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02-20-2018, 07:11 AM
#31
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That's exactly what I thought when I left for JetBlue over 2 years ago but it ended up being a mistake.
I still have not caught up paywise when you factor the lost income during the first 2 years. If I stayed at my regional I would have been a part of CPP with a projected class date a real Major little over a year from now.
In the last 2 years almost every single person from my class is still here even though great majority of them have their apps out. Meanwhile most of my friends that I left behind at my old regional are at real Majors. Call me a conspiracist but for one reason another real Majors prefer to hire from regionals than JetBlue.
I still have not caught up paywise when you factor the lost income during the first 2 years. If I stayed at my regional I would have been a part of CPP with a projected class date a real Major little over a year from now.
In the last 2 years almost every single person from my class is still here even though great majority of them have their apps out. Meanwhile most of my friends that I left behind at my old regional are at real Majors. Call me a conspiracist but for one reason another real Majors prefer to hire from regionals than JetBlue.
Not sure that notion has any legs to stand on? Why would the majors eat their own feeds? In your argument: Why would you eat your young or the neighbors young while weight watchers camp always starts tomorrow. Just makes no sense especially considering the current industry. I know it feels good to say.
Many of the majors claim they ONLY hire pilots with tons of PIC time and a space shuttle landing. I think if you ACTUALLY see who they are hiring its shows an almost opposite picture?.....
02-20-2018, 07:16 AM
#32
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Not sure that notion has any legs to stand on? Why would the majors eat their own feeds? In your argument: Why would you eat your young or the neighbors young while weight watchers came always starts tomorrow. Just makes no sense especially considering the current industry. I know it feels good to say.
Many of the majors claim they ONLY hire pilots with tons of PIC time and a space shuttle landing. I think if you ACTUALLY see who they are hiring its shows an almost opposite picture?.....
Many of the majors claim they ONLY hire pilots with tons of PIC time and a space shuttle landing. I think if you ACTUALLY see who they are hiring its shows an almost opposite picture?.....
02-20-2018, 08:17 AM
#33
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You guys make me laugh.
You are trying to apply logic to airline hiring. How long have you guys been around and why are you shocked?Hiring is at the whim of HR. You can sit there and say I have this that or this but this guy got hired. That’s right that is how it works. I literally got the job here because the guy who jumpseated with us pulled the names for the interview. I didn’t even have a app in but I just ran into the right person at the right time and I fly with FOs that applied 3,4,5,6 times. Is it fair nope but it’s the airline game.
The other thing is I thought the theory was Delta was going to hire our pilots to hurt us, that’s not happening.
Honestly ask HB about who hires who if you actually want an answer and not what you think it should be. He could probably tell you since he lives in that world.
You are trying to apply logic to airline hiring. How long have you guys been around and why are you shocked?Hiring is at the whim of HR. You can sit there and say I have this that or this but this guy got hired. That’s right that is how it works. I literally got the job here because the guy who jumpseated with us pulled the names for the interview. I didn’t even have a app in but I just ran into the right person at the right time and I fly with FOs that applied 3,4,5,6 times. Is it fair nope but it’s the airline game.
The other thing is I thought the theory was Delta was going to hire our pilots to hurt us, that’s not happening.
Honestly ask HB about who hires who if you actually want an answer and not what you think it should be. He could probably tell you since he lives in that world.
02-20-2018, 08:36 AM
#34
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Position: FO
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You guys make me laugh.
You are trying to apply logic to airline hiring. How long have you guys been around and why are you shocked?Hiring is at the whim of HR. You can sit there and say I have this that or this but this guy got hired. That’s right that is how it works. I literally got the job here because the guy who jumpseated with us pulled the names for the interview. I didn’t even have a app in but I just ran into the right person at the right time and I fly with FOs that applied 3,4,5,6 times. Is it fair nope but it’s the airline game.
The other thing is I thought the theory was Delta was going to hire our pilots to hurt us, that’s not happening.
Honestly ask HB about who hires who if you actually want an answer and not what you think it should be. He could probably tell you since he lives in that world.
You are trying to apply logic to airline hiring. How long have you guys been around and why are you shocked?Hiring is at the whim of HR. You can sit there and say I have this that or this but this guy got hired. That’s right that is how it works. I literally got the job here because the guy who jumpseated with us pulled the names for the interview. I didn’t even have a app in but I just ran into the right person at the right time and I fly with FOs that applied 3,4,5,6 times. Is it fair nope but it’s the airline game.
The other thing is I thought the theory was Delta was going to hire our pilots to hurt us, that’s not happening.
Honestly ask HB about who hires who if you actually want an answer and not what you think it should be. He could probably tell you since he lives in that world.
02-20-2018, 09:31 AM
#35
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Thats why its called a "conspiracy THEORY." I absolutely thought DAL would try to hire us into extinction when we started messing with ATL and MSP again, didn't happen, which is one thing that promotes the theory in my mind. Obviously airline hiring is pure black magic, which is why we instinctively try to make sense of it, futile as those efforts might be. As I said, HB and I did discuss it, face to face last week, he is also confounded as to why I haven't gotten the call I so desperately seek, or at least thats what he said, maybe he knows and was sparing my feelings.
While I know people would never leave the regionals to come here you could in much smaller way hire guys just from delta connection carriers. So is that really a game you want to get into or maybe they don’t want us to go down maybe it’s better to compete against us vs SWA. Somebody would fill the void. Who knows why but yes they could do it and it wouldn’t be hard. So there must be a reason why they don’t.
Above was just an example. It is noted that regionals guys don’t want to come here their lives are better as a delta connection pilot and so on. There we can save ourselves a little time.
02-20-2018, 09:36 AM
#36
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Delta would rather flood Boston with flights right now.
While I know people would never leave the regionals to come here you could in much smaller way hire guys just from delta connection carriers. So is that really a game you want to get into or maybe they don’t want us to go down maybe it’s better to compete against us vs SWA. Somebody would fill the void. Who knows why but yes they could do it and it wouldn’t be hard. So there must be a reason why they don’t.
Above was just an example. It is noted that regionals guys don’t want to come here their lives are better as a delta connection pilot and so on. There we can save ourselves a little time.
While I know people would never leave the regionals to come here you could in much smaller way hire guys just from delta connection carriers. So is that really a game you want to get into or maybe they don’t want us to go down maybe it’s better to compete against us vs SWA. Somebody would fill the void. Who knows why but yes they could do it and it wouldn’t be hard. So there must be a reason why they don’t.
Above was just an example. It is noted that regionals guys don’t want to come here their lives are better as a delta connection pilot and so on. There we can save ourselves a little time.
02-20-2018, 09:46 AM
#37
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02-20-2018, 10:18 AM
#39
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I did not say you or your name and I didn’t even quote you.
I just know what would be coming next in the discussion.
Also could you tell me where I said it should suck for lgb guys I would love to see it. Now who is putting words in someone’s mouth. (And it is an east coast airline)
I’m pretty to the point and have no problem sharing my opinions
Also since this type of post annoys me, when I did get something wrong about what you were saying in another thread I admitted I was wrong. See below. It was oddly enough an apology to you.
So no slim it wasn’t aimed at you
02-20-2018, 10:19 AM
#40
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