Originally Posted by
Lou Reed
You're right. my bad. It was the NWA interview. But afterwards a DL styled interview, but not the actual one. Mea culpa.
I have many friends who were hired by Compass and have now flowed to Delta. You/they DID NOT have a NWA interview, no matter what they told you at Compass. You had a NWA-like interview, which when offered a CJO, had a requirement to remain employed at Compass for 30(?) months prior to being eligible for flow to NWA Airlines.
In 2007, NWA determined they were short approximately 200 pilots for the summer 2008 schedule. (I imagine talks were already being conducted, books were being 'looked at' for a merger with Delta, but nothing yet was 'set in stone'.) The pilots who had been hired by COMPASS had yet to meet their obligatory requirement of 30 months, so NWA opened an application window of their own. They invited interviewees to NATCO, led them through the NWA interview process, quite professionally I might add, and hired ~192 of their own pilots between September '07 through March '08.
Originally Posted by
fly2002
It was most certainly not the NWA interview. The real one was 20 mins to prep and then hand fly the 747-200 sim from the captains seat. No autopilot, no flight director, night IFR, all hold types...fully flown and graded and a hand flown ILS. You had to have been invited to THAT interview and they were VERY specific in what they were looking for. We were all literally carbon copies of each other. There was no diversity in that regard. Proud to have made it with the other 160 guys. I had the needles pegged so hard my past instructors would have cried.
I agree with you, but the exact number was more like 192 pilots. Then the 'music' stopped.