Nosmo King

The Roberts Award had FO quotas. Unless you were a widebody FO they didn't matter much after about 1998. Prior to 1998 the quota generated a (quickly squashed) grievance by post merger pilots because their recall rights were being usurped by Roberts rights (mainly on 757 and above).

The last time the Roberts FO quota was applied was for the Feb 2004 HNL DC-10 FO slots. An APA was issued with and later modified to unaward blue book pilots and replace them with green book pilots entitled under the DC10 FO quotas as provided under the "Insufficient Bidder" supplemental.

Whale Ridder

Any info's about how long would it take to hold the 737,757 for new guys? and what are the bases?
Thank you all,

johnso29

Newhires have been already been awarded NYC 737 & DTW 757 on their first eligible AE. Most had not even started sim training for their aircraft awarded in class.

737 Bases are LAX, SLC, CVG, ATL, & NYC.

757 Bases are LAX, SEA, SLC, ATL, MSP, DTW, & NYC.

nwaf16dude

johnso29 beat me to it...

johnso29

Sitting around waiting for my report.

FrankCobretti

We need an education campaign. The tag line:

Props. Good enough for Pappy Boyington - Goddam well good enough for you!

UncleSam

Thanks johnso. I understand that the earliest they can schedule me for SC or a trip is 5 hours after the "rest". Do you concur with that?

acs020

So...to repeat a common theme here, when do you think/estimate that Delta will hire again? Curious to see what most line guys think

gloopy

Word on the street is maybe a few hundred in 2011 but of course that depends on economics, fuel, geopolitics and many other things.

In any case stagnation in size looks far more likely than any growth, and so most hiring will come from retirements and no one is leaving right now (in any significant number).

The company may go crazy redeploying equipment in and out of existing domiciles and that might drive a little hiring for the training bubble which we already see a good bit of.

All things aside, it appears the 300ish rumor is probably about right assuming we don't lapse into a depression or suffer another significant terror event, etc. The current school of thought seems to be run as lean as possible (and we ran too lean last summer, hence the recent hiring...only the bare minimum necessary for peak season relief) and I don't see any reason that would change especially given all the uncertainty out there on so many fronts. JMHO.

Superpilot92

when you come off of rest then you'll automatically roll into LC at which time you'll need 12 hours notice for a trip or a minimum of 10 if they want you on asap for SC. So 10 would be the absolute minimum.