Originally Posted by
Timbo
That is pretty amazing, I remember the (Delta) world being shocked when about 20 of us B Scale guys got MD88 and DC9 Captain bids...
at ONLY 6 YEARS!
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But that was in 1991, and it only lasted about a year, then Delta decided to sell all the DC9's (those planes ended up at Value Jet) and all us 6 year Captains were displaced back to F/O, for another 8 years in my case, as the 737-200 fleet was next to leave mainline, for Express, at only $100/hr for Captain. ER F/O was $120/hr. for my years of service at the time (11).
I think when Express first started in 1996, the bottom 3 Captains were just recalled off furlough and had never even flown copilot at Delta, they were engineers when furloughed in 1993.
I'm well junior to you and made 727A in NYC in 1998. You chose to remain as an FO, right? Also, the top rate for the 737 in MCO was around $114 per hour, as I considered bidding it. Those guys made a lot o $$$ when they started a GSWC campaign before the C2K negotiations. The union blew that whole case as that was a precedent.