

There are two lists below in two formats each;  one is sorted by AGE and the second A...Z is sorted alphabetically.  Each list is in MS Excel format and in .pdf format, whichever you prefer.  The AGE list includes those 15 seniors who died in 2019 and are shown highlighted in YELLOW at the top of the list sorted by the date they died in 2019.  They are not shown on the A...Z alphabetical list.

Note that at the bottom of the list there are seven former C&S pilots for whom we have dates of hire only, but no dates of birth.  They should be included due to their dates of hire but we know little or nothing else about them.  We need names for their initials and dates of birth OR death if anyone has that information.

Due to privacy concerns I will NOT PUBLISH the pilot's Date of Birth, only the month of birth and the pilot's age - as of THE particular date of this report  - which is stated on the report.  But to compile this report I need each pilot's exact Date of Birth in the data base.

If you know spouse names for those shown with question marks, please click Reply and send me that information.  Those that pass away during the year will be highlighted in Yellow with their date of death shown.

There is an E in the Email column for those for whom I have an email address.  If you have an email address for any of the other pilots, please send it to me so I can send them this list.

I arbitrarily determined several years ago that a good age for inclusion on this list was the calendar year the pilot reached the age of 86 and the 2020 list is now as complete as I can make it.   For the year 2020 any living pilot from any of the companies now on Delta's Family Tree with a date of birth of 1934 or earlier should be included.  The list is a work-in-progress so help me make it grow, in size and accuracy.

If you know of a pilot whose name is missing and should be included, please send me that pilot's FULL name, Spouse's name, the pilot's Date of Birth and Date of Hire and the pilot's ORIGINAL airline company --- or as much of this as you know.  If the spouse is deceased, please include that information with the spouse's name.

Lets celebrate Delta's Oldest Living Pilots again and again.  Send them a Birthday Card or an email at the beginning of their month of birth.

Thank you for your help.

Blessings, all.

Dave

David L. Roberts
Captain, MD-11, ATL (Ret.)
 Email: robertsDL@mindspring.com

Editor:  PCN, these lists produced by Capt. Roberts are much appreciated.  Because this list is of “living” pilots I make the page a semi-private page.  Anyone who happens along our website and clicks on the link for the living pilots page and the latest active seniority list page, will be prevented from opening unless they have our password.  I only share the password with our MEMBERS ONLY NEWSLETTER the High Life.  In so doing we make this page semi-private.

Here is the link to the page:    http://pcn.homestead.com/Archived_Oldest_Liv.html

Our members only password  is:  pcnpilot

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Next two articles about Delta and rolling in the money!  A billion here……a billion there!

Delta workers to receive profit-sharing payouts worth 2 months’ pay

Jan. 21, 2020 at 3:57 p.m. EST

Jena McGregor

Delta Air Lines’ banner year — propelled by lower fuel prices, higher travel demand and no sidelined Boeing 737 Max planes in its fleet — led the carrier to beat earnings estimates and notch its 10th consecutive profitable year.

But those results won’t just pay off for shareholders: The carrier said last week that employees are set to receive $1.6 billion in cash payouts, its largest employee profit-sharing pool on record and one that handily tops what many other companies offer their employees.

This year’s pool translates into a 16.6 percent cash payout for eligible employees — or about two months’ pay — which will be paid out on Valentine’s Day. The payout represents the sixth year in a row that the airline has paid more than $1 billion in profit-sharing.

“For years, I would get beaten up by Wall Street,” chief executive Ed Bastian said during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event in Atlanta last week. “They thought the profits were theirs, and ‘why are you giving the profits away to the employees?’ Wall Street has actually come full circle, and they realize that Delta is the most awarded airline in the world because of its employees.”

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Unlike individual incentive plans, profit-sharing plans are typically based on corporate profits rather than individual performance and payable to all employees in major work groups.

Strong demand, mild fuel prices help Delta earn $1.1 billion

Brian Kropp, a group vice president at Gartner, the global research firm, said only 12 percent of the companies its firms work with have profit-sharing plans. “Delta offering it, and paying out this much is truly different (and higher) than any other large company that we know of,” Kropp said in an email. A 2018 survey by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago found that the median profit-sharing amount reported by employees surveyed was $2,000, or 5 percent of pay.

United Airlines said Tuesday it spent $491 million in profit-sharing last year, up from $334 million in 2018.

Southwest Airlines paid out $544 million, or 10.8 percent of eligible employees’ compensation last year. American Airlines paid out $175 million in profit-sharing last year, or 1.5 percent of eligible earnings, spokeswoman Andrea Koos said in an email. American will update its figures Thursday.

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Cash profit-sharing plans tend to be more common in transportation industries such as airlines and automakers, said Ken Abosch, a compensation practice leader at Aon Hewitt. That firm’s own surveys show that about 14 percent of employers still offer cash profit-sharing plans, while the figure 20 years ago was likely closer to 40 percent, Abosch said.

What defines them, he said, is a more all-inclusive approach to rewards that give payouts to all employees, or all hourly employees, as is the case with automakers such as Ford and General Motors. Increasingly, he said, companies have shifted to more incentive-driven cash awards that are based on company, department and individual performance but may not be available to all employees.

Group of top CEOs says maximizing shareholder profits no longer can be the primary goal of corporations

“Companies have worked very aggressively to try to increase the relevance of these plans by creating an individual performance component that creates more variability from person to person in what’s paid out,” Abosch said.

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He pointed to the firm’s survey data that shows average cash bonus programs tend to range between 4.7 percent and 12.9 percent, depending on union, hourly or salaried professional work groups.

Delta spokeswoman Savannah Huddleston said the carrier’s profit-sharing payout is available to all full-time, part-time or “ready reserve” employees other than officers and directors, who have a different compensation plan. The carrier, she said, has additional incentive plans for front-line employees, such as a monthly incentive pay award for operational goals including on-time performance. She noted that while the $1.6 billion payout is the largest in the company’s history, on a percentage basis it is among the biggest but not the highest ever.

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Delta to invest $1 billion to curb global air travel's climate impact

Tracy Rucinski

3 Min Read

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc said on Friday it will invest $1 billion over the next decade in initiatives that would limit the impact of global air travel on the environment, the first airline to make a commitment of that scale.

The aviation industry accounts for roughly 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions and has set out a plan to achieve carbon-neutral growth from 2020, even as air travel is forecast to accelerate.

Facing increasing demands from customers, individual airlines like Delta have taken additional steps to mitigate their carbon impact with measures ranging from eliminating single-use plastics to investing in biofuels and purchasing more fuel-efficient aircraft.

With this new investment, Delta intends to become the first carbon-neutral airline globally while helping to fund research and projects involving clean air technologies and the reduction of carbon emissions and waste.

“There’s no challenge we face that is in greater need of innovation than environmental sustainability, and we know there is no single solution,” Delta’s chief executive, Ed Bastian, said in a statement.

The airline provided no details on how it will invest the money.

Bastian is an advocate of air travel as a way to connect people and economies across the globe but has been vocal about the industry’s responsibility in ensuring environmental sustainability.

As of now, there are not many quick options available for airlines to reduce their carbon footprint. Biofuels are in short supply and take years to develop, and there are no immediate prospects of newer jet engines that are more fuel-efficient than those currently in the market.

Airlines say small steps like single-engine taxiing and the use of lighter materials are cutting around 1-2% of emissions each year, but more needs to be done.

In the absence of more impactful short-term options, the industry has committed to a carbon-offset program that allows airlines to invest in verified environmental projects to offset their emissions.

Delta, for example, previously pledged to cap its greenhouse gas emissions at 2012 levels even with 20% growth by purchasing carbon offsets.

But that is not the target of the new $1 billion investment, which will begin in March.

“We are on a journey, and though and though we don’t have all the answers today, we know that our scale, along with investments of time, talent and resources will bring meaningful impact to the planet and ensure the sustainability of our business for decades to come,” Bastian said.

Reporting by Tracy Rucinski; Editing by Leslie Adler

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I had a Captain ask about web security both with emails and with the web site.  Here is my reply of what I employ at the PCN for just that very thing:

Captain, 

Geezz I am sorry for not seeing this email earlier and getting back to you.  I have never had a problem with unauthorized members inside the PCN.  That isn’t to say that I may one day but so far so good. 

I employ a google group for email distribution……..it has been a Godsend.  My notices are emailed in mass instantly to all 2500-2600 members and the list is completely controlled by personal invite.  Because I am careful at identifying the applicant I have never had the wrong people in that list.  So that is good and first level of security. It’s a white list methodology.

In our primary means of communication I use  notices and newsletters and it ONLY goes to the list of pilots inside the group and to no one else.  That definitely controls messaging! 

As for the Web site, I first try to limit the publishing of the URL.  I also try to be careful to place info on it that I really don’t care if it gets looked at or not.  I try to protect the names on list and private contact info so that my members do not get bothered.  I do have a few pages on the website that I don’t wish  unauthorized viewing so I protect by password shared only with our group and that has worked so far. 

I may publish a file on the PCN website (such as a PDF financial report) but never share its URL except in our groups private email.  In that way it is fairly well hidden on the web and it has been private enough for our purposes. 

I hope that helps.  It is all an ever changing game to stay ahead of the bad hombres.  My method of choice was to use the “white list” method of first carefully setting up a group that is meticulously screened to only include genuine applicants.  Then our main method of keeping our newsletters and notices private are to mail to that private google group list ONLY. 

Mark Sztanyo, PCN Dir

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