Originally Posted by
bluejuice71
I emailed crew resources and they said that it is closing on the next bid. Also said we are quite a bit overstaffed on ATL 7ER, so a lot of those guys won't be going to ER or if they do there will be a lot of displacements off of the ER. Basically means more backwards movement for a lot of FO's in ATL.
Go figure.
Using the December* seniority list online at Delta net and merging the 7ERB and 767B together and only keeping the most senior 539 pilots (current ER list), you'd find that the new most junior ATL 7ER B pilot in ATL would be a 1/27/2000 hire.
Obviously, there is an issue there.
*First, there are about 20 or so 767B pilots fewer in January 2013 category list as the seniority list for December, so the 1/27/2000 hire might be a few off.
Second, 7ER and 767 pilots have both been flying 757s and 767s out of Atlanta. There is currently enough flying to have both categories even though we are losing some 757s to the scrap yard. But just because we get rid of a category that doesn't mean we got rid of the flying, someone's got to fly the 756 domestically out of ATL and by golly, it ain't Alaska. We protect our 756 flying around here... 738, not so much because it isn't as cool as the 756.
So would I be wrong to assume the 7ER will grow larger but maybe not a 1:1? We're supposed to fatten the ER for a few months until May (fatten = 7 people). Then by May there are 85 pilots left on the 7ER, of which, 61 or so are senior to the 7ER plug.
Maybe call me crazy, but I think between the diehard anti-international guys that may reside on the 767, you may get just enough people to move over to the growing 737 category to mitigate ER MDs. Crazy? I mean if the company sees it's going to MD a few ER pilots who they know will bid back in asap, why spend the money on the MD?
As for the A stuff, let me go see.
Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
As per flight ops, the DC-9s are being kept on longer than planned due to capacity loss of parking the 757s.
I hope they keep them on, though!
I think that's why I am hearing it won't be the 1:1 off the 9 to the 717 that they initially said. But I think 1:1 is what they want to do. But they've got around 70 DC9 crews in ATL alone that they can move over.
BTW, maybe I'm wrong on this but the 9 to 717 isn't a 5 day course?
Originally Posted by
Rudder
Yeah I hope Boeing retools the 757 line too but neither is going to happen, we are going to start losing 75's.
The 737 killed the 757.
