Any "Latest & Greatest" about Endeavor?
03-14-2017, 08:51 AM
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The thing you want to look at is not how many flights there are, but how many open seats there are. For a week or 2 go on Travelnet and look at the airport standby lists for the flights you are thinking of. It will show if the plane left with empty seats or if it left people behind.
03-14-2017, 08:56 AM
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Because empty seats are given to nonrevs in order of priority. Us at 9E fall behind Delta employees, their dependents, and retirees. So in other words, everyone associated with mainline Delta. You then get a seat after them. ATL are nearly always full, and have double digit nonrevs trying to make it on too. So that leaves you without a seat. The problem is it starts to overflow, although there is 12 flights, 2-11 will be oversold or filled with nonrevs. Might have a shot on 1 or 12, which is the case where I live
03-14-2017, 08:58 AM
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Correct, you won't be able to see seat loads yet. But I can tell you that when I commuted ATL to DTW for a while, it wasn't easy. I never missed work, but many times I was trying to get to DTW by 1400 or so, and ended up getting in on the last flight at 0030. Due to this, I always commuted up the night before. Had I been trying to commute in same day, I would have missed work many times.
The downfall to this is that you lose two days per trip to commuting. If you have 12 days off, and 4 trips, you will spend 8 days (half a day at a minimum, most of the day at worst) commuting back and forth, so you really only have 4 days off per month. And when I was commuting home the next day after my trip ended, I was leaving for the airport at 0430 to get on the first flight.
The downfall to this is that you lose two days per trip to commuting. If you have 12 days off, and 4 trips, you will spend 8 days (half a day at a minimum, most of the day at worst) commuting back and forth, so you really only have 4 days off per month. And when I was commuting home the next day after my trip ended, I was leaving for the airport at 0430 to get on the first flight.
I am just a prospective employee at this point and have an interview coming up. I don't think I have access to that information. I went to the main Delta website and tried to look at seats available. I did find some, but won't show standby passengers. Thanks for the replies though. It's helpful for future planning.
03-14-2017, 09:37 AM
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Correct, you won't be able to see seat loads yet. But I can tell you that when I commuted ATL to DTW for a while, it wasn't easy. I never missed work, but many times I was trying to get to DTW by 1400 or so, and ended up getting in on the last flight at 0030. Due to this, I always commuted up the night before. Had I been trying to commute in same day, I would have missed work many times.
The downfall to this is that you lose two days per trip to commuting. If you have 12 days off, and 4 trips, you will spend 8 days (half a day at a minimum, most of the day at worst) commuting back and forth, so you really only have 4 days off per month. And when I was commuting home the next day after my trip ended, I was leaving for the airport at 0430 to get on the first flight.
The downfall to this is that you lose two days per trip to commuting. If you have 12 days off, and 4 trips, you will spend 8 days (half a day at a minimum, most of the day at worst) commuting back and forth, so you really only have 4 days off per month. And when I was commuting home the next day after my trip ended, I was leaving for the airport at 0430 to get on the first flight.
He/she could drive it instead of
Flying if it's that bad
03-14-2017, 09:46 AM
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Nope, I'd like to think they'll do something when CIH reports start going through the roof after ATL opens but they'll probably just fix the problem by offering positive space.
03-14-2017, 10:03 AM
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It's an ancient mayan term meaning, prosperity, long life, and loosely it translates to an english varient of "open your contract and spoon feed yourself".
It can also be subjected to the predicate of "seriously there is a search function on the contract".
It can also be subjected to the predicate of "seriously there is a search function on the contract".
03-14-2017, 11:05 AM
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Super seniority means any reserve line holder can bid for PM ready reserve there first day of a sequence or AM ready on there last day of a sequence. If you do this you will be considered "senior" to all other pilots for the prurpose of assigning ready reserve. The only thing that would prevent you from getting it is if a more senior pilot also request super seniority ready reserve. Clear as mud?
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