Delta Hiring News
06-05-2013, 10:46 AM
#271
Can't abide NAI
Joined APC: Jun 2007
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States a bunch about these peoples' responsibility & integrity to not pay back what they owe. What about the moral character requirement of our profession?
Who do they think took the hit ? More than likely a fixed income retiree.
In my business I will not hire a person who has used bankruptcy unless there is a compelling reason to look past their screw job on the other entity that gave them an opportunity.
Who do they think took the hit ? More than likely a fixed income retiree.
In my business I will not hire a person who has used bankruptcy unless there is a compelling reason to look past their screw job on the other entity that gave them an opportunity.
Last edited by Bucking Bar; 06-05-2013 at 10:58 AM.
06-05-2013, 10:47 AM
#272
Line Holder
Joined APC: Oct 2011
Position: A320 FO
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My experience at the regionals was that you could usually tell if you were flying with someone who had a degree or didn't just from talking to them. Put 20 guys in a room ten with and ten without and I think most people could easily pick hem out after talking to them. There are always exceptions but most of the sharp guys you fly with went to college. Now the question is does one thing have anything to do with the other. Would the sharp guys till be sharp or did college bring it out in them?
06-05-2013, 11:08 AM
#274
The Brown Dot +1
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06-05-2013, 11:14 AM
#275
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2010
Posts: 1,781
Who knows? What scares me is when Bucking Bar says something like this:
It bums me out. If this comes to pass, I'm imagining Delta picking guys out of AirlineApps with three airframes listed under flight experience - a couple hundred hours in a 172, another hundred in a Seminole, and seven thousand in an RJ.
And I'm not saying that's a bad hiring decision - as someone else pointed out, who better to fly Delta passengers than someone that's been doing it for the last decade anyway? But it certainly doesn't bode well for me, unfortunately.
Delta might (we will see) be into a bit of a culture shift, towards the goal of greater commoditization of its labor force.
And I'm not saying that's a bad hiring decision - as someone else pointed out, who better to fly Delta passengers than someone that's been doing it for the last decade anyway? But it certainly doesn't bode well for me, unfortunately.
06-05-2013, 11:16 AM
#276
Da Hudge
Joined APC: Oct 2006
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Who knows? What scares me is when Bucking Bar says something like this:
It bums me out. If this comes to pass, I'm imagining Delta picking guys out of AirlineApps with three airframes listed under flight experience - a couple hundred hours in a 172, another hundred in a Seminole, and seven thousand in an RJ.
And I'm not saying that's a bad hiring decision - as someone else pointed out, who better to fly Delta passengers than someone that's been doing it for the last decade anyway? But it certainly doesn't bode well for me, unfortunately.
It bums me out. If this comes to pass, I'm imagining Delta picking guys out of AirlineApps with three airframes listed under flight experience - a couple hundred hours in a 172, another hundred in a Seminole, and seven thousand in an RJ.
And I'm not saying that's a bad hiring decision - as someone else pointed out, who better to fly Delta passengers than someone that's been doing it for the last decade anyway? But it certainly doesn't bode well for me, unfortunately.
06-05-2013, 11:19 AM
#277
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2010
Posts: 1,781
I consider myself about as sharp as a basketball, but at least with my peer group while growing up (and they were sharp), not going to college was unthinkable. It was merely the next step after high school. If you were militarily inclined, you went to an Academy.
06-05-2013, 11:21 AM
#278
Gets Summer Off
Joined APC: May 2009
Position: AA
Posts: 667
Whose morals? Those of the masters - the financiers, or the slaves - those of us who have been led down the primrose path of educational debt? Some would argue that looking after your own best interests is morally just.
I pay my debts as agreed. But I'm not so quick to judge those who can't, or just won't.
Anyway, back to the original topic. So Delta is hiring when again? 1Q15? Or is that gonna be too soon after the Alaska merger?
06-05-2013, 12:56 PM
#279
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2005
Position: Driving to work & Looking Left @ the Surf!!
Posts: 727
Now as far as the ethics go, I personally believe you should pay your debts but I also do not weep for the crooked bankers either.
It is truly amazing how much the cost of an education has gone up. I only paid about 20K for my flight training and about 10K for my 4 year degree. Granted this was in 1997/98ish when gas was much cheaper. I got a 152 for $40/hr and a 172 for $55/hr. Those were the days.
It is truly amazing how much the cost of an education has gone up. I only paid about 20K for my flight training and about 10K for my 4 year degree. Granted this was in 1997/98ish when gas was much cheaper. I got a 152 for $40/hr and a 172 for $55/hr. Those were the days.
I think your 152/172 prices where the same in 86/87'.
Baja.
06-05-2013, 01:30 PM
#280
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Position: window seat
Posts: 12,544
It is truly amazing how much the cost of an education has gone up. I only paid about 20K for my flight training and about 10K for my 4 year degree. Granted this was in 1997/98ish when gas was much cheaper. I got a 152 for $40/hr and a 172 for $55/hr. Those were the days.
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