akscott60

everyone senior to me on the jet please leave. Lol. I like blocking 14 hours on a 5 day trip.

Burt Reynolds

Last 717 standards update mentioned that the final number will be 88.

65 in service now.
10 to be reactivated by the end of May.
Remaining 13 by the end of the year.

Each overhaul takes between 45 - 60 days.

Cruz5350

ssshhhhhh don’t let the secret out.

akscott60

Excellent news.

gloopy

Agreed. That's better than I expected.

HowsTheRide

Slightly off topic, but what is the Command Upgrade time at Delta right now? Heard its 1 year at UA.

Meme In Command

If you mean captain upgrade it's well under a year. ATL 757/767 is going super junior.

chrisreedrules

The last AE saw about 4 months to hold the left seat of the 7ER (Delta speak for 75/76) in NYC. That was the most junior upgrade I think and will come with some opportunities to do trans-Atlantic Europe and Africa flying.

Some think that the new contract will push people to want to upgrade and it will trend more senior. I personally disagree just based anecdotally on talking to many pilots out on the line. Mid seniority FOs are making great money (as much as a junior narrowbody CA in some cases) and they have way more schedule flexibility plus weekends and some holidays off if they want them. Junior FOs are already junior. So looking at a 4-6 month upgrade doesn’t change much from their perspective and they haven’t had the opportunity to get a taste of the great QOL a mid-seniority/senior narrowbody FO has.

I could be wrong, but I don’t see the narrowbody upgrades going more senior until the music slows with hiring and/or the economy starts to take a toll on business and the greenslips start to dry up. This next AE will be telling.

JTwift

It’s 1 year at UA because you have to be off probation to upgrade (minimum of 1 year). (So, off probation and have 500 hours at United is the rule.)

Whoopsmybad

I think more quickly stated too, once the Green Slip Bonanza stops (if it does), then upgrades will return to more normal.