GED = Good Enough for Delta
01-15-2013, 10:05 AM
#81
Doesn't Get Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,598
I'd also like to know that. We're getting more of these preferential deals than I can keep track of.
Maybe it would be easier to ask if there's anybody out there who doesn't have some special claim on a slot at Delta.
Seems like the first few years of new hire classes are already filled.
Maybe it would be easier to ask if there's anybody out there who doesn't have some special claim on a slot at Delta.
Seems like the first few years of new hire classes are already filled.
01-15-2013, 10:23 AM
#82
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2010
Posts: 453
That's right - the Delta Connection Academy. Had more than one say "THE academy" to me.
01-15-2013, 10:35 AM
#84
Can't abide NAI
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Posts: 12,037
01-15-2013, 10:56 AM
#85
Banned
Joined APC: Aug 2011
Posts: 1,134
Along the lines of your point above. When Western was acquired, as well as the merge with NW happened, did DALALPA get tell management "don't take on the pilots without a 4 year degree".
Like I said, I know it's slightly different, but the point remains.
And YES, I'm all for the 4 year degree, and YES, I GET IT, it's a DAL requirement. But pitting pilots against each other in various stealthy ways seems to be management's specialty. And pilots fall for it, EVERY time.
01-15-2013, 12:24 PM
#87
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2011
Posts: 204
01-15-2013, 12:33 PM
#88
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: CL-65 captain
Posts: 2,244
wow 9 pages on such a simple topic......so a guy doesn't have a degree, he gets interviewed. Interviewed does not equal job offer. So calm down, your new FO's will most likely have a liberal arts degree, making them better pilots.
01-15-2013, 01:29 PM
#89
Day puke
Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: Out.
Posts: 3,865
01-15-2013, 01:43 PM
#90
On Reserve
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Position: MSP7ERB
Posts: 1,886
Fair enough... at the end of the day a college degree a pilot does not make.
It's what they have in their hearts and soul, is what makes the airman.
It's how they've acquired their flying experience is an important asset they will bring to any company be it DAL, UAL, or AA, as well as the cockpit and fellow colleagues.
Its their legacy they will impart to new first officers too.
IMHO, with some 35+ years experience with both US and foreign carriers, a 4 year degree a senior aircraft commander does not make. Its merely a tick in the company's options of requirements box.
Safe flight... capt
It's what they have in their hearts and soul, is what makes the airman.
It's how they've acquired their flying experience is an important asset they will bring to any company be it DAL, UAL, or AA, as well as the cockpit and fellow colleagues.
Its their legacy they will impart to new first officers too.
IMHO, with some 35+ years experience with both US and foreign carriers, a 4 year degree a senior aircraft commander does not make. Its merely a tick in the company's options of requirements box.
Safe flight... capt
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment is half as high for college graduates as for high school graduates; college grads earn more, typically receiving a return on their college investment after only four years.
Why a College Degree? - Forbes
Delta can hire anyone it wants to, it sets the bar as high or as low as it feels comfortable with. Typically, though, they've set expectations pretty high.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
