Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
03-11-2013, 10:37 AM
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Someone sent me the 22.D.3 report for August of 2011 and when you take those hard numbers with the one for March 2014 and compare this is what you come up with:
it is what it is.
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it is what it is.
If you have a hard time seeing it use CTRL+ to zoom in and CTRL- to zoom back.
03-11-2013, 10:38 AM
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In 10 years Delta will only retire 4800 pilots due to age 65. That is 480 pilots to be hired and trained every year for 10 years. As far as I know that puts the training department at max production for 10 years. So, if we are to have 8000 pilots hired in the next ten years how are we going to train an extra 3200 pilots. It is clear, to me, that they are going to buy a pilot group to get the new pilots. To say we are going to hire 8000 pilots is just not feasible in our training department.
SM,
This is not an issue. Stand alone DAL hired more than 800 a year in 1999/2000. We contracted for simulator times in various places. Also I think DGS guys can actually conduct more training than in the past further increasing training capacity.
There may be specific choke-points and limitations (717 Sim time etc) but as far as overall training capacity I don't see a problem.
Throw in the NW simulator capacity and I don't think it will be very hard. It may take some time to initially ramp up but once it gets going - no sweat.
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03-11-2013, 10:39 AM
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It's not hard to believe. We've been overstaffed since the merger.
03-11-2013, 10:42 AM
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I'm about 90% on having the door closed before we get our D+7 msg...often times several minutes ahead of that. The last shred of common sense for gate agents had been eliminated with that memo. They won't even come down and open the door for revenue pax much less non revs.
03-11-2013, 10:48 AM
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I'm about 90% on having the door closed before we get our D+7 msg...often times several minutes ahead of that. The last shred of common sense for gate agents had been eliminated with that memo. They won't even come down and open the door for revenue pax much less non revs.
03-11-2013, 10:53 AM
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03-11-2013, 10:58 AM
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03-11-2013, 11:03 AM
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Now if they forget to turn it on, then you get "sawing" noise of the PTU!
03-11-2013, 11:04 AM
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03-11-2013, 11:06 AM
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