Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
02-07-2011, 10:05 PM
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I am very interested in flying for Delta. I have applied & attend job fairs to get my name & face present.
I have 11,800hrs TT 10,500hrs PIC 9,900hrs is multi-eng & jet.
I have two Part 121 failures.
A jet transition simulator check ride failure (9yrs ago) & a PC failure (1 1/2yrs ago).
I retrained and passed immediately.
On top of that, I also have one line-check failure (8yrs ago).
Is this going to be disqualifying for a job with Delta?
Anyone on the inside at Delta than can enlighten please?
I have 11,800hrs TT 10,500hrs PIC 9,900hrs is multi-eng & jet.
I have two Part 121 failures.
A jet transition simulator check ride failure (9yrs ago) & a PC failure (1 1/2yrs ago).
I retrained and passed immediately.
On top of that, I also have one line-check failure (8yrs ago).
Is this going to be disqualifying for a job with Delta?
Anyone on the inside at Delta than can enlighten please?
02-08-2011, 01:02 AM
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I am very interested in flying for Delta. I have applied & attend job fairs to get my name & face present.
I have 11,800hrs TT 10,500hrs PIC 9,900hrs is multi-eng & jet.
I have two Part 121 failures.
A jet transition simulator check ride failure (9yrs ago) & a PC failure (1 1/2yrs ago).
I retrained and passed immediately.
On top of that, I also have one line-check failure (8yrs ago).
Is this going to be disqualifying for a job with Delta?
Anyone on the inside at Delta than can enlighten please?
I have 11,800hrs TT 10,500hrs PIC 9,900hrs is multi-eng & jet.
I have two Part 121 failures.
A jet transition simulator check ride failure (9yrs ago) & a PC failure (1 1/2yrs ago).
I retrained and passed immediately.
On top of that, I also have one line-check failure (8yrs ago).
Is this going to be disqualifying for a job with Delta?
Anyone on the inside at Delta than can enlighten please?
02-08-2011, 04:35 AM
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Position: Legacy FO
Posts: 4,099
I am very interested in flying for Delta. I have applied & attend job fairs to get my name & face present.
I have 11,800hrs TT 10,500hrs PIC 9,900hrs is multi-eng & jet.
I have two Part 121 failures.
A jet transition simulator check ride failure (9yrs ago) & a PC failure (1 1/2yrs ago).
I retrained and passed immediately.
On top of that, I also have one line-check failure (8yrs ago).
Is this going to be disqualifying for a job with Delta?
Anyone on the inside at Delta than can enlighten please?
I have 11,800hrs TT 10,500hrs PIC 9,900hrs is multi-eng & jet.
I have two Part 121 failures.
A jet transition simulator check ride failure (9yrs ago) & a PC failure (1 1/2yrs ago).
I retrained and passed immediately.
On top of that, I also have one line-check failure (8yrs ago).
Is this going to be disqualifying for a job with Delta?
Anyone on the inside at Delta than can enlighten please?
The only thing I can suggest is, keep updating your application as much as possible. Go to the airline meet and greet conferences and get to know the hiring staff ... make them get to know you. Be honest about your situation. And find someone who knows you well at Delta, to go to bat for you from the inside.
I hope this helps you. Good luck.
02-08-2011, 04:35 AM
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Where is our TV commercial using this footage? 
Pop Up Video
Factoid: This trip was on the open board for a few days.
Pop Up Video
Factoid: This trip was on the open board for a few days.
02-08-2011, 04:36 AM
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Delta needs to play hardball with this guy, here's why. A quick quick check online reveals that MSP is currently serviced by the following major carriers: Delta, AirTran, Southwest, US Airways, United, Continental, American, Sun Country, and Frontier. I'm sure I am over looking some smaller regional companies. By having a hub there, DAL services more cities from MSP that would otherwise never be serviced. In other words, there's more options. One only has to look at Cincinnati as an example of what happens to an airport in the terms of choices once it goes from a hub status for a major carrier down to a regular airport with "competition".
How many carriers could a mayor want? If anything, the mayor should be more worried about LCC consolidation. That will have more of an effect on ticket prices than DAL's hub status.
Additional, it amazes me that these cities want more carriers and destinations yet they don't like being a "hub" for a major carrier. Cincinnati's love affair with DAL is over and they're currently trying to bring in other carriers in the hopes of creating more destinations. They have a "blue ribbon panel" trying to do this as I type. I have to tell you, that isn't going to happen. If anything, any new carrier will fly to the same high volume airports that DAL currently operates mainline out of there. The city in the long term would lose available city pairs.
There is a reason why carriers like Southwest, Sun Country, and Frontier don't bring service to smaller markets. They need the high frequency/volume markets. Anyone wishing to have their airport go down to a non hub status is just crazy. If I were Delta, my option to the mayor would be, "Ok, you can make your city more attractive to us by helping us keeping costs and taxes low, helping us increase markets served out of MSP, thereby helping you increase jobs and bringing more money and options to your city. Or you can make it unattractive for our business and we'll get rid of our hub, therefore losing jobs, losing every international destination except for Cancun, and 95% of your flights will go to ORD, MDW, ATL, BWI, DEN, and DTW to make connections." What is your choice?
How many carriers could a mayor want? If anything, the mayor should be more worried about LCC consolidation. That will have more of an effect on ticket prices than DAL's hub status.
Additional, it amazes me that these cities want more carriers and destinations yet they don't like being a "hub" for a major carrier. Cincinnati's love affair with DAL is over and they're currently trying to bring in other carriers in the hopes of creating more destinations. They have a "blue ribbon panel" trying to do this as I type. I have to tell you, that isn't going to happen. If anything, any new carrier will fly to the same high volume airports that DAL currently operates mainline out of there. The city in the long term would lose available city pairs.
There is a reason why carriers like Southwest, Sun Country, and Frontier don't bring service to smaller markets. They need the high frequency/volume markets. Anyone wishing to have their airport go down to a non hub status is just crazy. If I were Delta, my option to the mayor would be, "Ok, you can make your city more attractive to us by helping us keeping costs and taxes low, helping us increase markets served out of MSP, thereby helping you increase jobs and bringing more money and options to your city. Or you can make it unattractive for our business and we'll get rid of our hub, therefore losing jobs, losing every international destination except for Cancun, and 95% of your flights will go to ORD, MDW, ATL, BWI, DEN, and DTW to make connections." What is your choice?
Mark Dayton is not a mayor, he is the 40th Governor of Minnesota. That said, some people do think he is a wacko.
02-08-2011, 04:42 AM
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I'm late for pick-up and will respond later, but this caught my eye. Isn't this what CMR has (senior Captains with long term FO's) and isn't that what's killing them in the pilot cost department? You understand that if you transferred that to DAL the result would be the same?
02-08-2011, 04:46 AM
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02-08-2011, 04:50 AM
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Now that we have announced "Economy Comfort" on our long haul flights, does anyone know where this extra legroom/more recline space is coming from? Are they removing seats or are the rest of the economy pax getting squeezed a little more?
02-08-2011, 04:56 AM
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TSquare,
One of the economic factors that make our outsourcing successful is the destruction of union members' longevity.
Yes, at the DCI Carrier I worked for, the President (a Delta employee) would come in to recurrent and tell us that we had to leave when we got 5 years of longevity, that we senior Captains (6 to 7 years) were "killing the airline."
Those who have not worked in the this environment, do not appreciate just what these words mean to someone from a regional, not to mention the 20 year Captain who is getting displaced to First Officer. They are quitting, just as I quit following the frustration of losing my Captain seat when two dozen jets were moved to a non union replacement group.
The political make up of our new hires is going to be remarkably different from those Delta has hired in the past. Most will have a decade of fighting whipsaw and understand why we need a union which pays reverence to its core principles.
One of the economic factors that make our outsourcing successful is the destruction of union members' longevity.
Yes, at the DCI Carrier I worked for, the President (a Delta employee) would come in to recurrent and tell us that we had to leave when we got 5 years of longevity, that we senior Captains (6 to 7 years) were "killing the airline."
Those who have not worked in the this environment, do not appreciate just what these words mean to someone from a regional, not to mention the 20 year Captain who is getting displaced to First Officer. They are quitting, just as I quit following the frustration of losing my Captain seat when two dozen jets were moved to a non union replacement group.
The political make up of our new hires is going to be remarkably different from those Delta has hired in the past. Most will have a decade of fighting whipsaw and understand why we need a union which pays reverence to its core principles.
02-08-2011, 05:02 AM
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