Originally Posted by
BrasiliaFlyer
Gentlemen, thank you for all of your comments, humor, anecdotes, and advice. I have spent the better part of a long overnight reading up.
I have a couple of questions:
Does the lack of a recent training event (8 years since I upgraded) hurt my application score? Along with that, does lots of TT and PIC hurt the score? This is a serious question, as I have heard that Delta is looking for guys who aren't "stagnant".
A few months ago, I had a friend submit the HR email. Unfortunately I hadn't gone over my application with a fine toothed comb prior to that, so I'm afraid that HR might had passed over it due to a few incomplete places. Now that I've gone over my app and cleaned it up a lot, have I blown my chance? Should I have another friend submit an email?
Any other tips on the scoring process (how often they review updates, etc...)?
Thank you again for the extremely informative thread, I hope to get my chance of a lifetime soon!
Did you get a "fix it" email? If not they may not have pulled/scored it yet. In any case if you have another friend that can do the HR email then of course do it (assuming your app is correct this time).
As for stagnation, I think it depends on the kind. Camping out in the right seat for schedule (especially if you don't have 1000 PIC etc) is hard to defend, but not impossible. It depends on the individual. Stagnating as a Captain is much less of an issue. Some airlines do want to specifically see recent training events, but if you're CA already, especially at the top of what your company offers, what else can you do.