Flycameron

It's my understanding that points are never taken from your total score but that points are given to those meeting or having certain things on their app. Should you score enough points you will be offered an interview. 5 years or less gets you so many points but if you did it in more than 5 years, you don't score those points. It's just like being a checkairman, if you are a checkairman then you get some points, if your not a checkairman then it's not held against you, you just don't score the points for having one. It's the entire app they look at and it would appear that not any one single blip on your app will keep you from getting the the invite.

gloopy

The point distribution example was relative and a hypothetical example. For some reason he seems rabidly intent on knowing exactly how every aspect of every meteric of the process works, as if he wants to sit down with people and work a spreadsheet and come up with their exact score. He's never (ever) going to find that out and for good reason. But the gist of the point still stands.

If a 6 year BA degree takes away 2 or 500 or a million points, or if it takes away none but a 4 year BA degree adds 2 or 500 or a million points we're talking about the same thing.

Time to degree is one metric that is part of the scoring system. But in almost every case, factors that effected the time to degree for negative points (or lack of positive points) will have the oppositive effect, quite often in excess, for a net positive.

But I suppose if you are talking to a bushy tailed bright eyed college freshman you could give the borderline irrelevant advice of "its better to finish your degree on time than to delay it for years for absolutely no reason". Apparently there are some kids out there in need of this advice.

WARich

So it now seems not only does GPA matter but how long it took to finish college. Do you score points for how many jobs you were working during college to pay for it 20 years ago? Just curious.

Are there any other items of selection we should know about that some might not have thought of?

TED74

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

TED74

Sorry, WARich...that last post of mine was not for you.

WARich

LOL. I was worried there for a second, how could you know that much about me.

"Asperger's, is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests."

Justdoinmyjob

Sounds like a bunch of airline pilots I know...

TurbineDriver

Question about delta travel benefits. Who gets to fly free? Parents, siblings, immediate family? Do you have guest passes to hand out to friends/extended family? How much is the fare for a guest pass and how many do you get? Thanks in advance!

Justdoinmyjob

Parents, spouse, and offspring get travel benies. You get 8 buddy passes a year, but only give them to people you no longer want to be friends with. Cost of benies is $50/year and passes are based on distance traveling, like a ZED fare.

TurbineDriver

So is the $50/year for the free family flights or the guest passes or both? Is that 8 round trips? Roughly how much are tickets? My old company charged 10% of the fare so it was usually $30-50 each way (cheap).

Also when family flies does it charge anything to my account?

Thanks again for the info. Sounds like standby on delta is pretty bad with your comment about giving guest passes to people you don't like??!