Endeavor Interviews - READ
04-19-2014, 08:34 AM
#181
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2008
Position: MSP CA
Posts: 353
For the most part I think Delta hires very good guys/gals, but they also hire some of the worst pilots that couldn't get hired ANYWHERE else. For me there is one Captain that comes to mind, he was hired 4-5 years ago. I remember him telling me he had a Delta interview coming up, I had to hold back laughing from thinking to myself how bad he was going to fail the interview. He was the worst pilot I have ever flown, he was very unprofessional and incompetent on all levels. He had just been turned down by 2 other major airlines, but somehow he was magically hired by Delta.
04-19-2014, 10:53 AM
#182
Da Hudge
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Poodle Whisperer
Posts: 17,473
AFAIK he is eligible to reapply in a year or whatever time frame it normally is.
I've talked to a couple other capts who know him, and their best guess is it was his quiet demeanor that put the HR people off. You know, those HR people who have no piloting skills whatsoever.
Another captain raised the quesion that mVanA came across as way too smart for the "Captain oriented culture at Delta".
With the secret squirrel ways the airlines have in regards to hiring selection, I'm sure that HE doesn't even know why he failed.
I'll say though that Delta is really losing out if they continually deny guys like him.
Also there is the possibility that Endeavor simply couldn't afford to lose hm.
I've talked to a couple other capts who know him, and their best guess is it was his quiet demeanor that put the HR people off. You know, those HR people who have no piloting skills whatsoever.
Another captain raised the quesion that mVanA came across as way too smart for the "Captain oriented culture at Delta".
With the secret squirrel ways the airlines have in regards to hiring selection, I'm sure that HE doesn't even know why he failed.
I'll say though that Delta is really losing out if they continually deny guys like him.
Also there is the possibility that Endeavor simply couldn't afford to lose hm.
04-19-2014, 11:20 AM
#183
Da Hudge
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Poodle Whisperer
Posts: 17,473
For the most part I think Delta hires very good guys/gals, but they also hire some of the worst pilots that couldn't get hired ANYWHERE else. For me there is one Captain that comes to mind, he was hired 4-5 years ago. I remember him telling me he had a Delta interview coming up, I had to hold back laughing from thinking to myself how bad he was going to fail the interview. He was the worst pilot I have ever flown, he was very unprofessional and incompetent on all levels. He had just been turned down by 2 other major airlines, but somehow he was magically hired by Delta.
04-19-2014, 11:27 AM
#184
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2008
Position: MSP CA
Posts: 353
That happens at other majors as well.. each have their loopholes. Guys that got turned down by DL and UA got hired by NW... guys that got turned down by NW and DL got on at UA, and so on. I've looked at the list very closely and none of my "holy crap this isn't working" have made it through. They may turn away a bit more than they should, but it's a conservative company. One of my favorite guys got turned down in 2010. There were only a couple 9E guys that were hired in the 2010 cycle, which is the only cycle since 2008... do you speak of the MEM guy that did some union work? I've never heard anything bad about him.
Last edited by CAPTAINPCL; 04-19-2014 at 11:31 AM. Reason: Correction
04-19-2014, 11:37 AM
#185
Da Hudge
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Poodle Whisperer
Posts: 17,473
04-19-2014, 01:42 PM
#187
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2008
Posts: 614
One of the guys that got scooped up is the kind that will drag his paws on a mx issue to let an overnight time out so he could sleep home that night. Or sit back in the pax cabin in an out-station while dx and mx were trying desperately to get ahold of him in order to coordinate the fix on the APU with the mechanic. A really bitter dude who only cares about himself.
Then I see MvA get the finger and I just shake my head...
With that said, I do agree that all HR departments have a few slip through the cracks, and DL has done a decent job weeding out most of the losers, as stated above. It's just so hard to see so many good guys get rejected and some real tools get accepted...
Then I see MvA get the finger and I just shake my head...
With that said, I do agree that all HR departments have a few slip through the cracks, and DL has done a decent job weeding out most of the losers, as stated above. It's just so hard to see so many good guys get rejected and some real tools get accepted...
04-20-2014, 01:49 PM
#189
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2010
Position: Up Front
Posts: 1,628
But I will tell you that MSP is displacing people at the moment and nothing indicates that they will reverse that trend.
I see MSP being senior for a few years at a minimum.
04-20-2014, 02:36 PM
#190
:-)
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 7,339
Maybe never, it is in Delta's best cost interest to put all of Endeavor in LGA/JFK/ATL. If DAL cancels our flight, DAL doesn't have to pay us like the other FFD carriers.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Lowtimer77
Hangar Talk
19
11-13-2008 02:54 PM
