Monday Morning

I am on the job right now and I'm kinda bored. I have a meeting at 10.30 and untill that time there is not much to do. So what better thing to do than write a blog. My weekend was quite busy. Remesh is in Vancouver for his job, so I had all the freedom to do what I wanted. So Friday after work I picked up my nephew, Milan, and went shopping with him for new clothes, sneaker and toys in Rotterdam. After that we headed to the fun fair in Sliedrecht. That boy can keep you busy. But it was fun!

Milan at the fun fair in Sliedrecht

In the car on the way back home

Saturday I spent with Les & Micheline in Amsterdam having lunch and catching a movie and Sunday I was in Den Haag (The Hague) with my cousin Jenny and her baby DJ.

Lesley, Micheline & me

Jenny, DJ & me

As for my job you may remember that I was recently offered 2 jobs. One was with SkyTeam Central at the World Trade Center and the other one was with Delta. The SkyTeam job I didn't find interesting nor challenging enough. The Delta job however is still keeping me ineterested. It's like this... the new Delta (DL) is a merger between DL and Northwest Airlines (NW). They will be operating many flights to Europe. Especially Amsterdam AMS and Paris CDG. What DL wants to do is create a dedicated team of people in all departments that perform duties exclusively for DL. I would not have to leave KLM, but rather work for KLM exlusively dedicated to DL. They already have a dedicated team of check-in staff at Schiphol and Paris CDG. The team will be based in The Netherlands but would be responsible for the entire DL network in Europe. From Management, to crew coordination, quality control, BSP (Billing and Settlement Plan), sales & marketing, cargo etc. etc. The team will consist of about 115 people and will be headed by people of DL from Atlanta. It will be mostly based in Amsterdam with some key people in Paris and London.

Delta at Schiphol

There are several position I could chose from with my experience and background, but I am not sure which as yet. The offer is very interesting because of the challenge in it. It is also something new besides KLM. Because we continue to receive a KLM paycheck, the CAO (work agreement) states that 90% of our hours can be devoted to Delta and 10% to the KLM Group. I will retain all my years of employment and my benefits as they are at this moment. So yeah, I am leaning towards the DL offer. But again... I haven't decided as yet. I have untill the end of September to make a decision.

Tomorrow I'm flying to London for a presentation by DL given by people from Atlanta. People from Paris, Amsetrdam, Frankfurt & London will also be there. So we'll see how that goes. I still haven't heard anything from Staff Travel, but I hope I can get a flight out of Rotterdam RTM tomorrow morning instead of Amsterdam AMS. It will make my life much more easier! I can just take the bus to the aiport, instead of the dreadful train in the morning rush. But sometimes the word 'easy' does not appear in KLM's vocabulary. Ugh...