Razor

BT is that you? Sir, you know I answered that question already.

767pilot

no, it's not Buzz, jusr little ole me

dojetdriver

I see, just curious. I was commuting on CAL once and the FO had some pictures of his military flying. He was U2's and T-38's as well and had some pics just like your avatar.

Curious if you were the same dude.

Slice

There's a font called see you next tuesday?

Deez340

outstanding!

Deez340

So, if you get UPS what will you do?

Charlie Murphy

Why is everybody pressuring this guy? If it were me, and I'd just started somewhere, I'd tell you all after it's played out and not a second earlier. There can't be too many U-2 drivers out there, so I'm sure this guy would like to keep it under wraps.

That being said, "Are you going to choose UPS?"

Razor

Boy, this is a tough crowd. I was hoping when I posted about my UPS interview that it wouldn’t draw much attention. I debated posting at all but in the end decided to do so because I feel like it has been such a long journey and I wanted to update my “friends”.

A bunch of us did a lot of posting about the UPS application process at the beginning of the year, helping each other out with things like whether or not you have to reapply on 07 even though the 06 app is still there and able to update, what is the difference between Active and On File, how long to get the assessments email and don’t hit submit until the application is complete because you can’t update even though it takes the information. These are guys that I’m seeing are now being displaced to ANC if not there already.

This isn’t an anonymous forum and it’s pretty easy to figure out who someone is but I wouldn’t post anything here that I wouldn’t say to your face so it doesn’t matter. In the end I decided I like being part of this online community and I posted. It is a public forum and I’ve opened myself to your questions about my decision.

I’ve learned a lot about the airline industry since I started reading APC and I know how lucky I am. We talked about multiple offers during my interviews with Delta and UPS. Everybody should have such “problems” but as I’ve read here many times, I really don’t have a decision to make. I haven’t heard from UPS on the results of my interview and even if successful it is still a competitive pool and it doesn’t mean I’ll ever be offer a class date. Right now I have class date with Delta and I am very happy and excited about that. I’m focused on doing the absolute best I can there and if I have a decision to make I the future, well I guess I’ll cross that bridge when/if I get to it.

I didn’t intend to highjack this thread so I’ll shut up now and let you get back to the discussion of the IPA’s age distribution.

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

Great post Razor! Good luck to you and keep us posted ONCE you get an offer from UPS on what you decided to do. In the meantime good luck at Delta!

Back to the topic of this thread - sooo, once the age 60 rule gets revised, do y'all think every pilot over 60 will select to stay or do you think a certain portion will decide to retire at 60 anyways?

I'm guesstimating 80-90% will decide to keep flying but then a large number of them will end up on medical leave. I'm thinking the cost of mutual aid will go up a whole lot in the near future. What do you think?

SaltyDog

Razor,
To heck with the UPS crowd <g>. Who cares, your the one who is going to live with your decision. You will be two years and settled at DAL when UPS finally gives you a call, then you can say whatever you desire. Had a bud living in SDF, in the pool, wanted UPS so bad!!! Hired at Fedex. 2 years later, UPS calls. Thanks but no thanks was his response. You will whine no matter where you hang your hat! Your a smart guy. Enjoy your new career!
To me it's not parochial, as aviators we go for the best deal that is in the window of opportunity when you are in the market.