Originally Posted by
The dude
You keep your hire date for non-rev. pass travel and possibly 401k, etc... other than that you start day one at day one pay and seniority. You're obviously not operating under a pilot contract when you're working the ramp so you're not entitled to seniority rules until you're actually hired as a pilot. You'll just be a pilot with a strange employee number.
This is the way it is at SKW. There were SEVERAL prior (and current) people in my class who started with me. I was JR to the guy who was a current employee but SR to the guy who was a former ramper. The guy I am JR to is only 2 above me...so I guess the 6 months did not get him that much ahead...he just went to the top of the class. Pilot seniority date is off the date you start as a PILOT ONLY. SKW uses the last 4 of your SSN as the way to assign your class senority. The lower the last 4 the better (0398 is SR to 9803). Some other airlines go by birthday...hope this helps.