Originally Posted by
MikeF16
Guys, did a moderator not 10 posts ago tell you to take it elsewhere? This is Delta hiring news thread, not debate the requirement for a college degree or evaluate the quality of current Delta pilots thread. Please, with a cherry on top, go somewhere else and quit trashing this thread.
On topic, I got an email offering me an earlier interview date and I took it -- now interviewing 28 July. This brings up what I hope is a really stupid and paranoid question. Hypothetically, if Delta is authorized to hire 80 pilots a month, and by the time I interview they've already hired 79, are their hands tied on the number of people they can give a CJO?
Mike, congrats on the interview. Take it seriously and prepare. PM me if you want some insight coming from the USAF.
Secondly, this ain't Vance, or CBM, or wherever we have UPT bases now. Its a whole new endeavor. My advice is to tone it down a notch and listen. Almost all of the guys opining here are senior, and some, will be very senior to you if you get the offer. Chain of command won't matter any more.
You've got the flying chops, now you gotta prove you've got the CRM, good pilot, fun-to-be-with chops. Whole 'notha level. IMO, quit sweating the small stuff and take in the important stuff. You're first push in ATL or JFK will rock your world....if you're fortunate enough.
And, to your question, no. If you're hired, you're hired. The projected monthly training date is just that, what the schoolhouse can absorb. You'll get a training date. We have 12,000 pilots who are going through same said schoolhouse doing our 9-month recurrent training, transitioning to other equipment, requaling in same equipment, etc. You've never seen anything like it.
Good luck!
Buzz
And, its Delta Air Lines. F that up, and you're done.