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#2331
Set up a hotel for the first night or two, and it'll be one of the first topics everyone will be working on.
Congrats and welcome aboard!
#2332
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Position: window seat
Posts: 12,522
It depends a lot on the individual. If you think you would benefit from having your own room, book your own room. Its asinine to put a grand or so in one time potential savings at the top of the list of considerations at the beginning and most important part of a multi million dollar career.
I put buying your own newspaper right up there with lighting cigars with $100 bills. I'm as cheap as the next pilot and understand we're wired that way. The month or so you spend in initial training is NOT the time to focus on petty savings. No one is that amount of money away from liquidating. If you benefit from your own hotel room, get the room.
I put buying your own newspaper right up there with lighting cigars with $100 bills. I'm as cheap as the next pilot and understand we're wired that way. The month or so you spend in initial training is NOT the time to focus on petty savings. No one is that amount of money away from liquidating. If you benefit from your own hotel room, get the room.
#2333
It depends a lot on the individual. If you think you would benefit from having your own room, book your own room. Its asinine to put a grand or so in one time potential savings at the top of the list of considerations at the beginning and most important part of a multi million dollar career.
I put buying your own newspaper right up there with lighting cigars with $100 bills. I'm as cheap as the next pilot and understand we're wired that way. The month or so you spend in initial training is NOT the time to focus on petty savings. No one is that amount of money away from liquidating. If you benefit from your own hotel room, get the room.
I put buying your own newspaper right up there with lighting cigars with $100 bills. I'm as cheap as the next pilot and understand we're wired that way. The month or so you spend in initial training is NOT the time to focus on petty savings. No one is that amount of money away from liquidating. If you benefit from your own hotel room, get the room.
#2334
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2007
Position: B737 CA
Posts: 1,518
Personally I think I would have gone 100% bonkers at the training hotel for 4 weeks. I found a room in a nice house/small crashpad owned by a 765 FO and enjoyed being able to cook healthy meals, kill some Sweetwaters with the roommates, walk in a neighborhood I didn't have to worry about getting shanked, etc. And yeah, saved about $1400 to boot. There are some good alternatives out there, just ask around, especially among the people 3-4 weeks ahead of you.
FYI: You can still come to the training hotel for free beer & wings on Weds nights!
FYI: You can still come to the training hotel for free beer & wings on Weds nights!
#2335
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2014
Posts: 322
Personally I think I would have gone 100% bonkers at the training hotel for 4 weeks. I found a room in a nice house/small crashpad owned by a 765 FO and enjoyed being able to cook healthy meals, kill some Sweetwaters with the roommates, walk in a neighborhood I didn't have to worry about getting shanked, etc. And yeah, saved about $1400 to boot. There are some good alternatives out there, just ask around, especially among the people 3-4 weeks ahead of you.
FYI: You can still come to the training hotel for free beer & wings on Weds nights!
FYI: You can still come to the training hotel for free beer & wings on Weds nights!
#2336
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2007
Position: B737 CA
Posts: 1,518
#2338
Back in '07 I sprang for 3 weeks at the Comfort Inn for $1600. It's tax deductable. (That was where Delta put us for indoc.)
Don't go cheap. Invest in yourself and let the training be that much less stressful.
Don't go cheap. Invest in yourself and let the training be that much less stressful.
#2340
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: erb
Posts: 646
Allen Edmonds.
If you are a nostalgia buff, the Delta uniform shoe was the Allen Edmonds "Jodox". You could always tell 'de bro's' on layovers. I think they still make them. I think if I were still working I would have a pair just to be secretly "cool." [Goggle the Edmonds catalog not a bad looking shoe.]
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