fisherpilot

Any rumor if the long time new hire recruiter DAL pilot (shares the same name as a ancient Greek Philosopher) will be doing new hire interviews in the future?

buzzpat

I hope so. He's awesome!

Well, he hired me....so I think he's awesome.

JungleBus

Have been off dirtbiking in the wilds of Baja for the last two weeks...and by dirtbiking, I mean sitting around drinking beer and tequila while we tried to find a new camshaft, camchain, and rocker arms for my buddy's bike in the middle of nowhere! Oh well, the riding we did do was fantastic and sitting in Baja beats sitting in MN this time of year!

So far I've only skimmed the last few pages of the thread. New AE - stagnation, displacements, more NYC/ATL - despite sailing's claim that THIS bid was going to be the one that proved the TA's brilliance once and for all. Ho hum, same Latest as usual, +717! Anyone wanna give me a recap of the Greatest from the past couple of weeks?

fisherpilot

I hope so too

I had heard through the grapevine he was gonna have his hand in the mix when (hopefully this year) the hiring starts

forgot to bid

I'll be your strawman.

"Come on Roadkill! WE ARE ADDING 355 CAPTAIN POSITIONS AND 314 FO POSITIONS!!! Nearly 250 in ATL alone for Captains!!! EVERYBODY WINS WHEN WE ADD THAT MANY CAPTAINS.

We are adding 669 pilots, almost as many as we predicted. Damn, you people complain too much. One day your complaining we're going to furlough, then we add nearly 700 pilots and 100 737s, 88 717s and 65 MD90s and you freaking new hire keyboard warriors still come here and complain. Nothing is going to make you happy. Go to UCAL or SWA!"


sound about right?

Dc8co

From an earlier post by Sailing:


The union and the company both costed the jobs out at almost the same number. The company has looked at the contract and the coming FTDT changes and plans zero adjustments in how they man the airline.
You state we have lost as many as 1000 jobs. Where are the massive displacements to support your numbers? The last two bids had a substantial net increase in Captains jobs. The bid to be posted next month should have a net increase in Captains of well over 100 jobs. How do you explain that if your numbers are even remotely right? Put some numbers up, show us where you get 1000 or more jobs lost.



83 Net Captain positions with numerous NB aircraft on order. Glad that I didn't save the good champagne for this bid!

Pretty Lame

Scoop

Sailing and another guy from the Dalpa forum,Curly, are in the top 1000. They mean well but they are so out of reality...

A6danimal

Life sucks and we shoulda gone to law school.

forgot to bid

That's true too.

System wide I see:

• -9 for As and +18 for Bs for A330/765 and higher aircraft.
• -2 for As and -19 for Bs for 7ER and higher aircraft. (cumulative)
• +70 for As and +12 for Bs for 320 and higher aircraft.
• +54 for As and -38 for Bs for M88 and higher aircraft.
• +83 for As and -26 for Bs systemwide from 717 up.

Just curious, why wasn't a DTW 717 base opened?

johnso29

We might be getting 747-400s, but it wouldn't make sense since the 777-300ER is better. So we won't be getting more 747-400s.

We might be getting A321s, but they'll probably just replace 757s and pay less, so they're nothing to get excited about.

FTB hung a microwave while his kids were sleeping the other night. 80Kts experienced minor hearing loss due to being exposed to a screaming baby for over an hour while driving. Uncle Ferd is still tearing it up in AMS, and Carl is still living the high life in NRT.

UAL had a bid with over 500 vacancies. The most junior 737 CA is a 2006 hire. Life there is good. Except they still have an ISL to work out. And even though there were 550 vacancies, there are over 600 PMUA guys on furlough waiting to come back. So they don't actually have vacancies. They have a surplus.

Finally, life at DAL sucks. And SD lied.

buzzpat

In a nutshell Jungle. Carl's back (thank God) and holding Slow, Sailing and Alfa accountable. Johnson's baby hurled for the first time. Clamp's kid cried on his first ever road trip. We're buying 747s and 321s ( or so the rumor goes). Some boobs were included.

That's about it.