Federal Court Grants US Airways' Request For an Expedited Hearing On A Preliminary Injunction Agains

[aquagreen73s]

Dr. Lee's problem is that the Durbin-Watson test was unstated,

Because it doesn't apply. D-W detects relationships between values separated from each other by time lags, and that time lag is perhaps due to a natural ordering. In other words, time itself matters - "when" the data point is collected matters. Here, the comparison is between aggregates among different populations taken over the same times. Hence, time is not a variable.

 

[cleardirect]

Wow!

IMHO, I believe that one of his founding assumptions, that Express and Mainline aircraft would experience the same or similar changes, is incorrect to a significant degree, for several reasons.

One, the easy access to/from 18L/36R to the express ramp. A factor utilized by SWA to minimize taxi time. The less the taxi time, the less time there is to manipulate, if that is the pilot's intent. I likely missed it but perhaps the Dr. could factor in the percentage of Express departures north through south vs total, highlighting those Express taxi times that would be more likely to correlate with mainline. Also, I don't see that the broken concrete on the ramp and taxiway areas (from spot 7 around west to spot 2, taxiways M, E and F) impact Express operations all that much. Parts of E have been shuttered on and off for construction for the better part of a year, now.

As to the assertion that he is only comparing differences, the fact that Express stays clear of those above areas would tend to change the statistics. I have not been able to use 18L/36R for many months now for operational reasons.

There are other issues, when B3 through B9 simultaneously push, delays occur. Also when CLT, for some reason, put a 330 in B9, I think it is, blocking 7 and 11.

As with Jim, you just put me into the yellow/red on math and have to dig my old books out of the closet. Thank you. Sincerely.

I find it interesting how you guys try and explain away all of this. Do you really give the company and a PhD that little credit?

Read Dr. Lee's report. He started with a 3 year base line. That base line takes all of those factors into account. Location, ramp congestion, construction, ect. He then looked at the time frame from May to July. All things being equal the only change is the behavior of east pilots. Friday should be very...illuminating!

 

[Sparrowsmom]

No wonder the east pilots have been walked over their entire careers. Emotional, small minded, and afraid of math.

Makes sense.

 

[Claxon]

Yes. More specifically junior and senior manning. The company would go up the list from the bottom trying to get a line holder to take a trip. If they got to the top, they would work their way back down from top to bottom, offering a carrot. Kinda like "Let's Make A Deal." where a pilot is asked to cover a trip in excess of his line award usually in return for 1.5x normal pay. Sometimes they would offer a trip on a day with no coverage, for another trip a day or two later when there was coverage, in return for "pay protecting" the pilot. Basically the pilot would fly one trip and get paid for both. Other times they might get a 2 day trip in lieu of a 4 day trip, again being pay protected on the shorter trip for the pay of the longer trip. Then the pilot was free to pick up even more flying on other days that he would have been illegal for if he had flown the longer trip. All kinds of manpower tricks the company would use that result in more pay and more productivity for the pilot in exchange for whoring oneself out.

The injunction was not about pilots exercising their right to accept or turn such flying down, but the fact that a small group was using peer pressure tactics, text messages and the like (sound familiar?) to pressure other pilots to refuse the extra flying. Kinda like the "pink panty" campaign the USAPA pilots are accused of using. Armed with that and statistical data supporting it's effectiveness was all it took. Game over. Luckily UA did not seek damages.

The guys claiming it won't happen are living in denial.

The western scabs printed the cards as well bought the phones with which they texted messages. They did it with the numbers the Franke Air team provided. You have been attacked by western Leonidas workers. They have clear patterns of video attack usage. They have your personal information. They are the perpetrators.

 

[aquagreen73s]

The western scabs printed the cards as well bought the phones with which they texted messages. They did it with the numbers the Franke Air team provided. You have been attacked by western Leonidas workers. They have clear patterns of video attack usage. They have your personal information. They are the perpetrators.

You truly are nuts.

 

[Claxon]

I find it interesting how you guys try and explain away all of this. Do you really give the company and a PhD that little credit?

Read Dr. Lee's report. He started with a 3 year base line. That base line takes all of those factors into account. Location, ramp congestion, construction, ect. He then looked at the time frame from May to July. All things being equal the only change is the behavior of east pilots. Friday should be very...illuminating!

As interesting as the last Friday? Make sure the judge knows you Franke Air chief pilots get paid leave for providing addresses and phone numbers of honest,hard working eastern pilots so a group of criminals can text false messages to them to incite a Franke Air labor attack with collaboration of western pilots. Make them prove it was eastern pilots. They can t.

 

[Sparrowsmom]

LMAO!!

Nice!!

Go SF Bulls.

 

[Claxon]

You truly are nuts.

You are a key suspect of a texting operation. Prove you didn't t do it.

 

[Sparrowsmom]

Please stop!!

You're killing me!!!

LMAO!!!!

 

[luvthe9]

You are a key suspect of a texting operation. Prove you didn't t do it.

I think they are doing this as well, as they have stated time and time again they will to ANYTHING to destroy this union. They do have all are personal information that they have stolen fron the company, after all Doug addressed this in the video and said it was not given to them when asked.

 

[Monkee]

The western scabs printed the cards as well bought the phones with which they texted messages. They did it with the numbers the Franke Air team provided. You have been attacked by western Leonidas workers. They have clear patterns of video attack usage. They have your personal information. They are the perpetrators.

Were they trying to steal your strawberries Captain Queeg?

 

[aquagreen73s]

I think they are doing this as well, as they have stated time and time again they will to ANYTHING to destroy this union. They do have all are personal information that they have stolen fron the company, after all Doug addressed this in the video and said it was not given to them when asked.

You're the other nutjob. If anything you've ever said was true, the West would have been vanquished years ago. Keep it up, nutjob.

 

[Sparrowsmom]

Holly crap!!

Those easties are lashing out at everything and anything.

The act like they're drowning and grabbing at whatever they can. And it's gdamn funny.

 

[Jester]

The data analysis here is not a time-series analysis. D-W has no bearing

Of course, Dr. Lee used time series data! The break point was a study of operations from prior to May 1st and afterwards. He averaged the data into weekly numbers, and he examined trends comparing various metrics before and after that date. Still don't believe me? Look at Dr. Lee's dozen of graphs and what does the hortizontal axis represent? Time usually in weekly averages. That is prima facia evidence that time series data was used!

You would have a valid point if Dr. Lee was only saying "the average of X prior to May 1st compared to the average of X after May 1st", and he did that to some degree, but there were have been huge flaws to the study, insofar the number of data points prior to May 1st would have over the entire year vs. the data points after May 1st covering just a few months. As a consequence, Dr. Lee rightfully, included the vast amount of data points into time series data, and used a dummy variable to represent operations after the May 1st cut-off point, as such, the analysis of a Durbin-Watson test would have been required. (For all we know, the DW test could be a non-issue, but not reporting the number creates doubt.)

The main body of the study was not cross sectional data examining a very short period of time like a day, week or month, but rather well over a year and through several seasons. Don't think it matters still? Dr. Lee did, as he provided a chart demonstrating the change of US relative to other airlines performance and what a dramatic change over year-to-year, and during the time of his study. As we all know, much can happen to an airline's operations over the course of one year.

So Corrects Jester.

 

[Claxon]

Holly crap!!

Those easties are lashing out at everything and anything.

The act like they're drowning and grabbing at whatever they can. And it's gdamn funny.

You western pilots remind me of Nixons plumbers scrambling around with their discrediting campaign right before the boom was lowered in Watergate. You most likely engineered the texting campaign. You already stole the eastern data with the assistance of Franke Air insiders.